Italy

Institutes

  • CNR-SPIN, Genoa 
    • Memorandum of Understanding signed on 13 November 2015
    • Addendum signed on 20 April 2016
      • The scope of this collaboration is to produce an adequate methodology for precursor preparation and for producing optimised TI-1223 films on silver substrate with the required properties. Material and transport property characterisation necessary for the optimisation of the films and substrates will be carried out in close collaboration with Technical University Vienna (Austria).
    • Addendum signed on 10 August 2017
      • The scope of this collaboration is to advance the performance of three superconducting materials (Bi-2212, MgB2, IBS), using industrially scalable production methods, to make them suitable for high-field magnet applications. Regarding MgB2, the objective is to increase the operating field by adopting an original doping method. For Bi-2212, the aim is to reproduce the performance today obtained by high pressure heat treatment with a mechanical deformation process. Finally, the goal is to develop prototype IBS conductors that meet the critical current density requirements through reliable, simpler and scalable techniques that would permit industrialisation.
      • Extension signed on 18 October 2019
  • CSIL, Milan
    • Memorandum of Understanding signed on 13 March 2017
    • Addendum signed on 20 June 2017
      • This project serves to evaluate the impact of CERN procurement actions on suppliers involved in the LHC programme in view of assessing the impact of the HL-LHC and FCC. The work aims at gaining more detailed insights on the mechanisms of generating additional knowledge and technological spillovers in the companies that have been involved in the LHC programme. As a result, the study also collects estimates on additional turnover or internal margin increase realised due to the experience acquired by working at CERN. These data will be used to adjust previously existing estimates of the economic utility for CERN suppliers. The updated ratio will be used in UNIMI's CBA model to estimate the possible future benefits of HL-LHC and FCC.
  • INFN, Frascati (Roma)
    • Memorandum of Understanding signed on 05 November 2014
    • Addendum signed on 22 January 2015
      • The scope of this collaboration is to coordinate the studies made on the FCC-ee Machine Detector interface. In parallel, the institute will contribute to the design and evaluate the performance of a crab waist IR optics for FCC-ee. Ultimately, it will study the interfaces between the FCC-hh accelerator and the FCC-hh detectors and study the vacuum stability at cryogenic temperatures.
    • Collaboration Agreement signed on 22 October 2015
    • Addendum signed on 25 October 2018
      • The scope of this collaboration is to develop the engineering design of a single aperture 16 T cos theta demonstrator for the FCC, to manufacture the single aperture 16 T cos theta demonstrator magnet, to assemble and deliver the complete short model (cold mass) construction to CERN for cold testing and to participate in the cold tests at CERN, performing relevant analysis from magnetic measurements to be compiled in a test report with support of CERN.
    • Addendum signed on 24 September 2020
      • The scope of this collaboration is to coordinate the studies on the FCC-ee Machine Detector interface and develop a 3D strawman design of the FCC-ee interaction region featuring magnetic systems, luminometer, vertex detectors, HOM absorbers, support structures, vacuum system, cryostats, beam diagnosis, etc.
    • Addendum signed on 30 November 2020
      • The scope of this collaboration is to ensure that the interaction region design meets the collider performance goals and to develop a coherent accelerator-detector interface with the DESY and CERN collider design by developing a 3D model of the interaction region, including final quadrupole and solenoid magnets, support structures, cooling schemes and vacuum system. In parallel, the institute will be developing a heat load budget and determining cooling requirements as well as effective design measures to control the background and to protect the machine. It will also refine the concepts for the luminosity measurement, design the collimation system, develop a collider aperture model and develop an accelerator-detector protection concept. Ultimately, INFN will review the SuperKEKB lP feedback on architecture, performance, merits and limitations and perform experimental beam studies, exploring the sensitivity of the beam-beam performance to lP optics aberrations, planned at DAONE (INFN) with the crab-waist collision scheme.
    • Addendum signed on 07 January 2021
      • The scope of this collaboration is to coordinate the FCC-ee design studies for the damping ring, the transfer lines to and from the the damping ring, the energy pre-compression and pre-injection into the damping ring and the bunch compression scheme before reinjection in the High Energy LINAC.
  • Sapienza, Rome
    • Memorandum of Understanding signed on 08 September 2014
    • Addendum signed on 16 March 2015
      • The scope of this collaboration is to establish an intermediate report on the estimate of arc vacuum system impedance for the FCC-ee and a report summarising impedance measurements of specific components. In parallel, this project comprises of an overall machine impedance model for the FCC-ee as well as a contribution to the "impedance & collective effects" chapter in the conceptual design report.
    • Addendum signed on 24 October 2019
      • The scope of this collaboration is to establish a report on machine impedance estimates for the FCC-ee top-up booster and the related instability thresholds as well as a report summarising impedance measurements of specific components. In parallel, this project comprises of a refined updated machine impedance model for the FCC-ee, a contribution to impedance & collective effects assessment in European Design Study LyFi and an estimate of the machine's impedance for the FCC-ee positron damping ring and its related instability thresholds.
  • UNIGENOA, Genoa
  • UNIMI, Milan
    • Memorandum of Understanding signed on 10 November 2015
    • Addendum signed on 27 April 2016
      • This research project will build on the results of a previous study made between 2013 and 2015 titled "Cost/Benefit Analysis in the Research, Development and Innovation Sector" and supported by a grant of the EIB Institute in the frame of its University Research Sponsorship Programme (EIBURS). The objectives of this research project are calibrating the Cost Bases Analysis (CBA) model to a post-LHC technological and scientific scenario at CERN, with the purpose of forecasting their socio-economic impact and carrying out a comparative analysis based on the current LHC operation aimed at showing the sensitivity of the forecast to changes in the main options and assumptions.
    • Addendum signed on 18 December 2018
      • This study will look to use near field speckles as an alternative to traditional interferometry using slits, providing a simpler and more robust measurement. As part of this collaboration, UNIMI will provide the design input to the study of transverse beam profile measurement using the X-ray Heterodyne Near Field Speckles (HNFS) technique as well as performing the analysis of the acquired data.
  • UNIROMA3, Roma

 

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