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Description
About the lecture:
In this lecture an overview of the current leads operating on test stands that performing experiments with superconducting accelerator magnets will be presented. After a brief introduction about the basic principles of current leads – requirements and design challenges – a few test stand examples will be discussed. Then experience operating the current leads and issues that might arise will be reviewed.
About the speaker:
Senior Scientist of Fermilab. In late nineties he was in charge working with industry for the development of the 6kA HTS current leads and installing them into the Fermilab accelerator complex. The leads were successfully operated for 10 years. He was also in charge of bringing up a test facility that was dedicated to test HTS currents leads for the Tevatron and later for the HTS leads produced for the LHC IR distribution boxes (DFBX) and few years ago testing the ASC produced 6kA HTS current leads in a vacuum environment up to 10 kA operating current. These leads are being used for the Mu2e experiment.
