Michael Koratzinos (PSI/CERN)

The world’s first high-temperature superconducting canted-cosine-theta sextupole comes to life

The demonstrator has been wound, cooled and powered-up, running beyond the current and temperature it was designed for

Previous Issues
12 June, 2026

Another piece of hardware sees the light of day at FCC

The HTS4 project wishes to demonstrate that the performance of HTS systems against normal conducting magnets

Issue 47
25 April, 2024

HTS4 project explores superconducting options for the FCC-ee

A new FCC-ee collaboration is another attempt to minimise energy consumption by replacing normal conducting sectors with high-temperature-superconducting ones, all within the same cost envelope.

Issue 44
05 July, 2023

FCC rolls out a quadrupole prototype with canted cosine theta design

Elegant yet complex, a prototype final focus quadrupole has been manufactured and has successfully passed its first tests.

Issue 38
01 December, 2021