World's Largest Superconducting Magnet

At CERN in Geneva Switzerland, a magnet consisting of 8 superconducting coils and measuring 16ft x 82ft has been powered up and then powered down successfully for the first time. The magnet, called the Atlas Barrel Toroid, weighs 110 tons and will work together with other magnets in ATLAS, a particle detector, to bend the paths of charged particles produced in collisions at the LHC, enabling important properties to be measured. Unlike most particle detectors, the ATLAS detector does not need large quantities of metal to contain the field because the field is contained within a doughnut shape defined by the coils. This increases the precision of the measurements it can make. Here is a link to the story.

Here's a picture of the magnet (can you find the magnet technician?)