BigBOX, one of the CHART/MagDev R&D vehicles, is an Nb3Sn racetrack in a stress-management structure. Following one of our developments in impregnation systems, the first BigBOX was impregnated with paraffin…
© UNIGEFrancesco 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 28th International Magnet…
© UNIGEGianmarco Bovone, Postdoc in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva is one of the three recipients of the 2023 Jan Evetts Award at the EUCAS 2023…
The FCC week, the traditional yearly get-together of the collaborators and proponents of the Future Circular Collider project of CERN, this year took place in London during the period of…
The HTS bulk undulator project recently achieved the specifications for the magnetic field strength of its 10 mm period and 4.0 mm diameter aperture hard x-ray undulator. Designed for the new microscopy…
Optics developments with CFMs show promising results to improve the FCC-ee performance and efficiency. The FCC-ee project envisions a double-ring lepton collider in a new tunnel with a circumference of…
As one of the first CHART projects, MagDev at PSI designed and built a canted-cosine theta (CCT) demonstrator magnet, wound from Nb3Sn conductor. Lasting from February 2017 to October 2019,…
Fig. 1: Stack of four 12-mm wide pancake windings, prepared for mounting in the cryogen-free test station. This coil produced 18.2 T. Fig. 2: Stack of two pancake windings mounted…
Joanna Wanczyk (EPFL LPAP, LPHE and CERN) has been awarded one of the 2021 CMS Awards, given to members of the CMS collaboration for their significant contributions and outstanding work.…
The CHART2 MagDev1 project underwent an international technical review of results and future plans on December 13-14, 2021. We cite from the review close-out report (available here): "The committee was…