Testing and Final Construction of the Superconducting Magnet for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
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Author(s)
Harrison, Stephen
Milward, Steve
Allen, Robin Stafford
Gallilee, Mark
Shaw, Nicholas
Anderson, Robert
Ting, Samuel C. C.
Date Issued
July 2009
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Harrison, S. et al. “Testing and Final Construction of the Superconducting Magnet for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.” Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on 19.3 (2009): 1311-1314. © 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Final published version
Abstract
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a particle physics experiment based on the International Space Station (ISS). At the heart of the detector is a large superconducting magnet, cooled to a temperature of 1.8 K by superfluid helium. The magnet and cryogenic system have been designed and built by Scientific Magnetics (formerly Space Cryomagnetics) of Culham, England. This paper describes the results from magnet testing, and the final assembly of the magnet and flight cryostat.
Subjects
superconducting magnets
space technology
cryogenics
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2009.2019656
