Speaker
Description
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 pursuing high-temperature superconducting (HTS) accelerator magnet technology to enable new high-field regimes. In the coming years, we aim to develop, build, and test a series of hybrid accelerator magnets. These will utilize large-bore Nb3Sn-based “outsert” dipoles and HTS (REBCO and Bi2212) “insert” dipoles, each equipped with independent powering and energy extraction systems.
We foresee a critical need for advanced instrumentation that can serve as the foundation for HTS magnet protection. Ideally, this instrumentation would identify quench precursors and/or deviations from standard operational parameters, allowing sufficient time to extract energy and/or transition the system into a safe, controlled operational mode. The high-field solenoid community has extensive experience in designing, testing, and operating hybrid low-temperature superconducting (LTS)/HTS systems. The renewed interest from the high-energy physics community in a muon collider as a potential energy frontier facility is acting as a catalyst for the MDP to strengthen its collaborations with the solenoid community, thereby leveraging and building on their expertise.
