Cooling of the Largest Magnet in the World at CERN

DR. BERTRAND BAUDOUY, CEA (FRENCH ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION)

In high-energy physics it’s necessary to accelerate particles to incredible speeds while controlling their paths with extreme accuracy, and this is done with superconducting magnets. Their design is very complex, but various options can be examined and refined much more quickly with simulation software. Scientists at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have also discovered that COMSOL Multiphysics provides a good complement to in-house codes.