Abstract
We have developed a probe for the critical current measurements of low temperature superconducting strands at various field, temperature and strain. A 30 cm-long strand sample is soldered on a Walters spiral made of beryllium copper alloy and compressive or tensile axial strain can be applied up to 0.7%. Temperature control ability was tested using a MgB <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> wire up to 30 K. Three cernox sensors are attached on a spiral adjacent to the strand and the temperature of the spiral is controlled within plusmn50 mK of target temperature during the critical current measurement up to 80 A. Extensive critical current measurements have been carried out for an internal-tin processed Nb <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> Sn strand. It was found that the measured field, temperature and strain dependence of the critical current for the internal-tin Nb <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> Sn strand is in agreement with the recent scaling law based on strong coupling theory of superconductivity.
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