Preliminary Investigations of Eddy Current Effects on a Spinning Disk

Piggott, W T ; Walston, S ; Mayhall, D

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center;    Eddy Currents;    Photon Beams;    Magnetic Fields;    43 Particle Accelerators;   

DOI  :  10.2172/893982
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-224467
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  893982

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The design of the positron source target for the International Linear Collider (ILC) envisions a Ti6Al4V wheel rotating in a large magnetic field (5-10 Tesla) being impacted by a photon beam to produce positrons. One of the many challenges for this system is determining how large a motor will be needed to spin the shaft. The wheel spinning in the magnetic field induces an eddy current in the wheel, which retards the spinning motion of the wheel. Earlier calculations by Mayhall [1] have shown that those eddy forces could be quite large, and resulted in the preliminary design being moved from a solid disk to a rim and spoke design, as shown in Figure 1. A series of experiments with a spinning metal disk were run at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to provide experimental validation of the Maxwell 3D simulations. This report will give a brief outline of the experimental setup and results. In addition, earlier work by Smythe [2] will be used to compare with the experimental results.