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Marta Bajko (cern)31/03/2025, 09:00
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Stephane Sanfilippo (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)31/03/2025, 09:20
A very short description of the PSI and related activities
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Ezio Todesco (CERN)31/03/2025, 09:30
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The high field magnet program is an R&D activity focused on the construction of 14 T dipole prototypes in Nb3Sn, proving the HTS technology for main accelerator dipoles in the 14-20 T range, and developing the superconducting technology for particle physics.
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Luca Bottura (CERN)31/03/2025, 10:00
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The muon collider requires advanced magnet systems to meet the demands of muon production, acceleration, and storage. The key targets for magnet R&D include achieving field levels up to 20 T in dipoles, quadrupoles and combined function accelerator magnets, up to 40 T in solenoids, and very fast ramping, up to 3 kT/s, in resistive accelerator ...
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Antonella Chiuchiolo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)31/03/2025, 10:50
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The Test Facility for Large Magnets and Superconducting Lines (TFML) in Salerno, Italy, is a state-of-the-art laboratory dedicated to the development and testing of superconducting technologies. Established and operated by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in collaboration with the University of Salerno's Physics Department TFML...
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Patricia Bartolome (GSI)31/03/2025, 11:20
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The SIS100 accelerator, currently under construction in Darmstadt (Germany), con- sists of six arc and straight sections. Each of the six cryogenic arc sections comprises fourteen regularly repeating optical cells (lattice). Each standard cell includes two dipole magnets and two quadrupole units integrated in a quadrupole doublet module. The SIS100...
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Roser Vallcorba (CEA Saclay)31/03/2025, 11:50
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The STAARQ cryogenic test station is designed to test and characterize magnetically 2 series of quadrupole magnets for the LHC accelerator: 6 MQ magnets running at 13kA for the LHC consolidation project and 2 MQYY magnets running at 6kA for the HiLumi project. The pressurized superfluid bath required to run those magnets in the station at 1.9K and...
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Franco Mangiarotti (CERN)31/03/2025, 13:40
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The test capabilities of the SM18 vertical magnet test station is growing alongside the more diverse magnets that will be tested there. An overview of the status of the test station will be presented, and the main upgrades will be summarized in this presentation. These include: a new insert with ~3 m long anticryostats for the Cluster D cryostat, a...
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Jerome Fleiter (CERN)31/03/2025, 14:10
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
FRESCA, the Facility for the reception of Superconducting cables was built in 1995-1998 at CERN to measure the electrical properties of Rutherford superconducting cables. Its main features are: independently cooled superconducting dipole (9.6 T for FRESCA1 and 13 T for FRESCA2), test currents up to 32 kA, temperature between 1.9 and 4.3 K, long...
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Marta Bajko (cern)31/03/2025, 14:40
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Inner Triplet (IT) STRING aims to faithfully replicate, within a surface building, the collective behavior of various systems in the new HL-LHC IT zone. These systems include superconducting magnets, magnet protection, cryogenics for both the magnets and the superconducting link, powering, vacuum,...
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Joshi Piyush (BNL)31/03/2025, 15:30
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
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Vladica Nikolic (FNAL)31/03/2025, 16:00
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
This presentation will focus on the current testing capabilities for superconducting magnets at Fermilab, highlighting existing systems, recent upgrades, and future plans. The Vertical Magnet Test Facility (VMTF) remains a cornerstone for testing superconducting magnets in R&D applications, maintaining its established capabilities. Stand 4 continues...
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Soren Prestemon (LBNL)31/03/2025, 16:30
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The US Particle Physics community has completed its decadal planning process, culminating in the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report [1]. Over the last year the US Magnet Development Program has worked to update its its research roadmap to align with the P5 strategy, and in particular is focusing on developing magnet technology...
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Christine Hoa (ITER)01/04/2025, 09:00
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The 19 Toroidal Field (TF) coils, including one spare, have been manufactured by Japan and Europe and have been delivered on ITER site. The Poloidal Field Coil PF1, procured by Russia has also arrived on site. The new baseline schedule has given the Project the opportunity to build a magnet test bench (MCTB) on site in order to test some of the ITER...
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Neil Mitchell (Gauss Fusion)01/04/2025, 09:30
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
Gauss Fusion is developing the magnet system for a conventional 4-module QI Stellarator based 1GW electrical plant with realistic and commercially viable component maintenance routes and nuclear life times. Such a choice produces a design so that the magnetic systems do not require very high field strength (up to about 13 T). However, they have...
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Theodore Golfinopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)01/04/2025, 10:00
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The Superconducting Magnet Test Facility (SMTF) at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center provides a range of capabilities to support development of HTS magnet technology. Constructed between 2019-2021 around the SPARC Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) – a non-insulated HTS magnet – it has subsequently been upgraded and employed to service a broader...
