Electrodynamic losses in a 20 T high-temperature superconducting solenoid

High-temperature superconducting (HTS) materials have, in recent years, gained increasing appeal for applications in fields such as nuclear fusion and particle accelerators, thanks to the increasing improvement of the technological production process and the lowering of prices. In nuclear fusion plants, superconducting magnets are used for the plasma confinement though magnetic fields of high intensity and the same principle, although the general purpose is different, is used in particle accelerators, where superconducting magnets, accelerate and give a specific trajectory to the particles that must collide. The studies carried out in this thesis regards the possibility of creating a solenoid capable of functioning both as magnets for nuclear fusion and as magnets for particle accelerators, with specific attention to the choice of its geometry and the calculation of its losses.