Design and performance of a new 50 mm quadrupole magnet for the SSC

A superconducting quadrupole model magnet with a 50 mm aperture and a gradient of 190 T/m, in operation at 4.35 K and 6500 A, has been designed, built and tested at the SSC. This accelerator magnet is expected to have application in the interaction regions of the collider main rings. Its dipole-type stainless steel collars with mated self-aligning pole spacers were a major innovation in design. The model had stringent requirements on field quality and a conservative 21% current margin.1 The first two articles have now demonstrated satisfactory quench performance over several thermal cycles, reaching plateau at approximately 8660 A with minimal training. This paper is a brief sketch of the design and preliminary results on the first model. Fabrication2 and testing3 are described in other papers of this conference.