{"id":103974,"date":"2020-03-19T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/three-national-laboratories-achieve-record-magnetic-field-for-accelerator-focusing-magnet"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:11:52","slug":"three-national-laboratories-achieve-record-magnetic-field-for-accelerator-focusing-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/three-national-laboratories-achieve-record-magnetic-field-for-accelerator-focusing-magnet","title":{"rendered":"Three national laboratories achieve record magnetic field for accelerator focusing magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/luFkMn4ONBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a multiyear effort involving three national laboratories from across the United States, researchers have successfully built and tested a powerful new magnet based on an advanced superconducting material. The eight-ton device\u2014about as long as a semi-truck trailer\u2014set a record for the highest field strength ever recorded for an accelerator focusing magnet and raises the standard for magnets operating in high-energy particle colliders.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Energy\u2019s Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designed, built and tested the new magnet, one of 16 they will provide for operation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilumilhc.web.cern.ch\/\">High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider<\/a> at CERN laboratory in Europe. The 16 magnets, along with another eight produced by CERN, serve as \u201coptics\u201d for charged particles: They will focus beams of protons into a tiny, infinitesimal spot as they approach collision inside two different particle detectors.<\/p>\n<p>The ingredient that sets these U.S.-produced magnets apart is niobium-tin\u2014a superconducting material that produces strong magnetic fields. These will be the first niobium-tin quadrupole magnets ever to operate in a particle accelerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a multiyear effort involving three national laboratories from across the United States, researchers have successfully built and tested a powerful new magnet based on an advanced superconducting material. The eight-ton device\u2014about as long as a semi-truck trailer\u2014set a record for the highest field strength ever recorded for an accelerator focusing magnet and raises the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}