2nd High Temperature Superconductor Accelerator Technology (HiTAT-2) Workshop

from Thursday 23 October 2025 (08:00) to Friday 24 October 2025 (17:00)
CERN (30/7-018)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025
AM
08:00 Registration/Coffee served in the room next to the Auditorium  
08:20 Welcome - Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) Dr Amalia Ballarino (CERN)  
08:30
Session 1: REBCO Tape (until 10:30)
08:30 Overview of REBCO manufacturing routes and cost. What should be improved ? - Venkat Selvamanickam  
08:50 Exploring the critical current scaling and electromechanical limits of REBCO tapes. How far have we come? - Carmine Senatore  
09:10 Properties of REBCO tape: what should be improved? A user view - Dr Christian Barth (CERN)  
09:30 Overview on conductor test infrastructure (Europe, USA, New Zealand, Japan, China): standards and what do we miss? - Arnaud Badel  
09:50 What coated conductor characterizations are needed for good magnet design and are they subject to large variations on a scale not found in our usual isotropic superconductors? - Aixia Xu (Florida State University)  
10:10 Discussion  
10:30 Group Photo  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Session 2: REBCO Cables (until 12:40)
11:00 Cables for accelerators and HTS REBCO cable layouts - Dr Amalia Ballarino (CERN)  
11:20 Development of round cables with small magnetization using striated REBCO coated conductors - Prof. Naoyuki Amemiya (Kyoto University)  
11:40 Effect of striations on AC losses in REBCO cables - Fedor Gömöry  
12:00 Metal insulation: potential and drawbacks (field quality, ramping time) - Thomas Nes  
12:20 REBCO FReTC conductors - Makoto Takayasu  
08:30 --- Coffee served in the room next to the Auditorium ---
09:00
Session 4: Conductor and Magnets (until 10:40)
09:00 Progress on BSCCO 2212 wire and cable - Alexander Otto  
09:20 Overview of HTS conductor and magnet development in China - Qingjin Xu  
09:40 AC losses in 14-20 T HTS accelerator dipoles: are they a problem? - Arjan Verweij (CERN)  
10:00 AC losses measurements and modelling: an overview - Yifeng Yang (University of Southampton (GB))  
10:20 Impact of tape defects on coils construction - Carlo Santini  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10
Session 4: Conductor and Magnets (until 12:20)
11:10 Modeling REBCO RacetrackCoils with Metal-as-Insulation for quench protection study: current status and perspectives - Audren Blondelle  
11:30 Instrumentation and measurements for HTS magnets - Lucio Fiscarelli (CERN)  
11:50 Discussion and conclusions  
PM
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:40
Session 3: REBCO Magnets (until 16:00)
13:40 Progress toward block coil design at CEA - Thibault LECREVISSE (CEA-Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
14:00 REBCO conductor improvements needed for engineering high-field user magnets at NHMFL - Lance Cooley  
14:20 Progress on REBCO accelerator magnets at PSI - Douglas Martins Araujo  
14:40 Comparison of dipole layouts - Dr Stefano Sorti (University of Milan and INFN Milan, LASA laboratory)  
15:00 HFM Targets and requirements for FCC hh magnets - Dr Ezio Todesco (CERN)  
15:20 Progress toward REBCO dipoles at CERN: Racetrack coils - Dr Algirdas Baskys (CERN)  
15:40 Progress toward REBCO dipoles at CERN: Common Coil - Diego Perini (CERN)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Session 3: REBCO Magnets (until 18:30)
16:30 REBCO tape, cable and magnet activities in USA - Lance Cooley Xiaorong Wang  
16:50 Instrumentation for protection of HTS coils - Maxim Marchevsky  
17:10 HTS in the US MDP program - Soren Prestemon  
17:30 Discussion  
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:20 --- Sandwich lunch ---
13:30
Discussion (until 15:30)