Issue 51


June 2025

Welcome to the summer edition of Accelerating News!

In this issue, we take a deep dive into FCC Week, the annual conference on CERN’s proposed 90.7-kilometre Future Circular Collider. The May event brought together over 600 experts to discuss the scientific and technical feasibility of building such a collider, which would be a successor to the current Large Hadron Collider. Separately, we look at a new augmented reality app launched during the conference that aims to help the public understand how particle physics research can lead to real-world innovations. 

Elsewhere, we cover a workshop that brought together communication experts from Europe’s accelerator facilities to discuss how a renewed global focus on scientific competitiveness could impact the accelerator community, and look at how the I.FAST project is shaping the technologies for the accelerators of the future.

On the events calendar:

  • 14 - 15 July: EuPRAXIA Camp II: Science
  • 14 - 24 July: International Cosmic Ray Conference
  • 7 - 9 September: International Beam Instrumentation Conference
  • 8 - 9 September: European Conference on Accelerators in Applied Research and Technology

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FCC Week: Key takeaways from conference on CERN's proposed future circular collider

The Vienna event covered a range of topics, from advancements in superconducting radiofrequency systems, to the FCC project’s growing international network and public engagement

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Accelerators and competitiveness are focus of EU project workshop for communication experts

A two-day event held at CERN centred on how best to showcase the contribution of accelerator facilities and technologies to European competitiveness

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Work underway at CERN test stand to adapt pre-injector accelerator technologies for medical and societal uses

A team from around Europe is working on projects linked to using compact particle accelerators for applications such as cancer therapy and art diagnostics

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Key technologies to shape the future of accelerators presented at I.FAST annual meeting

Discussions centred on notable developments in accelerator science, links to industry, and sustainability at the fourth annual meeting of the EU-funded consortium in Krakow

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New augmented reality app aims to bring particle physics to life

The “Code of the Universe” app blends science, art, and education to spark curiosity and prepare the next generation for the future of collider research

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High-Luminosity LHC: updates and progress across the international collaboration 

The latest annual newsletter outlining the most recent updates in the High-Luminosity LHC project is about to be published

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