Hilary Term 2021 Seminars

Contribution List

1. The eSPS facility at CERN

Steinar Stapnes (CERN)

21/01/2021, 16:15

The design of a primary electron beam facility at CERN will be described. It re-enables the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) as an electron accelerator, and leverages the development invested in Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) technology for its injector and as an accelerator research and development infrastructure. This would be a facility relevant for several of the key priorities in the 2020...

2. The FCC-ee Higgs and Electroweak Factory

Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

28/01/2021, 16:15

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) integrated project consists, in a first stage, of an energy- and luminosity-frontier electron-positron collider, FCC-ee. The FCC-ee is a precision instrument to study the Z, W, and Higgs boson, and the top quark, and offers unprecedented sensitivity to signs of new physics. Its beam parameters are limited by several, partly new effects, such as beamstrahlung...

3. The International Linear Collider

Shinichiro Michizono

04/02/2021, 16:15

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is an electron–positron collider with a total length of around 20 km for a Higgs factory (a centre-of-mass energy of 250 GeV). Key technologies at ILC are superconducting RF (SRF) acceleration at main linacs and nano-beam technology at the interaction point (IP).
Prior to the actual construction, a four-year period of preparation (under ILC Pre-Lab, an...

4. Superconducting Magnets: An Enabling Technology for Physics Research and Society

Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

11/02/2021, 16:15

Fundamental science has nurtured superconducting magnet technology for a long time in order to explore the high energy regime. The discovery of the long-awaited Higgs boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, based on thousands of powerful superconducting magnets, is maybe the most famous outcome. However, technologies that are only possible due to the invention of large superconducting magnets,...

5. The SuperKEKB Collider

Makoto Tobiyama (KEK)

18/02/2021, 16:15

SuperKEKB is an asymmetric energy collider, colliding a 4 GeV positron beam with a 7 GeV electron beam at the KEK Tsukuba campus. It has been built to search for new physics beyond the standard model of the particle physics in the B meson regime. The SuperKEKB collider has been designed to achieve a luminosity that is more than an order of magnitude higher than the KEKB collider. It...

6. Physics vs. Cancer: What are the Hot Topics in Particle Therapy Accelerator Development?

Alexander Gerbershagen (CERN)

25/02/2021, 16:15

The presentation provides an overview over the recent developments in the field of accelerators and beamlines for proton, ion and high-energy electron therapy. It describes the rising use of the superconducting technology, in particular to its application to the gantry magnets. The advantages and disadvantages of the superconducting technology use are discussed in regards to both proton and...

7. Upgrade of the ISIS Facility

Dr John Thomason (STFC-RAL)

04/03/2021, 16:15

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source accelerators have been studied, improved and refined over many years, but recently a feasibility study was launched to explore ISIS-II, the next generation source for the UK. The aim is to refocus facility upgrades in light of the advent of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Sweden and new forecast scenarios for neutron and muon provision in Europe.
A...

8. Student Design Project: The eSPS at CERN

JAI Graduate Students (JAI)

11/03/2021, 16:15

The aim of this year’s JAI student project is to prepare a design of the primary electron beam for the electron-Super Proton Synchrotron (eSPS) at CERN. The facility re-enables the SPS as an electron accelerator, and leverages the development invested in the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) technology for its injector and accelerator R&D infrastructure.

The SPS has, in the past, accelerated...