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Brookhaven on the verge of revolutionizing superconducting magnet technology to 20-25 tesla in 2013 and 35-40 tesla by 2018
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A 15+ Tesla High Temperature Superconductor solenoid was already designed, built and tested in 2012. An all superconductor solenoid can be combined with a conventional 10 tesla magnet to achieve a hybrid 25 tesla. Ramesh Gupta, Brookhaven National labs and others, are working to a more ambitious 20-25 Telsa goal (all high temperature superconductor in 2013 in multiple programs.
The Ultimate target is about 40 Telsa in a hybrid design (HTS+LTS).
• High strength HTS (e.g., with Hastelloy substrate from SuperPower) are very attractive for high field applications
• Progress in conductor to date has been impressive. There is even more room for progress – even higher Ic and more uniform Ic
• But conductor is only the beginning. There are several challenges in making very high field magnets out of them
If the Large Hadron Collider had upgrades to the 25 tesla high temperature superconducting magnets it could have 3 times the colliding energy levels. There has also been breakthroughs with cryocoolers that do not use helium which can cool down to 12-50K with lower operating costs.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2013-02-25 00:03:58 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/brookhaven-on-verge-of-revolutionizing.html
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