Study on Characteristics of the $Nb_{3}$Sn Strand for KSTAR Superconducting Magnets

KSTAR 초전도자석용 Nb3Sn 선재 특성 연구

The characteristics of Nb3Sn strands shich will be used for the been investigated. The physics requirements for the KSTAR operation demands the two conditions, high non-Cu critical current density and low contradictory to each other. It is recent that superconductor manufacturers. IGC and Mitsubishi, have succeded in the production of the strand which satisfies the ITER HP-1 and HP-2 conditions at the same time. It has been determined that this type of strand, so-called HP-3, will be used for the KSTAR magnets and its properties, critical current density and hysteresis loss investigated by the several institutes are presented here. On the basis of the round robin tests for many strand samples under various optimized and the vendor will be seleted.