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Tom Orrow

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Wednesday, 06/03/2015 7:30:06 AM

Wednesday, June 03, 2015 7:30:06 AM

Large Hadron collider is online with its fancy new Niobium Tin magnets.

1. The HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC project) is an upgrade of the LHC machine to increase the total number of collisions (luminosity) by a factor 10 in order to further increase its discovery potential beyond 2020. This improvement can be obtained by replacing some LHC NbTi magnets with Nb3Sn ones.

http://m.theengineer.co.uk/1020437.article?mobilesite=enabled

Thanks to Nb3Sn's stronger superconducting properties, it enables magnets of larger field than any in current particle accelerators. As a comparison, the niobium-titanium dipole magnets built in the early 1980s for the Tevatron particle collider produced about 4 Tesla to bend the proton and antiproton beams around the ring. The most powerful niobium-titanium magnets used in the LHC operate at roughly 8 Tesla. The new niobium-3-tin magnet creates a significantly stronger field.

http://m.phys.org/news/2015-04-magnet-fermilab-high-field-milestone.html