Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Nb3Sn accelerator magnet technology has made significant progress during the past decades. Thanks to that 11-12 T Nb3Sn dipoles and quadrupoles are planned to be used in accelerators such as LHC in near future for the luminosity upgrade and in longer term for the LHC energy upgrade or a future Very High Energy pp Collider. However, all the state of the art Nb3Sn accelerator magnets show quite long training. This specific feature significantly raises the required design margin or limit the nominal operation field of Nb3Sn accelerator magnets and, thus, increases their cost. To resolve this problem Fermilab has launched a study aiming to analyze the relatively large amount of Nb3Sn magnet training data accumulated at Fermilab magnet test facility. The ultimate goal is to correlate magnet design and manufacturing features and magnet material properties with training performance parameters which will eventually allow us to optimize both the magnet design, fabrication and the training processes. This paper describes the general strategy of the analysis and presents the first results based on partial data processing. Conclusions and further steps are also outlined and discussed.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
FNAL and CERN magnet groups are developing a twin-aperture Nb3Sn 11 T dipole suitable for installation in the LHC to provide room for additional collimators in the dispersion suppressor (DS) areas. Two of these magnets with a collimator in between will replace one regular MB dipole. A single-aperture 2-m long dipole demonstrator and two 1-m long dipole models have been assembled and tested at FNAL in 2012-2014. The 1 m long collared coils were then assembled into the twin-aperture configuration and tested in 2015. The first magnet test was focused on the quench performance of twin-aperture magnet configuration including magnet training, ramp rate sensitivity and temperature dependence of magnet quench current. In the second test performed in July 2016 field quality in one of the two magnet apertures has been measured and compared with the data for the single-aperture models. These results are reported and discussed in this paper.
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
The Cornell-Brookhaven Energy-Recovery-Linac Test Accelerator (CBETA) will provide a 150-MeV electron beam using four acceleration and four deceleration passes through the Cornell Main Linac Cryomodule housing six 1.3-GHz superconducting RF cavities. The return path of this 76-m-circumference accelerator will be provided by 106 fixed-field alternating-gradient (FFAG) cells which carry the four beams of 42, 78, 114 and 150-MeV. Here we describe magnet designs for the splitter and combiner regions which serve to match the on-axis linac beam to the off-axis beams in the FFAG cells, providing the path-length adjustment necessary to energy recovery for each of the four beams. The path lengths of the four beamlines in each of the splitter and combiner regions are designed to be adapted to 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-pass staged operations. Design specifications and modeling for the 24 dipole and 32 quadrupole electromagnets in each region are presented. The CBETA project will serve as the first demonstration of multi-pass energy recovery using superconducting RF cavities with FFAG cell optics for the return loop.
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Solaris National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
NCBJ, Świerk/Otwock, Poland
