Development of Superconducting Focusing Quadrupoles for Heavy Ion Drivers

Conference · Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2002.1018373· OSTI ID:15004701

Martovetsky, N; Manahan, R; Lietzke, A F

Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) is exploring a promising path to a practical inertial-confinement fusion reactor. The associated heavy ion driver will require a large number of focusing quadrupole magnets. A concept for a superconducting quadrupole array, using many simple racetrack coils, was developed at LLNL. Two, single-bore quadrupole prototypes of the same design, with distinctly different conductor, were designed, built, and tested. Both prototypes reached their short sample currents with little or no training. Magnet design, and test results, are presented and discussed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 15004701
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-145352; TRN: US0305002
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: 17th International Conference on Magnet Technology, Gebeva (CH), 09/24/2001--09/28/2001; Other Information: PBD: 10 Sep 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
DESIGN
FOCUSING
HEAVY IONS
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY
MAGNETS
QUADRUPOLES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TRAINING