Overview of the 13,000 Magnets in the International Linear Collider

Abstract

The international linear collider has about 80 km of beamlines which require over 13,000 magnets for focusing and steering the beams. Approximately 18% are superconducting magnets and the rest conventional warm iron-dominated magnets with copper coils, totaling about 135 styles. Superconducting technology is primarily used for the magnets located in the linacs' RF cryomodules, but it is also required for the spin rotation solenoids, damping ring wigglers, positron source undulator and beam delivery octupoles, sextupoles and final doublet quadrupoles. A major criterion for ILC magnet design is to achieve very high in spite of the very large number of magnets. The availability goal of the ILC is 85% (or better) and the magnets have been budgeted to cause no more than 0.75% down time. Alignment and mechanical stability requirements in many areas are very challenging. In the Beam delivery system, beam positions must be maintained at sub-micron levels to collide the beams at the interaction point. The ILC has 11 styles of kicker, pulsed or septum magnets. Some kickers need rise and fall times of a few ns and will require very powerful pulsers. Strategies for dealing with the major challenges confronting the ILC magnets will be described.