IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Madur, A.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEPO022	Tightening the Tolerance Budget of Core Fabrication to Achieve Higher Magnet Performance	2448
	N. Li, A. Madur LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA J. Jin SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
	Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. Traditionally, laminated cores of AC magnets have been always built by the laminations that are produced by a punching die. There are 5 links in the tolerance chain when a magnet core is built by this procedure: 1. Error of punching die; 2. Error of lamination punching; 3. Error of half core stacking; 4. Error of core assembly; and 5. Error of magnet re-assembling during the installation in the accelerator. As time goes on, the Lattice physicists call for more and more ever higher magnet performance, which makes the required magnet field quality almost impossible achieve by traditional core fabrication procedures. It is the goal of this paper to describe a relatively new procedure that was first used by Buckley System Ltd, NZ and is being used at SINAP, China for ALS combined function sextupole core fabrication. The advantage of this new procedure and the fabrication issues related to this procedure will be described in this paper.

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Tightening the Tolerance Budget of Core Fabrication to Achieve Higher Magnet Performance

2448

N. Li, A. Madur
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
J. Jin
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Funding: This work was supported by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy under DOE contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Traditionally, laminated cores of AC magnets have been always built by the laminations that are produced by a punching die. There are 5 links in the tolerance chain when a magnet core is built by this procedure: 1. Error of punching die; 2. Error of lamination punching; 3. Error of half core stacking; 4. Error of core assembly; and 5. Error of magnet re-assembling during the installation in the accelerator. As time goes on, the Lattice physicists call for more and more ever higher magnet performance, which makes the required magnet field quality almost impossible achieve by traditional core fabrication procedures. It is the goal of this paper to describe a relatively new procedure that was first used by Buckley System Ltd, NZ and is being used at SINAP, China for ALS combined function sextupole core fabrication. The advantage of this new procedure and the fabrication issues related to this procedure will be described in this paper.