Me. Morrison et al., PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR THE SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER LOW-ENERGY BOOSTER QUADRUPOLE MAGNET, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 30(4), 1994, pp. 1974-1977
The manufacturing techniques used for a prototype quadrupole magnet, d
eveloped at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) for the Superconducting
Super Collider (SSC) Low Energy Booster (LEB), are described. The SSC
LEB Ring employs % dipoles and 90 quadrupoles connected in series to
form the magnetic lattice, requiring the use of a 21.9 mm x 23.0 mm ho
llow conductor for the quadrupoles. Due to the large conductor size an
d small bend radii required, development of special fixtures was neces
sary. A unique coil-forming method with close attention paid to toolin
g design and special assembly procedures was required to manufacture t
his prototype to stringent specifications.