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Carcagno, R. H.

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MPPT009 HTS Power Leads for the BTeV Interaction Region 1147
 
  • SF. Feher, R. H. Carcagno, D.F. Orris, Y.M.P. Pischalnikov, R. Rabehl, C. Sylvester, M. Tartaglia, J. Tompkins
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
 
  Funding: DOE

A new Interaction Region for the BTEV experiment is planned to be built soon at Fermilab. This IR will require new superconducting quadrupole magnets and many additional power circuits for their operation. The new "low beta" quadupole magnet design is based upon the Fermilab LHC quadrupole design, and will operate at 9.56 kA in 4.5 K liquid helium. The use of conventional power leads for these circuits would require substantially more helium for cooling than is available from the cryogenic plant, which is already operating close to its limit. To decrease the heat load and helium cooling demands, the use of HTS power leads is necessary. Fermilab is in the process of procuring HTS leads for this new interaction region. Several 6 kA HTS leads produced by American Superconductor Corporation have been tested at over-current conditions. Based on the test results, design requirements are being developed for procuring the HTS current leads. This paper summarizes the test results and describes the design requirements for the 9.65 kA HTS power leads.

 
TPAP029 Measurements of Field Decay and Snapback Effect on Tevatron Dipole and Quadrupole Magnets 2098
 
  • G. Velev, G. Ambrosio, G. Annala, P. Bauer, R. H. Carcagno, J. DiMarco, H.D. Glass, R. Hanft, R.D. Kephart, M.J. Lamm, M.A. Martens, P. Schlabach, C. Sylvester, M. Tartaglia, J. Tompkins
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
 
  Since the beginning of 2002 an intensive measurement program has been performed at the Fermilab Magnet Test Facility to understand dynamic effects in the Tevatron magnets. Based on the results of this program a new correction algorithm was proposed to compensate for the decay of the sextupole field during the dwell at injection and for the subsequent field "snapback" during the first few seconds of the energy ramp. Beam studies showed that the new correction algorithm works better than the original one, and improves the Tevatron efficiency by at least 3%. The beam studies also indicated insufficient correction during the first 20 s of the injection plateau where an unexpected discrepancy of 0.15 sextupole units of extra drift was observed. This paper reports on the most recent measurements of the Tevatron dipoles field at the beginning of the injection plateau. Results on the field decay and snapback in the Tevatron quadrupoles are also presented.  
RPAT031 Beam Profile Measurement with Flying Wires at the Fermilab Recycler Ring 2182
 
  • M. Hu, R. H. Carcagno, J. Krider, E. Lorman, A. Marchionni, Y.M.P. Pischalnikov, S. Pordes, D. Slimmer, J. Wilson, J.R. Zagel
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
 
  The Fermilab Recycler Ring is a high vacuum fixed energy antiproton storage ring with stochastic and electron cooling systems. Flying wires were installed at the Fermilab Recycler Ring for transverse beam profile measurement. The following note describes the system configuration, calibration and resolution of the flying wire system, as well as analysis of the transverse beam profile in the presence of both cooling systems.  
FPAT060 An FPGA-Based Quench Detection and Protection System for Superconducting Accelerator Magnets 3502
 
  • R. H. Carcagno, SF. Feher, M.J. Lamm, A. Makulski, R. Nehring, D.F. Orris, Y.M.P. Pischalnikov, M. Tartaglia
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
 
  A new quench detection and protection system for superconducting accelerator magnets was developed at the Fermilab's Magnet Test Facility (MTF). This system is based on a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) module, and it is made of mostly commerically available, integrated hardware and software components. It provides most of the functionality of our existing VME-based quench detection and protection system, but in addition the new system is easily scalable to protect multiple magnets powered independently and has a more powerful user interface and analysis tools. First applications of the new system will be for testing corrector coil packages. In this paper we describe the new system and present results of testing LHC Interaction Region Quadrupole (IRQ) correctors.