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Ezio Todesco

Bio: Ezio Todesco is an academic researcher from CERN. The author has contributed to research in topics: Large Hadron Collider & Superconducting magnet. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 223 publications receiving 3463 citations.


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A. Abada1, Marcello Abbrescia2, Marcello Abbrescia3, Shehu S. AbdusSalam4  +1491 moreInstitutions (239)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the second volume of the Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee, and present the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan.
Abstract: In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched, as an international collaboration hosted by CERN. This study covers a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee) and an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), which could, successively, be installed in the same 100 km tunnel. The scientific capabilities of the integrated FCC programme would serve the worldwide community throughout the 21st century. The FCC study also investigates an LHC energy upgrade, using FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the second volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee. After summarizing the physics discovery opportunities, it presents the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan. FCC-ee can be built with today’s technology. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh. Combining concepts from past and present lepton colliders and adding a few novel elements, the FCC-ee design promises outstandingly high luminosity. This will make the FCC-ee a unique precision instrument to study the heaviest known particles (Z, W and H bosons and the top quark), offering great direct and indirect sensitivity to new physics.

526 citations

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A. Abada1, Marcello Abbrescia2, Marcello Abbrescia3, Shehu S. AbdusSalam4  +1496 moreInstitutions (238)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the detailed design and preparation of a construction project for a post-LHC circular energy frontier collider in collaboration with national institutes, laboratories and universities worldwide, and enhanced by a strong participation of industrial partners.
Abstract: Particle physics has arrived at an important moment of its history. The discovery of the Higgs boson, with a mass of 125 GeV, completes the matrix of particles and interactions that has constituted the “Standard Model” for several decades. This model is a consistent and predictive theory, which has so far proven successful at describing all phenomena accessible to collider experiments. However, several experimental facts do require the extension of the Standard Model and explanations are needed for observations such as the abundance of matter over antimatter, the striking evidence for dark matter and the non-zero neutrino masses. Theoretical issues such as the hierarchy problem, and, more in general, the dynamical origin of the Higgs mechanism, do likewise point to the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model. This report contains the description of a novel research infrastructure based on a highest-energy hadron collider with a centre-of-mass collision energy of 100 TeV and an integrated luminosity of at least a factor of 5 larger than the HL-LHC. It will extend the current energy frontier by almost an order of magnitude. The mass reach for direct discovery will reach several tens of TeV, and allow, for example, to produce new particles whose existence could be indirectly exposed by precision measurements during the earlier preceding e+e– collider phase. This collider will also precisely measure the Higgs self-coupling and thoroughly explore the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking at the TeV scale, to elucidate the nature of the electroweak phase transition. WIMPs as thermal dark matter candidates will be discovered, or ruled out. As a single project, this particle collider infrastructure will serve the world-wide physics community for about 25 years and, in combination with a lepton collider (see FCC conceptual design report volume 2), will provide a research tool until the end of the 21st century. Collision energies beyond 100 TeV can be considered when using high-temperature superconductors. The European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) update 2013 stated “To stay at the forefront of particle physics, Europe needs to be in a position to propose an ambitious post-LHC accelerator project at CERN by the time of the next Strategy update”. The FCC study has implemented the ESPP recommendation by developing a long-term vision for an “accelerator project in a global context”. This document describes the detailed design and preparation of a construction project for a post-LHC circular energy frontier collider “in collaboration with national institutes, laboratories and universities worldwide”, and enhanced by a strong participation of industrial partners. Now, a coordinated preparation effort can be based on a core of an ever-growing consortium of already more than 135 institutes worldwide. The technology for constructing a high-energy circular hadron collider can be brought to the technology readiness level required for constructing within the coming ten years through a focused R&D programme. The FCC-hh concept comprises in the baseline scenario a power-saving, low-temperature superconducting magnet system based on an evolution of the Nb3Sn technology pioneered at the HL-LHC, an energy-efficient cryogenic refrigeration infrastructure based on a neon-helium (Nelium) light gas mixture, a high-reliability and low loss cryogen distribution infrastructure based on Invar, high-power distributed beam transfer using superconducting elements and local magnet energy recovery and re-use technologies that are already gradually introduced at other CERN accelerators. On a longer timescale, high-temperature superconductors can be developed together with industrial partners to achieve an even more energy efficient particle collider or to reach even higher collision energies.The re-use of the LHC and its injector chain, which also serve for a concurrently running physics programme, is an essential lever to come to an overall sustainable research infrastructure at the energy frontier. Strategic R&D for FCC-hh aims at minimising construction cost and energy consumption, while maximising the socio-economic impact. It will mitigate technology-related risks and ensure that industry can benefit from an acceptable utility. Concerning the implementation, a preparatory phase of about eight years is both necessary and adequate to establish the project governance and organisation structures, to build the international machine and experiment consortia, to develop a territorial implantation plan in agreement with the host-states’ requirements, to optimise the disposal of land and underground volumes, and to prepare the civil engineering project. Such a large-scale, international fundamental research infrastructure, tightly involving industrial partners and providing training at all education levels, will be a strong motor of economic and societal development in all participating nations. The FCC study has implemented a set of actions towards a coherent vision for the world-wide high-energy and particle physics community, providing a collaborative framework for topically complementary and geographically well-balanced contributions. This conceptual design report lays the foundation for a subsequent infrastructure preparatory and technical design phase.

