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Persistent Current Simulation for CCT Testing Magnet Used in EIC

Bai, Ye [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000240517077)·Witte, Holger [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)]·Xu, Peng [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000331969802)·Kumar, Mithlesh [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:000000025360214X)·Notaro, Sara [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)]
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The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a powerful new facility to be built in the United States at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, will explore the most fundamental building blocks of nearly all visible matter. Here, there are many different types of superconducting magnets near the interaction region (IR) of EIC. Due to space constraints and special lattice requirements, Tapered CCT (canted-cosine theta) magnets have been used for EIC. At beam injection, the magnetic field is only ~5.5% of the maximum operating field. Considerable field errors will be generated from persistent current in superconducting strands even using very fine filament for those superconductors. A tapered CCT demonstrator magnet has been built and tested successfully at BNL since July 2020 to evaluate the key technologies for future tapered CCT magnets. In October 2023, BNL team also measured the persistent current in this demonstrator magnet. To validate the persistent current simulation methods for CCT magnets in EIC, this paper used a full 3D Opera Model and measured magnetization data from superconducting strand for the simulation. Simulation results showed reasonable agreement with recent measurement results.

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Bai, Ye [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000240517077), Witte, Holger [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)], Xu, Peng [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0000000331969802), Kumar, Mithlesh [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)] (ORCID:000000025360214X), Notaro, Sara [Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)]. 2025-01-14. Persistent Current Simulation for CCT Testing Magnet Used in EIC. https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2025.3529420

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