European Strategy Session of Council
The European Strategy –
report to the RECFA meeting
in Sofia
Will cover – very briefly - the following selected topics:
 The European Strategy Session of Council in March, plans for the next months
 The most significant Strategy Session Meeting is in September
 EU projects, application results 2009, calls in 2010
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Agenda March
Council Strategy
Session
The Strategy Sessions of
Council agendas are at:
http://indico.cern.ch/categor
yDisplay.py?categId=1697
(papers normally open after
the meeting)
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Strategy Secretariat activities
In addition to the Meeting in the Strategy Secretariat and discussions in the SPC
(November/December/March two points should be mentioned:
1) A Directors Meeting early February where the work on Scientific Enlargement was presented,
in particular in view of involving the national labs in discussion towards the Strategy Update. Also
the timescale for the Strategy update was presented and discussed.
2) Role of ECFA wrt strategy – this was discussed in the RECFA meetings in Moscow in October
and at CERN in December. Some roles are already discussed in Council documents in 2007-8
and are well established:
ECFA has a key role related in incubation of ideas – ECFA studies and workshops, Various review committees
(example SuperB in 2008), Community/personnel reviews, Country visits – and report directly to the Strategy
Session of Council about them, ECFA members to be involved in the Strategy Upgrade Preparation Group when
we get to that phase.
New initiatives:
Status Report from the Working Group for coordination of detector R&D for LC and other
projects (Y. Karyotakis). It has the purpose of reviewing R&D projects that are not covered by
existing programme committees – mandate will be drawn up for the next meetings.
Status Report on establishing possible way to help coordination of neutrino activities (K. Long) As
a first step receive and review IDS-NF IDR and EUROnu interim design report.
Use P-ECFA/R-ECFA meetings to review specific areas – example from November 2009 being
the neutrino area and flavour physics, to be continued in the PECFA meeting in Frascati in July.
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CERN-EC Memorandum of Understanding
 Signed in July 2009
 Very important recognitions of the role of CERN Council as responsible for
definition and follow up of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
 The European Commission is represented in the European Strategy Sessions of
Council – from September 2009
 A numbers of important point to point contacts between the Particle Physics
area and EC, annual meetings to monitor progress
 Future development of the MoU (an “action plan for 2010-11”) approved in
Council meeting in March:
http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.pycontribId=31&materialId=0&confId=85784
 Covers a numbers of common activities 2010-11 ranging from research
infrastructures, e-infrastructures and international co-operation to
technology transfer, open access, careers and mobility, science
communication, etc
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ApPEC and the European Strategy for
Particle Physics
 Maurice Bourquin is the representative of the ApPEC Steering Committee in Council
 Christian Spiering as leader of the ApPEC Peer Review Committee (now the Scientific Advisory
Committee) is the contact to the Secretariat
 ECFA chair and the Scientific Secretary, and CERN with the Research Director, invited to
ApPEC Steering Committee meetings
 Focus on the potential future large projects in this field such that our next Strategy Update can
be more precise with respects to such projects
 Will now prepare workplan with ApPEC concerning common activities, examples:
 Common CERN-ApPEC theory programme
 Common R&D calls and more generally CERN participation in ASPERA activities (CERN is a
partner)
 Use of testbeams and other facilities relevant for projects of common interest
 CERN/ApPEC common outreach activities
 CERN participation in possible future EU projects in these areas
More organisational discussions:
 Cross-representation (already established but possibly to be expanded)
 Discussion of ApPEC’s role in the forthcoming Strategy Upgrade
 ApPEC’s involvement in the Scientific Enlargement discussions over the coming 2 years
 More formal links between CERN and ApPEC? For example an MoU where the
responsibilities in the areas of Common interests are specified …
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The European Strategy Update –
presented to Council
 The update should not happen more often than every 5 years. Usually 2011 was assumed, but it is
too early to have LHC results (and in as planned today in the middle of the long 2010-11 run)
 Given the status and plans for LHC data-taking in 2010-2011, followed by a long shut-down in
2012 and preparation work in several major areas (e.g. sLHC, Linear Colliders, Neutrinos,
Astroparticle Physics, Accelerator and Detector R&D), the Strategy Secretariat believes that the
next Strategy Update should be concluded by the middle of 2012.
 If the provisional timescale for the conclusion of the Strategy Update by the middle of 2012 is
confirmed the Strategy Secretariat would prepare the proposed remit and composition of the
European Strategy Group, together with those of the Preparatory Group, for approval by the
European Strategy Session of Council in March 2011.
 The exact timescale will need to be confirmed in the second half of 2010 in the light of the
progress of the LHC and any other relevant new information at that time.
 The composition of the extended Strategy Group including Preparation Group that need to be
set up to prepare the Strategy Update is described in the Council documents from 2007-2008
(Secretariat, members from SPC, ECFA, Director’s Meeting and Member State Representation).
 In addition to these actors, the remits and detailed compositions of the forthcoming Strategy
Group and Preparatory Group, will also need to accommodate the involvement of the
European Commission, ApPEC, NuPECC, FALC, ESFRI, Observers, Associate Members and nonMember States …..
