European Strategy Session of Council
The European Strategy
Outline
 Some reminders
 Some key items discussed in the European Strategy Sessions of Council in 2009
 Towards next Strategy Update – some of the main questions
 Final points
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The European Strategy
 2006: The CERN Council, in a special meeting held the 14th of July in Lisbon, agreed on the
European strategy for particle physics.
 It is followed up in the European Strategy Sessions of Council, where the September sessions
are the most significant:
http://council.web.cern.ch/council/en/EuropeanStrategy/NewsESSept09.html
 2008: Council appointed a Strategy Secretariat with four members to prepare the European
Sessions of Council, and follow up the Strategy in a continuous manner – since then (Sept 2008)
there has been regular European Strategy Sessions of Council
 Special focus on future large European wide initiatives within the Strategy – to be reported to
Council
 2008: Rules for implementation of how to recognize and follow up projects as part of the
European Strategy for Particle Physics was approved by the Council in December 2008 (CERNCouncil-S/030) – the focus is on project in the initial phase, i.e. future projects.
 Strategy Update: The composition of the extended Strategy Group that need to be set up to
prepare the Strategy Update is described in the Council documents from 2007 (Secretariat,
members from SPC, ECFA and Director’s Meeting). The update should not happen more often
than every 5 years. Usually 2011 is assumed, but it is probably too early to have LHC results – the
timescale will be discussed in the March 2010 Council Meeting
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European Strategy Sessions of
Council
 Agendas at:
http://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=1697 (papers
normally available (open) after the meeting)
 Typical “standing/standard” items:
Presidents report, Scientific Secretaries Report, Possibility for members
states to bring up issues.
FALC and ICFA reports if applicable.
ECFA report every September (note that ECFA also reports in Open
Council in December).
Reports of the CERN communication and the CERN Technology Transfer
Networks – yearly.
European Commission and ApPEC present. Three observes: Israel, Russia
and Turkey.
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The European Strategy
Strategy Point
Status
General issues
Council will update the Strategy
Statement of fact
Scientific Issues
LHC completion and SLHC R&D
Accelerator R&D (TIARA project)
Linear Collider
Neutrino Physics
Links to Astroparticle Physics (ApPEC)
Flavour Physics (Super B)
Links to Nuclear Physics
Theory
Several aspects of this:
• Future large infrastructures to be addressed in Strategy
Updates or in-between updates
• Ongoing projects and their relation to the Strategy Process
and Strategy Session of Council
• Preparation for next Strategy Update
Additionally: Links to ApPEC developed, NuPECC next
Organisational issues
Strategy follow up and set up strategy secretariat
Engagement with other regions (Council
Enlargement Group)
EU relationship (EC-CERN MoU)
Non member states related to Strategy
Many of these aspects are being addressed (European
Strategy Sessions of Council and Secretariat, EU MoU,
Enlargement Working Group)
Complementary Issues
Communication Network
Technology Network and Transfer
Being followed up in European Strategy Sessions of Council
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Some selected topics – I
 ApPEC: Agreement with ApPEC concerning contacts
 Maurice Bourquin is the representative of the ApPEC Steering Committee in Council
 Christian Spiering as leader of the ApPEC Peer Review Committee is the contact to the
Secretariat
 ECFA chair and the Scientific Secretary invited to ApPEC Steering Committee
 Now need to focus in the potential future large projects in this field such that our next
Strategy Update can be more precise
 CERN-EC MOU
 Signed in July 2009
 Very important recognitions of the role of CERN Council as Responsible for the definition
and follow up of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ERA development related to
this field)
 The European Commission (with R-J.Smits) is represented in the European Strategy Sessions
of Council
 A numbers of important point to point contacts between the Particle Physics area and EC,
annual meetings to monitor progress
 Future development of this (“action plan”) will be prepared
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Some selected topics – II
 TIARA (several other EU projects also important – SLHC-PP, ILC-HiGrade,
Euronu, EUCARD, EUDET and AIDA now being prepared … and many
more)
 A preparatory phase project set up a distributed infrastructure for accelerator
R&D, including facilities very relevant for several of the future project on our
roadmap (see talk in the RECFA meeting this morning)
 Potentially a very interesting and important project for the future
 SuperB
 The SuperB project in Frascati addresses one of the Strategy Points (regional or
national initiatives for flavour studies) and has been discussed several times in
Council the last year
 The ECFA report about SuperB from last autumn very valuable
 Several issues that need to be solved before this project can be implemented,
but the project has gone through the steps needed in the Strategy Sessions of
Council to explore the European interest and make the Council aware of the
plans and next steps
 Council will continue to follow the progress of this project during the TDR phase
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The European Strategy
Challenges I
Strategy Point
Scientific
Issues
Process
European Strategy Session of Council
Strategic Issues
LHC completion and SLHC
R&D
Phase I being implemented, detector TDRs being
prepared.
sLHC phase II Technical Proposal by 2012, also for
detectors ?
