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Lance Cooley Lance Cooley, head of the Superconducting Materials Department, wrote this column. Accelerators use magnets to steer and focus particle beams. At the Energy Frontier, very high magnetic fields are required and can be created only by energizing magnets with superconducting wires. Fermilab scientist Tengming Shen and colleagues at Brookhaven and Berkeley laboratories, Florida State University and Oxford Instruments &#150 Superconducting Technology have identified a new treatment for an emerging material called Bi-2212, which could lead to magnets twice…

Lance Cooley Lance Cooley, head of the Superconducting Materials Department, wrote this column. A central mission of the Superconducting Materials Department in the Technical Division is the exploration of new materials and new processes that could have an impact on the design, engineering and construction of accelerator components. Although Fermilab is not a dedicated materials science laboratory, the laboratory relies on advances in materials to build the RF cavities, magnets and other accelerator tools needed to conduct research at the…