Author: Ringsdorf, B.
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THPAB042 Bending Radius Limits of Different Coated REBCO Conductor Tapes - An Experimental Investigation with Regard to HTS Undulators 3837
 
  • S.C. Richter, A. Bernhard, A. Drechsler, A.-S. Müller, B. Ringsdorf, S.I. Schlachter
    KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • S.C. Richter, D. Schoerling
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: This work has been sponsored by the Wolfgang Gentner Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no. 05E18CHA).
Compact FELs require short-period, high-field undulators in combination with compact accelerator structures to produce coherent light up to X-rays. Likewise, for the production of low emittance positron beams for future lepton colliders, like CLIC or FCC-ee, high-field damping wigglers are required. Applying high-temperature superconductors in form of coated REBCO tape conductors allows reaching higher magnetic fields and larger operating margins as compared to low-temperature superconductors like Nb-Ti or Nb3Sn. However, short undulator periods like 13 mm may require bending radii of the conductor smaller than 5 mm inducing significant bending strain on the superconducting layer and may harm its conducting properties. In this paper, we present our designed bending rig and experimental results for REBCO tape conductors from various manufacturers and with different properties. Investigated bending radii reach from 20 mm down to 1 mm and optionally include half of a helical twist. To represent magnet winding procedures, the samples were bent at room temperature and then cooled down to T = 77 K in the bent state to test for potential degradation of the superconducting properties.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-THPAB042  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 18 June 2021       issue date ※ 25 August 2021  
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