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Title: Fast superconducting kicker magnet. Final technical report, November 1994--October 1997

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/610286· OSTI ID:610286

Fast kicker magnets are needed in accelerators to deflect the beam out of the storage ring and into experimental targets and beam dumps. The work reported here is on a new type of fast kicker magnet. The basic idea is to transport the beam along the axis of a tube made of Type I superconductor. An ordinary magnet is used to create a field, B{sub o} perpendicular to the axis of the tube. If B{sub o}B{sub c}. The tube of superconductor then goes normal. The field which had been shielded from the beam can now penetrate to the beam. This concept is applicable as a fast magnetic switch. DOE has been granted a patent on this device, which was disclosed to DOE by N.K. Mahale and D. Goren while they were at SSC. A feasibility study of this new form of kicker magnet is reported here.

Research Organization:
Physics Dept., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5506 (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-95ER40891
OSTI ID:
610286
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40891-1; ON: DE98005341; TRN: 98:005592
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English