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Signature of the collaboration agreement between CEA-IRFU and CERN for the High Field Magnets project

Signature of the collaboration agreement between CEA-IRFU and CERN for the High Field Magnets project

The recent update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics recommended a feasibility study for the future generation of collider. In this context, the Laboratory Directors Group, of which IRFU is a member, has been mandated by the CERN Council to oversee the development of an accelerator R&D roadmap. One of the objectives of this roadmap is the development of technologies for the manufacture of high-field superconducting magnets, essential for future colliders: this is the HFM (High Field Magnets) project.

François Jacq (CEA – Director General), Fabiola Gianotti (CERN – Director General) at the signing of the collaboration agreement. (credit: Cavazza Marina / CERN)

In this context, IRFU has proposed to develop high magnetic field magnets using the Nb3Sn superconductor. This collaborative project with CERN will last 5 years, and aims to develop and validate the various technological stages up to the manufacture and testing of a model magnet generating up to 16T, and representative of an accelerator magnet. The collaboration agreement was signed at a ceremony at CERN on 23 March 2023, by CERN Director General Fabiola Gianotti and CEA Administrator General François Jacq.

From left to right: Raphaël Bello (CERN – Directeur des Finances et des Ressources Humaines), Andrzej Siemko (CERN – responsable projet HFM), Mike Lamont (CERN – directeur des accélérateurs et de la technologie), Pierre Vedrine (CEA – directeur du DACM), François Jacq (CEA – Administrateur Général), Fabiola Gianotti (CERN – Directrice Générale), Jose Miguel Jimenez (CERN – directeur du département TE), Franck Sabatié (CEA – directeur de l’IRFU), Leo Laporte (CERN – Conseiller politique), Joachim Mnich (CERN – Directeur de la Recherche et des Calculs), Etienne Rochepault (CEA – coordinateur technique de la collaboration), Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN – directrice des relations internationales”. (crédit : Cavazza Marina / Cern)

Contact: Etienne Rochepault