Experimental searches for the axion and axion-like particles

PW Graham, IG Irastorza, SK Lamoreaux… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Four decades after its prediction, the axion remains the most compelling solution to the
strong-CP problem and a well-motivated dark matter candidate, inspiring a host of elegant …

Cable-in-conduit conductors: lessons from the recent past for future developments with low and high temperature superconductors

L Muzzi, G De Marzi, A Di Zenobio… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review progress in the design of high field superconducting cable-in-conduit conductors
(CICCs) for fusion applications, with special attention to the results of recent key …

Isotropic round-wire multifilament cuprate superconductor for generation of magnetic fields above 30 T

DC Larbalestier, J Jiang, UP Trociewitz, F Kametani… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Magnets are the principal market for superconductors, but making attractive conductors out
of the high-temperature cuprate superconductors (HTSs) has proved difficult because of the …

Proposal for a definitive search for GUT-scale QCD axions

L Brouwer, S Chaudhuri, HM Cho, J Corbin… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The QCD axion is a leading dark matter candidate that emerges as part of the solution to the
strong CP problem in the Standard Model. The coupling of the axion to photons is the most …

Targets for R&D on Nb3Sn Conductor for High Energy Physics

A Ballarino, L Bottura - IEEE Transactions on applied …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High Energy Physics has been consistently pushing the performance of technical
superconductors, for the benefit of high field magnet technology. So far the workhorse for …

HTS accelerator magnet and conductor development in Europe

L Rossi, C Senatore - Instruments, 2021 - mdpi.com
In view of the preparation for a post-LHC collider, in 2010 the high-energy physics (HEP)
community started to discuss various options, including the use of HTS for very high-field …

Stable, predictable and training-free operation of superconducting Bi-2212 Rutherford cable racetrack coils at the wire current density of 1000 A/mm2

T Shen, E Bosque, D Davis, J Jiang, M White… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
High-temperature superconductors (HTS) could enable high-field magnets stronger than is
possible with Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn, but two challenges have so far been the low engineering …

The EuCARD-2 future magnets European collaboration for accelerator-quality HTS magnets

L Rossi, A Badel, M Bajko, A Ballarino… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
EuCARD-2 is a project supported by FP7-European Commission that includes, inter alia, a
work-package (WP10) called “Future Magnets.” This project is part of the long term …

Beneficial influence of Hf and Zr additions to Nb4at% Ta on the vortex pinning of Nb3Sn with and without an O source

S Balachandran, C Tarantini, PJ Lee… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we show that addition of Hf to Nb4Ta can significantly improve the high field
performance of Nb 3 Sn, making it suitable for dipole magnets for a machine like the 100 …

Nb3Sn high field magnets for the high luminosity LHC upgrade project

G Ambrosio - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN requires a new
generation of high field superconducting magnets. High field large aperture quadrupoles …