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First Positrons in the FCC-ee Positron Production Experiment (P3) at SwissFELFor the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee), particular attention is drawn to the crucial role of the positron source. The almost universal usage…BreakthroughFCC-ee Injector linacs and sources (TDR)12 Aug 2026
Yi Wu received the Student Poster Award at the IPAC 2026 conferenceYi Wu, a PhD student at the EPFL Laboratory of Particle Accelerator Physics, has been selected to present her research at the…AwardFCC-ee SPIN-POL22 May 2026
First full demonstration of ESC protection for efficient high-field magnetsThe subSMCC2b magnet is PSI’s second Nb₃Sn subscale magnet of common-coil type with two apertures, and represents an important milestone for the…BreakthroughMagDev308 Apr 2026
CHART Workshop 2025 on the 10-year anniversary of CHARTThe third CHART Workshop took place at PSI on November 12 with 52 participants and 18 presentations (https://indico.psi.ch/event/17808/). The workshop also celebrated…Event12 Nov 2025
Alexandre Arsenault won the ESAS Early Career Prize at the EUCAS 2025 conference© ESASDuring the 17th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) 2025, Alexandre Arsenault won the ESAS Early Career Prize in the Large…AwardHTS Bulk Undulator13 Oct 2025
Strong Recognition for CHART at the Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics 2025The CHART collaboration received strong recognition at the recent "Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics", where it was highlighted…Recognition08 Jul 2025
CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular ColliderReleased at the end of March 2025, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the…Announcement31 Mar 2025
subSMCC1 – an innovative Nb3Sn sub scale magnet – successfully testedsubSMCC1 is a 4-layer stress-managed common coil (SMCC) magnet, which constitutes an important milestone towards a 14-T demonstrator magnet for FCC-hh. subSMCC1…BreakthroughMagDev218 Dec 2024
Peter Kicsiny received the FCC Innovation Award at the FCC week 2024 conference© EPFL / CERNPeter Kicsiny, PhD student at the EPFL Laboratory of Particle Accelerators, has received the FCC Innovation Award at the…Award14 Jun 2024
BigBOX – a Nb3Sn demonstrator coil – reaches maximum performance without trainingBigBOX, one of the CHART/MagDev R&D vehicles, is an Nb3Sn racetrack in a stress-management structure. Following one of our developments in impregnation…BreakthroughMagDev227 Sep 2023
Francesco Lonardo received the Best Student Award at the MT-28 conference© UNIGEFrancesco Lonardo, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva was one of the recipients of the…AwardWireDev22 Sep 2023
Gianmarco Bovone – 2023 recipient of the Jan Evetts Award© UNIGEGianmarco Bovone, Postdoc in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva is one of the three recipients of the…AwardWireDev12 Sep 2023
Best Poster Award at the FCC Week 2023The FCC week, the traditional yearly get-together of the collaborators and proponents of the Future Circular Collider project of CERN, this year…AwardFCCee HTS414 Aug 2023
Record field in a 10 mm-period bulk high-temperature superconducting undulatorThe HTS bulk undulator project recently achieved the specifications for the magnetic field strength of its 10 mm period and 4.0 mm diameter aperture…BreakthroughHTS Bulk Undulator21 Mar 2023
Combined function magnets with constant partition numbers lattice for the Future Circular lepton ColliderOptics developments with CFMs show promising results to improve the FCC-ee performance and efficiency. The FCC-ee project envisions a double-ring lepton collider…BreakthroughFCCee Beam Dynamics13 Mar 2023
CHART MagDev CCT Dipole achieves record fieldAs one of the first CHART projects, MagDev at PSI designed and built a canted-cosine theta (CCT) demonstrator magnet, wound from Nb3Sn…BreakthroughMagDev113 Dec 2022
CHART Project Successfully Tests 18-T HTS SolenoidFig. 1: Stack of four 12-mm wide pancake windings, prepared for mounting in the cryogen-free test station. This coil produced 18.2 T.…BreakthroughMagDev125 Aug 2022
CMS 2021 AwardJoanna Wanczyk (EPFL LPAP, LPHE and CERN) has been awarded one of the 2021 CMS Awards, given to members of the CMS…AwardFCC / LHC-Lumi04 Jul 2022
CHART MagDev recognized in milestone technical reviewThe CHART2 MagDev1 project underwent an international technical review of results and future plans on December 13-14, 2021. We cite from the…RecognitionMagDev120 Dec 2021
Federal Council intends to increase the Swiss support for CERN projectsThe mission of the CHART-Collaboration is to support the FCC project at CERN. On December 10 the Swiss Federal Council announced next…Announcement10 Dec 2021
President of Swiss Confederation at CERNThe Swiss Confederation Councilor Guy Parmelin visited the magnet facility at CERN on 5th November 2021. During his visit Bernhard Auchmann, representing…AnnouncementMagDev105 Nov 2021
Increasing the design freedom in Additive ManufacturingIn our recent publication, we showed how to overcome current process limitations in additive manufacturing by segmenting the part on a complex-shaped…BreakthroughMagAM20 Jul 2021
Millimetric precision for a Future Circular ColliderA surveyor from CERN performs levelling measurements using the instrumentation and procedures from Swisstopo (Image: CERN)A team of CERN surveyors have performed…BreakthroughFCC Geodesy29 Jun 2021
Tokamak Energy and Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute sign collaboration and license agreementTokamak Energy is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)…Announcement17 Feb 2021
Swiss research initiative CHART works on particle accelerators of the futureThe design of the SupermagnetFCC – these three letters stand for the vision of a new ring accelerator that could be built…Press releaseMagDev120 Apr 2020
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