Full Size Model Magnets for the FAIR SIS100 Synchrotron

The planned FAIR synchrotron SIS100 has to deliver high intensity beams. Following the JINR Nuclotron, GSI has chosen to build this machine using fast-cycling 4 T/s, 2 T superferric magnets. Cycle repetition rates of about 1 Hz cause high AC power losses in the magnet components. Eddy currents deteriorate the field quality. After millions of operation cycles and high radiation flux the coil support structure can loose mechanical stability. Therefore these effects were analyzed to warrant the magnet's performance over its lifetime. Following intensive experimental and computational investigations on short test models three full size dipoles and a 1.2 m long quadrupole with a maximum field gradient of 27 T/m in the aperture of 135 mm 65 mm will be manufactured until the end of 2007. Two of the dipoles are straight 2.7 m long 2.1 T magnets with a beam aperture of 130 mm 60 mm (width x height), while the third one is a curved 1.9 T dipole 3.0 m long with a reduced horizontal aperture of 115 mm. All the models use a superconducting hollow NbTi/Cu composite cable cooled with two-phase helium flow. The main design features and estimated operation parameters are given. In parallel preliminary tests of a 2.8 m SIS100 equivalent dipole system was performed. The cooling stability of the system at different SIS100 operation cycles was checked experimentally for the first time. These results are discussed as well as possible design options to fulfil additional operation requirements.