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With the ambition to maintain competitiveness of European accelerator-based research infrastructures and to enable Europe’s Green Deal, it has been proposed to Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems (iSAS) [1]. iSAS aims to broaden, expedite and amplify the development and impact of novel energy-saving technologies to accelerate particles with enhanced collaborations. Presently, the iSAS consortium includes 17 partners from research institutions, universities and industry. For many frontier accelerators, superconducting RF (SRF) systems are the enabling technology. Facilitated by the extensive developments in preparing the European accelerator R&D roadmap, the synergies between the ERL and RF panels were exploited to innovate technologies which are common to SRF accelerating systems and have the largest leverage for energy savings in all phases of machine operation. Directly connected to the SRF accelerating system itself, three key technology areas requiring high power, can provide significant energy-savings: RF power, cryogenics and beam energy recovery. The objective of iSAS is to develop, prototype and validate new impactful energy-saving technologies so that SRF accelerators can provide the same, or improved, performance while using significantly less energy. Leveraging, and complementary to, current technological advances, the most promising and impactful technologies will be developed to increase their Technology Readiness Level and ease their integration into the largest existing European research infrastructures and/or in the design of future accelerator-driven research infrastructures by industry. iSAS considers three integration activities to introduce energy-saving technologies into research facilities: integration into the design of a new sustainable LINAC cryomodule, into existing cryomodules and into industrial solutions. While SRF systems with energy-recovery capability are an enabling technology for high-intensity beams with modern accelerators, the iSAS proposal emerges as a pathfinder for Europe to deliver the related energy-saving technologies more widely, including compact accelerators for a variety of applications. Importantly, the objective of iSAS is not only to raise the technology readiness to achieve impactful energy savings, but also to train experts and newcomers in the field.
[1] The iSAS proposal, https://indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/9521/
| Collaboration / Activity | The iSAS Coordination Panel |
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