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A new section has been created in the Swedish Physical Society with high relevance also for Particle Physics, the section for Accelerator Physics. We will present the section with the aim of discussing and igniting future collaboration.
In Sweden we have a long tradition of research developing and operating accelerators. 100 years ago Gustav Ising put forward the ideas that later became the first linear accelerator. More than 80 years ago Olle Wernholm and Hannes Alfvén at Atomforskningsinstitutet in Stockholm worked 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. This was followed with the Celsius ring in Uppsala, Cryring in Stockholm and Lucy in Lund. Mikael Eriksson started a new era with the three MAX accelerators (I, II and III) . In parallel Swedish research groups have been and are involved in numerous international projects depending on and using accelerators, from FAIR (with Cryring) and CERN to Myrrha, Dones and EuXFEL.
While the history involves many projects, current times have brought another boom for accelerators in Sweden. Key national facilities include Desiree in Stockholm, MAX IV and the international ESS in Lund. Laser particle acceleration is developed in Umeå, Gothenburg and Lund and we have the FREIA laboratory in Uppsala. Many large hospitals operate electron-beam accelerators and Skandionkliniken in Uppsala houses a proton accelerator. In parallel the industry has developed with companies such as Scandinova and Scanditronix a.o. In Europe FAIR is coming close to completion and the discussions about the FCC, or the LC, at CERN are intense.
There is now a critical mass in Sweden to gather for future development and exploration of Accelerator physics.
