Issue 50


March 2025

Welcome to the spring edition of Accelerating News!

In this issue we take a look at why the UK's new AI action plan could drive progress in accelerator science, with the Liverpool region a particularly promising hot spot. We also dive into the latest progress on the 95m-long High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Inner Triplet String, a test stand that represents a key intermediate milestone of the HL-LHC project. 

Elsewhere, we look into an innovative radio frequency system for CERN's proposed Future Circular Collider, collective efforts to increase intensity in colliders, and why the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is an important document for the accelerator community. 

On the events calendar:

  • 4 April: Symposium to celebrate Ugo Amaldi's 90th birthday
  • 30 April - 13 May: The CERN Latin-American school of high-energy physics
  • 1 - 6 June: The 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference
  • 7 - 11 September: The 14th International Beam Instrumentation Conference

FCC: Revisiting 2009 technology to overcome radio frequency system challenges

Reverse phase RF operation, first tested in Japan over 15 years ago but never implemented, could hold the key to solving the Future Circular Collider’s tricky RF system requirements

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17 March, 2025

What is HiLumi’s 95m-long IT String and why is it vital for CERN’s LHC upgrade?

The IT String provides a unique opportunity to test the combined performance of critical components of the high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider

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17 March, 2025

Towards brighter and more intense hadron beams, understanding challenges and limitations

From increasing luminosity in colliders to building more powerful spallation sources, collective effects in hadron beams are a major challenge for present accelerator-based projects

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17 March, 2025

Celebrating 30 Years of the Joint Universities Accelerator School

JUAS has played a key role over several decades in shaping the careers of many scientists in top laboratories, industry, and academia

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17 March, 2025

Why the UK’s new AI action plan could drive progress in accelerator science

AI can play a role in optimising accelerator designs and improving medical imaging, says a leading accelerator scientist who backs Liverpool to become a new ‘AI Growth Zone’

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17 March, 2025

Why the European Strategy for Particle Physics update is important for the accelerator community

The 2026 update will give a recommendation for a possible future particle accelerator at CERN as well as suggestions for future particle physics research areas, industry links and support for early-career scientists

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17 March, 2025

Coming events

Friday
4 Apr/25
14:00 - 19:30
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Wednesday
30 Apr/25
09:00 - 18:00
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Sunday
1 Jun/25
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Sunday
7 Sep/25
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2024-12-18T09:00:00
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2024-09-18T09:00:00
In this issue, we are happy to put the spotlights on the I.FAST project, which held its annual meeting at the month of April. In cooperation with two other Horizon 2020 projects, it gathered the academic world and industry to discuss big science
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