Ongoing Projects
Showcase of ongoing accelerator projects and facilities
Major accelerator projects currently under development, construction, or commissioning around the world are highlighted below. IPAC’27 is honored to provide a forum for effective and productive discussion that supports these projects and strengthens the accelerator community.
The project information below represents a snapshot as of 2026.
Location / Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Type: Project Upgrade
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Upgrading the current ALS into a fourth-generation light source.
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Location / Institution: BNL
Type: New Project
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The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), being designed by BNL, JLab, and partners, will collide polarized high-energy electron beams with proton and ion beams at center-of-mass energies of 20–140 GeV. It will provide detailed insight into the quark and gluon structure of nucleons and nuclei, the strong nuclear force, and the origin of spin.
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Location / Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Type: New Project
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This project proposes adding a beamline off the AGS using slow-extracted proton and heavy-ion beams delivered to an end station designed for radiation effects testing.
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Location / Institution: Huizhou, Guangdong, China
Type: New Project
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CiADS is proposed as the world’s first megawatt-scale accelerator-driven transmutation research facility to achieve high-power coupled operation. Construction started in 2021 with a six-year construction period.
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Project name: Isotope Pharmaceutical Production Platform based on Superconducting Accelerator Facility for Effective Therapy (IP-SAFE)
Location / Institution: Lanzhou New Area, Gansu Province
Type: New Project
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The project aims to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies for the mass production of alpha-emitting isotopes, such as radium-223 and actinium-225, for tumor therapy, together with integration and demonstration of core devices.
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Location / Institution: RIKEN Nishina Center, Saitama, Japan
Type: Project Upgrade
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This project aims to increase the intensity of radioactive isotope beams by a factor of 20 compared with the current capability of the RIKEN RI Beam Factory (RIBF).
Reference: https://www.nishina.riken.jp/researcher/RIBFupgrade/RIBF_Upgrade_NCAC.pdf
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Location / Institution: Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
Type: Project Upgrade
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ALBA II is the major upgrade of the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, transforming it from a third-generation to a fourth-generation synchrotron. The project includes a new low-emittance storage ring, upgrades to beamlines, and new advanced experimental stations to strengthen research in materials science, life sciences, energy, nanotechnology, and industrial applications.
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Location / Institution: Trieste, Italy
Type: Project Upgrade
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Elettra 2.0 will replace the existing third-generation Elettra light source with a 2.4 GeV, low-emittance storage ring. The upgrade will expand and modernize beamline capabilities, especially in tender and hard X-rays, enabling major advances in X-ray spectroscopy, diffraction, coherent imaging, time-resolved experiments, nanotechnology, materials science, quantum materials, pharmaceuticals, and health sciences.
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