Title :
The Design and Construction of the MICE Spectrometer Solenoids
Author :
Wang, Bert ; Wahrer, Bob ; Taylor, Clyde ; Xu, L. ; Chen, J.Y. ; Wang, M. ; Juang, Tiki ; Zisman, Michael S. ; Virostek, Steve P. ; Green, Michael A.
Author_Institution :
Wang NMR, Livermore, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The purpose of the MICE spectrometer solenoid is to provide a uniform field for a scintillating fiber tracker. The uniform field is produced by a long center coil and two short end coils. Together, they produce 4T field with a uniformity of better than 1% over a detector region of 1000 mm long and 300 mm in diameter. Throughout most of the detector region, the field uniformity is better than 0.3%. In addition to the uniform field coils, we have two match coils. These two coils can be independently adjusted to match uniform field region to the focusing coil field. The coil package length is 2544 mm. We present the spectrometer solenoid cold mass design, the powering and quench protection circuits, and the cryogenic cooling system based on using three cryocoolers with re-condensers.
Keywords :
beam handling techniques; coils; cryogenics; particle spectrometers; position sensitive particle detectors; solenoids; solid scintillation detectors; MICE spectrometer solenoid; Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment; cryocoolers; cryogenic cooling system; detector region; focusing coil field; scintillating fiber tracker; size 1000 mm; size 2544 mm; size 300 mm; Circuits; Coils; Cooling; Cryogenics; Detectors; Mass spectroscopy; Mice; Packaging; Power system protection; Solenoids; Magnet cooling; magnet design; magnet fabrication;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2009.2018057