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Performance of three 4. 5 m dipoles for SSC reference design D

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OSTI ID:5024936

Three 4.5 m long dipoles for Reference Design D of the proposed Superconducting Super Collider have been successfully tested. The magnets are cold-iron (and cold bore) 1-in-1 dipoles, wound with current density-graded high homogeneity NbTi cable in a two-layer cos theta coil of 40 mm inner diameter. The coil is prestressed by 15 mm wide stainless steel collars, and mounted in a circular, split iron yoke of 267 mm outer diameter, supported in a cylindrical yoke containment vessel. At 4.5 K the magnets reached a field of about 6.6T with little training, or the short sample limit of the conductor, and in subcooled (2.6 to 2.4 K) liquid, 8T was achieved. The allowed harmonics were close to the predicted values, and the unallowed harmonics small. The sextupole trim coil operated at eight times the required current without training.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA); Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
5024936
Report Number(s):
BNL-37011; CONF-850920-5; ON: DE86001736
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English