@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00082385, author = {Yabuuchi, Atsushi and Ozaki, Toshinori and Sakane, Hitoshi and Okazaki, Hiroyuki and Koshikawa, Hiroshi and Yamamoto, Shunya and Yamaki, Tetsuya and Atsushi, Yabuuchi and Hiroyuki, Okazaki and Hiroshi, Koshikawa and Shunya, Yamamoto and Tetsuya, Yamaki}, issue = {12}, journal = {Applied Physics Express}, month = {Jan}, note = {To investigate the effect of irradiation-induced defects on the superconducting characteristics of industrially produced superconductor—GdBa₂Cu₃O₇−δ (GdBCO)—coated conductors (CCs), we irradiated the GdBCO CCs with Au ions at 2 or 10 MeV and probed them using a slow positron beam. Vacancy clusters were detected in both unirradiated and irradiated GdBCO CCs. However, the effect of ion irradiation on the GdBCO CCs was characterized as a slight reduction in the positron annihilation rate with low-momentum electrons. We also found a correlation between the annihilation rate of low-momentum electrons and the superconducting transition temperature.}, title = {Characterization of the effect of ion irradiation on industrially produced GdBa₂Cu₃O₇−δ superconducting tapes using a slow positron beam}, volume = {13}, year = {2021} }