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| MOPLS015 |
Quality Control Techniques Applied to the Large Scale Production of Superconducting Dipole Magnets for LHC
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- F. Savary, M. Bajko, J. Beauquis, G. De Rijk, N. Emelianenko, P. Fessia, P. Hagen, J. Miles, L. Rossi, E. Todesco, J. Vlogaert, C. Vollinger, E.Y. Wildner
CERN, Geneva
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The LHC accelerator, under construction at CERN, is characterized by the use on a large scale of high field superconducting dipoles: the 27-km ring requires 1232 15-m long dipole magnets designed for a peak field of 9 T. The coils are wound with Rutherford-type cable based on copper-stabilized Nb-Ti superconductors and will be operated at 1.9 K in pressurized superfluid helium. The challenge that had to be faced has been an efficient, cost-effective and reproducible mass production to very tight tolerances: the field quality must be better than 10-4 and the geometry of the cold bore tube and magnet controlled to 0.1 mm over the whole length, any deviation being liable to induce delays and significant cost increase. This paper presents the main methods and tools chosen to face successfully this challenge: some methods were foreseen in the technical specification, others were implemented based on the experience gained in several years of fabrication.
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| TUPLS005 |
Preliminary Study of Using "Pipetron"-type Magnets for a Pre-accelerator for the LHC Collider
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- G. De Rijk, L. Rossi
CERN, Geneva
- H. Piekarz
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
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One of the luminosity limitations of the LHC is the rather low injection energy (0.45 TeV) with respect to the collision energy (7 TeV). The magnetic multipoles in the main dipoles at low field and their dynamic behaviour are considered to limit the achievable bunch intensity and emittance. We report on a preliminary study to increase the injection energy to 1.5 TeV using a two beam pre-accelerator (LHCI) in the LHC tunnel. The LHCI is based on "Pipetron" magnets as originally proposed for the VLHC. The aim of the study is to assess the feasibility and to identify the critical processes or systems that need to be investigated and developed to render such a machine possible.
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| WEPLS105 |
Performance of the LHC Arc Superconducting Quadrupoles towards the End of their Series Fabrication
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- T. Tortschanoff, P. Hagen, M. Modena, L. Rossi, S. Sanfilippo, K. M. Schirm, E. Todesco, E.Y. Wildner
CERN, Geneva
- R. Burgmer, H.-U. Klein, D. Krischel, B. Schellong, P. Schmidt
ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach
- M. Durante, A. Payn, F. Simon
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
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The fabrication of the 408 main arc quadrupole magnets and their cold masses will come to an end in summer 2006. A rich collection of measurement and test data has been accumulated and their analysis is presented in this paper. These data cover the fabrication and the efficiency in the use of the main components, the geometrical measurements and the achieved dimensional precision, the warm magnetic measurements in the factory and the performance at cold conditions, especially the training behaviour. The scrap rate of the NbTi/Cu conductor as well as that of other components turned out to be acceptably low and the quench performance measured was in general very good. Most quadrupoles measured so far exceeded the operating field gradient with one or no quench. The multipole content at cold was measured for a limited numbers of quadrupoles as far as needed for verifying the warm-to-cold correlation. From the point of view of field quality, all quadrupoles could be accepted for the machine and the measures taken to overcome the problem of a too high permeability of a batch of collars are discussed.
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| WEPLS100 |
Performance of LHC Main Dipoles for Beam Operation
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- G. De Rijk, M. Bajko, L. Bottura, M.C.L. Buzio, V. Chohan, L. Deniau, P. Fessia, J. Garcia Perez, P. Hagen, J.-P. Koutchouk, J. Kozak, J. Miles, M. Missiaen, M. Modena, P. Pugnat, V. Remondino, L. Rossi, S. Sanfilippo, F. Savary, A.P. Siemko, N. Smirnov, A. Stafiniak, E. Todesco, D. Tommasini, J. Vlogaert, C. Vollinger, L. Walckiers, E.Y. Wildner
CERN, Geneva
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At present about 75% of the main dipoles for the LHC have been manufactured and one of the three cold mass assemblers has already completed the production. More than two third of the 1232 dipoles needed for the tunnel have been tested and accepted. In this paper we mainly deal with the performance results: the quench behavior, the magnetic field quality, the electrical integrity quality and the geometry features will be summarized. The variations in performance associated with different cold mass assemblers and superconducting cable origins will be discussed.
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