Study of a Sextupole Round Coil Superferric Magnet

The LASA Laboratory (INFN, Milan) is developing a new type of superferric magnets suitable to arbitrary multipole order, which we refer to as round coil superferric magnets. It is based on the previous proposal of I. F. Malyshev and V. Kashikhin. This type of magnet is suitable for strain-sensitive superconductors because it only uses a single round coil, which has a large bending radius, to create the magnetic field. The round yoke with arbitrary multipoles is able to create the desired harmonic component for the magnet. A preliminary electromagnetic design of such magnet in sextupole configuration was presented, using MgB2 superconducting tape for the coil. In this paper, we present the advances in the study for the construction of the prototype. We analyze the electromagnetic properties of the coil and of the round multipole iron yoke, focusing on the optimization of the main desired multipole harmonic. We also study the mechanics and quench protection, considering a new type of MgB2 superconducting cable for the coils. At the end of 2017, the magnet will be assembled in the LASA laboratories and then tested in 2018.