Brookhaven's Superconducting Magnet Division magnet and R&D Facility (IMAGE)

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Brookhaven's Superconducting Magnet Division magnet and R&D Facility

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Brookhaven Lab's Superconducting Magnet Division has a unique superconducting magnet (left) and research and development facility (right) for testing high-temperature superconducting cables and coils in a background magnetic field of up to 10 Tesla. The facility is equipped with hardware to detect and protect against quenches, where materials suddenly lose their ability to "super" conduct electricity without any resistance and revert to their normal resistive state.

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