Status Report on SSC Dipole R&D

This paper describes the principle design features of the main collider dipole magnet that is being developed for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). The magnet is a collabo­rative effort between the SSC Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.1 The design is based on a high central field (6.6 T) over a small aperture (40 mm coil ID) and long (16.6 m) effective length. This paper describes the features of the current design and also reports quench field and field uni­formity data from recent magnets. Test results from earlier short and long models have been reported elsewhere.2 Figure 1 shows a cross section of the collared coil and Fig.2, a cross section of the cold mass.