Francesco Lonardo, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva was one of the recipients of the Best Student Award at the 28^th International Magnet Technology Conference (MT-28). The work of Francesco on the “Influence of the heat treatment on the layer-J_C of internal-Sn Nb₃Sn wires with internally oxide nanoparticles” was selected as one of the three best student contributions on accelerator magnet technologies.

Francesco’s work is part of the CHART WirDev project, which receives financial support from SNSF and CERN, and has a direct relevance to the Future Circular Collider project, which is poised to be both a promising application and a formidable challenge for Nb₃Sn superconductors. The goal of a 100 TeV proton-proton collider set by the high-energy physics community has led to a baseline configuration requiring dipoles generating 16 T in a 100 km tunnel. This demand imposes performance requirements that exceed the capabilities of commercial Nb₃Sn wires currently available. The research of Francesco aims to develop methods to bring the performance of Nb₃Sn at its ultimate limit that are also scalable for industrial production.

Here is the original article on the UNIGE website