Internally cooled cabled superconductors

Abstract

Part I was primarily concerned with Original Concepts and the execution of experiments with niobium titanium superconductors. The highlight of this work was the discovery that the ICCS does not appear to depend on bulk flow for stability and that a straight length of a relatively loose cabled conductor, such as in our one-meter-scale dee-coil, can be rapidly charged without quench. In Part II we deal with niobium-3-tin (Nb3Sn), a much more powerful superconductor with various and sundry hardware development problems. The two part series is concluded with a summary, which reflects on the rapidly expanding field of ICCS and other force cooled superconductors. © 1980, All rights reserved.