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HTS Undulator Design Study and First Results

Accelerator Physics 2024-11-14 v1

Abstract

Undulators are X-ray sources that are widely utilised in advanced synchrotron radiation sources and freeelectron laser facilities. Due to sustainability and energy efficiency, the development focuses on small-scale, high-field, and especially compact undulators with short period lengths (\leq 10 mm) and narrow magnetic gaps (\leq 4 mm). Therefore, hightemperature superconducting (HTS) tapes, which can provide a high critical current density and high critical magnetic fields at higher temperatures, are extensively used and investigated at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. A new concept of superconducting undulators (SCUs) was introduced and further developed by laser-scribing a meander pattern into the superconducting layer to achieve a quasi-sinusoidal current path through the HTS tape. Here we present the complete and final design of such a compact SCU, in particular our latest results regarding the design of the liner with its tapering in the warm region, as well as the cryogenic cooling concept.

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@article{arxiv.2411.08422,
  title  = {HTS Undulator Design Study and First Results},
  author = {B. Krasch and F. Abusaif and T. Arndt and N. Glamann and A. Grau and R. Nast and D. Saez de Jauregui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08422},
  year   = {2024}
}
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