What is it used for at BNL?
At BNL the cryogenic process is used for a number of projects. From The Medical Department, with it’s MRI to here at C-AD where at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) the process is use to keep the 2.5 mile ring of superconducting magnets at approximately -452F or 4.5K. At the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) it is used for projects such as the AGS cold snake magnet and The Energy Recovery Linac (ERL). Both of which, like RHIC, have superconducting magnets. In the past it has been used for the R&D of new superconducting magnets at the magnet test facility and at the AGS it was used on beam line experimental targets and the largest superconducting magnet at the time, the Muon g-2 storage ring.
