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CLIC readiness report Open

E. Adli, G. D’Auria, Nuria Catalán Lasheras, S. Doebert, Michael Draper , et al. · 2025

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a TeV-scale high-luminosity linear e + e − collider studied by the international CLIC and CLICdp collaborations hosted by CERN. CLIC uses a two-beam acceleration scheme, in which normal-conducting high…

Distributed fibre optic sensing and novel data processing method for tunnel circumferential deformation – A case study of an ageing tunnel at CERN Open

Zhipeng Xiao, Vanessa Di Murro, John A. Osborne, Hong‐Hu Zhu, Zili Li · 2024

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is one of the largest nuclear research centres in the world, operating the most powerful particle accelerator housed in a massive 80 km-long underground tunnel network. Over the decades…

An Energy Recovery Linac for the LHC Open

S. Alex Bogacz, B. J. Holzer, John A. Osborne · 2023

The LHeC provides an intense, high energy electron beam to collide with the LHC as the sole opportunity for a next energy frontier electron-hadron collider. It represents the highest energy application of energy recovery linac (ERL) techno…

Automated pixel-level crack monitoring system for large-scale underground infrastructure – A case study at CERN Open

Aohui Ouyang, Vanessa Di Murro, Martin Cull, Roddy Cunningham, John A. Osborne , et al. · 2023

Seasonal climate forecasting for sugar cane: an economic investigation of harvest management Open

John A. Osborne · 2023

Climatic variability represents a major cost to agriculture. Farmers worldwide are forced to make many management decisions on the basis of uncertain future climate. This 'moving target' of climate leads to losses as management decisions m…

Automated Pixel-Level Crack Monitoring System for Large-Scale Underground Infrastructure - a Case Study at Cern Open

Aohui Ouyang, Vanessa Di Murro, Martin Cull, Roddy Cunningham, John A. Osborne , et al. · 2023

An Energy Recovery Linac for the LHeC Open

S. Alex Bogacz, B. J. Holzer, John A. Osborne · 2022

The LHeC provides an intense, high energy electron beam to collide with the LHC. It represents the highest energy application of energy recovery linac (ERL) technology which is increasingly recognized as one of the major pilot technologies…

The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, experiments, and physics potential Open

Luis A. Anchordoqui, A. Ariga, T. Ariga, Weidong Bai, Kincso Balazs , et al. · 2022

Proposal for the ILC Preparatory Laboratory (Pre-lab) Open

T. Nakada, Peter McIntosh, Yasuchika Yamamoto, P. Merkel, Nuria Catalán-Lasheras , et al. · 2021

During the preparatory phase of the International Linear Collider (ILC) project, all technical development and engineering design needed for the start of ILC construction must be completed, in parallel with intergovernmental discussion of …

A primary electron beam facility at CERN -- eSPS Conceptual design report Open

Markus Aicheler, John A. Osborne, S. Schadegg, A. Navascues Cornago, R. Corsini , et al. · 2020

The design of a primary electron beam facility at CERN is described. The study has been carried out within the framework of the wider Physics Beyond Colliders study. It re-enables the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) as an electron accelerat…

Conceptual Design Report -- eSPS Open

Markus Aicheler, T. P. A. Åkesson, Fanouria Antoniou, A. Arnalich, P. A. Arrutia Sota , et al. · 2020

The design of a primary electron beam facility at CERN is described. It re-enables the SPS as an electron accelerator, and leverages the development invested in CLIC technology for its injector and as accelerator R&D infrastructure. The fa…

Technical Proposal: FASERnu Open

H. Abreu, S. González-Sevilla, L. J. Levinson, D. E. Fellers, D. Casper , et al. · 2020

FASERnu is a proposed small and inexpensive emulsion detector designed to detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their properties. FASERnu will be located directly in front of FASER, 480 m from the ATLAS interaction point a…

Correction to: Analysis of cardiac monitoring and safety data in patients initiating fingolimod treatment in the home or in clinic Open

Brandon Brown, Jamie L. Weiss, Scott Kolodny, Xiangyi Meng, Ian M. Williams , et al. · 2019

Analysis of cardiac monitoring and safety data in patients initiating fingolimod treatment in the home or in clinic Open

Brandon Brown, Jamie L. Weiss, Scott Kolodny, Xiangyi Meng, Ian M. Williams , et al. · 2019

Biocompatible Sensors: Biocompatible Soft Fluidic Strain and Force Sensors for Wearable Devices (Adv. Funct. Mater. 7/2019) Open

Siyi Xu, Daniel M. Vogt, Wen‐Hao Hsu, John A. Osborne, Timothy M. Walsh , et al. · 2019

In article number 1807058, Robert J. Wood and co-workers describe a silicone-based strain and force sensor composed of a novel biocompatible conductive liquid (potassium iodide and glycerol solution). This solution is not only safe to the …

Future Circular Collider - European Strategy Update Documents Open

F. Zimmermann, Volker Mertens, F. Cerutti, Michael Benedikt, T. Otto , et al. · 2019

This report contains the description of a novel research infrastructure based on a high-energy hadron collider, which extends the current energy frontier by almost a factor 2 (27 TeV collision energy) and an integrated luminosity of at lea…

nuSTORM at CERN: Feasibility Study Open

C. Ahdida, John A. Osborne, R. B. Appleby, J. Bauche, Michael R. E. Lamont , et al. · 2019

The Neutrinos from Stored Muons, nuSTORM, facility has been designed to deliver a definitive neutrino-nucleus scattering programme using beams of $\bar{\nu}_e$ and $\bar{\nu}_\mu$ from the decay of muons confined within a storage ring. The…

