IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Li, N.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEPO022	Tightening the Tolerance Budget of Core Fabrication to Achieve Higher Magnet Performance	2448
	N. Li, A. Madur LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA J. Jin SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
	Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. Traditionally, laminated cores of AC magnets have been always built by the laminations that are produced by a punching die. There are 5 links in the tolerance chain when a magnet core is built by this procedure: 1. Error of punching die; 2. Error of lamination punching; 3. Error of half core stacking; 4. Error of core assembly; and 5. Error of magnet re-assembling during the installation in the accelerator. As time goes on, the Lattice physicists call for more and more ever higher magnet performance, which makes the required magnet field quality almost impossible achieve by traditional core fabrication procedures. It is the goal of this paper to describe a relatively new procedure that was first used by Buckley System Ltd, NZ and is being used at SINAP, China for ALS combined function sextupole core fabrication. The advantage of this new procedure and the fabrication issues related to this procedure will be described in this paper.

WEPO033	Update on the Modification and Testing of the MICE Superconducting Spectrometer Solenoids*	2469
	S.P. Virostek, M.A. Green, N. Li, T.O. Niinikoski, H. Pan, S. Prestemon, M.S. Zisman LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA A. Langner CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is an international effort sited at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which will demonstrate ionization cooling in a segment of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam. A pair of identical, 3-m long spectrometer solenoids will provide a 4-tesla uniform field region at each end of the cooling channel. The emittance of the beam as it enters and exits the cooling channel will be measured within the 400 mm diameter magnet bores. The magnets incorporate a three-coil spectrometer magnet section and a two-coil section that matches the solenoid uniform field into the MICE cooling channel. The cold mass, radiation shield and leads are kept cold by means of a series of two-stage cryocoolers and one single-stage cryocooler. Previous testing of the magnets had revealed several operational issues related to heat leak and quench protection. A quench analysis using Vector Fields software and detailed heat leak calculations have been carried out in order to assess and improve the magnet design. Details of the analyses and resulting magnet design modifications along with an update of the magnet assembly and testing progress will be presented here.

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Tightening the Tolerance Budget of Core Fabrication to Achieve Higher Magnet Performance

2448

N. Li, A. Madur
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
J. Jin
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Traditionally, laminated cores of AC magnets have been always built by the laminations that are produced by a punching die. There are 5 links in the tolerance chain when a magnet core is built by this procedure: 1. Error of punching die; 2. Error of lamination punching; 3. Error of half core stacking; 4. Error of core assembly; and 5. Error of magnet re-assembling during the installation in the accelerator. As time goes on, the Lattice physicists call for more and more ever higher magnet performance, which makes the required magnet field quality almost impossible achieve by traditional core fabrication procedures. It is the goal of this paper to describe a relatively new procedure that was first used by Buckley System Ltd, NZ and is being used at SINAP, China for ALS combined function sextupole core fabrication. The advantage of this new procedure and the fabrication issues related to this procedure will be described in this paper.

WEPO033

Update on the Modification and Testing of the MICE Superconducting Spectrometer Solenoids*

2469

S.P. Virostek, M.A. Green, N. Li, T.O. Niinikoski, H. Pan, S. Prestemon, M.S. Zisman
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
A. Langner
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231.
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is an international effort sited at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, which will demonstrate ionization cooling in a segment of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam. A pair of identical, 3-m long spectrometer solenoids will provide a 4-tesla uniform field region at each end of the cooling channel. The emittance of the beam as it enters and exits the cooling channel will be measured within the 400 mm diameter magnet bores. The magnets incorporate a three-coil spectrometer magnet section and a two-coil section that matches the solenoid uniform field into the MICE cooling channel. The cold mass, radiation shield and leads are kept cold by means of a series of two-stage cryocoolers and one single-stage cryocooler. Previous testing of the magnets had revealed several operational issues related to heat leak and quench protection. A quench analysis using Vector Fields software and detailed heat leak calculations have been carried out in order to assess and improve the magnet design. Details of the analyses and resulting magnet design modifications along with an update of the magnet assembly and testing progress will be presented here.