The Heavy Ion Synchrotron SIS100 is the core facility of the international FAIR project at GSI in Darmstadt. The magnet system of the synchrotron will operate with a high cycle frequency up to 1 Hz. The magnet coils are made of a hollow NbTi composite cable cooled by forced flow of two phase helium. The dynamic heat losses in the magnets caused by fast ramping provide the major part of the heat load to the cryogenic system of SIS100. Recently the first series dipole magnet was produced and is being intensively tested at the cryogenic magnet test facility at GSI. We present the status of these tests together with the obtained operation characteristics like a cool down and training behaviour, dynamic heat release and mass flow rates. c 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ICEC 25-ICMC 2014.

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Testing the different superconducting magnets for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research requires testing capabilities beyond the necessities of dc superconducting magnets: stable power converters with fast cycles, capabilities for measuring the loss, and abilities to measure the field on the ramp for the magnets of the heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100. On the other hand, the Super Fragment Separator (Super-FRS) magnets are of large aperture and large size. The high-current design of the SIS100 main dipole and quadrupole magnets necessitated upgrading the power converter, the current leads, and different measurement systems. Facilities are being built or refurbished for measuring the SIS100 quadrupole units and the Super-FRS magnets. We describe the abilities of these facilities and the status of preparation. The upgrade of the existing facility at GSI has been completed. We present the performance of the main systems and their accuracies based on the measurements made for the SIS100 dipole.Index Terms-Magnetic field measurement, test facilities.

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