Heat leak testing of a superconducting RHIC dipole magnet at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory is currently performing heat load tests on a superconducting dipole magnet. The magnet is a prototype of the 360, 8 cm bore, arc dipole magnets that will be used in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RMC). An accurate measurement of the heat load is needed to eliminate cumulative errors when determining the REUC cryogenic system load requirements. The test setup consists of a dipole positioned between two quadrupoles in a common vacuum tank and heat shield. Piping and instrumentation are arranged to facilitate measurement of the heat load on the primary 4.6 K magnet load and the secondary 55 K heat shield load. Initial results suggest that the primary heat load is well below design allowances. The secondary load was found to be higher than estimated, but remained close to the budgeted amount. Overall, the dipole performed to specifications.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 10184590
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-49346; CONF-930703-29; ON: DE93040168; TRN: 93:021716
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International cryogenic materials conference (ICMC),Albuquerque, NM (United States),12-16 Jul 1993; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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