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Optimizing Dynamic Aperture Studies with Active Learning

Tatiana Pieloni, Mike Seidel, Davide Di Croce, Ekaterina Krymova

Dynamic aperture is an important concept for the study of non-linear beam dynamics in circular accelerators. It describes the extent of the phase-space region where a particle's motion remains bounded over a given number of turns. Understanding the feature ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Characterization of Transverse Instabilities Driven by Electron Cloud

Sofia Carolina Johannesson

Electron cloud continues to be one of the main limiting factors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest accelerator at CERN. These clouds form in the beam chamber when positively charged particles are passing through and cause unwanted effects in b ...

EPFL2024

Progress in the design and manufacturing of the EDIPO 2 cryostat

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

A major upgrade of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which will allow the testing of superconducting samples both for fusion and for high-energy physics applications, is taking place at the Swiss Plasma Center. With a target background field of 15 ...

2023

Diffusion-Bonding Between Strands and Modeling of Splices of Nb3Sn Rutherford Cables

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy

Particle accelerators foresee the use of Nb3Sn in the next generation of dipole magnets. A common design strategy is to grade the coil, i.e., to optimize the quantity of superconductor in the turns with respect to the magnetic field intensity. As a consequ ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Design, prototyping, and thermo-mechanical modelling of a neutron spallation target impacted by high-energy proton-beam pulses in the n_TOF facility at CERN

Raffaele Esposito

This manuscript describes the design work and the R&D activities carried out for the third-generation neutron production target in the neutron Time-Of-Flight (n_TOF) facility at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). The facility is composed ...

EPFL2022

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of alternative cable-in-conduit conductors for the European DEMO hybrid central solenoid

Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Nikolay Bykovskiy

A hybrid design of the Central Solenoid is under study within the conceptual design phase of the European DEMO fusion reactor. It is based on HTS conductors in the innermost high-field layers, and Nb3Sn and NbTi conductors for field values below 15 T. Sinc ...

2022

Updates on Magnet Design For EU-DEMO Reactor: Optimization Studies on TF and CS Systems

Kamil Sedlák

In the framework of EU design activities for dimensioning the future fusion DEMOnstration reactor (DEMO), extensive analyses were conducted in EUROfusion context, aiming at ultimately defining the design of the DEMO magnets system. In this objective CEA (C ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Progress on Tests on Splices Between Nb3Sn Rutherford Cables for Graded High-Field Accelerator Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Vincenzo D'Auria, Mithlesh Kumar

Future high-field accelerator magnets foresee the extensive use of Nb3Sn, more expensive than the Nb-Ti of LHC. For projects involving the series production of magnets, conductor grading is mandatory in order to reduce the cost. To allow grading ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Analysis of a Novel Toroidal Configuration for Hadron Therapy Gantries

Enrico Felcini

Hadron therapy refers to a medical treatment that uses hadron beams (i.e. protons and ions) to deliver localized energy that suppresses cancerous cells, sparing the neighbouring healthy tissues from unwanted radiation. The major technical components of a h ...

EPFL2021

Modeling of Quench Protection Concepts for Canted-Cosine-Theta Type High-Field Magnets

Andreas Pautz, Bernhard Auchmann, Jiani Gao

An innovative high-field superconducting magnet of Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) type has been proposed for Future Circular Collider 16 T dipole magnet design. The unique mechanical structure intercepts the accumulated forces lowering the stress on the winding ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Analysis of Quench Detection and Protection of a Nb3Sn CCT Technology Demonstrator Dipole for FCC

Jiani Gao

From 2016, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) started an activity related to developing design, construction and testing of the superconducting magnets. My thesis work is part of this activity and mainly concerns the design and construction of an innovative high ...

EPFL2020

The magnet of the scattering and neutrino detector for the SHiP experiment at CERN

Aurelio Bay, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Guido Haefeli, Lesya Shchutska, Sun Hee Kim, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Inar Timiryasov, Sebastian Gerlach, Alexandre Emmanuel Grandchamp, Jean-Loup Tastet

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment proposal at CERN demands a dedicated dipole magnet for its scattering and neutrino detector. This requires a very large volume to be uniformly magnetized at B > 1.2 T, with constraints regarding the inner i ...

2020

Magnetic Design of a Superconducting Toroidal Gantry for Hadron Therapy

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit, Enrico Felcini

Hadron and proton therapy are cutting edge techniques for cancer treatment and a great development of specialized medical centers and research facilities is foreseen in the next decades. One of the main obstacles to the penetration of the use of charged pa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

High-Current Low-Voltage Power Supply for Superconducting Magnets

Émilien Luc Henri Coulinge

In the wide range of applications for power supplies, the ones dedicated to feeding superconducting magnets occupy a niche. This particular kind of magnets has the intrinsic property of having zero resistance, and is only used in high-end facilities for fu ...

EPFL2020

New spiral beam screen design for the FCC-hh injection kicker magnet

Agnieszka Chmielinska

The injection kicker system for the Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) must satisfy demanding requirements. To achieve low pulse ripple and fast field rise and fall times, the injection system will use ferrite loaded transmission line type magnets. The beam ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

A review of commercial high temperature superconducting materials for large magnets: from wires and tapes to cables and conductors

Davide Uglietti

High temperature superconducting (HTS) materials have the potential to generate a magnetic field beyond the level obtainable with low temperature superconducting (LTS) materials. This review reports on past and present R&D on HTS cables and conductors for ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

The 16 T Dipole Development Program for FCC and HE-LHC

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Peng Gao, Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf, Bernhard Auchmann, Mariusz Juchno

A future circular collider (FCC) with a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV and a circumference of around 100 km, or an energy upgrade of the LHC (HE-LHC) to 27 TeV require bending magnets providing 16 Tin a SO-mm aperture. Several development programs for th ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

AMS-100: The next generation magnetic spectrometer in space - An international science platform for physics and astrophysics at Lagrange point 2

Davide Uglietti, Thomas Günther Bretz

The next generation magnetic spectrometer in space, AMS-100, is designed to have a geometrical acceptance of 100 m(2) sr and to be operated for at least ten years at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2. Compared to existing experiments, it will improve the sens ...

2019

Metrological Characterization of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Markers for Real-Time Field Control of the CERN ELENA Ring Dipoles

Anthony Jean Beaumont

Field markers in particle accelerators are used to provide a digital trigger when the magnetic field reaches a preset threshold. This paper describes the results of a test campaign performed on the extra low energy antiproton decelerator's main bending dip ...

2018

The ACHIP experimental chambers at the Paul Scherrer Institut

Rasmus Ischebeck, Eugenio Ferrari, Leonid Rivkin

The Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP) is an international collaboration, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with the goal of demonstrating that laser-driven accelerator can be integrated on a chip to fully build an accelerat ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018