First Magnetic Tests of a Superconducting Damping Wiggler for the CLIC Damping Rings

Each of the proposed CLIC electron and positron damping rings will be equipped with 76 wigglers. The length of each wiggler is 2 m, the period length lambda 40 to 50 mm, and the beam-stay-clear gap 13 mm. The minimum required mid-plane field B0 is 2.5 T, that can only be obtained with superconducting technologies. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of such a wiggler, a short model with a period length of 40mm was built and successfully tested at CERN. The measured mid-plane field was 2 T at 4.2K and 2.5 T at 1.9 K in the center of a 16mm gap. The currents were 730 and 910 A, respectively. To fulfill the field specification for the CLIC damping rings at 4.2 K it is planned to replace the Nb-Ti wire with a Nb$_{3}$Sn wire.