At the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, superconducting magnets are utilized for the large machines SIS100 and Super-FRS and for the experiments like CBM, APPA and PANDA. We will give an overview on the chosen magnet designs, developments and delivery status.
We will give an overview on the given mangnet designs and developments. Further considerations and...
The Compact Accelerator Systems Test Stand (COMPASS) currently under construction at KIT provides a versatile experimental environment for the development of energy-responsible accelerator systems. COMPASS comprises a cryostat vessel with a cubic cryogenic installation space of 50 cm edge length and a power supply providing electrical currents between a few 100 A up to 10 kA. It is equipped...
For FAIR a high variety of experimental set-ups is expected. The operations scheme of SIS100 may vary in the full range of the magnets ability for seconds or several hours. Consequently, the refrigerator of FAIR has to handle different heat loads, as well as the high liquefaction rate for the start-up of the SuperFRS, with its helium inventory of 6.7 t and a cold mass of 1500 t. During the...
n the frame of the Next Generation Europe program, the EU program to boost after-covid recovery, the Italian Minister of Research has funded a project called IRIS (Innovative Research Infrastructure for applied Superconductivity). New laboratories will be built or upgraded in six poles: Milan (hub of the infrastructure), Genoa, Frascati, Naples, Salerno and Lecce, to carry out basic research...
The capability of managing superconducting devices for research large applications as well as for societal applications is tightly connected to the availability of cryogenic infrastructures and competencies. In this framework in 2015 we realized the NAFASSY program for infrastructural strengthening, which then gave rise in 2019 to the THOR cooperation with GSI/FAIR. Although we are at the very...
Particle accelerators offer unique opportunities for research in a wide variety of fields. This diversity is also expressed in a wide variety of requirements for the respective technologies of the machines. With a new understanding of the importance of climate change and the resulting necessity for sustainable operation of the machines key technologies have to be evaluated under new aspects....
A key strategic approach to making accelerator-driven light sources more sustainable is to reduce their size. In the case of e.g. Free-Electron Lasers this size reduction can be achieved by using short-period undulators and high-gradient accelerating structures, ranging from X-band structures down to laser-plasma accelerators (LPA). HTS magnet technology can play a key role in this approach,...
A round hollow conductor with a low temperature superconductor (NbTi) is used to
the FAIR magnets for the heavy ion synchrotron SIS100 of FAIR. With high capability of relieving a heat from AC losses, the cable enables to operate the magnets with a fast ramp rate such as 27 kA/sec. corresponding 4 T/sec., which are required for the heavy ion acceleration. For a future heavy ion accelerator...
AC loss generated in a superconducting cable during variation of magnetic field is essential property affecting its use in pulsed magnets for particle accelerators or fusion tokamaks. It can be shown, that in round high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables made from coated conductor (CC) tapes, the hysteresis loss is proportional to the tape width. Then a plausible measure for reducing it...
The European project IFAST's Work Package 8 (WP8) focuses on advancing Innovative Superconducting Magnets, with a specific emphasis on exploring the potential of Canted Cosine Theta (CCT) magnets wound with High-Temperature Superconductors (HTS). These superconducting magnets have the capacity to make a significant impact by reducing the size and cost of synchrotrons and gantries used in...
The linear accelerator HELIAC will provide heavy ions with particle energies of 3.5 MeV/u to 7.6 MeV/u (A/Z = 6) at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung. Thanks to supercon-ducting radio-frequency technology, it will be able to deliver high average beam currents in continuous-wave mode.
The radio-frequency resonators of the so-called Cross-bar H-mode type are being developed in...
Aspects of development and manufacturing of superconducting accelerator magnets are considered from an industrial point of view. The individual project phases from development and design to prototyping and industrialization to series production are analyzed. Examples and lessons learned from previous projects are reviewed.
The beam transfer infrastructure at GSI is one of the mayor power consumers when running. The presentation will detail the concept for a beam transfer infrastructure upgrade by replacing classic water cooled magnets with HTS magnets.
Accelerator facilities worldwide face a critical challenge in consuming vast amounts of energy to power resistive magnets, particularly in medium- and high-energy particle beamlines. In response to this challenge, our research focuses on the development of superconducting magnet designs as sustainable alternatives to high power comsumption resistive magnets, already in operation. Specifically,...
Over the past years the institute has developed an high-current power supply that can drive 14 kA into coils at a voltage of up to 25 V. Right from the start due to power grid limitations and energy conservation considerations a capacitor bank was included into the layout. This allowed the high-current power supply to be designed in a massively parallel H-bridge configuration.
Thus a full...
In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, the transfer of cutting-edge innovations from research institutions to the commercial sector is of paramount importance. GSI's Technology Transfer Department is at the forefront of building this crucial bridge between science and industry.
This lecture entitled "Innovation in Cooperation" gives a comprehensive overview of the transfer tasks...
