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Summary
The ANKA Synchrotron Radiation Facility at KIT and Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) are pursuing a Research & Development program on superconducting undulators (SCUs). Since SCUs can reach higher magnetic peak fields than permanent magnet in-vacuum insertion devices, including cryogenic ones (for the same gap and period length), they have the potential to increase the spectral range, brilliance and flux of existing state-of-the-art devices.
A first milestone of the collaboration is the successful development and operation of SCU15, a full-scale (1.5 m long coils) superconducting undulator with 100.5 periods of 15 mm each. SCU15 was installed and tested in the ANKA storage ring during 2015. It has been running and quench-free (avoiding possible quench-induced electron beam losses) in regular 2.5 GeV machine operation reliably during the all testing period.
