Cold plate prototypes manufactured by CSEM during a previous project in collaboration with JJ Cooling

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing, including for scientific instruments. That is why the AIDAInnova project is looking into how the technology can be used to make ultra-thin cold plates for advanced tracking and vertex detectors. 

The work is being carried out as part of Work Package 10 of the project, with teams looking into cold plates made from both ceramics and metal alloys. 

The work on the alloy versions has

A panel discussion at the recent AIDAInnova annual meeting in Prague focused on the the mutual benefits of companies collaborating with researchers within the framework of large projects. From left to right: Thomas Brent, Ferdinando Giordano, Jaroslav Moravec, Ingrid Jonak-Auer, Paolo Petagna. 

Large European projects are key to helping research and industry better understand the other sector’s needs and work processes, collaborators of the AIDAInnova project have said during a panel discussion at a recent consortium meeting. 

Paolo Petagna, a CERN specialist in detector technologies and one

A wide array of developments aimed at advancing detector technologies for particle accelerators were showcased at the final annual meeting of the AIDAInnova project this month. 

The meeting, held in Prague at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences between 5 to 8 May, brought together representatives of many of the EU-funded project’s 46 beneficiaries, including several representing companies. 

With the project now in its final year, talks centered on demonstrating the results of the work carried out over the past four years. 

The project is structured to improve detector

Stefania-Alexandra Juks’ poster on eco-friendly gas alternatives for particle detectors won her a place at a one-week detector school in Italy

A PhD student working on eco-friendly gas alternatives for particle detectors has spoken of her surprise and delight at winning an AIDAInnova-supported poster challenge, which granted her a fully funded place at the Bonaudi-Chiavassa International School on Particle Detectors in June. 

The poster session was a part of the CERN Experimental Physics department’s annual EP R&D Day event in May to showcase technologies for future experiments. The