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Thin Film (High Temperature) Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities for the Search of Axion Dark Matter
5 pages, 6 figures. v2: minor updates after referee comments, matches
published version in IEEEThe axion is a hypothetical particle which is a candidate for cold dark
matter. Haloscope experiments directly search for these particles in strong
magnetic fields with RF cavities as detectors. The Relic Axion Detector
Exploratory Setup (RADES) at CERN in particular is searching for axion dark
matter in a mass range above 30 eV. The figure of merit of our detector
depends linearly on the quality factor of the cavity and therefore we are
researching the possibility of coating our cavities with different
superconducting materials to increase the quality factor. Since the experiment
operates in strong magnetic fields of 11 T and more, superconductors with high
critical magnetic fields are necessary. Suitable materials for this application
are for example REBaCuO, NbSn or NbN. We designed a
microwave cavity which resonates at around 9~GHz, with a geometry optimized to
facilitate superconducting coating and designed to fit in the bore of available
high-field accelerator magnets at CERN. Several prototypes of this cavity were
coated with different superconducting materials, employing different coating
techniques. These prototypes were characterized in strong magnetic fields at
4.2 K.This project has received funding from the European Unionâs Horizon 2020
Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 730871
(ARIES-TNA). BD and JG acknowledge funding through the European
Research Council under grant ERC-2018-StG-802836 (AxScale). We also
acknowledge funding via the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI)
and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) under project PID2019-
108122GB-C33, and the grant FPI BES-2017-079787 (under project FPA2016-76978-C3-2-P). Furthermore we acknowledge support from SuMaTe
RTI2018-095853-B-C21 from MICINN co-financed by the European Regional
Development Fund, Center of Excellence award Severo Ochoa CEX2019-
000917-S and CERN under Grant FCCGOV-CC-0208 (KE4947/ATS).With funding from the Spanish government through the âSevero Ochoa Centre of Excellenceâ accreditation (CEX2019-000917-S).Peer reviewe
Mise en place d'une expérience avec le grand public: entre recherche, vulgarisation et pédagogie
Methodological considerations on implementing a participative experimentWe present the implementation of an economic experiment conducted simultaneously in 11 French cities, with over 2700 participants, during four uninterrupted hours, during a popular-science event held in September 2015.âOur goal is both to provide a roadmap for a possible replication and to discuss how the discipline can be used in new fields (science popularization, popular education, public communication)
European Strategy for Particle Physics -- Accelerator R&D Roadmap
The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics emphasised the
importance of an intensified and well-coordinated programme of accelerator R&D,
supporting the design and delivery of future particle accelerators in a timely,
affordable and sustainable way. This report sets out a roadmap for European
accelerator R&D for the next five to ten years, covering five topical areas
identified in the Strategy update. The R&D objectives include: improvement of
the performance and cost-performance of magnet and radio-frequency acceleration
systems; investigations of the potential of laser / plasma acceleration and
energy-recovery linac techniques; and development of new concepts for muon
beams and muon colliders. The goal of the roadmap is to document the collective
view of the field on the next steps for the R&D programme, and to provide the
evidence base to support subsequent decisions on prioritisation, resourcing and
implementation.Comment: 270 pages, 58 figures. Editor: N. Mounet. LDG chair: D. Newbold.
Panel chairs: P. V\'edrine (HFM), S. Bousson (RF), R. Assmann (plasma), D.
Schulte (muon), M. Klein (ERL). Panel editors: B. Baudouy (HFM), L. Bottura
(HFM), S. Bousson (RF), G. Burt (RF), R. Assmann (plasma), E. Gschwendtner
(plasma), R. Ischebeck (plasma), C. Rogers (muon), D. Schulte (muon), M.
Klein (ERL
HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider â Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries
HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries
FCC-ee: The Lepton Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 2
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched, as an international collaboration hosted by CERN. This study covers a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee) and an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), which could, successively, be installed in the same 100 km tunnel. The scientific capabilities of the integrated FCC programme would serve the worldwide community throughout the 21st century. The FCC study also investigates an LHC energy upgrade, using FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the second volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee. After summarizing the physics discovery opportunities, it presents the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan. FCC-ee can be built with todayâs technology. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh. Combining concepts from past and present lepton colliders and adding a few novel elements, the FCC-ee design promises outstandingly high luminosity. This will make the FCC-ee a unique precision instrument to study the heaviest known particles (Z, W and H bosons and the top quark), offering great direct and indirect sensitivity to new physics
FCC-hh: The Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 3
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries
HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider
In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries
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