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The required combination of performance properties for internal tin Nb3Sn wires for high energy physics includes high critical current density (J c) and RRR values as well as low magnetization and effective diameters (Deff ) value. It is quite a challenge to achieve them all at once. A comprehensive study has been carried out on two internal tin Nb3Sn wires with essentially different layouts and 37 sub-elements each. The first type of wires has distributed diffusion barriers. The second one has common diffusion barrier with sub-elements internally divided by resistive separators. Two sets of data for two types of wires have been obtained, which include transport measurements of J c(B), magnetization loops M(B), superconducting transition temperature (Tc), RRR values, Sn-concentration by EDAX measurements and XRD analysis. XRD analysis of the superconducting layers has shown that the compressive macrostress is larger for the wire with overall barrier than for the wire with distributed diffusion barriers. This observation correlates with a shift of the stress-dependent curves of the superconducting transition. The difference in the volume fractions and the homogeneities of the Nb3Sn phase leads to a significant difference of the J c(B) dependences and the values of the Kramer critical field (BKr) for these types of wires. In summary, the high critical current density for the first type of wires and the low hysteresis losses for the second type of wires have achieved with high RRR values in both cases.

Superconducting materials with high current carrying capacity operating in magnetic fields up to 18 T at 4.2 K are required for promising applications in magnetic systems of high-energy physics devices, NMR-spectroscopes and others. The paper presents the study results of the Nb3Sn strands manufactured by the bronze route differed in the filament composition. The filaments were made from the alloys Nb-3.5 wt. %Ta and Nb-7.0wt.%Ta and the matrix was produced from the Cu-15.5wt.%Sn-0.25wt.%Ti alloy. To form the superconducting Nb3Sn phase a series of reaction heat treatments of conductor samples were carried out by two-stage regimes with the temperature of the second stage varying from 650 to 720 °C. The microstructure of the Nb3Sn layer was studied by scanning electron microscopy and their electro-physical characteristics were also measured. It was shown that after reaction at 575 °C, 100 h + 650 °C, 200 h samples with different Ta content had almost the same current -carrying capacity in the field range 12-18 T at 4.2 K. The critical temperature of superconductors decreased from 17.5 to 16.5 K with an increase of the second stage of reaction temperature from 650 to 720 °C.