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ATLAS Begins to Fill the Cavern International Journal of High-Energy Physics CERN COURIER VOLUME 43 NUMBER 9 NOVEMBER 2003 ATLAS begins to fill the cavern NOBELS DESY COLLABORATION Awards for superconductivity The laboratory's future What price US visa and MRI p5 directions p21 restrictions? p50 The Vacuum Components Company The vacuum components website Our new website reflects all aspects of the vacuum industry and features a new on-line catalogue that comprehensively presents every Caburn product with photographs, technical information, drawings and complete prices in Sterling, Euros and Swiss Francs. Visit us and see the extensive Caburn product range that includes: Flanges and Fittings, Valves, Roughing Components, Viewports and Glass Components, Electrical and Optical Feedthroughs, Motion and Manipulation, Thin Film Deposition and Chambers. 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Editor Christine Sutton CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +41 (22) 782 1906 Web: cerncourier.com COURIER Advisory Board R Landua (Chairman), P Sphicas, K Potter, Volume 43 Number 9 November 2003 E Lillest0l, C Detraz, H Hoffmann, R Bailey Laboratory correspondents: Argonne National Laboratory (US): D Ayres Brookhaven, National Laboratory (US): P Yamin Cornell University (US): D G Cassel DESY Laboratory (Germany): Ilka Flegel, P Waloschek Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US): Judy Jackson GSI Darmstadt (Germany): G Siegert INFN (Italy): Barbara Gallavotti IHEP, Beijing (China): Tongzhou Xu Jefferson Laboratory (US): Melanie O'Byrne JINR Dubna (Russia): B Starchenko KEK National Laboratory (Japan): A Maki Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (US): Christine Celata Los Alamos National Laboratory (US): C Hoffmann ALICE coils arrive at CERNp7 Physics and medicine combine p29 New award for Berners Lee p35 NIKHEF Laboratory (Netherlands): Paul de Jong Novosibirsk Institute (Russia): S Eidelman Orsay Laboratory (France): Anne-Marie Lutz News 5 PSI Laboratory (Switzerland): P-R Kettle Superconductivity links physics and medicine. 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The contribution of Leggett, now at the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is in University of Illinois, Urbana, was to develop turn a major use for superconducting magnets. the decisive theory, while at Sussex in the UK in The most important superconducting mat­ 1970s, to explain How helium-3 atoms interact erials technically have proved to be type-ll and become ordered in the superfluid state. superconductors, which allow superconductiv­ There is a link between this year's physics ity and magnetism to exist at the same time. prize and the prize in medicine, as one of the Type-I superconductors expel a magnetic field A superconducting strand for the LHC major uses for superconducting magnets is in in what is known as the Meissner effect, and magnets made of around 8000 filaments MRI. The nuclear resonance phenomenon used lose their superconductivity at high magnetic of niobium-titanium alloy - a type-ll in MRI was first demonstrated, for protons, in fields. However, type-ll superconductors - superconductor - embedded in copper. 1946 by Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, generally alloys of various metals - exhibit only who received the Nobel prize in 1952. In a a weak Meissner effect, or none at all, and In Abrikosov's theory, the external magnetic further connection with particle physics, Bloch retain their superconductivity at high magnetic field penetrates the type-ll material through went on to be the first director-general of CERN fields. Superconducting magnets are now channels between vortices in the "electron until 1955. It was 20 years, however, before routinely used in particle accelerators, and the fluid" in the material. This theory was based on Lauterbur, from Urbana, Illinois, discovered in magnets used for CERN's Large Hadron work in the 1950s by Ginzburg at the P N 1973 how to create 2D pictures by introducing Collider (LHC) are based on coils of niobium- Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. gradients in the magnetic field. Peter Mansfield titanium alloy, a type-ll superconductor.
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