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About the lecture:
This lecture walks through the complete testing workflow for FAIR Super-FRS superconducting magnets, highlighting the reasons behind each step and the technical challenges encountered. From mechanical installation to cryogenic connection, leak detection, cooldown, high-voltage verification, and magnetic qualification, each phase serves to confirm the magnet’s readiness for accelerator integration under realistic conditions.
Particular focus is given to protection systems, quench behavior, and the importance of thermal and electrical integrity. The lecture also serves as a synthesis, reinforcing concepts covered in other talks—from cryogenics and power converters to instrumentation and quality control—by demonstrating how they come together in a real, full-scale magnet test campaign.
About the speaker:
Hugo Bajas have done is PhD with ITER and CEA on the mechanical optimization of Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductor for the ITER reactor based on numerical simulation. His design is now used for the ITER Central Solenoid conductor.
He then worked at CERN as fellow then staff during 11 years on HL-LHC magnet testing in the Test Facility Section, where among others, he was greatly involved in the design and commissioning of new test facilities of accelerator magnets.
He later joined the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL and worked on fusion conductor design and testing. He was also in charge of the fiber optic sensor development for quench detection for fusion conductor.
He is now member of GSI in the SuperConducting Magnet Group where he is in charge of the FAIR SuperFRS magnets testing at the dedicated test facility based at CERN.
