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.…
New CHART project «FCCee HTS4» started
FCC-ee High-Temperature-Superconducting Short Straight Section (FCCee HTS4) The project shall study, up to the test of a 1-m-long prototype module, the possibility of replacing the normal-conducting short straight sections (SSS)…
CHART (Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology)
New CHART project «FCCee Lumi» started
Optimizing FCC-ee Luminosity (FCCee Lumi)The project will deliver an optimized optics of the FCC-ee collider rings in four modes of operation for both two and four interaction points (IPs), including…
Future Circular Collider
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 Federal Council announced next steps to increase the Swiss support for CERN…
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…
Additive Manufacturing
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 part on a complex-shaped winding former. The research was a collaboration between…
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 of CERN surveyors have performed geodetic measurements in the framework of the Future…
New CHART project «MagNum» started
Sustainable and Consistent Integrated Modelling of Superconducting Magnets (MagNum)Projects in superconducting magnet R&D for accelerators are intrinsically multi-stage processes involving various disciplines, changing teams of experts, and software tools that…