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Title: Conceptual design of a superconducting quadrupole with elliptical acceptance and tunable higher order multipoles.

Journal Article · · Int. J. Mod. Phys. A

For charged particle beams that are wider in the dispersive plane compared to the transverse plane it is cost efficient to utilize magnets that accept beams with elliptic cross section. In this paper we presents the conceptual design of a quadrupole magnet with elliptic cross section and with tunable higher order multipoles. The design consists of 18 superconducting race-track coils placed on two hollow concentric rhombic prism support structures. To compute the magnetic field for the proposed design a new method of calculating 2D and 3D fields for the air core magnets based on differential algebra (DA) techniques is developed. We will present the new method and discuss its implementation of new numerical tools based on this method in the code COSY Infinity.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
986744
Report Number(s):
ANL/PHY/JA-62459; TRN: US1006441
Journal Information:
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, Vol. 24, Issue 5 ; 2009; ISSN 0217-751X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH