CERN's new magnets hit 11.3 tesla, pushing the LHC toward its high-luminosity era
CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets
CERN is upgrading the Large Hadron Collider to the High-Luminosity LHC, aiming for 140 to 200 particle collisions 40 million times per second after 2030. The key: quadrupole magnets wound from brittle niobium-tin (Nb₃Sn) instead of niobium-titanium, built with a wind-and-react process and reaching 11.3 tesla. The team made 250 coils, discarding 25, and finished quality-control tests in September.
It has taken many years of work by a large international team, from conductor and magnet development through manufacturing, testing and final integration. Seeing the technology reach this stage is something we can all be very proud of.
- dvh
May I interest you in Marco Reps CERN tour video from two months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yibef6nLCv8
- DerekL
The title omits the “How” at the beginning.
- adrianN
Can we use these magnets for smaller stellarators?