Title :
Status of the production of the LHC superconducting corrector magnets
Author :
Allitt, M. ; Ijspeert, A. ; Karppinen, M. ; Mazet, J. ; Wolf, R.
Author_Institution :
Acceleartor Technol. Div., CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
fDate :
6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be equipped with a large number (6400) of superconducting corrector magnets. These magnets are powerful, with typical peak fields of 3-4 T on the coils, but at the same time compact and of low cost. There are many types: sextupoles, octupoles and decapoles to correct the main dipole field, dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles and octupoles to condition the proton beams and several nested correctors from dipole to dodecapole in the inner triplets. The sizes vary from 6 kg, 110 mm long, nested decapole-octupole spool pieces to 1800 kg, 1.4 m long, trim quadrupoles. The fabrication of the 11 different types of magnets is assured by 10 contracts placed at 6 firms, two of which are in India. A number of magnets are now in series production, others in their pre-series production. The paper describes the present state of the fabrication and the testing of these magnets.
Keywords :
accelerator magnets; contracts; production testing; superconducting magnets; 1.4 m; 110 mm; 3 to 4 T; LHC superconducting corrector magnets; Large Hadron Collider; decapoles; inner LHC triplets; magnetic coil; magnets fabrication; magnets testing; main dipole field; octupoles; preseries production; proton beams; quadrupoles; series production; sextupoles; Apertures; Assembly; Costs; Fabrication; Helium; Large Hadron Collider; Particle beams; Production; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnets; Correctors; LHC; magnets; superconducting;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2004.829045