Taking on the hardest problems is the way to learn the most
Ever-stronger magnets (which must be cost-effective as well) are a key to building tomorrow’s high-energy accelerators and upgrading today’s. In ATAP’s Superconducting Magnet Program, we create both evolutionary improvements and paradigm shifts in the design and application of accelerator magnets, providing innovative technology that enables new science and spinoff applications.
Base Program: A Common Foundation for Advancement in Many Areas
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DOE Conductor Development Program: Expanding the Most Fundamental Frontier of Magnets
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LARP: Next Chapter in the LHC Story
The latest effort is aimed at an order-of-magnitude increase in beam luminosity. Our primary role will involve the first major use of the brittle high-field niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) superconductor in an operating accelerator. |
Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology
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Strategic Documents
S.A. Gourlay, S.O. Prestemon (LBNL); A.V. Zlobin and L. Cooley (Fermilab); D. Larbalestier (Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory), The U.S. Magnet Development Program Plan (June 2016).
The U.S. Magnet Development Program is a multi-institutional partnership, coordinated by LBNL, to aggressively pursue the development of superconducting accelerator magnets that operate as closely as possible to the fundamental limits of superconducting materials and at the same time minimize or eliminate magnet training.
Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology Strategic Framework (April 2017)
The Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology (BCMT) serves LBNL and the larger DOE community as a full-spectrum resource for both R&D and schedule- and cost-driven, project-oriented production of advanced magnet systems.
The BCMT is an interdivisional organization managed jointly by ATAP and Engineering. It integrates accelerator physicists and magnet researchers, magnet design engineers, and fabrication teams for rapid progress in the development and reliable delivery of new magnet technology.