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MOPAS093 | Vibration Measurements to Study the Effect of Cryogen Flow in a Superconducting Quadrupole | 643 |
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Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-98CH10886.
The conceptual design of compact superconducting magnets for the International Linear Collider final focus is presently under development at BNL. A primary concern in using superconducting quadrupoles is the potential for inducing additional vibrations from cryogenic operation. We have employed a Laser Doppler Vibrometer system to measure the vibrations at resolutions ~1 nm (at frequencies above ~8 Hz) in a spare RHIC quadrupole coldmass under cryogenic conditions. Some preliminary results of these studies were presented at the Nanobeam 2005 workshop*. These results were limited in resolution due to a rather large motion of the laser head itself. As a first step towards improving the measurement quality, an actively stabilized isolation table was used to reduce the motion of the laser holder. The improved set-up will be described, and vibration spectra measured at cryogenic temperatures, both with and without helium flow, will be presented.
*A. Jain, et al., Nanobeam 2005, Kyoto, Japan, Oct.17-21, 2005; paper WG2d-05; available at http://wwwal.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NanoBM . |