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Jun, 2009

The BESS-Polar Ultra-Thin Superconducting Solenoid Magnet and Its Operational Characteristics During Long-Duration Scientific Ballooning Over Antarctica

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
  • Yasuhiro Makida
  • Akira Yamamoto
  • Koji Yoshimura
  • Ken-ichi Tanaka
  • Jun'ichi Suzuki
  • Shinya Matsuda
  • Masata Hasegawa
  • Atsushi Horikoshi
  • Ryoko Shinoda
  • Kenichi Sakai
  • Shoichi Mizumaki
  • Reiko Orito
  • Yousuke Matsukawa
  • Akira Kusumoto
  • John W. Mitchell
  • Robert E. Streitmatter
  • Thomas Hams
  • Makoto Sasaki
  • Neeharika Thakur
  • Display all

Volume
19
Number
3
First page
1315
Last page
1319
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1109/TASC.2009.2017946
Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

An ultra-thin superconducting solenoid has been developed for a cosmic-ray spectrometer ballooning over Antarctica, which is named BESS-Polar II. The coil with a diameter of 0.9 m, a length of 1.4 m and a thickness of 3.5 mm, is wound with high-strength aluminum stabilized superconductor and provides 0.8 T in the spectrometer. Based on the experience at the BESS-Polar-I solenoid flight for nine days in 2004, the BESS-Polar-II solenoid, which was cryogenically improved, realized a persistent current mode operation for 25 days in the second flight campaign in December 2007 though January 2008. It has contributed to accumulate the cosmic-ray observation data with 4700 million events and 16 terabyte in a hard disk unit. This report will describe the second solenoid performance during the flight.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2009.2017946
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000268282100055&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1109/TASC.2009.2017946
  • ISSN : 1051-8223
  • eISSN : 1558-2515
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000268282100055

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