Status of the production of the LHC superconducting corrector magnets

  • M. Allitt
  • , A. Ijspeert
  • , M. Karppinen
  • , J. Mazet
  • , R. Wolf

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Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be equipped with a large number (6400) of superconducting corrector magnets. These magnets are powerful, with typical peak fields of 3-4 T on the coils, but at the same time compact and of low cost. There are many types: sextupoles, octupoles and decapoles to correct the main dipole field, dipoles, quadrupoles, sextupoles and octupoles to condition the proton beams and several nested correctors from dipole to dodecapole in the inner triplets. The sizes vary from 6 kg, 110 mm long, nested decapole-octupole spool pieces to 1800 kg, 1.4 m long, trim quadrupoles. THE fabrication of the 11 different types of magnets is assured by 10 contracts placed at 6 firms, two of which are in India. A number of magnets are now in series production, others in their pre-series production. The paper describes the present state of the fabrication and the testing of these magnets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)195-198
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Correctors
  • LHC
  • Magnets
  • Superconducting

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