16–21 Sept 2018
Giardini Naxos
Europe/Rome timezone

A 15 T large aperture dipole for testing fusion and accelerator superconducting samples

17 Sept 2018, 11:00
2h
Pantelleria Hall - Terrace - ATA Hotel Naxos Beach Resort (Giardini Naxos)

Pantelleria Hall - Terrace - ATA Hotel Naxos Beach Resort

Giardini Naxos

Via Recanati, 26 Giardini Naxos, Messina - Sicily (Italy)
Magnets and Power Supplies P1

Speaker

Dr Xabier Sarasola (Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Description

High field superconducting magnets are an essential technology enabling the development of magnetic confinement fusion and high energy hadron colliders. These two communities have joined efforts to design a facility for testing superconducting cables and small insert coils. We propose a large aperture Nb3Sn dipole to replace the magnet assembly of EDIPO, which was irreversibly damaged in 2016, while the rest of the EDIPO infrastructure, including cryostat, cryoplant, power supplies, and high current transformer, remained intact. The goal of this new magnet is to generate a background field of 15 T over a ±0.5% homogeneous field length of 1000 mm. The aperture will enable the test of samples from the two test facilities existing worldwide for the test of high current superconducting cables in a background field above 10 T: SULTAN (94×144 mm aperture) and FRESCA2 (100-mm-diameter bore). The main features of the magnet design will be discussed along with the status and outlook of this collaborative effort between Fusion and High Energy Physics laboratories.

Co-authors

Dr Xabier Sarasola (Swiss Plasma Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Dr Pierluigi Bruzzone (Superconducting Magnets Lab) Dr Luca Bottura (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Dr Paolo Ferracin (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Dr Emmanuele Ravaioli (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Dr Gijs de Rijk (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Dr Francesca Cau (Fusion for Energy) Dr Alfredo Portone (ITER delivery, Fusion for Energy) Dr Pietro Testoni (ITER delivery, Fusion for Energy) Dr Soren Prestemon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr GianLuca Sabbi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dr Joseph Minervini (Magnets and Cryogenics Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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