Measurement of stability of cabled conductors cooled by He I at reduced temperature, or He II

Conference · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:5115455

Hsu, Y. H.; Purcell, J. R.; Chen, W. Y.; Alcorn, J. S.

Stability tests of cabled NbTi alloy conductor are underway at the General Atomic High Field Test Facility, in support of the Team One effort of the DOE 12 Tesla Coil Development Program. A background field of up to 10 tesla within a 20 cm bore is provided by a nested pair of 4.2/sup 0/K bath cooled NbTi coils. An insulated bore insert tube (coldfinger) is provided in order to perform heat pulse/recovery tests of coiled samples in cooling regimes anticipated for the 1 m O.D. coil to be tested at the LLNL 12 tesla facility during FY 82. Specifically, tests are being performed in the 2.5 to 3/sup 0/K He I, and saturated superfluid (He II) regimes. The testing apparatus, procedures, and initial results are presented.

• Research Organization: General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ET51011
• OSTI ID: 5115455
• Report Number(s): GA-A-16012; CONF-800980-13
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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