Insert magnet and shim coils design for a 27 T nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer with hybrid high and low temperature superconductors

Abstract

An extremely-high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer has the potential to significantly augment the resolution and sensitivity of the atomic resonance spectrum, which will significantly boost the development of a range of scientific areas. The success of an extremely-high field NMR spectrometer depends to a great extent on the development of a superconducting magnet system. A high-temperature superconducting (HTS) insert magnet and low-temperature superconducting (LTS) shim coils design scheme for a 27 T NMR spectrometer is proposed in this work. A LTS background magnet was used to generate a 15 T magnetic field in the central area and the designed HTS insert magnet contributed the remaining 12 T magnetic field. The HTS insert magnet adopted notch double-pancake (DP) optimization to improve the rough magnetic field distribution in the central area to a highly-homogeneous level, and shim compensation schemes were proposed for the hybrid magnet to eliminate the inhomogeneous magnetic field components in the practical fabrication. The HTS insert magnet design had a current margin of 45.64% in terms of the perpendicular magnetic field intensity and the maximum hoop stress was reduced to 260 MPa with binding. There were in total eight shim coils, including two Nb3Sn zonal coils located between the insert magnet and the background magnet and six NbTi tesseral coils placed outside the background magnet. The magnet system will be fabricated in the near future.