On 23 April, the kick-off meeting of the project renewal for other 3 years for assessing Tl (1223) superconducting coating feasibility took place virtually on the CERN platform Indico.
The project foresees the collaboration, besides CERN, with the world's leading experts in radiofrequency measurements in magnetic field and in structural and transport characterization respectively at the University of Rome3 in the capital, and the Technische Universität Wien in Vienna.
Samples of this high critical temperature superconductor (Tc = 120 K) will be produced at the CNR-SPIN laboratories in Genoa, under the guidance of Alessandro Leveratto, by means of electrochemical and pulsed laser deposition. SPIN researchers will try to optimize the material in order to achieve the performances required by FCC, an environment at the limit given the high magnetic field (16 T), the high temperature (50 K) and the enormous amount of radiation, attempting to create a prototype of the screen for the end of the project.
