National Academies Publish High-Field Magnets Study

Researchers from Berkeley Lab ATAP Division contributed to a recent study by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that identifies new scientific opportunities and key applications for high-magnetic-field science and technology over the next decade.

Technologies capable of producing high magnetic fields are essential to many fields of science and technology. They are vital components of today’s particle accelerators and colliders, where they guide and shape the particle beams and can determine an accelerator’s energy reach. They are also crucial to many proposed fusion energy reactors, which promise almost unlimited carbon-free energy and are essential to advances in everything from dark matter detection to medical diagnoses and treatment, the discovery of new drugs, and the development of new quantum technologies and semiconductors.

“The study provides a consensus from a committee of experts from a wide variety of areas within high magnetic field science and technology,” said Diego Arbelaez, a staff scientist in the Berkeley Lab Engineering and a committee member for the study. “It lays out the current status and identifies new scientific opportunities and their enabling technologies for the future of high magnetic field science.”

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