Updated High-Energy LHC Design Open

Frank Zimmermann, José Luis Abelleira, A. Abramov, David Amorim, Sergey Antipov , et al. · 2019

We present updated design parameters for a future High-Energy LHC. A more realistic turnaround time has led to a revision of the target peak luminosity, as well as a choice of a larger IP beta function, and longer physics fills. Pushed par…

Biocompatible Soft Fluidic Strain and Force Sensors for Wearable Devices Open

Siyi Xu, Daniel M. Vogt, Wen‐Hao Hsu, John A. Osborne, Timothy M. Walsh , et al. · 2018

Fluidic soft sensors have been widely used in wearable devices for human motion capturing. However, thus far, the biocompatibility of the conductive liquid, the linearity of the sensing signal, and the hysteresis between the loading and re…

Patient Participation Program for Pulmonary Fibrosis: Assessing the Effects of Supplemental Oxygen Open

Jeff Swigris, Susan Baird, Tom Vierzba, Fred Wamboldt, Elisabeth Dowling Root , et al. · 2018

Dark Sector Physics with a Primary Electron Beam Facility at CERN Open

T. P. A. Åkesson, R. M. Jones, A. Whitbeck, Natalia Toro, Ruth Pöttgen , et al. · 2018

In this Expression of Interest, we propose a primary electron beam facility with the main motivations being (i) dark sector experiments, and (ii) to enable a suite of development projects in acceleration technology. We also present a detai…

Investigation and Estimation of the LHC Magnet Vibrations Induced by HL-LHC Civil Engineering Activities Open

Michael Guinchard, Morgane Cabon, C. Charrondière, Kevin Develle, P. Fessia , et al. · 2018

HL-LHC requires the excavation of large underground infrastructures in order to host new equipment. The tunnel shall be ready for installation for LS3 (2022) and therefore its construction shall take in place in parallel with the LHC explo…

AWAKE++: The AWAKE Acceleration Scheme for New Particle Physics Experiments at CERN Open

E. Gschwendtner, S. Doebert, E. Depero, Alexey Petrenko, J. Gall , et al. · 2018

The AWAKE experiment reached all planned milestones during Run 1 (2016-18), notably the demonstration of strong plasma wakes generated by proton beams and the acceleration of externally injected electrons to multi-GeV energy levels in the …

The SPS Beam Dump Facility Open

M. Lamont, G. Arduini, M. Battistin, Markus Brugger, M. Calviani , et al. · 2017

The proposed SPS beam dump facility (BDF) is a fixed-target facility foreseen to be situated at the North Area of the SPS. Beam dump in this context implies a target aimed at absorbing the majority of incident protons and containing most o…

Optimisation of the Design of the Future Circular Collider from a Civil Engineering Perspective Open

Joanna Stanyard, Yung Loo, Volker Mertens, John A. Osborne, Craig Sturzaker , et al. · 2017

This paper describes the role of civil engineering in the optimisation of the design of CERN's Future Circular Collider (FCC). The civil engineering team at CERN have employed a bespoke, interactive, geological tool to consider the suitabi…

Upgrading of Ageing CERN Underground Infrastructure to Fulfil the Space Requirements of New Facilities at CERN Open

Alejandro Martínez Sellés, Vanessa Di Murro, E. Gschwendtner, John A. Osborne, Brennan Goddard , et al. · 2017

Particle accelerator technology is constantly being developed, and new equipment and machines replace the former ones to keep pushing the energy and intensity frontiers. Therefore, in order to meet the space requirements of new equipment, …

Stochastic Resonance Effects on Apnea, Bradycardia, and Oxygenation: A Randomized Controlled Trial Open

Vincent C. Smith, Damian G. Kelty‐Stephen, Mona Qureshi Ahmad, Wenyang Mao, Kelly Cakert , et al. · 2015

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of stochastic resonance (SR) stimulation on preterm infant oxygen desaturation, bradycardia, and apnea events. We hypothesized that SR stimulation will reduce these events. METHODS: This was a randomized c…

Civil Engineering for the SHiP facility Open

John A. Osborne, Martin Manfredi · 2015

The enlarged scope of the recently proposed experiment to search for Heavy Neutral Leptons, SPSC-EOI-010, is a general purpose fixed target facility which in the initial phase is aimed at a general Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) as wel…

Constraints on the FCC-ee Lattice from the Compatibility with the FCC Hadron Collider Open

B. Haerer, John A. Osborne, M. Syphers, U. Wienands, Frank Zimmermann , et al. · 2015

Following the recommendations of the European Strategy Group for High Energy Physics, CERN started the Future Circular Collider Study (FCC), a design study for possible future circular collider projects to investigate their feasibility for…

Civil Engineering Optimisation Tool for the Study of CERN's Future Circular Colliders Open

Charlie Cook, Brennan Goddard, Philippe Lebrun, John A. Osborne, Youri Robert · 2015

The feasibility of Future Circular Colliders (FCC), possible successors to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is currently under investigation at CERN. This paper describes how CERN’s civil engineering team are utilising an interactive tool …

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