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Some key topics later in the
year
 General report on the follow up of the European Strategy in September
 Missing in our preparation: Relationship to Nuclear Physics and Theory
Expect ECFA report in September including community review paper
ESFRI update during this year
EU-CERN MoU Work Plan follow up
Further EU FP7 projects and planning (ongoing, new projects, future planning)
Scientific Enlargement (ref. Brussels meeting – presented there), longer
timescale
 First ideas about the remit for the Strategy update
 ApPEC workplan as mentioned in the slide above
 SuperB follow up
 The SuperB project has been discussed several times in Council the last year
and Council will continue to follow the progress of this project during the TDR
phase
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FP7 projects in 2009-10
 Two key projects submitted in December 2009
 AIDA (Integrating Activity addressing the topic: Infrastructures for
Detector R&D)
4 years, EU support requested 10 MEURO, 8 MEURO offered
 TIARA (invited preparatory phase project from the European Strategy:
Infrastructures for Accelerator R&D)
3 years, EU support requested 6 MEURO, 3.9 MEURO offered
 Information from Laurent Serin, Roy Aleksan and WEB sites
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https://espace.cern.ch/aida/default.aspx
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WEB page at: http://www.eu-tiara.eu/
Timescale 3 years
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The details of these WPs were shown in the RECFA meeting at CERN
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TIARA WP structure
The main elements of the TIARA FP7 proposal currently being
discussed are outlined below. Changes may be made to the
proposal as it matures.
 WP1: Management of the consortium (includes dissemination and
outreach)
 WP2: Governance of TIARA
Objective: Development of governance models that would allow
as many fields as possible to be involved.
 WP3: Accelerator R&D infrastructures in Europe
Objective: Indentifying, integrating and optimizing the European
infrastructures for accelerator R&D.
 WP4: Joint R&D programming
Objective: Defining a Joint R&D programme in the field of
accelerator science.
 WP5: Education and training for accelerator sciences
Objective: Developing education and training for accelerator
research in Europe.
 WP6: Involving Industry
Objective: Investigating how industry can be involved in the
programs, projects and actions carried out by TIARA.
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Specific WPs
 SVET: The CLIC damping ring aims at delivering an e+/e− beam
with ultra-low vertical normalized emittance of 5 nm for
achieving the required collider luminosity. This corresponds to a
geometrical emittance of less than 1 pm at 2.86 GeV. The SuperB
e+e− factory aims at comparable vertical emittances of down to
4 pm at 7 GeV. The main objective of SVET is to upgrade the
Swiss Light Source (SLS) at PSI to enable R&D on ultra-low
emittances.
 ICTF: The principal objective of this work package is to deliver
detailed design reports of the RF power infrastructure upgrades
that the Ionisation Cooling Test Facility at the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory requires for it to become the world’s
laboratory for ionization cooling R&D.
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Specific WPs
 HGA: An upgrade of the existing S-band Linac of the SPARC Test Facility
at LNF-Frascati with high gradient C-band accelerating structures is
proposed, in order to reach 250 MeV at the end of the structure. The
upgrade will be done with state-of-the art technology, setting up a
facility unique in Europe made of S-band and C-band Linacs (a new
“hybrid” configuration, never implemented up to now). This work will be
carried out at the INFN Frascati National Laboratories in collaboration
with the PSI-Zurich and Rome University “La Sapienza”.
 TIHPAC: Before launching the construction of EURISOL, the next
generation of facility for producing very intense radioactive ion beams
(RIB), two major technical issues need to be addressed; namely the
development of high power target and low beta superconducting
accelerating structures. The objective of this Work Package is to
coordinate the design of the corresponding test infrastructures: an
irradiation test facility for the high power target developments and a
cryogenic test cryostat for testing fully equipped low beta
superconducting cavities (SC).
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Finally: FP7 project calls
 New calls expected in July 2010 – with submission Dec 2010
 Most relevant for us: Design Studies (bottom up, not targeted)
 Integrating Activities (topical but likely less suited for us than last time):
 INFRA-2011-1.1.21. Research Infrastructures for advanced radio astronomy.
 INFRA-2011-1.1.22. Research Infrastructures for optical/IR astronomy.
 INFRA-2011-1.1.23. Research Infrastructures for astroparticle physics: High energy cosmic
rays, multi-messenger approach.
 New possibility: “To exploit synergies optimising technological implementation, and to
ensure a larger harmonisation and interoperability between these research facilities, an EU
financial support will be provided, through a targeted approach, to clusters of ESFRI
infrastructures for their implementation phase” (for us: SLHC-PP, ILC-HiGrade, Tiara)
 Participants is such projects are key representatives of the ESFRI infrastructures that have
sufficiently progressed in their preparatory phase and that have ensured a clear
commitment for their construction from Member States and International Organisations.
 INFRA-2011-2.3.4: Implementation of common solutions for a cluster of ESFRI infrastructures
in the field of "Physics and Analytical Facilities". A project under this topic should aim at
synergies in the development of key critical components common to the ESFRI
Infrastructures in the field of Physics and Analytical Facilities such as, for example,
accelerator elements, targets, detectors, or radiation protection and safety components,
that are needed for their implementation.
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Scientific Enlargement
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Main implementation elements suggested during the work of the Enlargement Working Group:
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A specific programme for identifying, coordinating and centralising CERN support
to/participation in experiments not hosted by CERN within the scientific fields covered by
the European Strategy for Particle Physic, including non-accelerator physics projects
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CERN could be available to provide the necessary legal framework for implementation
of large European infrastructures for future non-accelerator projects
The discussions/concerns in Council focused on maintaining the CERN priorities (LHC and a next
machine), possibly too much funding and activities channelling through CERN, the timing of this
paper, and the need to address these concerns over a longer timescale and a wider European
scope than the CERN scientific programme alone (European Strategy Session of Council)
The suggestion now is that further development of the potential scientific enlargement of the
CERN programme:
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should be continued in the framework of the European Strategy Sessions of Council within
the context and according to the time-scale of the forthcoming update of the European
Strategy for Particle Physics, taking into account the various considerations expressed by
Council
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with a remit extended to include discussion of the roles of other key partners in the
implementation of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (for example National
Laboratories and the European Commission)
Scientific and Geographical Enlargement
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