The Dresden High Field Project

A new facility for experiments in pulsed high magnetic fields up to 1 MegaGauss is under construction at the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZR) in Dresden, Germany. In order to provide a wide spectrum of experimental possibilities, pulsed field coils are planned in the parameter range 60 T, 50 mm, 1s to 100 T, 20 mm, 0.01 s for maximum field, bore, and pulse duration. These field coils will be energized by a modular 50 MJ / 24 kV capacitor bank. Experience in the construction of the pulsed capacitive power supply as well as in the experimental equipment has been gained from a pilot laboratory at the Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung, Dresden (IFW) since 1999. The pulsed magnets will be complemented by commercial superconducting magnets for dc fields up to 20 T. Besides many other experimental possibilities, as a unique opportunity, infrared spectroscopy in the wavelength range between 5 and 150 μm will be possible in pulsed fields by connecting the pulsed field lab to the new free-electron-lasers of the neighbouring superconducting electron linear accelerator ELBE of the FZR.
The laboratory building and a workshop hall for coil fabrication will be completed in 2004. The 50 MJ pulsed power supply which is under construction can be partly used in 2005 and will be fully operational by 2006. First pulsed test coils have already been built and will be tested in 2004 by the 1.44 MJ / 24 kV / 40 kA pilot power supply manufactured at FZR. The user coils as well as the experimental equipment will be installed in 2006, so that the facility should open its doors as a user laboratory in 2007.

* The HLD project has been jointly submitted for funding by the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZR), the Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung (IFW), the Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Physik fester Stoffe (MPI-CPFS), the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme (MP-PKS), and the Institut für Angewandte Physik of the Technische Universität Dresden (TU-DD). It is jointly funded for installation by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung of Germany and the Sächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst in the years 2003 to 2006.