Speaker
Dr
Vinod Chohan
(CERN)
Description
The Testing Facility in SM18 has a test programme destined to verify the electrical,
cryogenic and quench performance of the magnets for machine operating conditions as
well as providing a sampled field quality evaluation. From the magnet production and
delivery points of views the test programme is used to monitor the overall magnet
manufacturing quality. Given the environment and present limits of the Testing
Facility, these different objectives impose somewhat conflicting requirements on the
SM18 operation. LHC beam quality requirements may also necessitate more sampling and
longer, additional magnetic measurements. In addition, the fixed machine installation
completion date, the compressed schedule and a parallelised installation process
will potentially require a higher supply rate of tested magnets or of specific types
than presently achieved. The talk will discuss the SM18 environment and its limits
and give an overview of magnet testing throughput based on current experience and
results.
Author
Dr
Vinod Chohan
(CERN)
