Environmental concerns and rising energy costs are causing leadership of accelerator facilities to consider the impact of the magnets used. How do permanent magnets — which don’t use electricity to operate — stack up?
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Shepherd, B. Using permanent magnets to reduce the impact of accelerators. Nat Rev Phys 6, 6–7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00678-w
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