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Alternating field permeability experiments are reported on superconducting niobium samples irradiated with fast neutrons at reactor ambient temperatures. The results are compared with theoretical predictions derived from several critical state models. Fundamental differences are observed, even when the static magnetization curves are described quite well by the same model. This leads to the conclusion that for small periodic movements of the flux lattice the vortices are not in the critical state.
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Communication No. 410a from the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium.
Now with the Reactor Centrum Nederland, Petten, Netherlands; temporary address: Max Planck Institute für Plasmaphysik (Abt. Technik), 8046 Garching bei München, BRD.
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van der Klein, C.A.M., Kes, P.H., van Beelen, H. et al. The effect of neutron irradiation damage on the magnetic behavior of superconducting niobium in alternating fields. J Low Temp Phys 17, 295–322 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00659076
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