The Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) is a proposal for a 100-kilometre-long particle accelerator with collision energy substantially higher than previous colliders to expand the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research. The selection of a low surface impedance beam screen coating material for such a high-energy collider has become of fundamental importance to ensure sufficiently low beam impedance and guarantee stable accelerator operation at high beam currents. Currently, copper is the

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... line coating material. In comparison to it, only high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) in the form of ReBCO coated conductors (ReBCO-CCs) have a lower surface impedance and would provide for higher margins of beam stability at the expected operating temperature (40 - 60 K). Whilst theoretical studies of HTSs under FCC-hh conditions have proved encouraging, no experimental data of ReBCO-CCs subject to FCC-hh conditions exists to confirm these predictions. This thesis provides two main contributions: First, it presents the experimental set-ups designed and constructed to measure the surface impedance of ReBCO-CCs, on the basis of dielectric resonator structures of Hakki-Coleman and parallel plate type under AC and DC magnetic fields, photon irradiation, all at cryogenic temperatures, to mimic the environment of the beam screen in the FCC-hh. We also developed DR$\Omega$MS, an automated data acquisition software, and ARPE, a post-processing algorithm to accurately extract the parameters of the dielectric resonators -resonance frequency and quality factor- from the S-parameters of the vector network analyser. The second contribution consists in the results from experimentally-measured surface impedance of ReBCO-CCs from six different manufacturers. We present surface impedance as a function of temperature and under strong magnetic fields in the gigahertz range. Complementary to this, we analysed the non-linear behaviour of ReBCO-CCs in the presence of a magnetic field superimposed on radio-frequency electromagnetic fields wi [...]