Author: Muratore, J.F.
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TUP163 Design Construction and Test Results of a HTS Solenoid for Energy Recovery Linac 1127
 
  • R.C. Gupta, M. Anerella, I. Ben-Zvi, G. Ganetis, D. Kayran, G.T. McIntyre, J.F. Muratore, S.R. Plate, W. Sampson
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • M.D. Cole, D. Holmes
    AES, Medford, NY, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886.
An innovative feature of the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is the use of a solenoid made with High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) with the Superconducting RF cavity. The use of HTS in the solenoid offers many advantages. The solenoid is located in the transition region (4 K to room temperature) where the temperature is too high for a conventional low temperature superconductor and the heat load on the cryogenic system too high for copper coils. Proximity to the cavity provides early focusing and thus a reduction in the emittance of the electron beam. In addition, taking full advantage of the high critical temperature of HTS, the solenoid has been designed to reach the required field at ~77 K, which can be obtained with liquid nitrogen. This significantly reduces the cost of testing and allows a variety of critical pre‐tests (e.g. measurements of the axial and fringe fields) which would have been very expensive at 4 K in liquid helium because of the additional requirements for a cryostat and associated facilities. This paper will present the design, construction, test results and current status of this HTS solenoid.