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====Solenoid Magnet==== The inner [[solenoid]] produces a two [[Tesla (unit)|tesla]] magnetic field surrounding the Inner Detector.<ref name="TPmagnet">{{cite book| year=1994| title= ATLAS Technical Proposal| chapter=Magnet system| publisher=CERN| chapter-url= http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/TP/NEW/HTML/tp9new/node8.html#SECTION00431000000000000000}}</ref> This high magnetic field allows even very energetic particles to curve enough for their momentum to be determined, and its nearly uniform direction and strength allow measurements to be made very precisely. Particles with momenta below roughly 400 [[MeV]] will be curved so strongly that they will loop repeatedly in the field and most likely not be measured; however, this energy is very small compared to the several [[TeV]] of energy released in each proton collision.
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