Coil shape of a two-fold symmetric perfect superconducting quadrupole for use in common-coil twin magnets

✍ Scribed by P.R. Sarma

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 369 KB
• Volume: 564
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.04.035

✦ Synopsis

A four-fold symmetric superconducting quadrupole with a coil shape generated by two perpendicular intersecting ellipses, produces the perfect quadrupole field. We have shown that a two-fold symmetric coil generated by two perpendicular ellipses of dissimilar sizes also can produce ideal quadrupole field. Two non-intersecting elliptic current distributions (one inside the other) also can generate quadrupole field. Such coil geometries can find application in common-coil twin quadrupole magnets.