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Effects of MeV Proton Irradiation on the Properties of Mo/Cu Bilayer Films

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In the context of detector development for a proposed X-ray satellite mission, known as Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS), we have studied stability in the properties of Mo/Cu bilayer superconducting films in a radiation environment. For this work, test devices were fabricated from the Mo/Cu films for four-terminal measurements. They were irradiated with 1MeV protons at room temperatures, with fluence ranging from 1.0\(\times 10^{12}\) to 1.0\(\times 10^{15}\) protons/cm\(^{2}\). It was found that the superconducting transition temperature of the devices showed no systematic change with increasing irradiation fluence, but their residual resistance at low temperatures showed a decreasing trend when the fluence exceeded about 1.0\(\times 10^{14}\) protons/cm\(^{2}\). The former might be attributed mainly to defect migration and subsequent recombination at room temperatures, while the latter probably to the effects of annealing caused by heating of the bilayer material upon irradiation. Low-temperature irradiation experiments are required to reach firm conclusions. The results are compared with those of other investigations, and future plans are discussed.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grants 11927805 and 11821303 and 11803014, and by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China through the National Key R & D Program of China (Grant 2018YFA0404502), as well as from the university. Part of this work was financially supported by the Open Research Fund from State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University under Grant No.NPT2020KFJ08.

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  1. Low Temperature Detector Lab, Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100084, China

    Fajun Li, Jiao Ding, Yeru Wang, Yanling Chen, Wei Cui, Rui Huang, Xinyan Hua, Yajie Liang, Hai Jin, Guole Wang, Sifan Wang & Yuning Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Beijing University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yuan Gao, Jianming Xue & Xiuyu Zhang

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Li, F., Ding, J., Wang, Y. et al. Effects of MeV Proton Irradiation on the Properties of Mo/Cu Bilayer Films. J Low Temp Phys 206, 97–105 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-021-02618-3

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