Development of high performance Nb-Ti(Fe) multifilamentary superconductor for the LHC insertion quadrupoles

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1559-1562

  Lee, P J ^a   Fischer, C M ^a   Gabr Rayan, W ^a   Larbalestier, D C ^a   Naus, M T ^a   Squitieri, A A ^b   Starch, W L ^b   Barzi, E Z A ^b   Limon, P J ^b   Sabbi, G ^c   Zlobin, A ^c   Kanithi, H ^c   Hong, S ^d   McKinnell, J C ^d   Neff, D ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c IGC Advanced Superconductors   (United States)

^d Oxford Superconducting Technology New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; IRON; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INSERTION QUADRUPOLES; MACROSTRUCTURE; MULTIFILAMENTARY SUPERCONDUCTOR; PRECIPITATE VOLUME;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0032645908     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.784692     Document Type: Article

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