Question

With a charged particle, one of these devices makes up a cyon (“SY-on”), which is a physical realization of an anyon (“EN-ee-on”). Stacked metal discs with holes for water to flow through make up a type of these devices named after Francis Bitter that is used in a lab at Florida State University. These devices are not superconductors, but hadronic calorimeters are surrounded by a niobium-titanium one of these (-5[1])devices in a namesake particle detector at the LHC. (10[1])Divergence-free vector fields are named for these (10[2])devices. (10[10])One of these (10[1])devices (10[4])is surrounded (-5[1])by toroidal and poloidal coils (10[1])in tokamaks. The inductance of (-5[1])these devices is the product of mu naught, the number of turns (10[1])squared, and (10[1])cross-sectional (-5[1])area, all divided by current. For 10 points, name these devices that produce uniform magnetic fields and that consist of long helical coils of wire. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: solenoids [accept Compact Muon Solenoid or solenoidal vector field or Bitter solenoids; accept electromagnets or superconducting electromagnets; prompt on coils of wire until read]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2496%0%17%91.35

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Calvin BostlemanOhio StateRIT66-5
Shardul RaoMinnesotaVirginia Tech7510
Ezra SantosChicago BGeorgia Tech8210
Caleb OttWaterloo BYale8210
Colin VeeversOttawaBritish Columbia8310
Athena ShaddenTexasIowa State8310
William GrogerColumbia BCornell B8310
Liam KusalikWaterloo AColumbia A8310
Alex AkridgeIndianaNorth Carolina A8310
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL AUC Berkeley A8310
Andrew WangIllinois AStanford8310
Aum MundheRutgersToronto A8310
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto BCornell A8310
Isaac MammelMarylandWinona State8310
Cade ReinbergerRITOhio State8610
John John GrogerWUSTL BGeorgia State8710
Jason ZhangToronto CJohns Hopkins8710
Ted GanPenn StateArizona State8710
James McCurleyHarvardMIT8710
Adam FineChicago ANorthwestern89-5
Leo LawFloridaLSE9410
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BNYU99-5
Yash MandaviaIllinois BVanderbilt11110
Yashwanth BajjiMichiganUCF11310
Brian LaiVirginiaNorth Carolina B114-5
Soren HeydariNorth Carolina BVirginia1400
Matt SchiavoneNorthwesternChicago A14010
Eshan PantNYUUC Berkeley B14010