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Mr Kenneth Khumthong (General Atomics)01/04/2025, 10:50
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
General Atomics (GA) is under contract by US ITER organization (UT-Battelle c/o Oak Ridge National Laboratory) for the fabrication of ITER Central Solenoid (CS) Magnet Modules. GA will provide seven modules to ITER Organization (IO), six of which will be assembled in a stack that forms the ITER Central Solenoid. All CS Modules are required to pass...
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Rocio Santiago Kern (Uppsala University)01/04/2025, 11:20
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The FREIA Laboratory, which is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University in Sweden, is a research facility that focuses on R&D on superconducting accelerator technology. As part of the lab, there is the vertical cryostat Gersemi with an associated test-stand for superconducting magnets. We are currently upgrading the...
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Hugo Bajas (GSI)01/04/2025, 11:50
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
As part of the FAIR project and within the GSI and CERN collaboration, the superferric magnet production series —key components of the Superconducting FRagment Separator (SuperFRS) under construction at GSI Darmstadt, Germany— are undergoing rigorous testing at CERN in a dedicated cryogenics test facility.
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Marco Statera (INFN - LASA)01/04/2025, 13:40
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
LASA laboratory at INFN Milano unit have been testing superconducting magnets and conductors at 4.5 K for several projects, including ATLAS, DISCORAP (SIS300) and HL-LHC high order correctors by three test stations. An update of those test stations is ongoing in the framework of the next generation EU project IRIS (Innovative Research...
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Quentin Gorit (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)01/04/2025, 14:10
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
A test facility has been developed at the Paul Scherrer Institut to test cryocooler-based LTS and HTS magnets and develop novel cryogenic devices for their cooling. This contribution describes the experimental set-up, different tests of insulated and non-insulated HTS magnets and shows the results of the, to our knowledge, first ever cooldown and...
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Fang Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)01/04/2025, 14:40
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
Supported by the national project CRAFT, which aims to explore and master fusion DEMO level key technologies and establish testing facilities for key material, components and system for CFETR, serials cold test facility for SC material, conductor and magnet are under construction and planned to be completed this year. The SC material testing...
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Bertrand Baudouy (CEA Saclay)01/04/2025, 15:30
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
Very high permanent magnetic fields, i.e., over 20 T, are produced by superconducting magnets made partially, or fully, with high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductors. These specific magnets generally operate at liquid helium temperatures to take full advantage of the HTS properties. Very high-field magnets, usually immersed in a saturated...
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Hugo Bajas (GSI)01/04/2025, 16:00
Oral presentation (15 min) + Q&A (5 min)
Presentation of the updated online lectures on superconducting magnet test stands, protection, and diagnostics, scheduled for June 3rd–13th, 2025.
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marta bajko (cern)01/04/2025, 16:20
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Nikolay Bykovskiy (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)02/04/2025, 09:30
Oral presentation (25 min) + Q&A (10 min)
An extensive characterization of cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center led to the construction of the JORDI test stand in the 2000s, initially used for JOint Resistance DIstribution measurements in CICC immersed in a liquid helium bath [1]. The test stand is connected to a cryoplant supplying helium in a supercritical...
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Xabier Sarasola (EPFL - SPC)02/04/2025, 10:05
Oral presentation (25 min) + Q&A (10 min)
The EDIPO 2 test facility will complement and enhance SULTAN at EPFL-SPC, which has qualified superconductors for all major superconducting fusion facilities worldwide over the past two decades. EDIPO2 will significantly enhance the high-current and high-field testing capabilities at EPFL-SPC to align with the requirements of the new generation of...
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Antonella Chiuchiolo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Carolin Zoller (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Christine Hoa (ITER), Franco Mangiarotti (CERN), Marta Bajko (cern), Patricia Bartolome (GSI), Rocio Santiago Kern, Roser Vallcorba (CEA Saclay)02/04/2025, 11:00Oral or poster
Join us for a free exchange regarding the Women in Science and Technology on the 2nd of April 2025 at PSI.
Are you passionate about the future of science and technology? Don’t miss this engaging discussion on the role of women in superconductivity and cryogenic measurements!
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Hans-Heinrich Braun (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)02/04/2025, 13:20
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Kamil Sedlak (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)02/04/2025, 13:50
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Gerard WILLERING (CERN), Maxim Marchevsky (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)03/04/2025, 08:45
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Gerard WILLERING (CERN)03/04/2025, 09:00
In the past 15 years accelerator magnet development focused on Nb3Sn magnet technology, reaching a mature state for 11T dipole magnets and MQXF quadruple magnets built at CERN and in the US LARP and AUP programs. Instrumentation and diagnostics methods reached maturity with state of art Quench Antenna, rotating coil magnetic measurements, high precision voltage measurement on full coils,...
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Soren Prestemon (LBNL)03/04/2025, 09:30
Instrumentation and diagnostics are crucial for gaining direct insights into magnet performance, making them essential for both magnet operation and guiding magnet development. This is particularly true when they are combined with modeling and analysis, which together demonstrate a comprehensive scientific understanding of magnet performance. The US Magnet Development Program (MDP) is actively...
