Calculation of persistent currents in superconducting magnets

• Main Authors: C. Völlinger, M. Aleksa, S. Russenschuck
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 2000-12-01
• Series: Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.3.122402

This paper describes a semianalytical hysteresis model for hard superconductors. The model is based on the critical state model considering the dependency of the critical current density on the varying local field in the superconducting filaments. By combining this hysteresis model with numerical field computation methods, it is possible to calculate the persistent current multipole errors in the magnet taking local saturation effects in the magnetic iron parts into consideration. As an application of the method, the use of soft magnetic iron sheets (coil protection sheets mounted between the coils and the collars) for partial compensation of the multipole errors during the ramping of the magnets is investigated.