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The FRESCA2 magnet, which will serve as a test station for the superconductors of the future, has set a new record of 14.6 teslas
Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)
New septum magnets will send the beam to the four rings of the PS Booster after the Long Shutdown 2
CERN is developing a corrector magnet for the High-Luminosity project that has a peculiar design (to say nothing of its name…)
On the occasion of the EUCAS 2017 conference, superconducting magnets and cavities were turned into musical instruments
High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics
Intensity tests have been successfully completed on the FRESCA2 magnet. It will serve as a test bench for the development of more powerful magnets
The third article in our series on superconductors takes us to the heart of the detectors and their extraordinary and powerful magnets
Superconductors are the primary focus of next week’s major EUCAS 2017 conference, which will also include events aimed at the general public
During the summer, the third of a series of short, 1.5-metre-long magnet models for the HL-LHC project was successfully tested
The new quadrupole magnets designed for the insertion regions for the LHC upgrade exploit cutting-edge technological innovations
A new shield septum magnet is being developed to protect the FCC machine from the beam’s extremely high energy