Improvements and Performance of the Fermilab Solenoid Test Facility
Abstract
Here, the Solenoid Test Facility at Fermilab was built using a large vacuum vessel for testing of conduction-cooled superconducting solenoid magnets, and was first used to determine the performance of the MICE Coupling Coil. The facility was modified recently to enable testing of solenoid magnets for the Mu2e experiment, which operate at much higher current than the Coupling Coil. One pair of low current conduction-cooled copper and NbTi leads was replaced with two pairs of 10 kA HTS leads cooled by heat exchange with liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. The new design, with additional control and monitoring capability, also provides helium cooling of the superconducting magnet leads by conduction. A high current power supply with energy extraction was added, and several improvements to the quench protection and characterization system were made. Here we present details of these changes and report on performance results from a test of the Mu2e prototype Transport Solenoid (TS) module. Progress on additional improvements in preparation for production TS module testing will be presented.
- Authors:
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1329675
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-16-338-TD
Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223; 1492668
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 27; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223
- Publisher:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; test stand; magnet; Mu2e; Solenoid
Citation Formats
Orris, Darryl, Arnold, Don, Brandt, Jeffrey, Cheban, Sergey, Evbota, Daniel, Feher, Sandor, Galt, Artur, Hays, Steven, Hemmati, Ali, Hess, Charles, Hocker, James A., Kim, Min Jeong, Kokoska, Lidija, Koshelev, Sergey, Kotelnikov, Sergey, Lamm, Michael, Lopes, Mauricio L., Nogiec, Jerzy, Page, Thomas M., Pilipenko, Roman, Rabehl, Roger, Sylvester, Cosmore, Tartaglia, Michael, and Vouris, Antonios. Improvements and Performance of the Fermilab Solenoid Test Facility. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2016.2639478.
Orris, Darryl, Arnold, Don, Brandt, Jeffrey, Cheban, Sergey, Evbota, Daniel, Feher, Sandor, Galt, Artur, Hays, Steven, Hemmati, Ali, Hess, Charles, Hocker, James A., Kim, Min Jeong, Kokoska, Lidija, Koshelev, Sergey, Kotelnikov, Sergey, Lamm, Michael, Lopes, Mauricio L., Nogiec, Jerzy, Page, Thomas M., Pilipenko, Roman, Rabehl, Roger, Sylvester, Cosmore, Tartaglia, Michael, & Vouris, Antonios. Improvements and Performance of the Fermilab Solenoid Test Facility. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2016.2639478
Orris, Darryl, Arnold, Don, Brandt, Jeffrey, Cheban, Sergey, Evbota, Daniel, Feher, Sandor, Galt, Artur, Hays, Steven, Hemmati, Ali, Hess, Charles, Hocker, James A., Kim, Min Jeong, Kokoska, Lidija, Koshelev, Sergey, Kotelnikov, Sergey, Lamm, Michael, Lopes, Mauricio L., Nogiec, Jerzy, Page, Thomas M., Pilipenko, Roman, Rabehl, Roger, Sylvester, Cosmore, Tartaglia, Michael, and Vouris, Antonios. Thu .
"Improvements and Performance of the Fermilab Solenoid Test Facility". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2016.2639478. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1329675.
@article{osti_1329675,
title = {Improvements and Performance of the Fermilab Solenoid Test Facility},
author = {Orris, Darryl and Arnold, Don and Brandt, Jeffrey and Cheban, Sergey and Evbota, Daniel and Feher, Sandor and Galt, Artur and Hays, Steven and Hemmati, Ali and Hess, Charles and Hocker, James A. and Kim, Min Jeong and Kokoska, Lidija and Koshelev, Sergey and Kotelnikov, Sergey and Lamm, Michael and Lopes, Mauricio L. and Nogiec, Jerzy and Page, Thomas M. and Pilipenko, Roman and Rabehl, Roger and Sylvester, Cosmore and Tartaglia, Michael and Vouris, Antonios},
abstractNote = {Here, the Solenoid Test Facility at Fermilab was built using a large vacuum vessel for testing of conduction-cooled superconducting solenoid magnets, and was first used to determine the performance of the MICE Coupling Coil. The facility was modified recently to enable testing of solenoid magnets for the Mu2e experiment, which operate at much higher current than the Coupling Coil. One pair of low current conduction-cooled copper and NbTi leads was replaced with two pairs of 10 kA HTS leads cooled by heat exchange with liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. The new design, with additional control and monitoring capability, also provides helium cooling of the superconducting magnet leads by conduction. A high current power supply with energy extraction was added, and several improvements to the quench protection and characterization system were made. Here we present details of these changes and report on performance results from a test of the Mu2e prototype Transport Solenoid (TS) module. Progress on additional improvements in preparation for production TS module testing will be presented.},
doi = {10.1109/TASC.2016.2639478},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity},
number = 4,
volume = 27,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {6}
}
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