Barrel Toroid is Largest Superconducting Magnet

Posted in CERN, Magnets, Science by Paul Patterson on December 31st, 2006

The ATLAS DetectorThis is the ATLAS Detector, home of Barrel Toroid - the largest superconducting magnet ever built. The barrel-shaped magnet provides the magnetic field for ATLAS, a particle detector at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The Barrel Toroid consists of eight precisely aligned rectangular-shaped superconducting coils measuring 5m wide, 25m long and weighing 100 tonnes. The magnet will be used in ATLAS to bend the paths of charged particles produced in collisions at the Collider.

The goal of ATLAS is to answer questions like: why particles have mass, what is the unknown 96% of the Universe made of, and why Nature prefers matter to antimatter.

The magnet was recently powered up to its nominal operating conditions on the first attempt. Still in development by over 1800 scientists from 165 universities and laboratories, the new particle accelerator is scheduled to turn on and start taking data in 2007.

The Barrel Toroid Superconducting Magnet [CERN]

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One Comment to “Barrel Toroid is Largest Superconducting Magnet”
  1. Ari Says:

    el ser humano no tiene la capacidad de crear vida, porque entrariamos en duda quien fue el primer ser humano que se creó a si mismo? ehhh… asi que celulas jamás podrá crear. pero bueno les encanta gastar plata a los cientificos. Dios es el creador y esto que van a hacer no va a ser mas que otro fracaso. como cuando pasó lo de la NASA descubrieron que faltaban 24hs a la tierra, y donde estaba la respuesta? en la biblia, asi que se tuvieron que pegar la cabeza contra la pared y gastar cantidades de dinero.
    la gente necesita ser escuchada, suplida de sus necesidades, levantar sus vidas, y ser sana de enfermedades. Jesús es el unico camino, no se trata de meterse en una iglesia, se trata de que se revele en tu vida.
    nos vemos!!

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