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The superconducting magnets of the SSC are the most expensive technical component of the project. There will be 10,000 magnets at a cost of roughly $220,000 each, or a total of $2.2 billion. For the SSC to achieve 96% availability, there can be no more than 3 magnet failures per year. Over an estimated twenty year lifetime, the magnets must survive 10,000 acceleration cycles, 20 thermal warmup cycles, 50 quenches and a radiation exposure of 1 MGy (a.k.a., MegaRad). Field quality requirements are typically a few parts per 10,000.
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ANSI/IEEE Std 830–1984, “IEEE Guide to Software Requirements Specifications”, in Software Engineering Standards, IEEE, New York (1987).
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Day, C., Balaban, D., Greiman, W., Hall, D., Saltmarsh, C., Tompkins, J. (1990). Computing Requirements for the SSC Magnet Test Laboratory. In: McAshan, M. (eds) Supercollider 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3728-1_13
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