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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Timothy A. Antaya, Hampton Falls, NH (US);
Joel Henry Schultz, Newtonville, MA (US);
Timothy A. Antaya, Hampton Falls, NH (US);
Joel Henry Schultz, Newtonville, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A NbSn superconducting coil can be formed from a wire including multiple unreacted strands comprising tin in contact with niobium. The strands are wound into a cable, which is then heated to react the tin and niobium to form a cable comprising reacted NbSn strands. The cable comprising the reacted Nb3Sn strands are then mounted in and soldered into an electrically conductive channel to form a reacted cable-in-channel of NbSn strands. The cable-in-channel of reacted Nb3Sn strands are then wound to fabricate a superconducting coil. The NbSn superconducting coil can be used, for example, in a magnet structure for particle acceleration. In one example, the superconducting coil is used in a high-field superconducting synchrocyclotron.