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- Guided discussion, Maxim Marchevsky (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Gerard WILLERING (CERN)03/04/2025, 10:00
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Nikolay Bykovskiy (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)03/04/2025, 10:30
Three quench detection methods are being developed at SPC: (1) resistance measurements of superconducting quench detection (SQD) wires, (2) voltage measurements across series-connected thermocouple wires, and (3) measurements of the spectral shift of light reflected by FBG optical fibers. All three methods primarily respond to temperature rise and are designed to be immune to electromagnetic...
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Maxim Marchevsky (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)03/04/2025, 11:30
Detection of the thermal runaway and its precursors is critical for HTS high-field magnets in High Energy Physics and Fusion applications. Among various distributed sensing techniques, radio-frequency (RF)-based methodology emerges as a versatile method combining the best features of other sensing technologies, such as fiber-optic and ultrasonic sensing, while offering unique capabilities such...
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Steve Krave (FNAL)03/04/2025, 12:00
Fermilab has been exploring the use of distributed strain and temperature sensing fibers on superconducting magnets. This presentation provides updates on the technology including application to quench propagation in short samples, measurements on coils during assembly, and the many challenges of the subject from splicing to signal loss and calibration shift.
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Jens Steckert (CERN)03/04/2025, 14:00
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Michal Duda (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)03/04/2025, 14:30
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Vincenzo Di Capua (CERN)03/04/2025, 15:00
This research explores the development of advanced electronic systems for magnetic measurements under various operating conditions. The study focuses on two main areas: Characterization of electronic components and sensors in extreme temperature environments, from cryogenic to room temperature.
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Pawel Kosek (GSI)03/04/2025, 16:00
The Super-FRS (Superconducting FRagment Separator) is part of the new superconducting accelerator complex (FAIR) [1], which is under construction at the Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. The Super-FRS is composed of 24 superferric dipole magnets and 31 multiplet assemblies, with up to nine magnets in a common cryostat (175 quadruple and corrector magnets in...
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joe dimarco (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)03/04/2025, 16:30
Being able to accurately measure magnetic field harmonics with a stationary probe can be advantageous. The typical mechanics required to rotate the probe and maintain alignment are obviated, as even could be the anti-cryostat for a superconducting magnet test, for example. This talk describes work towards one such device which uses a piezo sensor to detect torque caused by AC power applied in...
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Reed Teyber03/04/2025, 17:00
ReBCO high temperature superconducting cables have the potential to push the performance limits of fusion and high energy physics magnets. One of the ongoing development challenges with this research is conductor stability, caused by local performance reductions in individual tapes from tape manufacturing, magnet manufacturing and magnet operation. The resulting current redistribution around...
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Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)04/04/2025, 09:00
The positive experience with quench antennas used for the HL-LHC magnets fosters new developments for other projects. In its first phase, the HFM program includes the construction and testing of demonstrator magnets based on racetrack coils. Racetrack coils do not have, or do not provide access to, a round aperture. Therefore, cylindrical quench antennas cannot be used. Instead, search coils...
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Maira Khan (FNAL)04/04/2025, 09:30
Detecting quenches in superconducting (SC) magnets during training is a challenging process that involves capturing physical events that occur at different frequencies and appear as various signal features. These events may be correlated across instrumentation type,thermal cycle, and ramp. These events together build a more complete picture of continuous
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Emmanuele Ravaioli (CERN)04/04/2025, 10:00
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Federico Scurti (NCSU)04/04/2025, 10:50
Superconducting magnets play a critical role in a wide range of applications, including their use as an enabling technology for fusion energy. However, ensuring their reliable operation requires robust monitoring techniques to prevent catastrophic magnet failure. Fiber optic sensors have emerged as a promising solution to address this technical gap, offering distributed, online strain and...
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Steven Krave (FNAL)04/04/2025, 11:20
Following work presented at the last IDSM workshop, FNAL had a unique opportunity to measure electromagnetic transients during magnet testing with SMCT01b. This magnet exhibited an unusual training behavior where a large voltage spike appeared shortly before a quench was initiated. To identify the source of the spike, an additional current transducer was added to the magnet test to search for...
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Joshi Piyush (BNL)04/04/2025, 11:50
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marta bajko (cern)04/04/2025, 12:20
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Vincenzo Di Capua (CERN)
This research explores the development of advanced electronic systems for magnetic measurements under various operating conditions. The study focuses on two main areas: Characterization of electronic components and sensors in extreme temperature environments, from cryogenic to room temperature.
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Saman Ghannadzadeh (Tokamak Energy Solutions)
Oral presentation (20 min) + Q&A (10 min)
Tokamak Energy is pursuing commercial fusion energy based on the development of spherical tokamaks with high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. We have embarked on a broad magnet devel- opment programme, addressing technologies including coil manufacturing, quench protection, modelling and simulation, HTS irradiation, and other aspects. Part...
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Karie Badgley (FNAL)
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Gerard WILLERING (CERN)
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