Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting
Volume 53, Number 5
Friday–Tuesday, April 11–15, 2008; St. Louis, Missouri
Session T2: DPB/DPF Prize Session |
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Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF Chair: Stephen Holmes, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), St. Louis D |
Monday, April 14, 2008 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
T2.00001: The Large Hadron Collider Invited Speaker: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is a proton-proton collider with a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and is now in the final phase of hardware commissioning before the first beams are injected later this year. A brief description of some of the novel design features is given and the prospects for operation in 2008 are discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 14, 2008 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
T2.00002: Accelerator PhD Thesis Prize Invited Speaker: |
Monday, April 14, 2008 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
T2.00003: High Temperature Superconductor Prospects for Accelerators Invited Speaker: In spite of the great interest in applying HTS cuprate superconductors or MgB$_{2}$ to electrotechnology, virtually all superconducting magnets made to date have been made from Nb-Ti or Nb$_{3}$Sn. Despite their need for helium cooling, there are very good reasons for this -- Nb-base wires are available in many designs and current capacities, twisted and filamentary, with overall current densities that are generally higher than any higher T$_{c}$ materials, while also being strong and easily reinforced if greater strength is needed. They can operate in fields up to about 23T at 2K. But new demands for even higher fields beyond the upper critical field (H$_{c2})$ of any Nb compound are focusing new attention on the Bi-2212 and YBCO cuprates and perhaps MgB$_{2}$ too. Following the recommendations of the recent National Research Council Panel COHMAG (Committee on High Magnetic Fields) and recent strong interest from the high energy physics community, new grand challenges of 30T NMR, 60T hybrid magnets and $>$50T solenoids for muon colliders are before the magnet community. To make such materials as practical conductors requires understanding and solutions to several grand challenges in the physics and materials science of vortex pinning, and grain boundary structure and properties, and the associated materials processing challenges required to make conductors that are km long. I will discuss some of the physics and materials challenges that such magnets pose and the recent progress that has got superconducting magnets to almost 30 T. [Preview Abstract] |
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