Superconducting rectifier fluxpump for magnet system of the CMD-2 detector

A superconducting rectifier fluxpump has been used for the dc power supply of the magnet system of the CMD-2 detector on the VEPP-2M collider at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Russia since 1989. The fluxpump provides a complete pumping cycle: charging the magnet system, stabilization of the magnetic field, and discharging. The fluxpump consists of an air-core current step-up superconducting transformer and two groups of thermally controlled superconducting switches arranged as a fullwave rectifier. Critical output current during the test was 5.4 kA. The accuracy of the field stabilization provided by the fluxpump is 2.5/spl middot/10/sup -5/. The fluxpump has exhibited reliable and safe operation during its entire history of use.