Principles developed for the construction of the high performance, low-cost superconducting LHC corrector magnets

Author

Ijspeert, A. ; Allitt, M. ; Hilaire, A. ; Karppinen, M. ; Mazet, J. ; Perez, J. ; Salminen, J. ; Karmarker, M. ; Puntambekar, A.

Author_Institution

Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

93

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) needs more than 6000 superconducting corrector magnets. These must be sufficiently powerful, have enough margin, be compact and of low cost. The development of the 11 types of magnets was spread over several years and included the magnetic and mechanical design as well as prototype building and testing. It gradually led to the systematic application of a number of interesting construction principles that allow to realize the above mentioned goals. The paper describes the techniques developed and presently used in practically all the LHC corrector magnets ranging from dipoles to dodecapoles.

Keywords

accelerator magnets; colliding beam accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; Large Hadron Collider; dipoles; dodecapoles; high performance low-cost superconducting LHC corrector magnets; magnet construction; mechanical design; prototype building; Boring; Coils; Costs; Iron; Large Hadron Collider; Prototypes; Structural beams; Superconducting magnets; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2002.1018358

Filename

1018358