Superconducting dipole electromagnet

Patent · 26 July 1977

OSTI ID:862893

Purcell, John R ^[1]

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1. San Diego, CA

A dipole electromagnet of especial use for bending beams in particle accelerators is wound to have high uniformity of magnetic field across a cross section and to decrease evenly to zero as the ends of the electromagnet are approached by disposing the superconducting filaments of the coil in the crescent-shaped nonoverlapping portions of two intersecting circles. Uniform decrease at the ends is achieved by causing the circles to overlap increasingly in the direction of the ends of the coil until the overlap is complete and the coil is terminated.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4038622
• Application Number: 05/676,585
• OSTI ID: 862893
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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