Proposal for a "Dummy Load" Configuration for Testing Converters for Superconducting Magnets

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is CERN’s next particle accelerator project, scheduled forcommissioning in 2005. The project requires DC-converters to supply the superconductingmagnets. While the converters are being developed, actual superconducting magnets with veryhigh-time constant are not available.This paper describes an electronic solution capable, like an actual superconducting magnet, ofextracting a current from an actual or dummy converter.