TEST RESULTS FOR INITIAL PRODUCTION OF LHC INSERTION REGION DIPOLE MAGNETS

The Superconducting Magnet Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is making and testing 20 insertion region dipoles for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. These 9.45 m-long, 8 cm aperture magnets have the same coil design as the arc dipoles now operating in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL and will be of single and twin aperture cold mass configurations. They will produce fields up to 4.14 T for operation at 7.56 TeV. The magnets will be tested at 4.5 K using either forced flow supercritical helium or liquid helium. This paper reports the results of tests of four D1 magnets, including spontaneous quench performance, verification of quench protection heater operation, and magnetic field quality.