Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade

Cheng, Daniel W.; Ambrosio, Giorgio; Anderssen, Eric C.; Bourcey, Nicolas; Felice, Helene; Ferracin, Paolo; Grosclaude, Philippe; Guinchard, Michael; Perez, Juan Carlos; Pan, Heng; Prestemon, Soren O.; Vallone, Giorgio

doi:10.1109/TASC.2018.2799563

Title: Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade

Abstract

© 2018 IEEE. The LHC accelerator research program (LARP), in collaboration with CERN and under the scope of the high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, is in the prototyping stage in the development of a 150 mm aperture high-field Nb3Sn quadrupole magnet called MQXF. This magnet is mechanically supported using a shell-based support structure, which has been extensively demonstrated on several R&D models within LARP, as well as in the more recent short (1.2 m magnetic length) MQXF model program. The MQXFA magnets are each 4.2 m magnetic length, and the first mechanical long model, MQXFA1M (using aluminum surrogate coils), and MQXFAP1 prototype magnet (the first prototype with Nb3Sn coils) have been assembled at the LBNL. In this paper, we summarize the tooling and the assembly processes, and discuss the mechanical performance of these first two assemblies, comparing strain gauge data with finite element model analysis, as well as the near-term plans for the long MQXF magnet program.

Authors:

^[1]; Ambrosio, Giorgio ^[2]; Anderssen, Eric C. ^[1]; Bourcey, Nicolas ^[3];

^[4]; Ferracin, Paolo ^[3]; Grosclaude, Philippe ^[3]; Guinchard, Michael ^[3]; Perez, Juan Carlos ^[3]; Pan, Heng ^[1]; Prestemon, Soren O. ^[1];

^[3]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
CEA Saclay, Saclay (France)

Publication Date:: Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2018

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1452786

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1561883

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-17-372-TD
Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223; 1671477; TRN: US1900981

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223

Publisher:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; superconducting magnet; superconducting coils; high luminosity LHC; MQXF; quadrupole

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                    Cheng, Daniel W., Ambrosio, Giorgio, Anderssen, Eric C., Bourcey, Nicolas, Felice, Helene, Ferracin, Paolo, Grosclaude, Philippe, Guinchard, Michael, Perez, Juan Carlos, Pan, Heng, Prestemon, Soren O., and Vallone, Giorgio. Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Cheng, Daniel W., Ambrosio, Giorgio, Anderssen, Eric C., Bourcey, Nicolas, Felice, Helene, Ferracin, Paolo, Grosclaude, Philippe, Guinchard, Michael, Perez, Juan Carlos, Pan, Heng, Prestemon, Soren O., & Vallone, Giorgio. Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2018.2799563

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                    Cheng, Daniel W., Ambrosio, Giorgio, Anderssen, Eric C., Bourcey, Nicolas, Felice, Helene, Ferracin, Paolo, Grosclaude, Philippe, Guinchard, Michael, Perez, Juan Carlos, Pan, Heng, Prestemon, Soren O., and Vallone, Giorgio. Tue .  
"Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2018.2799563.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1452786.

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@article{osti_1452786,

  title        = {Fabrication and Assembly Performance of the First 4.2 m MQXFA Magnet and Mechanical Model for the Hi-Lumi LHC Upgrade},

  author       = {Cheng, Daniel W. and Ambrosio, Giorgio and Anderssen, Eric C. and Bourcey, Nicolas and Felice, Helene and Ferracin, Paolo and Grosclaude, Philippe and Guinchard, Michael and Perez, Juan Carlos and Pan, Heng and Prestemon, Soren O. and Vallone, Giorgio},

  abstractNote = {© 2018 IEEE. The LHC accelerator research program (LARP), in collaboration with CERN and under the scope of the high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, is in the prototyping stage in the development of a 150 mm aperture high-field Nb3Sn quadrupole magnet called MQXF. This magnet is mechanically supported using a shell-based support structure, which has been extensively demonstrated on several R&D models within LARP, as well as in the more recent short (1.2 m magnetic length) MQXF model program. The MQXFA magnets are each 4.2 m magnetic length, and the first mechanical long model, MQXFA1M (using aluminum surrogate coils), and MQXFAP1 prototype magnet (the first prototype with Nb3Sn coils) have been assembled at the LBNL. In this paper, we summarize the tooling and the assembly processes, and discuss the mechanical performance of these first two assemblies, comparing strain gauge data with finite element model analysis, as well as the near-term plans for the long MQXF magnet program.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TASC.2018.2799563},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 28,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2018},

  month        = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2018}

}

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