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BigBOX – a Nb3Sn demonstrator coil – reaches maximum performance without training
BigBOX, one of the CHART/MagDev R&D vehicles, is an Nb3Sn racetrack in a stress-management structure. Following one of
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Francesco Lonardo received the Best Student Award at the MT-28 conference
© UNIGE Francesco Lonardo, PhD student in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva was one
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Gianmarco Bovone – 2023 recipient of the Jan Evetts Award
© UNIGE Gianmarco Bovone, Postdoc in the group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva is one of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CMS 2021 Award
Joanna Wanczyk (EPFL LPAP, LPHE and CERN) has been awarded one of the 2021 CMS Awards, given to
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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.
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Federal Council intends to increase the Swiss support for CERN projects
The mission of the CHART-Collaboration is to support the FCC project at CERN. On December 10 the Swiss
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President of Swiss Confederation at CERN
The Swiss Confederation Councilor Guy Parmelin visited the magnet facility at CERN on 5th November 2021. During his
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Increasing the design freedom in Additive Manufacturing
In our recent publication, we showed how to overcome current process limitations in additive manufacturing by segmenting the
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Millimetric precision for a Future Circular Collider
A surveyor from CERN performs levelling measurements using the instrumentation and procedures from Swisstopo (Image: CERN) A team
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New CHART project «MagNum» started
Sustainable and Consistent Integrated Modelling of Superconducting Magnets (MagNum) Projects in superconducting magnet R&D for accelerators are intrinsically
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Tokamak Energy and Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute sign collaboration and license agreement
Tokamak Energy is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement with the
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New CHART project «FCC Geodesy» started
Determination of a high-precision gravity field model for the FCC region and improvement of the Geodetic Reference Frames
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New CHART project «FCC Geology 3D Model» started
Development of a high-resolution 3D geological model and associated GIS-based subsurface data set for the FCC tunnelling work
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New CHART project «FCC-ee Injector» started
Design and critical item test program for FCC-ee Injector (FCC-ee Injector Design and Test Stand at PSI) (FCC-ee
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New CHART project «FCC-ee Dynamics» started
Accelerator design and simulation framework for FCC-ee: optics and collective effects (FCC-ee Dynamics) Develop a modular and extendable
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Swiss research initiative CHART works on particle accelerators of the future
The design of the Supermagnet FCC – these three letters stand for the vision of a new ring
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New CHART project «FCChh Stability» started
Long term coherent stability and diffusion studies for the Future Circular Hadron Colliders (FCC-hh and HE-LHC Stability) Studies
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New CHART project «MagAM» started
Additive Manufacturing for Structural Components in Superconducting Coils (MagAM) Nb3Sn-based coils of superconducting accelerator magnets are impregnated together
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New CHART project «MagDev1» started
Superconducting Accelerator Magnet R&D at PSI (MagDev) This project outlines a two-year activity of superconducting-accelerator magnet R&D at
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New CHART project «FCC / LHC-Lumi» started
Luminosity Precision Measurements for Hadron Colliders (FCC / LHC-Lumi) Model and study the impact of beam-beam effect on
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New CHART project «Resins» started
Development of optimized resin systems for SC magnet coil production (Resins) (MagRes) The project shall establish a body
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New CHART project «Nb3Sn Wire Development» started
Development of recipes and methods for the fabrication of Nb3Sn multifilamentary wires with enhanced current carrying capabilities (Nb3Sn
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New CHART project «SC wire characterization» started
Multiphysical characterization of Nb3Sn wires and of REBCO coated conductors (SC wire characterization) (WireChar) The project shall establish
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New CHART project «HTS Bulk Undulator» started
REBCO Bulk/Tape-Stack SC Undulator (HTS Bulk Undulator) The Insertion Device group at PSI has started an R&D program
CHART (Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology)