12–16 May 2025
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First Considerations on the Electromagnetic and Mechanical Design of a Block-Coil Dipole for the Muon Collider Ring

13 May 2025, 19:10
20m
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Poster Poster

Speaker

Luca Alfonso (INFN - Genova)

Description

Following the guidelines of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) has outlined a plan for an innovative particle accelerator that exceeds the performance of the LHC and its luminosity upgrade, aiming to explore new frontiers in particle physics. This next-generation machine is a muon accelerator featuring a 10-km-long collider ring capable of reaching a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV. The short average lifetime of muons (only 2.2 μs at rest), their challenging production and cooling processes, and the radiation issues caused by muon decay require the development of advanced and compact superconducting magnets that can generate extremely high magnetic fields within large apertures. To address these challenges, ReBCO has been identified as the most suitable superconducting material due to its outstanding critical current.
This contribution presents a preliminary 2D study of dipoles for the collider ring arc, utilizing a block-coil configuration with a novel cable stacked orientation and an innovative end winding design. The updated electromagnetic design achieves 16 T bore field within 140 mm diameter aperture, accompanied by an analytical estimation of the hysteretic losses, accounting for the transport current effects. Finally, an initial mechanical analysis of the magnet is presented using the Finite Element Method (FEM), exploring the application of a stress-management strategy to mitigate the effects of the high Lorentz forces.

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Primary author

Luca Alfonso (INFN - Genova)

Co-authors

Alessandra Pampaloni (INFN Genova) Andrea Bersani (INFN Genova) Barbara Caiffi (INFN Genova) Daniel Novelli (INFN Genoa and Sapienza University of Rome) Francesco Mariani (INFN LASA) Luca Bottura (CERN) Samuele Mariotto (INFN LASA) Stefania Farinon (INFN Genova) Tiina Salmi (Tampere University)

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