Field quality and losses for the 4.5 T superconducting pulsed dipole of SIS300

This paper presents the 2-D design of the SIS300 synchrotron dipole of the FAIR facility at GSI. The dipole has a length of 7.8 m, a field of 4.5 T, in a 100 mm bore, and is ramped at 1 T/s. The studies are performed by INFN (Frascati, Genova and Milano-LASA) in a R&D collaboration with GSI. The program started in 2006 (DISCORAP) and has as a final goal the construction and test of a prototype. Particular emphasis is given to the study of the field quality and of the losses during the ramping of the magnet. Some calculation methods and different codes for magnet design are evaluated and compared.