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This Report compares various superconducting magnet options for use in a particle astrophysics experiment to be launched with a Delta rocket into a sun synchronous orbit and an earth trailing solar orbit. The goals of the experiment are to study the incidence of anti particles coming from deep space and to study populations of light nuclei (up to atomic number 8) and gammas from deep space. The proposed superconducting coils, which would be made with an aluminum stabilized niobium titanium superconductor, would be cooled using stored super fluid helium. Both a sun synchronous orbit and an earth trailing solar orbit permit one to shield the magnet and cryogen vessel behind the solar panels. This permits one to reduce the temperature of the cryostat outer vessel that increases to cryogen life time for the experiment. A number of superconducting coil and cryostat options were looked at in terms of total magnet and cryostat mass, cryogen life time, complexity and overall particle astrophysics capability for attached detectors.
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Green, M.A. (1994). Various Magnet Options for a Delta Launched Version of Astromag. In: Kittel, P. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2522-6_21
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