• DocumentCode
    1025739
  • Title

    The argonne bubble chamber supermagnet

  • Author

    Purcell, J.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Cryogenic Designs Inc., San Diego, CA
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    3/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    413
  • Lastpage
    415
  • Abstract
    The winding of the 12 ft. bubble chamber magnet is 16 ft. in diameter, 10 ft. tall, and weighs 50 tons. The magnet cryostat weighs another 50 tons and the iron return path has a weight of 1600 tons. It produces a field of 1.8 tesla and was first tested in December of 1968. After working for more than ten years at Argonne it was moved to the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) and became a part of the detector for a colliding electron beam experiment.
  • Keywords
    Bubble chambers; History; Superconducting magnets; Conductors; Copper; Costs; Cryogenics; Electrical resistance measurement; Impurities; Iron; Linear accelerators; Superconducting magnets; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.1987.1065157
  • Filename
    1065157