For more than 50 years, a strong international accelerator community (i.e SRF community) has been working hard to improve capabilities and performances of superconducting accelerators. Today technical progresses and reliability improvements of superconducting technology have been such thanks to the intense R&D effort that several international accelerator projects chose this technology (LHC, XFEL, SNS, FRIB, SPIRAL2, ...) and are now in operation to serve high energy and nuclear physics communities. Since few years, the extremely high quality factors and very high accelerating gradients reached with superconducting cavities made these structures very attractive for new applications other than accelerators like dark matter, axions and gravitational waves detection, quantum computing, ...
This seminar will be divided into two parts. First an overview of the state of the art and new challenges for future accelerator faced by SRF community will be given. Finally, new applications of SRF technology, recent progresses and future capabilities will be unveiled.
