AMICI Project

Status of a European Standard for the protection of helium cryostats against excessive pressure

PhD and internship opportunities for students in physics

Construction of particle accelerators and superconducting magnets for research: a domain of European excellence. PhD and internship opportunities for students in physics.

CEA delivers essential accelerator component to ESS

A key accelerator component has been delivered to ESS as part of France's in-kind contribution. The Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) is the first accelerating structure in ESS's linear accelerator and has been designed, developed and manufactured by BrightnESS² partner CEA at its research institute IRFU. Read more.

The AMICI working group on innovation is conducting an industry survey

This survey is open to companies in the accelerator and magnet field. Your participation will be highly valuable:
◦ Your answers will help us analyse good practices and barriers to effective engagement of the European Technological Facilities in collaborating with industry for the development of commercial products and services that may benefit the society at large.
◦ Your input will be used to define a new sustainable collaboration model and may serve as a basis for collaborative programmes to be supported by the European Commission.
◦ You will receive a report detailing the outcomes of the survey.

How to participate

First users at European XFEL

The world largest superconducting linac was built at different sites across 9 countries throughout Europe and beyond. This dispersed manufacturing network included many AMICI partners’ large-scale accelerator Technological Facilities (TF), as detailed.

• TF @ CNRS for the RF power coupler production
  
  

  

  Coupler preparation and RF conditioning process in the 70 m2 ISO5 clean room
• TF @ CEA for the cavity string and module assembly, and the production of re-entrant cavity Beam Position Monitors (BPM)
  

  Cavity string assembly in the ISO4 cleanroom

  

  Alignment in the module assembly halls

  

  Integration of BPM into CryHolab

  For further details on the technical steps which were performed at CEA - Saclay, please see the video.
• TF @ DESY for, in particular, tests of accelerator modules, superconducting magnets and cavities in the dedicated Accelerator Module Test Facility (AMTF)
  

  Module tests in the Cryo Module Test Bench

  

  Tests of small superconducting quadrupole magnets in the XMTS cryostat

  

  Installation of the insert into the vertical cryostat for cavity characterization

• TF @ INFN, Milano for, in particular, the qualification of twenty 3.9 GHz cavities of the two Third Harmonic Modules, following their production by Ettore Zanon S.p.A. under INFN supervision
  

  Upgraded insert capable of testing two 3.9 GHz cavities during a single cooling down in the vertical test facility.

• TF @ PSI for the production of Beam Position Monitor (BPM) electronics
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    Area in SwissFEL test injector facility (SITF) at PSI used for beam tests of DESY BPM pickups with PSI BPM electronics for the common BPM in-kind contribution to the European XFEL.

    

    
    19’’ rack at PSI at SITF used for calibration and test of BPM electronics for the European XFEL in-kind contribution.

• Summary of the in-kind Contributions to the European XFEL Cold Linac.

  

INAUGURATION OF A NEW WORKING GROUP IN THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION (CEN)

The inauguration of a new working group in the European Committee for standardization (cen) took place at the DIN secretariat in BERLIN on July 25, 2017. Within the technical committee CEN/TC 268, the new working group CEN/TC 268/WG 6 is focused on Specific helium technology applications. The working group held the kick-off meeting for working out a European Standard on Helium cryostats – protection against excessive pressure. This activity is linked to the AMICI work package 5.3: Harmonisation – Cryogenic safety procedures. The meeting was attended by 15 experts from 5 countries. The next meeting is scheduled for October 19, 2017.