A group collaborating across four American laboratories completed the first successful tests of a superconducting coil in preparation for the future high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron ...

An international partnership to upgrade the LHC has yielded the strongest accelerator magnet ever created. The next generation of cutting-edge accelerator magnets is no longer just an idea. Recent ...

Cross-sectional view of the 28 GHz ECRIS superconducting magnet. Credit: Berkeley Lab Researchers from Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division have teamed up with ...

To build the next generation of powerful proton accelerators, scientists need the strongest magnets possible to steer particles close to the speed of light around a ring. For a given ring size, the ...

The next generation of cutting-edge accelerator magnets is no longer just an idea. Recent tests revealed that the United States and CERN have successfully co-created a prototype superconducting ...