AidaInnova’s attendance at this year’s Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) provided an invaluable opportunity to connect with new companies and entrepreneurs interested in detector technologies. 

BSBF is one of Europe’s most important events for bringing together science and business, and took place this year in Trieste, Italy, between October 1 and 4. In total, more than 1,300 attendees from 500 different organisations were present over the course of the four days.

AidaInnova held a booth alongside two other EU projects funded under the INFRA-INNOV research infrastructures call, I.FAST and

Quantum applications are advancing the capabilities of particle detectors, unlocking new levels of precision and opening doors to transformative innovations in science and industry.

That is why the EU-funded AIDAinnova project is hosting a two-day training course for detector scientists, applied physicists and engineers to learn about some of the latest advances in quantum applications.

It takes place at CERN on January 23 and 24.

With lectures on technologies used in quantum detectors such as:

• 3D interconnects for readout electronics 
• Quantum random number generators 
• Image sensors

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

FBK-SD is looking for a dynamic, highly motivated, independent researcher in the field of silicon and silicon-carbide radiation sensors, for the development of cutting edge photo-detector and radiation detector technologies and devices that will be used to build next-generation systems in large scientific experiments and industrial applications, such as medical imaging, LiDAR, High energy Physics experiments, payloads for space missions, advanced spectroscopies, material analysis.

Work Context

The FBK Centre for Sensors and Devices, FBK-SD is an applied research centre that operates in the

In March, AIDAinnova held its third annual meeting and discussed the future of the project.

An industrial workshop on “Cryogenics in Big Science”, to be held in Paris on April 16 and 17 2024, is organized in the framework of the European Projects I.FAST, AIDAinnova and LEAPS-INNOV. 

The projects support the development of innovative technologies in collaboration with companies all over Europe, in the fields of accelerators, detectors for particle and nuclear physics, and light sources, respectively. The main motivation of the workshop is that continuous and fruitful interactions with industry are fundamental to the activities conducted by the projects, and workshops on specific

At the end of August, AIDAinnova detector scientists travelled to South Africa to organise an Instrumentation School.

INFN Bari invite applications for a 2-years postdoc position at INFN section of Bari, Italy, to work in our group on R&D for a high pressure TPC with optical read-out, in the framework of the AIDAinnova European grant, with the additional possibility to participate in a rich Neutrino Physics programme.

Work Context

The group is active in the field of Gas Detectors R&D, with particular emphasis on MPGDs and Time Projection Chambers (TPC), and participates to major experiments in Neutrino Physics like T2K, Super-Kamiokande (SK) and Hyper-Kamiokande (HK).

In addition, the selected candidate

The LPNHE-Paris laboratory is opening a two-year (extensible to three-year) post-doctoral position on ATLAS. The position can begin as soon as November 1^st, 2023 and will focus primarily on the upgrade of the ATLAS Inner Tracker and advanced Silicon Tracker technologies.

Activities

The selected candidate will work on two axes:

• ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade: the candidate will work on the construction, test and quality assurance of the modules of the ITk detector for the high-luminosity phase of the LHC.
• Advanced technologies for silicon trackers: in particular, on themes related to

The school for young scientists on particle detector technologies will take place at Kutaisi International University (KIU) at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, on July 17-28, 2023.