Testing of the Superconducting Magnet and Cryogenics for the AMS-02 Experiment Academic Article

abstract

• The superconducting magnet, cryogenics, and detector systems of the AMS experiment was fully integrated and tested in test beam at CERN during 2009. In Spring 2010 the experiment underwent thermal vacuum tests at ESTEC, where it was operated in conditions simulating those that will pertain in orbit. All elements of the superconducting magnet and cryogenics performed as designed, and equilibrium operation was attained at several values of vacuum case temperature. Details of the tests are presented. A thermal model of the overall cryogenic system was calibrated from those measurements. The model was used to predict the cryogenic lifetime of the experiment, as it would be staged on ISS, to be (28 ± 6) months.

authors

• Mcintyre, Peter

published proceedings

• IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

author list (cited authors)

• McIntyre, P.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• McIntyre, Peter

publication date

• June 2011

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5106 Nuclear And Plasma Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/tasc.2010.2087731

start page

• 1868

end page

• 1871

volume

• 21

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1109%2Ftasc.2010.2087731