Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

Developments for particle accelerators

• A chemistry laboratory and clean room for Supratech
• Beta-beam neutrino factories
• Instrumentation for particle accelerators
• Ion source developments
• Particle accelerator instrumentation
• Particle beam dynamics
• R&D in superconducting radiofrequency applications

Electron-positron linear colliders and light sources

• Superconducting cavities for synchrotron radiation machines: Soleil and Super-3HC cryomodules
• The Compact Linear Collider
• The International Linear Collider
• The quadrupoles and dipoles of the Soleil synchrotron storage ring
• The SOPHI positron source
• The Tesla project and the TTF prototype accelerator
• The XFEL light source

High-intensity ion linear accelerators

• Accelerating structures for superconducting proton accelerators
• BETSI and ion source development
• IFMIF accelerator complex
• Radiofrequency quadrupoles
• Spiral 2
• Superconducting cavities for a proton Linac
• The IPHI high-intensity proton injector

Superconducting magnets

• Superconducting dipole for an isocentric gantry
• Superconducting magnet for the LNCMI
• Tests on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator coils
• The Iseult project for the Neurospin platform
• The R3B – GLAD superconductor dipole
• The superconducting solenoid for the CMS detector
• Toroidal magnet for the ATLAS detector

Cryogenic

• Cold connection shunt for the AGATA detector
• The MIRIM cryostat
• The PRESPEC liquid hydrogen target
• The SEHT test station
• Two-phase fluid circulation loop

New developments for magnet and accelerator instrumentation

• Developing ceramic insulation for superconducting cables
• Development of high field magnets for the SLHC
• Heat transfer through superfluid helium in a porous medium
• Niobium-tin quadrupole model
• The use of high critical temperature superconductors