Best Poster Award at the FCC Week 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…
Record field in a 10 mm-period bulk high-temperature superconducting undulator
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…
Combined function magnets with constant partition numbers lattice for the Future Circular lepton Collider
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…
MagDev1
CHART MagDev CCT Dipole achieves record field
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,…
CHART Project Successfully Tests 18-T HTS Solenoid
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…
CMS 2021 Award
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.…
Technical Review MagDev1
CHART MagDev recognized in milestone technical review
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…
Federal President of Switzerland visited magnet facility at CERN
President of Swiss Confederation at CERN
The Swiss Confederation Councilor Guy Parmelin visited the magnet facility at CERN on 5th November 2021. During his visit Bernhard Auchmann, representing the CHART Collaboration, presented the CHART magnet development…