USPAS Winter 2025: Superconducting Accelerator Magnets

27 Jan 2025, 09:00 → 31 Jan 2025, 23:00 US/Eastern

Monday, 27 January

1 Unit 1: Course introduction

Speaker: Paolo Ferracin

09:30 Break/questions

2 Unit 2: Basics of superconductivity and applications I

Speaker: Maxim Marchevsky

10:30 Break/questions

3 Unit 3: Basics of superconductivity and applications II

Speaker: Maxim Marchevsky

11:30 Break/questions

11:45 Lunch

4 Unit 4: Practical superconductors for accelerator magnets I

Speaker: Soren Prestemon

14:00 Break/questions

5 Unit 5: Main magnet specifications in circular accelerators I

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

15:00 Break/questions

15:15 Long break

6 Unit 6: Main magnet specifications in circular accelerators II

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

16:30 Break/questions

16:45 Pre-dinner break

18:00 Dinner

7 Homework day 1

Speakers: Ezio Todesco, Marek Mosat, Maxim Marchevsky, Paolo Ferracin, Soren Prestemon, Yufan Yan

Homework_day1_problems.docx

Homework_day1_solutions.docx

Tuesday, 28 January

8 Unit 7: Practical superconductors for accelerator magnets II

Speaker: Soren Prestemon

09:45 Break/questions

9 Unit 8: AC losses in superconductors

Speaker: Soren Prestemon

10:45 Break/questions

11:00 Long break

10 Unit 9: Lorentz forces and stresses in superconducting accelerator magnets I

Speaker: Paolo Ferracin

12:15 Break/questions

12:30 Lunch

11 Unit 10: Field harmonics and specification of correctors

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

14:45 Break/questions

12 Unit 11: Magnetic design I: How to create perfect fields with current lines

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

15:45 Break/questions

16:00 Pre-dinner break

18:00 Dinner

13 Homework day 2

Speakers: Ezio Todesco, Marek Mosat, Maxim Marchevsky, Paolo Ferracin, Soren Prestemon, Yufan Yan

Wednesday, 29 January

14 Unit 12: Lorentz forces and stresses in superconducting accelerator magnets II

Speaker: Paolo Ferracin

09:45 Break/questions

15 Unit 13: Construction methods and support structures I

10:45 Break/questions

11:00 Long break

16 Unit 14: Construction methods and support structures II

Speaker: Paolo Ferracin

12:15 Break/questions

12:30 Lunch

17 Unit 15: Magnetic design 2: Short sample field, margins and sensitivities

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

14:45 Break/questions

18 Unit 16: Magnetic design 3: Iron effect, grading techniques, and two-in-one dipoles

Speaker: Ezio Todesco

15:45 Break/questions

16:00 Pre-dinner break

18:00 Dinner

19 Homework day 3

Speakers: Ezio Todesco, Marek Mosat, Maxim Martchevskii, Paolo Ferracin, Soren Prestemon, Yufan Yan

Thursday, 30 January

20 Unit 17: Protection of superconducting accelerator magnets

Speaker: Maxim Marchevsky

09:45 Break/questions

21 Unit 18: Diagnostic and instrumentation I

Speaker: Maxim Marchevsky

10:45 Break/questions

11:00 Long break

22 Unit 19: Diagnostic and instrumentation II

Speaker: Maxim Marchevsky

12:15 Break/questions

12:30 Lunch

23 Unit 20: Degradation and training I

Speaker: Paolo Ferracin

14:45 Break/questions

24 Unit 21: Degradation and training II

15:45 Break/questions

16:00 Pre-dinner break

18:00 Dinner

25 Homework day 4

Speakers: Ezio Todesco, Marek Mosat, Maxim Marchevsky, Paolo Ferracin, Soren Prestemon, Yufan Yan

Friday, 31 January

26 Review of material

27 Final exam

Speakers: Ezio Todesco, Marek Mosat, Maxim Martchevskii, Paolo Ferracin, Soren Prestemon, Yufan Yan