ANL, Argonne, USA
The quench properties of two 42-pole prototype superconducting undulators (SCUs) (one having a steel core the other with an aluminium core) have been tested. Since the SCUs have relatively low stored energy, the quench protection has relied on an over-voltage protection feature of the power supply, and the inherent quench back from the core. Concerns about conductor damage (during a quench) due to heating and high induced voltages were raised. The maximum conductor temperatures and voltages have been deduced from voltage and current measurements during a quench. The deduced maximum hot-spot temperature of the conductor was less than 150 K and the maximum voltage across each SCU coil was less than 300 V.
ANL, Argonne, USA
A short period superconducting undulator (SCU) is being developed at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). The on-axis field of the prototype 1.6-cm period 42-pole SCU0 was measured with a cryogenic Hall probe system. Typical permanent magnet undulators provide end-field correction by decreasing the strength of the magnets on both ends of each jaw. In the case of the SCU0, a set of correction coils was wound on the two end grooves of each of the steel cores along with the main coils to provide the required end fields. These correction coils were connected in series and energized with one power supply to provide simple and symmetrical operation. The measured phase errors of the SCU0 were below 2 degrees rms without any local magnetic tuning of the device.
ANL, Argonne, USA
This paper compares calculated on-axis fields for short- period superconducting undulators (SCUs) using Nb3Sn superconductor with two different insulation thicknesses, 0.02 mm and 0.05 mm. When the insulated conductor diameter remained the same, the on-axis fields using the thinner insulation were higher by about 8 – 15% for a period range of 15 – 10 mm. When the conductor diameters with the thicker insulation were made larger than the conductors with the thinner insulation, the differences were reduced to be about 6 – 12%.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk, Republic of Korea
In order to meet the domestic Korean synchrotron user’s requirements demanding high beam stability and extended photon energies, PLS-II upgrade program has been launched in January 2009 through a 3-year project plan. PLS-II storage ring is newly designed a modified achromatic version of Double Bend Achromat (DBA) to achieve almost twice as many straight sections as the current PLS (TBA) with a design goal of the natural emittance of 5.8 nm·rad, 3.0 GeV beam energy and 400 mA beam current. In the PLS-II, the top-up injection using full energy linac of 3.0 GeV beam energy will be routinely operated for higher stable photon beam as well and therefore the production of hard x-ray undulator radiation of 8 to13 keV is anticipated to allow for more competitive scientific research activities namely x-ray bio-imaging and protein crystallography.
