7.2-m-long niobium–tin quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN reaches nominal current for the first time | home.cern

25 January 2023

The MQXFBP3 magnet after the test, during assembly with the nested dipole orbit corrector. (Image: CERN)

The 7.2-metre-long version of this vital HL-LHC component reached nominal current plus an operational margin corresponding to a coil peak field of 11.5 T at 1.9 K during a test in SM18.

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