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Field enhancement of a 12. 5-T magnet using holmium poles

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OSTI ID:6764078
Unlike conventional ferromagnetic materials such as iron and Supermendur, which produce saturation magnetization fields of approximately 2 T, several of the rare-earth elements (holmium, terbium, erbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium) yield saturated fields of nearly 4 T. This property makes these rare-earth metals particularly attractive as flux concentrators for use in superconducting magnets. This report concerns the use of holmium inserts to enhance the peak useful field of the nominally 12.5-T, 5-cm-bore tape magnet manufactured by the Intermagnetics General Corporation (IGC). Nonlinear magnetostatic analysis indicates that this field increases to nearly 16 T with the rare-earth poles inserted within the bore on both sides of the coil's split-plane radial access gap. This paper focuses on computer modeling methods and experimental results.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
6764078
Report Number(s):
UCRL-90638; CONF-840937-2; ON: DE84017415
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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