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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 56: Methods in astroparticle physics 3

T 56.7: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 6. März 2024, 17:30–17:45, Geb. 20.30: 2.067

Development of a high temperature superconducting cable for applications in space — •Laurenz Klein, Daniel Louis, Irfan Özen, Dominik Pridöhl, Stefan Schael, Thorsten Siedenburg, Christian von Byern, and Michael Wlochal — Physics Institute I B, RWTH Aachen University

While AMS-02 is currently operated on board of the International Space Station, AMS-100, a next generation particle detector is already planned. For a substantial improvement on AMS-02's geometrical acceptance and rigidity range, the AMS-100 particle detectors are placed inside a High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) solenoid core and it is foreseen to operate at L2. For a magnetic field of 0.5T generated by a current of 10kA, the cables will contain multiple HTS tape layers. To keep the magnet transparent for particles, the HTS tapes are stabilized in aluminium profiles with a thickness of only a few millimeters. Suitable cables are currently under development at RWTH Aachen. Starting with short samples with lengths up to a meter, a cable design is tested that is scalable to the 5 km length of the AMS-100 cable. In this talk, electromagnetic HTS simulation and measurement results of different samples and designs will be presented and discussed.

Keywords: High-temperature superconductor; HTS; superconducting cable; aluminium-stabilized; current distribution