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Generation of Superconducting Magnets
One of the
best-known technological advances to come out of the Tevatron program was the
development of superconducting magnets using niobium titanium wire. Their
manufacture later spurred widespread production of the technology for use
outside particle physics, for example in magnetic resonance imaging machines.
Now
researchers are working to make another leap in technology using a new class of
magnets based on high-temperature superconductors. HTS magnets could enable
magnetic fields with twice the strength of their more conventional
niobium-based counterparts. The extraordinarily high fields of which they are
capable — 30 to 40 Tesla or more — are crucial for focusing the particle beam
for another collider, the proposed muon collider.
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