- Abraimov, Dmytro;
- Arbelaez, Diego;
- Brouwer, Lucas;
- Feng, Helen;
- Ferracin, Paolo;
- Ghiorso, William B;
- Higley, Hugh C;
- Juchno, Mariusz;
- Lin, Andy;
- Lipton, Thomas;
- Luo, Linqing;
- Marchevsky, Maxim;
- Pong, Ian;
- Prestemon, Soren O;
- Radcliff, Kyle;
- Fernndez, Jos Luis Rudeiros;
- Saravanan, Anjana;
- Shen, Tengming;
- Teyber, Reed;
- Turqueti, Marcos;
- van der Laan, Danko;
- Wang, Xiaorong;
- Weiss, Jeremy D;
- Wu, Yuxin
REBCO coated conductors have a strong potential for high-field magnet applications. The REBCO technology, however, is still in its infancy for accelerator magnet applications. As part of the U.S. Magnet Development Program (MDP), we developed a six-layer canted cos θ dipole magnet, C3a, using CORC® wires developed by Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC. All the layers were wound using a semi-automated winding machine. Three layers of the magnet used CORC® wires containing the SuperPower “AP” REBCO tapes and the remaining layers used the wires containing the “HM” tapes. At 77 K, both kinds of CORC® wires showed 5% to 10% degradation, after bending to a minimum bend radius of 30 or 35 mm, with respect to the self-field critical current measured before winding. At 4.2 K, the magnet reached 9.5 kA at a ramp rate of 9 A s-1 and generated a dipole field of 1.4 T. The critical current of one layer degraded by 4% after a current transient up to 10.5 kA ramped in an averaged rate of 175 kA s-1 or 20 T s-1. We confirmed the HM CORC® wire can carry a higher current than the AP CORC® wire at 4.2 K. The test results of the C3a magnet showed that the fabrication and assembly procedure can be used for the upcoming full-scale C3 magnet.