PBL
Particle Beam Lasers (PBL) is responsible for developing a number of cutting edge accelerator physics breakthroughs, including high-quality superconducting magnets for present and future colliding beam facilities around the world.
Custom Research & Development
PBL scientists and engineers are world renowned experts in superconducting magnet technology. We design magnets capable of contributing to the world's leading particle accelerators and national labs. One of our magnets produced a world record magnetic field for its kind. Our goal is to help our partners succeed by designing custom superconducting magnet systems for their specific needs. Whether you need a single superconducting magnet or are building a more complex beamline, PBL can support your superconducting magnet design needs.
Service Areas
Research & Development
PBL has a long and successful history of developing cutting edge magnet technology for the worlds most advanced particle accelerators. Our work combines the use of cutting edge computational tools such as COMSOL with experience gained over decades in national laboratory environments. We've developed world record technology, producing the highest magnetic field ever achieved for a high temperature superconducting magnet in 2014, and recently we've been at the forefront of efforts to build more compact and higher field quality magnets for the ongoing Electron Ion Collider as well as for future colliders such as the Future Circular Collider and a possible Muon Collider.
Intellectual Property
PBL's first patent, issued in 2017, is entitled “A Low Temperature Superconductor and Aligned High Temperature Superconductor Magnetic Dipole System and Method for Producing High Magnetic Fields”. This patent gives the PBL/BNL team intellectual property rights over a technique of aligning high temperature superconducting tape in a wide variety of field configurations, a technique which is important wherever hybrid LTS/HTS superconducting magnets are used. Our second patent, which is pending, is entitled "An Open Midplane, High Magnetic Field Solenoid System and Method for Neutron or X-Ray Scattering Analysis". This second patent provides a technique for significantly improving magnetic fields used for neutron and X-Ray scattering, which can in many instances be superior to MRI.