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The production of the MQXFA low-beta quadrupole magnets for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is quite advanced with about 20 magnets cold tested in a vertical cryostat. The MQXFA magnets are fabricated by the US HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project (AUP) and are being used in the Q1 and Q3 Inner Triplet (IT) elements of the HL-LHC, whereas CERN is fabricating similar magnets for Q2a and Q2b IT elements.
These large-aperture, high-gradient quadrupole magnets are first-of-the-kind accelerator magnets introducing Nb_3Sn conductor to High Energy Physics colliders. At this point of MQXFA production there is sufficient data to look at warm to cold correlations for the HL-LHC and for future use of Nb_3Sn magnets in particle accelerators. Examples of warm-cold correlations discussed in this paper are field quality (including the use of magnetic shims for low-order harmonics correction), magnetic length (correlation between coil physical lengths and magnetic length at nominal current), preload, magnetic axis and magnetic field angle. A summary of main test data will also be presented and discussed.
