Design and prototyping of simplified multipole magnets

Abstract This paper presents the design and prototyping of novel structure magnets–simplified multipole magnets, one octupole and one dodecapole. The field measurements of the prototypes show very good agreement with the numerical field calculations. The octupole prototype can produce either an anti-symmetric or a symmetric field distribution. Magnets with this novel structure can supply much higher saturation fields, e.g. doubled pole-gap strength of 0.6 T for the dodecapole prototype. The intrinsic field errors for the integrated field distribution are within ± 1% for a rectangular shape of good field region, which are acceptable for some applications such as beam spot uniformization. Some key technical issues of building the magnets are also discussed. The success of the prototyping will pave the way for applications of the magnet family.