July 2018
Welcome to the summer edition of Accelerating News, covering ongoing R&D developments that pave the way for future large-scale projects as well as for new applications that could improve our daily lives. Some of these developments were reported during IPAC18, and you can read a nice summary by the conference chairpersons. Last month, saw the ground-breaking ceremony of the HL-LHC project; a major milestone for CERN and for the global physics community. Congratulations to our colleagues, from all over the world, who collaborated to hit this milestone.
The new issue reflects the wealth of scientific and technical fields linked to accelerator technology and the importance of continuing with a robust R&D programme to prepare the next generation of particle accelerators. You can read the latest updates from the 11T dipole prototype magnet for HL-LHC and the promising FRESCA2 results towards the 16T magnets for FCC. Moreover, we report on the successful tests of the HL-LHC crab cavities as well as the first prototypes of RF cavities for future circular colliders.
Developments in particle accelerators can also have a big impact on our daily lives. In our summer issue you will find the latest updates from ARIES; building on the success of EUCARD and EUCARD-2 the new projects aims to foster collaboration between academia, research institutes and industry to develop more efficient and powerful accelerators that will benefit both science and society. You can also read more about the commissioning of a novel compact aviation cargo scanning linear accelerator at STFC Daresbury Laboratory and the simulations of high-charge electron beams in laser wakefield accelerators that could allow ultra-fast studies of condensed matter and medical imaging.
Finally, you can read an interview with Anders Unnervik (Head of CERN’s Procurement and Industrial Services) about BSBF2018 and the role of procurement practices in the development of large-scale research infrastructures.
I hope that you will enjoy reading our new issue.
Panos Charitos
Editor-in-Chief
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Groundbreaking for the HL-LHC civil engineering work
Civil works have begun on the ATLAS and CMS sites to build new underground structures for the High-Luminosity LHC.
First experimental results from the CLEAR facility at CERN
Flexibility and versatility, together with a dynamic and experienced team of researchers, are key ingredients for the growing success of the new CLEAR facility, exploring novel accelerator concepts at CERN.
ARIES first annual meeting in Riga
One year after the Kick-off, where does the project stand?
IPAC 18: Vancouver welcomes the world of accelerator physics!
IPAC18 brought together accelerator scientists and industrial vendors from across the globe to share ideas on the cutting edge of accelerator science and technology.
Behind the scenes at the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF): New procurement practices can support large research organisations
An interview with Anders Unnervik, Head of the Procurement and Industrial Services Group at CERN
A big step towards the superconducting magnets of the future
FRESCA2 reaches an important milestone, a magnetic field of 14.6 T a record for a magnet with a “free” aperture
And the winners of the ARIES Proof-of-Concept fund are…
Take a closer look at the potential of the selected projects
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The first 802 MHz prototype cavities for CERN’s future circular collider
JLab and CERN collaborate in the development of novel superconducting radio frequency (SRF) accelerator structures for future high-performance circular machines.
Full length prototype of an 11T dipole magnet
The construction of the 5.5-m long 11T dipole prototype was completed in May this year after several years of intense work.
World’s first crabbing of a proton beam
The first test of the HL-LHC crab cavities to rotate a beam of protons was performed last month at CERN.
Laser-wakefield accelerators for High-energy coherent Terahertz radiation
Paper just published in New Journal of Physics describes a promising pathway to more efficient radiation sources
Daresbury security linac achieves 3.5 MeV
Compact aviation cargo scanning linac successfully commissioned at STFC Daresbury Laboratory.
First workshop on Pulse Power for Kicker Systems held at CERN
The PULPOKS 2018 workshop brought more than 40 participants to discuss the latest developments in the field of pulsed power for particle accelerators