{"id":220005,"date":"2025-08-13T04:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/massive-magnets-are-on-the-move-repurposing-electromagnets-for-research"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:17:05","slug":"massive-magnets-are-on-the-move-repurposing-electromagnets-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/massive-magnets-are-on-the-move-repurposing-electromagnets-for-research","title":{"rendered":"Massive magnets are on the move: Repurposing electromagnets for research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-magnets-are-on-the-move-repurposing-electromagnets-for-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plan a route, grab some snacks, and fuel up. Engineers and scientists have been sending massive magnets from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs on cross-country road trips.<\/p>\n<p>Magnets are at the heart of many scientific instruments at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory. They are not like typical refrigerator magnets, which apply a relatively weak and uniform force to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic materials<\/a>. These electromagnets are often incredibly large and powerful, with variable fields that can be controlled by changing the electric current that runs through them.<\/p>\n<p>One of their applications is to apply magnetic force to subatomic particles. For example, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/rhic\/\" target=\"_blank\">RHIC<\/a>) is made of superconducting electromagnets that steer and focus particle beams as they circulate through the accelerator at nearly the speed of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan a route, grab some snacks, and fuel up. Engineers and scientists have been sending massive magnets from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs on cross-country road trips. Magnets are at the heart of many scientific instruments at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory. They are not like typical refrigerator magnets, which apply a relatively weak [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220005","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}