Hybrid Permanent Quadrupoles for the 8 GeV Transfer Line at Fermilab

Hybrid permanent magnet quadrupoles for specialized portions of the 8 GeV transfer line from the Fermilab Booster to the new Main Injector have been built, tested and installed. These magnets use a 0.635 m long iron shell and provide an integrated gradient of 1.48 T-m/m with an iron pole tip radius of 0.0416 m. and pole length of 0.508 m. Bricks of 0.0254 m thick strontium ferrite supply the flux to the back of the pole to produce the desired 2.91 T/m gradient. For temperature compensation, Ni-Fe alloy strips are interspersed between ferrite bricks to subtract flux in a temperature dependent fashion. Adjustments of the permeance of each pole using iron between the pole and the flux return shell permits the matching of pole potentials. Magnetic potentials of the poles are measured with a Rogowski coil and adjusted to the desired value to achieve the prescribed strength and field uniformity. After these adjustments, the magnets are measured using a rotating coil to determine the integral gradient and the harmonics. These measurements are used to calibrate the production Rogowski coil measurements. Similar quadrupoles are included in the design of the Fermilab Recycler.