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The future high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will include twenty 4.2 m long Nb3Sn high gradient quadrupole magnets which will be components of the triplets for two LHC insertion regions. In order to test these and four pre-production models, the vertical superconducting magnet test facility of the Superconducting Magnet Division (SMD) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has been upgraded to perform testing in superfluid He at 1.9 K, which is the operational condition at the LHC. This has involved extensive modification of the 4.5 K cryogenics plant, including piping, compressors, and other upgraded components; a new vertical test dewar which can accept larger diameter magnets; a modernized power supply system upgraded with IGBT switches and fast shutoff capability, and that can supply 24 kA to test high field Nb3Sn magnets; and completely new data acquisition, signal analysis, and control software and hardware, allowing for high precision and large volume data collection. This paper reports on the design, assembly, and commissioning of this upgraded test facility and the first magnet test performed, on a mirror model, which consists of a single coil quadrant and an iron yoke filling the other three quadrants and is designed to have peak fields close to that of the production quadrupoles.
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