425 citations

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A. Abada1, Marcello Abbrescia2, Marcello Abbrescia3, Shehu S. AbdusSalam4  +1501 moreInstitutions (239)
TL;DR: In this article, the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider (FC) were reviewed, covering its e+e-, pp, ep and heavy ion programs, and the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of electroweak, Higgs and strong interactions.
Abstract: We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e+e-, pp, ep and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of electroweak, Higgs and strong interactions, the top quark and flavour, as well as phenomena beyond the Standard Model. We highlight the synergy and complementarity of the different colliders, which will contribute to a uniquely coherent and ambitious research programme, providing an unmatchable combination of precision and sensitivity to new physics.

407 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the last ten year of Nb3Sn accelerator magnet R&D and compared it to the needs of the upgrades and critically assessed the results of the Nb 3Sn and HTS technology and the planned R&DD programs also based on the inputs of first year of LHC operation.
Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider is working at about half its design value, limited by the defective splices of the magnet interconnections. While the full energy will be attained after the splice consolidation in 2014, CERN is preparing a plan for a Luminosity upgrade (High Luminosity LHC) around 2020 and has launched a pre-study for exploring an Energy upgrade (High Energy LHC) around 2030. Both upgrades strongly rely on advanced accelerator magnet technology, requiring dipoles and quadrupoles of accelerator quality and operating fields in the 11-13 T range for the luminosity upgrade and 16-20 T range for the energy upgrade. The paper will review the last ten year of Nb3Sn accelerator magnet R&D and compare it to the needs of the upgrades and will critically assess the results of the Nb3Sn and HTS technology and the planned R&D programs also based on the inputs of first year of LHC operation.

208 citations

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A. Abada1, Marcello Abbrescia2, Marcello Abbrescia3, Shehu S. AbdusSalam4  +1496 moreInstitutions (238)
TL;DR: The third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report as discussed by the authors is devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh, and summarizes the physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-HH accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation.
Abstract: In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries.

