Sektionen för acceleratorfysik är en ny sektionen som är under uppstartande (vinter 2024).

Sweden has a long tradition of research developing and operating accelerators. The real start was with Olle Wernholm and Hannes Alfvén at Atomforskningsinstitutet in Stockholm in the 1940’ies with the development of a betatron followed by different microtrons. Research at Gustav Werner Institutet and later The Svedberg laboratoriet in Uppsala developed from the same period. We have seen the Celsius ring in Uppsala, Cryring in Stockholm, Lucy and the MAX I, II and III in Lund. In parallel Swedish research groups have been and are involved in numerous international projects, from FAIR (with Cryring) and CERN to Myrrha, Dones and EuXFEL.

While the history involves many projects, the current times is a boom for accelerators in Sweden. We now have Desiree in Stockholm, MAX IV in Lund and the international ESS also in Lund. We have laser particle accelerators in Umeå and Lund and we have the Freia laboratory in Uppsala. We have electron beam treatment accelerators in many of the large hospitals and we have the proton accelerator at Skandionkliniken in Uppsala. We have industry such as Scandinova and Scanditronix a.o.

There is now a critical mass to gather for future development and exploration of Accelerator physics.

En tillfällig styrelse bestående av Francesca Curbis (LU), Olle Lundh (LU), Else Lytken (LU), Vitality Goryashko (UU) och Sverker Werin (LU) arbetar i den initiala fasen. Val till en första permanent styrelse kommer att genomföras inom den närmaste tiden.

I väntan på en formell medlemsmatrikel, anmäl gärna ditt intresse för att bli medlem direkt till sverker.werin@maxiv.lu.se (kontaktperson för sektionen).

En valberedning bestående av Sara Thorin (MAX IV), Håkan Danared (ESS), Torsten Åkesson (LU) och Richard Brenner (UU) förbereder styrelsevalet.