1.9 K test facility for the reception of the superconducting cables for the LHC

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 153-156

  Verweij, A P ^a   Genest, J ^a   Knezovic, A ^a   Leroy, D F ^a   Marzolf, J P ^a   Oberli, L R ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; CRITICAL CURRENTS; CRYOSTATS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; PROBES; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; TEST FACILITIES;

DIPOLE MAGNET; HALL PROBES; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; SUPERFLUID REFRIGERATION SYSTEM;

SUPERCONDUCTING CABLES;

EID: 0032645944     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783259     Document Type: Article

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