161 citations


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TL;DR: A review of the experimental situation on several fronts can be found in this paper, where the microwave cavity experiment is making excellent progress in the search for dark matter axions in the μ eV range and may plausibly be extended up to 100 μeV.
Abstract: Four decades after its prediction, the axion remains the most compelling solution to the strong-CP problem and a well-motivated dark matter candidate, inspiring a host of elegant and ultrasensitive experiments based on axion–photon mixing. This article reviews the experimental situation on several fronts. The microwave cavity experiment is making excellent progress in the search for dark matter axions in the μeV range and may plausibly be extended up to 100 μeV. Within the past several years, however, researchers have realized that axions are pervasive throughout string theories, but with masses that fall naturally in the neV range, for which an NMR-based search is under development. Both searches for axions emitted from the Sun's burning core and purely laboratory experiments based on photon regeneration have recently made great progress, with ambitious projects proposed for the coming decade. Each of these campaigns has pushed the state of the art in technology, enabling large gains in sensitivity and m...

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TL;DR: It is demonstrated that grain boundary limits to high Jc can be practically overcome and underlines the value of a renewed focus on grain boundary properties in non-ideal geometries.
Abstract: Cuprate superconductors have found limited application for high-field magnets because of difficulties related to grain boundaries. Now, this issue is partially overcome and round wires suitable for magnetic coils are fabricated from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8−x.

