New BMBF project to superconducting cavities

(July 2021 – June 2024)

Within the Framework Program for Universe and Matter Research (ErUM) of the BMBF, the TU Darmstadt is part of the research network TOSCA (Technology Of high-gradient SuperConducting future Accelerators), which is coordinated by the University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillert). The subproject of the TU Darmstadt is called ANGELOTTI (Accelerators: the Next GEeneration – materiaLs, cOmponents, sysTems and simulaTIons) and is led by Lambert Alff. On the part of the TU Darmstadt, further participants are Michaela Arnold, Norbert Pietralla (both Institute for Nuclear Physics) and Herbert De Gersem (etit). The research subject of the Advanced Thin Film Technology group is energy-efficient copper-based cavities coated with the superconducting material Nb₃Sn (see picture on the right) for superconducting accelerators. The picture on the left shows the original poster by Adolfo Hohenstein for the premiere of the name-inspiring opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.