The role magnets play in physics research is a critical one, helping guide the trajectory of particle beams that allow for high-speed collisions and groundbreaking discoveries. But not all magnets are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) approved the high-luminosity large hadron collider (HL-LHC) upgrade ...
After a long day of work, you might feel tired or exhilarated. Either way, you are affected by what happened to you in the past. Accelerator magnets are no different. What they went through—or what ...
Cost- and energy-efficient rapid cycling magnets for particle accelerators are critical for particle physics research. Their performance determines how frequently a circular particle accelerator can ...
High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...
Particle accelerators are large, energy-hungry facilities. A large proportion of that energy is required to accelerate beams to high energies, typically using RF cavities. But another substantial part ...
A magnet quench is a dramatic yet fairly routine event within a particle accelerator. It occurs when one of the superconducting magnets that steer and focus the particle beams warms above a critical ...
Physicists, engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Particle Accelerator Laboratory, led by Henryk Piekarz, just demonstrated the world’s fastest magnetic ramping ...