The superconducting combined magnets for the main linac are part of the Spanish contribution to XFEL. Each magnet consists of a superferric quadrupole for focusing and two dipoles (horizontal and vertical) for steering, glued on the beam tube. The magnets will be operated in a superfluid helium bath. The aperture is 78 mm. The quadrupole gradient is 35 T/m whereas each dipole field is about 0.04 T. This paper reports about the magnetic measurements made on the first prototype. Measured field quality matches calculated values, both at room and cold conditions. Magnetization has been also measured in all the coils, with single or combined powering. Asymmetric and strongly non-linear transfer functions have been observed when quadrupole and dipoles were powered simultaneously. On the other hand, detailed computations were made with ROXIE to understand that issue. Results matched measurements when only one set of coils was powered, but not when two of them were energized. It is likely that the effect of the transport current or the coil-ends -which are not modeled by ROXIE-could explain the difference.
The design of a HTS cryogen-free solenoid for a gyrotron magnet upgrade is presented. This gyrotron is used to set up and warm the plasma in an experimental fusion device at Ciemat. The solenoid will be wound with BISCCO-2223 tapes. A two stage Gifford-McMahon cryocooler will be used to cool down the magnet. A significant operation cost will be saved as the present solenoid is a Nb-Ti magnet cooled down in a helium bath supplied with mobile tanks. The main requirement of the magnet is to reproduce the original magnetic profile in the axis of the solenoid with a peak of 2 T in a 150 mm diameter warm bore. The magnet consists of several stacked double-pancake coils. The outer radii, the axial positions and the number of windings have been optimized by means of a genetic algorithm. Afterwards, the cryostat design is also described, including the heat leakage calculation. Finally, the winding techniques and the results of the tests of a prototype coil are also reported in this paper.
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