edited by L Cifarelli (University of Salerno, Italy) & L Maritato (University of Salerno, Italy)

The ELOISATRON (ELN) Project aims at a future proton supercollider with 100–500 TeV energy per beam and 10³⁴–10³⁶ cm^–2s^–1 luminosity. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being implemented at CERN, it is very timely to study the feasibility of the next generation of hadron colliders at the extreme limits of energy and luminosity. In this respect, the achievement of extremely high magnetic fields and the production of accelerating rf cavities with very low losses are a crucial point in the actual construction design of such a collider. The search for superconducting materials with suitable properties to be used in this field has gained a new impulse after the discovery of the so-called high temperature superconducting compounds (HTSCs) with superconducting critical temperatures higher than 100 K. Besides the critical temperatures, the transport performances of this class of compounds are still very far from allowing applications in extremely high energy colliders. On the other hand, in the last few years, the technological and scientific improvements obtained for both the HTSCs and the conventional superconducting materials are very promising.

This book reviews the recent status of R&D on the rising generation of superconducting materials for accelerator magnets and cavities, and discusses novel aspects and ideas in this domain.

• The Large Hadron Collider: A Megascience Project (P Lebrun)
• Rf Residual Losses, High Electric and Magnetic rf Fields in Superconducting Cavities (J Halbritter)
• Superconducting Cavities for Frontier Colliders (H Padamsee)
• Microwave Measurements of Superconductors Useful for Particle Accelerators (A Cassinese)
• Studies on Bi-2212 and Yb-123 Tapes Fabricated by PIT Technique (K Salama et al.)
• BSCCO-2233 Multilayered Conductors (L Martini)
• and other papers