Cable Design for FAIR SIS 300

GSI, Darmstadt is preparing to build FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) which include SIS 300, a 300T - m fast-ramping heavy ion synchrotron. Dipoles for this ring will be 2.9 m long, producing 6 T over a 100 mm coil aperture and ramped at 1 T/s. The cable for these dipoles must have low losses and produce acceptable field distortions during the fast ramp. We plan to achieve this objective by using fine (~ 3 mum) filaments of NbTi in a wire with an interfilamentary matrix of CuMn to reduce proximity coupling and increase the transverse resistivity. The Rutherford cable have a thin stainless steel core and the wires will be coated with SnAg solder which has been oxidized, using a recipe similar to that developed at CERN, to increase the adjacent strand resistance Ra. Measurements of crossover strand resistance Re and Ra in cored cable with oxidized SnAg coating will be presented, together with data on critical current, persistent current magnetization and eddy current coupling in a wire with ultra fine filaments and a CuMn matrix in the interfilamentary region of the wire. These data will be used to predict losses and field distortion in the SIS 300 dipole and optimize the final design of cable for FAIR

Stability of Nb-Ti Rutherford Cables Exhibiting Different Contact Resistances

Dipole magnets for the so-called SIS-300 heavy-ion synchrotron at GSI are designed to generate 6 T with a field sweep rate of 1 T/s. It is foreseen to wind the magnets with a 36 strands Nb-Ti Rutherford cable. An important issue in the cable design is sufficiently low AC loss and stability as well. In order to keep the AC loss at low level, the contact resistance between crossing strands Rc is kept high by putting a stainless steel core in the cable. The contact resistance between adjacent strands Ra is controlled by oxidation of the Sn-Ag coating of the strands, like in the LHC. In order to investigate the effect of Ra on the stability of the cable, we prepared four samples with different Ra by varying the heat treatment and applying a soldering technique, resulting in values between 1 mW to 9 mW. The stability of each sample against transient point-like heat pulses was measured. The results of the stability experiments and a comparison with calculations using the network model CUDI are presented. It is concluded that variation of Ra has a strong influence on cable stability and that optimization of Ra is mandatory to properly design the cable for the SIS-300 magnets, or likewise for similar magnets that might be used at CERN for a possible LHC injector upgrade

Cored Rutherford cables for the GSI fast ramping synchrotron

The new heavy ion synchrotron facility proposed by GSI will have two superconducting magnet rings in the same tunnel, with rigidities of 200 T/spl middot/m and 100 T/spl middot/m. Fast ramp times are needed, which can cause significant problems for the magnets, particularly in the areas of ac loss and field distortion. This paper discusses the 200 T/spl middot/m ring, which will use Cos/spl theta/ magnets based on the RHIC dipole design. We discuss the reasons for choosing Rutherford cable with a resistive core and report loss measurements carried out on cable samples. These measurements are compared with theoretical calculations using measured values of inter-strand resistance. Reasonably good agreement is found, but there are indications of nonuniformity in the adjacent resistance R/sub a/. Using these measured parameters, losses and temperature rise are calculated for a RHIC dipole in the operating cycle of the accelerator. A novel insulation scheme designed to promote efficient cooling is described

BNL superconducting storage ring magnet update

The various performance data, design and specifications for the storage ring and experimental series dipole and quadrupole magnets as well as the working line and correction coil systems are reported. The working line system includes the closed orbit dipoles, the quadrupole trim, sextupoles, octapoles, decapoles and duodecapoles. These are the magnets in the standard subunits of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Intersecting Storage Ring Accelerator ''ISABELLE.'

Upgraded coil configuration for ISABELLE magnets

Achievement of the design field of 5 T in the ISABELLE dipole magnets is turning out to be more arduous than expected and several avenues of improvement are being pursued. One possibility for improving training and peak field performance is discussed in this paper. It has been recognized that the inert spacers with their adjacent active turns in the cosine magnet windings can be replaced by a double thickness braid operating at approximately half-current density in 46 of the 190 turns. Since the high-field region occurs in the low current density turns near the poles, a performance improvement can be expected. It has been verified that the proposed coil configuration satisfies the field requirements and details thereof are given. Results from an experimental magnet in which superconducting spacer turns are used to simulate half-current density windings are presented. Construction of thick braid coils is being planned and the status of these magnets is reviewed