Design, Construction, and Performance Testing of a 6.5 T Superconducting Wavelength Shifter

A compact three-pole superconducting magnet with an aluminum warm beam duct was designed and fabricated as an X-ray source in a 1.5 GeV Taiwan Light Source (TLS) or the 3 GeV Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). Three pairs of racetrack NbTi superconducting coils were connected to one main power supply to create a central field of over 6.5 T. Two low current trim power supplies were connected in parallel to the two side pairs of the coil to eliminate the first and second field integrals. The wavelength shifter magnet was cooled in a pool boiling helium bath. Helium boils off at 1.3 L/hr. The vapor-cooled current lead is used to pass the 350 A excitation current. The magnetic field strength was measured at room temperature using a Hall probe and a stretched wire system. The magnet was tested successfully to 308 A, at which the central field exceeded 6.5 T, and the peak field on coil was 8.2 T. The design and construction of the magnet and the cryostat, the quenching protection, and field measurement results will be presented and discussed.