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in conventional accelerators an enormous amount of elec- trical power is wasted to generate the magnetic and electric fields. The use of superconducting magnets enables one to greatly reduce the electrical power con- sumption since there is no resistance to the flow of an electrical current in a superconductor and the size and weight of the current carrying wires or coils can be enormously reduced because of the absence of a require- ment for carrying off vast amounts of wasted electrical...