BIG KARL and COSY: Examples for high performance magnet design taught by {open_quotes}Papa Klaus{close_quotes}
- Institut fuer Kernphysik, Juelich (Germany)
- Indiana Univ. Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, IN (United States)
- Fachhochschule Aachen Juelich (Germany)
- Power Consulting Ltd., Baden (Switzerland)
- Institut fuer angewandte Mathematik, Juelich (Germany)
- Leybold-Heraeus GmbH, Koeln (Germany); and others
The past decades have seen a tremendous development in nuclear, middle, and high energy physics. This advance was in a great part promoted by the availability of newer and more powerful instruments. Over time, these instruments grew in size as well as in sophistication and precision. Nearly all these devices had one fundamental thing in common - magnetic fields produced with currents and iron. The precision demanded by the new experiments and machines did bring the magnet technology to new frontiers requiring the utmost in the accuracy of magnetic fields. The complex properties of the iron challenged innumerable physicists in the attempt to force the magnetic fields into the desired shape. Experience and analytical insight were the pillars for coping with those problems and only few mastered the skills and were in addition able to communicate their intricate knowledge. It was a fortuitous situation that the authors got to know Klaus Halbach who belonged to those few and who shared his knowledge contributing thus largely to the successful completion of two large instruments that were built at the Forschungszentrum Juelich, KFA, for nuclear and middle energy physics. In one case the efforts went to the large spectrometer named BIG KARL whose design phase started in the early 70`s. In the second case the work started in the early 80`s with the task to build a high precision 2.5 GeV proton accelerator for cooled stored and extracted beams known as COSY-Juelich.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 88770
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-PUB-754; ON: DE95008449; TRN: 95:004113-0003
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Feb 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of The art and science of magnet design: A Festschrift in honor of Klaus Halbach. Volume 1; Cross, J. [ed.]; PB: 202 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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