At ALBA, AIDAinnova’s scientific coordinator gave his thoughts on how industry and academia can better work together.

In September, the project’s technology transfer policy was presented at the TIPP conference.

Work context

The DUNE experiment, hosted at the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) under construction in the USA, is going to address fundamental aspects of neutrino mixing and mass ordering and to search for CP violation in the neutrino sector. The neutrino group at IP2I has a long-standing research record and expertise in neutrino oscillations physics and in detector developments. Since 2006, the IP2I group has been carrying on an intensive R&D program on the readout of liquid argon TPC detectors, in preparation of the next generation of long baseline experiments. The group benefits of

By Rickard Stroem (DESY)

AIDAinnova selected four Blue Sky research projects for funding.

Significant technological advances within the field of particle detectors have often been made possible thanks to developments beyond the foreseen or intrinsic limits of existing technologies and often in synergy with other fields and industry. AIDAinnova’s dedicated work package on prospective and technology-driven detector R&D (WP13), coordinated by Professor Peter Krizan (University of Ljubljana and JSI), pays tribute to this fact in a call for so-called Blue Sky research projects as announced on

This article was originally published in the EP Newsletter.

By Susanne Kuehn (CERN)

In two previous newsletter editions (1, 2) the process to develop a Roadmap for R&D on Detector Technologies was reported. As recommended in the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (EPPSU) (3), ECFA has set up the Detector R&D Panel which has led this process. The Roadmap document of more than 200 pages and a synopsis document of eight pages for non-experts were produced by the panel together with a group of nine Task Forces of instrumentation experts. Input sessions, surveys, public symposia, input

By Lucian Scharenberg (CERN)

In summer 2021, several state-of-the-art detector instrumentations conducted full characterisation studies at SPS.

In order to match the increasing detector performance standards in precision and speed of new detectors for future experiments, it is necessary to continuously improve their instrumentation and adapt to new user demands. Aimed at the advancement and innovation for detectors at accelerators, the EU-funded AIDAinnova project includes in its Work Package 3 the provision of state-of-the-art infrastructure – sensors, test beam and data acquisition (DAQ)

The prototype, designed for the containment of electromagnetic showers, was qualified on beam, first at DESY with a pure electron beam with energies up to 6 GeV and secondly at CERN with electrons up to 100 GeV (image: INFN-PV Lab)

By Roberto Ferrari (INFN) and Romualdo Santoro (Insubria University and INFN)

Highly granular dual-readout calorimeters would enable a better resolution in hadron calorimetry. This summer, a prototype was tested at DESY and CERN.

The fluctuations of the electromagnetic and hadronic components of hadronic showers is one of the most limiting factors for the energy

This article was originally published in the EP Newsletter.

By Susanne Kuehn (CERN)

Note from the editor Since this publication of this article, the update to the ECFA Roadmap has been approved by the ECFA.  We advise you  Phil Allport's presentatio, here, to learn more on what has been approved. A further article, to be published at the end of the year, will go into more detail on the content of the ECFA Roadmap for R&D on Detector Technologies.

It was reported in the previous edition of the EP Newsletter (1) that the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (EPPSU

Discoveries in particle physics are technology-driven; AIDAinnova will provide state-of-the-art upgrades to research infrastructures, such as test beams, in order to unfold the scientific potential of detector technologies. The project will run for a duration of four years from April 2021 to March 2025 and is co-funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 programme.

WP13 of AIDAinnova aims at stimulating prospective and technology-driven ('blue sky') detector R&D by opening new lines of research and new technologies, which are essential to preparing for future particle physics

A new EU project called AIDAinnova will sustainably develop a variety of innovative particle detector technologies for future experiments at accelerators. Its community came together for the first time from 13 to 16 April 2021 to set in motion the project’s work programme.