Achievements so far, as EuCARD enters its final year
HiRadMat installation and comissioning is now complete. EuCARD Transnational Access is now taking place at this facility.
Image credit: HiRadMat, CERN
The EuCARD project has just finished a successful 2nd period of 18 months, achieving most of its objectives and technical goals, and has started its 4th and final project year with more than 130 scientific papers published.
From the networking work packages, NEu2012 initiated a range of actions all aimed at creating a common roadmap to be proposed as the European accelerator neutrino programme to the relevant decision-making bodies. AccNet organized 8 successful workshops on various topics, such as crystal collimation, electron clouds, crab cavities and beam optics control. Within AccNet, a new network has also been established to bring together scientists from the plasma wakefield acceleration community. The highlights of transnational work packages included the HiRadMat (High Irradiation to Materials) facility at CERN becoming operational and within the ICTF facility at STFC, there is an improved resolution of TOF counters, new measurement of muon beam contamination and tests of the Electron-Muon Ranger detector.
The FAIR cryo-catcher prototype seen from the back mounted in the cryostat It was tested with heavy ion beam of GSI’s SIS18.
Image credit: GSI
The achievements of Joint Research Activities included the design of a dipole insert magnet as well as novel metal-diamond composites being identified as promising materials for collimation efficiency. Mechanical stabilisation to below a nanometre has now been obtained at CLIC. Furthermore the prototype crab cavities for both LHC and CLIC have been built and the LHC cavity has been fully characterized. The EMMA FFAG and instrumentation line are also now operational. Achievements also include a successful demonstration of a new method, based on X-ray measurements, for measuring the transverse emittance in laser-plasma accelerators. The full progress report is now publicly available.
