This lecture is an introduction to superconducting magnets for particle accelerators and detectors, the aim being to explain the vocabulary and describe the basic technology of modern superconducting magnets, and to explore the limits of the technology. It will include the following:
- Why we need superconducting magnets
- Properties of superconductors, critical field, critical temperature
- Why accelerators need fine filaments and cables; conductor manufacture
- Temperature rise and temperature margin: the quench process, training
- Quench protection schemes. Protection in the case of the LHC.
- Magnets for detectors
- The challenges of state-of-the-art magnets for High Energy Physics
Prerequisite Knowledge:
Only a knowledge of basic physics is required References Books:
- M. Tinkham, Superconductivity, Gordon & Breach
- M. Wilson, Superconducting Magnets, Clarendon Press Oxford
Talk: M. Wilson, Pulsed Superconducting Magnets, Academic Training, CERN 2006
