LHC Project Seminar

Thursday 14 Dec 2006, 14:15 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

AT Auditorium (CERN)

Title 1: Current state of the MgB₂ superconductor development after five years since its discovery

Speaker: Giovanni Grasso, Columbus Superconductors SpA

Five years are a limited amount of time to bring a new material to a successful level of development. This is instead happening for MgB₂, as recently proven by a number of impressive news coming from industries and institutions working on it. Genoa is becoming the leading place for such development, and most of the talk will be dedicated to our effort on this exciting material.

Title 2: Applications of MgB₂ to high energy physics

Speaker: Riccardo Musenich, INFN-Genoa

Even if the critical temperature of MgB₂ is far below those of HTS materials, its simple composition, its upper critical field, the lack of weak links and the low anisotropy make it an interesting material for applications: magnets, cables for energy transport, rf devices, squid and particle detectors. At present, the most promising application is the manufacture of conductors for superconducting magnets. The low cost of magnesium diboride and the rather simple conductor manufacture triggered the interest of the industry and for three years conductors have been available up to 2 km lengths. MRI is one of the applications, but MgB₂ is a good candidate also for particle accelerator magnets.

Organiser(s): John Miles (AT-MCS)