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TY - CONF AU - Asaduzzaman, M. AU - Junginger, T. AU - Laxdal, R.E. AU - McFadden, R.M.L. AU - Thoeng, E. ED - Saito, Kenji ED - Xu, Ting ED - Sakamoto, Naruhiko ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Thomas, Paul W. TI - Muon Spin Rotation Studies of Bilayer Superconductors and Low Temperature Baked Niobium J2 - Proc. of SRF2023, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 25-30 June 2023 CY - Grand Rapids, MI, USA T2 - International Conference on RF Superconductivity T3 - 21 LA - english AB - Muon spin rotation (muSR) results have shown that vortex penetration into Nb can be delayed up to the superheating field Hsh by a single layer of a material with larger London penetration depth. For low temperature baked (LTB) Nb an increase in the vortex penetration field Hvp has also been observed. While clearly exceeding the lower critical field Hc1, Hvp was found to remain significantly below Hsh for LTB niobium (Superconductor Science and Technology 30 (12), 125012). Further, magnetometry experiments suggested that there is no interface barrier in LTB Nb and that the apparent Hvp increase as observed by muSR was due to surface pinning (Scientific Reports 12 (1), 5522). By varying the implantation depth of ~4.1 MeV muons using moderating foils, new muSR measurements confirm that the apparent Hvp increase in LTB Nb is indeed due to surface pinning, while for a Nb₃Sn/Nb bilayer we find an interface barrier for flux penetration. These results confirm the potential of using superconducting bilayers to achieve a flux free Meissner state up to the superheating field of the substrate. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 62 EP - 66 DA - 2023/09 PY - 2023 SN - 2673-5504 SN - 978-3-95450-234-9 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-MOPMB005 UR - https://jacow.org/srf2023/papers/mopmb005.pdf ER -