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The Accelerator System String Test (ASST) was a congressionally mandated milestone for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSCL) to demonstrate powered operation of a half-cell of industrially-fabricated collider magnets before mass production could begin. In this paper I describe the installation of the string components and the results from the full-powered tests of the magnet string, consisting of five dipole magnets having an aperture of 50 mm and a single quadrupole having an aperture of 40 mm. Power and cryogenic connections were made to the string through spool pieces that were prototypes for SSC operations. The string was cooled to cryogenic temperatures in early July, 1992 and power tests were performed at progressively higher currents up to the nominal SSC operating point near 6500 Amperes.
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W. Burgett et al., Full-Power test of a string of magnets comprising a half-cell of the Superconducting Super Collider, Report Number SSCL-Preprint-162, October, 1992 (Accepted for publication in Particle Accelerators).
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Dombeck, T. (1994). The Accelerator Systems String Test: Objectives, Problems, Results, Anecdotes, and Reflections. In: Hale, P. (eds) Supercollider 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2439-7_15
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