Performance Tests of Prototype High-Field HTS Coils in Grenoble

Abstract

Longitudinal and transverse quench propagation tests were performed at the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnetiques Intenses (LNCMI) high-field test facility on instrumented double pancake coils fabricated by CEA-Saclay using co-wound high-temperature superconductor (HTS) tapes. Energy deposited on an embedded heater initiated a quench and its subsequent propagations. Following the resulting thermomechanical analysis, a conductor design with stacked HTS tapes co-wound with stabilizers was conceived. A ten-turn demonstrator racetrack coil has been fabricated from the stacked HTS conductor with an aim to investigate the operation margin of an HTS coil in a background magnetic field misaligned from the coil axis as expected for the operating condition of an accelerator magnet insert. A test setup with a high current capacity up to 3 kA and angular variability that utilizes a room-temperature 376-mm-bore 10-T resistive magnet at LNCMI in Grenoble has been built. The performances and operation margin of the racetrack coil were investigated.