Systems Engineer with PxCDT at @Leonardo_UK. Ex-particle physicist with @ATLASexperiment
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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 πͺ
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.