Design and preliminary testing of the LEB extraction kicker magnet at the SSC

The kicker magnet for extracting beam out of the Low Energy Booster is required to generate an integrated field of 0.06 T-m for 2 /spl mu/s, rising from 1% to 99% of peak in <80 ns. Technologies for pulsed magnets of this variety, along with the engineering tradeoffs of each, will be presented. Details of the electrical design of a vacuum-insulated 25-/spl Omega/ travelling-wave (TW) kicker magnet, with a 5/spl times/7 cm ferrite aperture, will be discussed. The results of low-voltage tests of the prototype TW magnet and a solid-core design will also be presented. Application of experimental data and design theory to the final magnet design will be mentioned.<
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