302 citations

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Yousef Abou El-Neaj1, Cristiano Alpigiani2, Sana Amairi-Pyka3, Henrique Araujo4, Antun Balaž5, Angelo Bassi6, Lars Bathe-Peters7, Baptiste Battelier8, Aleksandar Belić5, Elliot Bentine9, Jose Bernabeu10, Andrea Bertoldi8, Robert Bingham11, Robert Bingham12, Diego Blas13, Vasiliki Bolpasi14, Kai Bongs15, Sougato Bose16, Philippe Bouyer8, T. J. V. Bowcock17, William B. Bowden18, Oliver Buchmueller4, Clare Burrage19, Xavier Calmet20, Benjamin Canuel8, Laurentiu Ioan Caramete, Andrew Carroll17, Giancarlo Cella6, Vassilis Charmandaris14, S. Chattopadhyay21, S. Chattopadhyay22, Xuzong Chen23, Maria Luisa Chiofalo24, J. P. Coleman17, J. P. Cotter4, Y. Cui25, Andrei Derevianko26, Albert De Roeck27, Goran S. Djordjevic28, P. J. Dornan4, Michael Doser27, Ioannis Drougkakis14, Jacob Dunningham20, Ioana Dutan, Sajan Easo12, G. Elertas17, John Ellis27, John Ellis29, John Ellis13, Mai El Sawy30, Mai El Sawy31, Farida Fassi, D. Felea, Chen Hao Feng8, R. L. Flack16, Christopher J. Foot9, Ivette Fuentes19, Naceur Gaaloul32, A. Gauguet33, Remi Geiger34, Valerie Gibson35, Gian F. Giudice27, J. Goldwin15, O. A. Grachov36, Peter W. Graham37, Dario Grasso24, Maurits van der Grinten12, Mustafa Gündoğan3, Martin G. Haehnelt35, Tiffany Harte35, Aurélien Hees34, Richard Hobson18, Jason M. Hogan37, Bodil Holst38, Michael Holynski15, Mark A. Kasevich37, Bradley J. Kavanagh39, Wolf von Klitzing14, Tim Kovachy40, Benjamin Krikler41, Markus Krutzik3, Marek Lewicki42, Marek Lewicki13, Yu-Hung Lien16, Miaoyuan Liu23, Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano6, Alain Magnon43, Mohammed Mahmoud44, Sudhir Malik4, Christopher McCabe13, J. W. Mitchell21, Julia Pahl3, Debapriya Pal14, Saurabh Pandey14, Dimitris G. Papazoglou45, Mauro Paternostro46, Bjoern Penning47, Achim Peters3, Marco Prevedelli48, Vishnupriya Puthiya-Veettil49, J. J. Quenby4, Ernst M. Rasel32, Sean Ravenhall9, Jack Ringwood17, Albert Roura50, D. O. Sabulsky8, M. Sameed51, Ben Sauer4, Stefan A. Schäffer52, Stephan Schiller53, Vladimir Schkolnik3, Dennis Schlippert32, Christian Schubert32, Haifa Rejeb Sfar, Armin Shayeghi54, Ian Shipsey9, Carla Signorini24, Yeshpal Singh15, Marcelle Soares-Santos47, Fiodor Sorrentino6, T. J. Sumner4, Konstantinos Tassis14, S. Tentindo55, Guglielmo M. Tino56, Guglielmo M. Tino6, Jonathan N. Tinsley56, James Unwin57, Tristan Valenzuela12, Georgios Vasilakis14, Ville Vaskonen13, Ville Vaskonen29, Christian Vogt58, Alex Webber-Date17, André Wenzlawski59, Patrick Windpassinger59, Marian Woltmann58, Efe Yazgan60, Ming Sheng Zhan60, Xinhao Zou8, Jure Zupan61 
Harvard University1, University of Washington2, Humboldt University of Berlin3, Imperial College London4, University of Belgrade5, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare6, Technical University of Berlin7, University of Bordeaux8, University of Oxford9, University of Valencia10, University of Strathclyde11, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory12, King's College London13, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas14, University of Birmingham15, University College London16, University of Liverpool17, National Physical Laboratory18, University of Nottingham19, University of Sussex20, Northern Illinois University21, Fermilab22, Peking University23, University of Pisa24, University of California, Riverside25, University of Nevada, Reno26, CERN27, University of Niš28, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics29, Beni-Suef University30, British University in Egypt31, Leibniz University of Hanover32, Paul Sabatier University33, University of Paris34, University of Cambridge35, Wayne State University36, Stanford University37, University of Bergen38, University of Amsterdam39, Northwestern University40, University of Bristol41, University of Warsaw42, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign43, Fayoum University44, University of Crete45, Queen's University Belfast46, Brandeis University47, University of Bologna48, Cochin University of Science and Technology49, German Aerospace Center50, University of Manchester51, University of Copenhagen52, University of Düsseldorf53, University of Vienna54, Florida State University55, University of Florence56, University of Illinois at Chicago57, University of Bremen58, University of Mainz59, Chinese Academy of Sciences60, University of Cincinnati61
TL;DR: The Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration (AEDGE) as mentioned in this paper is a space experiment using cold atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, and to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range between the most sensitive ranges of LISA and the terrestrial LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA/INDIGO experiments.
Abstract: We propose in this White Paper a concept for a space experiment using cold atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, and to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range between the most sensitive ranges of LISA and the terrestrial LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA/INDIGO experiments. This interdisciplinary experiment, called Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration (AEDGE), will also complement other planned searches for dark matter, and exploit synergies with other gravitational wave detectors. We give examples of the extended range of sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter offered by AEDGE, and how its gravitational-wave measurements could explore the assembly of super-massive black holes, first-order phase transitions in the early universe and cosmic strings. AEDGE will be based upon technologies now being developed for terrestrial experiments using cold atoms, and will benefit from the space experience obtained with, e.g., LISA and cold atom experiments in microgravity.

259 citations

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TL;DR: Particle colliders for high energy physics have been in the forefront of scientific discoveries for more than half a century as discussed by the authors, while the accelerator technology of the collider has progressed immensely, while the beam energy, luminosity, facility size and the cost have grown by several orders of magnitude.
Abstract: Particle colliders for high energy physics have been in the forefront of scientific discoveries for more than half a century. The accelerator technology of the collider has progressed immensely, while the beam energy, luminosity, facility size and the cost have grown by several orders of magnitude. The method of colliding beams has not fully exhausted its potential but its pace of progress has greatly slowed down. In this paper we very briefly review the method and the history of colliders, discuss in detail the developments over the past two decades and the directions of the R and D toward near future colliders which are currently being explored. Finally, we make an attempt to look beyond the current horizon and outline the changes in the paradigm required for the next breakthroughs.

243 citations