Impact of Superconductors’ Properties on the Measurement Sensitivity of Resonant-Based Axion Detectors
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Physical Background
2.1. High-Frequency Vortex Motion
2.2. Surface Impedance in the Mixed State
3. Experimental Section
3.1. Haloscope Design
3.2. Materials under Investigation
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Material | NbTi | Nb3Sn | YBa2Cu3O | FeSe0.5Te0.5 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thickness (nm) | bulk | |||
Growing tech. | RF sputtering | HIP (1) | CSD (2) | PLD (3) |
Substrate | Cu | – | LaAlO3 | CaF2 |
(K) | ||||
Ref. | [11] | [16,34] | [35] | [36] |
NbTi | NbSn | YBCO | FeSeTe | |
---|---|---|---|---|
(N m−2) at 4 K, 5 T | – | |||
pinning regime | single | collective | single | collective |
(N s m−2) at 4 K, 5 T | – | – | ||
(µ cm) | – | – | ||
(T) | – | – | ||
(GHz) at 4 K, 5 T | ||||
meas. geometry | c axis, | |||
1 | 1 | |||
(nm) | [17,47] | [48] | [49,50] | [45] |
Material | ||
---|---|---|
NbTi | 4.3 | 0.05 |
NbSn | 6.5 | 0.02 |
FeSeTe | 12 | 0.006 |
YBCO | 14 | 0.005 |
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Alimenti, A.; Torokhtii, K.; Di Gioacchino, D.; Gatti, C.; Silva, E.; Pompeo, N. Impact of Superconductors’ Properties on the Measurement Sensitivity of Resonant-Based Axion Detectors. Instruments 2022, 6, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6010001
Alimenti A, Torokhtii K, Di Gioacchino D, Gatti C, Silva E, Pompeo N. Impact of Superconductors’ Properties on the Measurement Sensitivity of Resonant-Based Axion Detectors. Instruments. 2022; 6(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlimenti, Andrea, Kostiantyn Torokhtii, Daniele Di Gioacchino, Claudio Gatti, Enrico Silva, and Nicola Pompeo. 2022. "Impact of Superconductors’ Properties on the Measurement Sensitivity of Resonant-Based Axion Detectors" Instruments 6, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments6010001