C. Cooper

M. Kobayashi

T. Takeuchi

A. Kikuchi

A. V. Zlobin

Y. Iijima

M. Lamm

M. Wake

G. Ambrosio

S. Nimori

N. Andreev

R. Yamada

H. Kitaguchi

K. Tagawa

E. Barzi

D. Turrioni

K. Tsuchiya

Long Nb{sub 3}Al strands with copper stabilizer are promising for future high field accelerator magnets. A 1.2 kilometer Nb{sub 3}Al strand with Cu stabilizer was fabricated at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Using this strand a 30 meter Cu stabilized Nb{sub 3}Al Rutherford cable was made for the first time by a collaboration of NIMS and Fermilab. The Nb{sub 3}Al strands extracted from cable with a relatively low packing factor showed almost no J{sub c} degradation. But the extracted strands from the highly compacted cable showed some degradation in both J{sub c} and n value, which may be caused by local separation of the copper stabilizer. Still, its J{sub c} degradation is lower than that of typical Nb{sub 3}Sn strands. The current limit due to magnetic instability in low field is about 500 A at 4.2 K. The magnetization of the strands, which was measured with balanced coils at 4.2 K, showed large flux jumps, usually around 1.5 T. This value is much larger than the B{sub c2} (4.2 K) of the Nb matrix, which is around 0.4 Tesla. The magnetic instability of the Nb{sub 3}Al strand at low field is not completely understood, but it might be explained by the superconducting coupling current through the Nb matrix.

Characteristics of Round and Extracted Strands of Nb3Al Rutherford Cable

N. Andreev

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