It has been a privilege to receive opportunities to make contributions to both (a) on the conventional (NbTi) superconducting magnet designs (cosine theta) and technologies (collared magnets) and, (b) on the new magnet designs and new magnet technologies for a future accelerators.
I worked on the magnets for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and for Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) for about two decades. Key outcome of that work, some of which resulted in new enhancements in the designs and techniques, are:
- highlights of RHIC magnets
- techniques to reduce field errors due to non-linear iron saturation by as much as an order of magnitude (thesis, YouTube Video),
- flexible magnet designs which were able to produce good field quality magnets essentially without any prototyping and/or able to reduce tolerances in parts – both significantly reduce the project cost and the project schedule (YouTube Video),
- tuning shim techniques which were able to take field quality in accelerator magnets to a level that were thought to be not possible before and beyond the tolerances in parts (paper, thesis),
- developed and demonstrated field quality as a tool to monitor magnet production (paper).
Seeing that work used in the magnets of a major accelerator (RHIC at BNL) was a truly fulfilling experience. I gave several talks, wrote papers, and gave courses so that these techniques can be used in future accelerators, such as VLHC, FCC or LHC at CERN, SppC.
Link to papers and presentations on the the conventional superconducting magnet designs and technologies are listed below:
Field Quality (Papers, Talks)
NSLS II Magnets Presentations
Publications and Presentations on AGS
Publications and Presentations on EIC
Publications and Presentations on LHC
Publications and Presentations on RHIC
Publications and Presentations on NSLSII
Publications and Presentations on SSC
Courses on Superconducting Magnets
