Ultra-High Field Magnets for X-Ray and Neutron Scattering using High Temperature Superconductors

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1432171· OSTI ID:1432171

Winn, Barry L.  ^[1]; Broholm, C. ^[2]; Bird, M. ^[3]; Breneman, Bruce C. ^[4]; Coffey, Michael ^[5]; Cutler, Roy I. ^[1]; Duckworth, Robert C. ^[1]; Erwin, R. ^[6]; Hahn, Seungyong ^[3]; Hernandez, Yamali ^[6]; Herwig, Kenneth W.  ^[1]; Holland, Leo D. ^[4]; Lonergan, Kevin M. ^[7]; Melhem, Ziad ^[7]; Minter, Stephen J. ^[5]; Nelson, C. ^[8]; Paranthaman, M. Parans  ^[1]; Pierce, Josh  ^[1]; Ruff, Jacob ^[9]; Shen, Tengming ^[10] ; Sherline, Todd E. ^[1]; Smeibidl, Peter G. ^[11]; Tennant, David ^[1]; van der Laan, Danko ^[12]; Wahle, Robert J. ^[11]; Zhang, Yifei ^[13]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
3. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Lab. (MagLab)
4. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
5. Cryomagnetics, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
6. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
7. Oxford Instruments, Abingdon (United Kingdom)
8. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
9. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
11. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), (Germany)
12. Advanced Conductor Technologies, LLC, Boulder, CO (United States)
13. SuperPower, Inc., Schenectady, NY (United States)

X-ray and neutron scattering techniques are capable of acquiring information about the structure and dynamics of quantum matter. However, the high-field magnet systems currently available at x-ray and neutron scattering facilities in the United States are limited to fields of 16 tesla (T) at maximum, which precludes applications that require and/or study ultra-high field states of matter. This gap in capability—and the need to address it—is a central conclusion of the 2005 National Academy of Sciences report by the Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science. To address this gap, we propose a magnet development program that would more than double the field range accessible to scattering experiments. With the development and use of new ultra-high field–magnets, the program would bring into view new worlds of quantum matter with profound impacts on our understanding of advanced electronic materials.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1432171
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2016/712; TRN: US1900690
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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