Magnetic measurement with coils and wires

L Walckiers - arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3784, 2011 - arxiv.org
Accelerator magnets steer particle beams according to the field integrated along the
trajectory over the magnet length. Purpose-wound coils measure these relevant parameters …

Fabrication and calibration of search coils

M Buzio - arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.0803, 2011 - arxiv.org
In this paper the techniques available to make and calibrate magnetic search coils are
reviewed, with emphasis on harmonic coil systems as the commonly-used optimal choice for …

Performance of a fast digital integrator in on-field magnetic measurements for particle accelerators

P Arpaia, L Bottura, L Fiscarelli… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The fast digital integrator has been conceived to face most demanding magnet test
requirements with a resolution of 10 ppm, a signal-to-noise ratio of 105 dB at 20 kHz, a time …

Mathematical formulation to predict the harmonics of the superconducting Large Hadron Collider magnets. II. Dynamic field changes and scaling laws

NJ Sammut, L Bottura, P Bauer, G Velev, T Pieloni… - Physical Review Special …, 2007 - APS
A superconducting particle accelerator like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, can
only be controlled well if the effects of the magnetic field multipoles on the beam are …

Mathematical formulation to predict the harmonics of the superconducting Large Hadron Collider magnets: III. Precycle ramp rate effects and magnet characterization

N Sammut, L Bottura, G Deferne, WV Delsolaro - Physical Review Special …, 2009 - APS
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is equipped with a feed-forward control system
known as the field description for the LHC (FiDeL) which is designed to predict the magnetic …

Review of quench performance of LHC main superconducting magnets

P Pugnat, A Siemko - IEEE transactions on applied …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The regular lattice of the large Hadron collider (LHC) will make use of more than 1600 main
magnets and about 7600 corrector magnets, all superconducting and working in pressurized …

Decay and snapback in superconducting accelerator magnets

M Haverkamp - 2003 - research.utwente.nl
This thesis deals with the explanation and compensation of the effects 'decay'and
'snapback'in superconducting accelerator magnets, in particular in those used in the new …

Steering field quality in the main dipole magnets of the Large Hadron Collider

E Todesco, B Bellesia, L Bottura… - IEEE transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More than 10% of the collared coils of the main LHC dipoles have been produced. In this
paper, we compare the measured field quality to beam dynamics targets using correlations …

Multipole correction of stretched-wire measurements of field-gradients in quadrupole accelerator magnets

P Arpaia, M Buzio, C Petrone… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A correction of field gradients in quadrupole accelerator magnets measured by stretched-
wire methods is described. The gradient is first measured by means of the single-stretched …

On-field validation of the new platform for magnetic measurements at CERN

P Arpaia, L Bottura, V Inglese, G Spiezia - Measurement, 2009 - Elsevier
A new platform for magnetic measurements at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) is presented. The key concepts and the architecture of its main …