Steel Tape-wound Cut Cores as Magnet Yokes for the Beam Dump Kickers of the Large Hadron Collider

Fast pulsed magnets, also called kickers, are used in particle accelerators for beam injection, extraction and similar applications. To excite these magnets, typically current pulses with rise and fall times in the range of 100 ns to 10 µs, with pulse duration of up to 100 µs and amplitudes in the order of kilo Amperes, are used. The short rise time imposes low inductance circuits and high voltage operation. The yokes are usually made out of ferrite, with reaches field saturation at about 0.5 T.