• DocumentCode
    2354684
  • Title

    4-13 kA DC current transducers enabling accurate in-situ calibration for a new particle accelerator project, LHC

  • Author

    Hudson, Gregory ; Bouwknegt, Koos

  • Author_Institution
    Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., CERN, Geneva
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    11-14 Sept. 2005
  • Abstract
    CERN´s next generation particle accelerator, the large hadron collider (LHC) requires accurate current measurement up to 13 kA to enable current tracking between individual power converters. DC current transducers (DCCTs) have been developed to allow in-situ calibrations to 10-6 uncertainty. This paper describes the principle, design and initial evaluations
  • Keywords
    calibration; particle accelerators; power convertors; transducers; DC current transducers; current measurement; in-situ calibration; large hadron collider; particle accelerator project; power converters; Calibration; Circuits; Current measurement; Detectors; Laboratories; Large Hadron Collider; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Transducers; Uniform resource locators; DC power supply; Transducer; measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden
  • Print_ISBN
    90-75815-09-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EPE.2005.219195
  • Filename
    1665385