On April 23rd,2014, WM5, one of the resistive magnets with 50mm working bore, in High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences obtains 35 .01 Tesla with input of 24 megawatt/36820 A DC current. It’s a new a magnetic field strength record of the world.
High magnetic field is a very important extreme condition in multidisciplinary research. It was produced by means of Superconducting magnet in china. The highest field used to be less than 20T owing to the limitation of superconducting materials. To obtain higher field strength have to rely on the development of resistive magnets.
Steady High Magnetic Field Facilities is one of the eleventh 5-year Chinese national major scientific and technological infrastructure construction projects. WM5 is the second water cooling resistive magnet which has been in state of operation. The whole magnet system, including the supporting power supply, water cooling system, central control system, is designed and developed independently by our engineers and staffs in High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Experiment site in cell 5 of facilities hall of High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CAS
(Image by HMFL)
