EBT-P Magnet Development Program summary

The ELMO Bumpy Torus Proof-of-Principle Magnet Development Program, which began in 1979, has fabricated and tested three NbTi superconducting magnets. The magnets are metastable with a maximum winding pack current density of 10,000 A/cm²at a peak field of 7.4 T. Each magnet has been installed in a close-fitting dewar with a warm bore. Previous publications have reported successful tests of the first two windings in a large dewar, tests of the first complete magnet in its own dewar, and construction details of the dewars. This paper gives procedures and results for the test of the third winding in an open dewar, the test of the second single magnet in its own dewar, and two tests in which two magnets were run in series to generate a 73,000-lb side load at 5 T. The last tests verified the mechanical integrity of the design and qualified two of the magnets for use in the National Radio Frequency Test Facility.