Status of the SSC superconducting magnet program
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) is proton-proton collider designed to achieve collisions with 20 TeV per beam, which has been proposed for construction by the U.S. Department of Energy. In the SSC, protons are accelerated and stored in two storage rings that are stacked one on top of the other in an underground tunnel. Collisions can occur at six locations where the proton orbits can be made to intersect. In each collider ring the protons are kept in a roughly elliptical orbit by two types of magnets: dipoles, which bend the proton orbit into a closed loop, and quadrupoles, which deflect the protons back toward the central orbit when they diverge from it. Both types of magnets must use high current density superconducting coils to meet the SSC design requirements. In fact, it is these superconducting coils that make such a supercollider feasible. A dipole field of 6.6 T was chosen as a compromise between the need for the highest practical field and the limits of superconducting technology. The energy of 20 TeV is somewhat more than twenty times the energy of the highest energy storage ring in operation, the Tevatron, a single-ring proton-antiproton collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) that was the first synchrotron to use superconducting dipoles. To illustrate the technological advances that must be made to make the SSC a reality, the authors compare the parameters of the SSC with the Tevatron. Since the dipoles are the most numerous, the most expensive, and, at least traditionally, the most difficult to develop, an R and D program was started in 1984 to develop a dipole meeting all of the systems requirements for the SSC. Some SSC dipole parameters are discussed.
- Research Organization:
- 9513034
- OSTI ID:
- 5918772
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-880812-
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States), Vol. 25:2; Conference: Applied superconductivity conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21 Aug 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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