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Systems Engineer with PxCDT at @Leonardo_UK. Ex-particle physicist with @ATLASexperiment | πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦πŸ‡³πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ | Views my own | πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ her/she
Nov 21, 2018 β€’ 10 tweets β€’ 3 min read
At a WIT event to learn about the magnets used at CERN in the LHC so buckles up πŸ’ͺ Superconducting materials are super important to CERN as they can conduct current ~1000x more than copper. The cost is they require being at ~2K (-271C). It does mean you can have far smaller conductors, important when building coils.