Developments of electrical joints for aluminum-stabilized superconducting cables

Normal domains in Rutherford-type superconducting cables

We study the formation and dynamics of normal domains in Rutherford-type superconducting cables. We use an effective circuit model to account for the electric current redistribution process between the multifilamentary strands in the presence of a normal zone. We obtain and integrate numerically the diffusion equations for the temperature and the current-density distributions in the cable. Our ...

Testing and Evaluation of Superconducting Cables for the Lhc

As one of the activities of the US-LHC Accelerator Project, BNL is testing short samples of superconducting cables that will be used in the main LHC dipoles and quadrupoles. The purpose of these tests is to verify that the reels of superconducting cables as supplied by the vendors meet the required critical current specifications. The short-sample testing facility and the computer-assisted test...

AC loss in large-scale superconducting cables

The ac losses in superconducting composites have been a subject of study for a long time, but nevertheless several problems remain to be solved, especially with respect to large-scale cables where the geometry of the cable plays an important role. Some of the aspects that will be considered here, are: presence of fields parallel with the conductor, coupling loss in composite conductors having v...

Microbes, cables, and an electrical touch.

In nature, highly efficient and diverse consortia of microbes cycle carbon and other elements while generating energy for growth. Driving these reactions are organisms with the ability to extract electrons from the chemical substrates and transfer them to insoluble and soluble electron acceptors. One bacterial group in particular, Geobacter spp., can couple their respiratory metabolism to the r...

Anisotropy of Energy Gap in Superconducting Aluminum