As the energies of the particles they study climb toward electron volts (1 TeV), high‐energy physicists find it increasingly difficult to bend their trajectories with large electromagnets. Even with superconducting coils, these magnets are limited by saturation to a few tens of kilogauss, so that a 500‐GeV proton ring requires a radius of the order of a kilometer. But now, a Soviet–American collaboration at Dubna has reported observing a phenomenon that may make it possible to bend 500‐GeV protons with a radius of curvature not much more than a meter.
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