New Cryogenic Test Station at CERN for Superconducting Magnets and their Components

Following the optimization planning of the superconducting magnet test facilities at CERN, a new station for vertical test of R&D magnet has been installed in a building already dedicated to horizontal test of long superconducting magnets built for the LHC. This paper describes the main cryogenic and powering characteristics of the new test station. It gives the details of each cryostat and the related equipment that composes the test station. Although the test station is optimized for low temperature superconducting magnet testing, it offers a wide range of possibility for testing equipment and components of magnets and accelerators over a large range of temperature between 1.8 K and 50 K. The test station will be completed in the next coming years with a cryostat, briefly described here, dedicated for large magnets up to 1 m diameter and 2.5 m long.