Influence of 3-D Effects on Field Quality in the Straight Part of Accelerator Magnets for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

Abstract-A dedicated D1 beam separation dipole is currently being developed at KEK for the Large Hadron Collider Luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). Four 150 mm aperture, 5.6 T magnetic field and 6.7 m long Nb-Ti magnets will replace resistive D1 dipoles. The development includes fabrication and testing of 2.2 m model magnets. The dipole has a single layer coil and thin spacers between coil and iron, giving a non-negligible impact of saturation on field quality at nominal field. The magnetic design of the straight section coil cross section is based on 2D optimization and a separate optimization concerns the coil ends. However, magnetic measurements of the short model showed a large difference (tens of units) between the sextupole harmonic in the straight part and the 2D calculation. This difference is correctly modelled only by a 3D analysis: 3D calculations show that the magnetic field quality in the straight part is influenced by the coil ends, even for the 6.7 m long magnets. The effect is even more remarkable in the short model. We investigate similar 3D effects for other magnets, namely the 11 T dipole for HL-LHC. We also consider the case of the 4.5 T recombination magnets for HL-LHC (D2), where the larger space between coil and iron makes this effect less important, but still visible. We conclude the paper by outlining the different classes of accelerator magnets where this coupling between 3D effects and iron saturation can be relevant. Index Terms-Superconducting magnets, accelerator magnets, magnetic analysis.

Subscale Stress-Managed Common Coil Design

“…4). Secondly, the set of analytical functions (one function per pair of blocks) is optimized with the goal of minimizing the integral multi poles [21] while limiting the coil length. Finally, a re-optimization of the cross-section is performed to further decrease the integral multi poles.…”

The High Luminosity LHC interaction region magnets towards series production

“…An additional issue is that for the 2 m long model the ratio between length and aperture is such that a 3D computation of the full magnet is needed even for the field quality modeling in the straight part [48,49]. So field quality extrapolation from 2 m long models to 6 m long prototypes is not straightforward and must be done with proper numerical tools.…”

“…However, each of these magnets present interesting challenges to the superconduting technologies for accelerators. The 5.6 T bore field separation dipole [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], referred to as D1, has an unprecedented level of accumulation of coil stress in the midplane for Nb-Ti magnets (100 MPa) due to the combination of very large aperture and large current density. Reaching a preload level required to balance these forces is non trivial: here, a structure based on a full support from the iron yoke has been adopted.…”