Need LHC operational and first results.
sLHC phase II implementation (injection
chain (SPL, PS2), interaction region
implementation) and the corresponding
Detector Upgrades.
Accelerator R&D
Developed with significant help of EU projects (for
example EUCARD and TIARA).
Implementation of TIARA.
Linear Collider
CDR for CLIC end 2010
TDR ILC end 2012
Increasing collaborative efforts
Europe’s position wrt to a linear collider
project based on LHC results and
interactions with global partners.
Neutrino Physics
SPC neutrino panel report by end of the year.
Neutrino workshop Oct 2009.
Euronu and WP3 of EUCARD addressing design
studies and future strategy
(LAGUNA, KM3NET, double beta experiments, etc
mentioned under astroparticle physics)
Very significant European participation in T2K
Pursue theta (13) measurements in several
experiments.
Future direction for Europe in general.
SPL/PS2 plans and links to sLHC.
Involvement in Japanese program.
Involvement in US and Chinese programs
important Strategic decisions.
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The European Strategy
Challenges II
Strategy Point
Scientific
Issues
continued
Process
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Strategic Issues
Links to Astroparticle
Physics
Links to ApPEC established and project
overview being prepared. Key
astroparticle projects included in ApPEC
roadmap and several of them being
prepared with EU projects (Design
Studies or Preparatory Phase Projects).
Several future projects to consider and also potential
projects outside Europe (not complete list):
KM3NET, Future large underground facilities
(LAGUNA), Double beta decays – beyond present
ones, Dark Matter Searches – emerging larger
projects, Auger and CTA, Gravitational waves and
Dark Energy … this area need a lot more work if we
aim to have more firm statements in next Strategy
document
Flavour Physics
SuperB discussed in European Council
sessions. SuperKEKB participation
important - also due to its link with Japan.
Precision physics not yet addressed.
Super B, participation in SuperKEKB
Links to Nuclear Physics
and CERN fixed target
Establishing link to NuPECC
CERN workshop May 2008
Tune with NuPECC roadmap
Theory
Not worked out. ApPEC theory
connection important.
Overall comment:
• Must be a goal to define a more firm list of European Strategy Projects for the next update or during next
period
• List of potential future large projects is manageable – but each potential project is usually large, some
border to astrophysics and cosmology, most are in planning phase, and resources will also provide
limitations
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Final points – I
We need to keep in mind; there are two key physics results mentioned in the Strategy
 LHC results – today we have seen a major step towards such results
 Neutrino results – theta(13) among them
In both cases there are lots of work ahead before the results can guide us towards
decisions
Role of ECFA wrt strategy – this was also discussed in the RECFA meetings in Moscow
and this morning:
Some roles already discussed in Council document in 2007
 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 reports 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
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Final points – II
There are several other roles I hope can be fully exploited in the coming years:
 Tomorrow we have several presentations related to neutrino physics – hopefully to be continued
- and it has also been discussed to have ECFA play in role in receiving and reviewing the CDRs
coming out of EUROnu for various future options in the neutrino oscillation area. More can be
envisaged but let us hear from the SPC neutrino panel first.
 The area of common interests between nuclear physics and particle physics - future facilities
could be very useful to have explored/discussed by ECFA
 There are already links between ECFA and ApPEC and these will/should continue to develop.
One is discussing having ApPEC presenting some key future projects in the SPC in March, but
several follow ups and more detailed studies might be needed, and a similar presentation could
well take in P-ECFA at some point. To be discussed in Spring.
 Other points I’m sure … some discussed this morning (detector R&D for example)
In general I believe that active broad P-ECFA meetings are essential in the coming years to start
preparation the next Strategy update, and the examples above show some of the topics that can
be explored in some details in these meetings (but let us coordinate carefully with other bodies).
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Spare
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The European Strategy
 2006: The CERN Council, in a special meeting held the 14th of July in Lisbon, agreed on the
European strategy for particle physics.
 It is followed up in the European Strategy Sessions of Council, where the September sessions
are the most significant:
http://council.web.cern.ch/council/en/EuropeanStrategy/NewsESSept09.html
 2007: Council decides to recognize European Strategy Projects that are particularly relevant for
the implementation of the European Strategy or further updates of the strategy
 Focus on large future European investments (scientists, funding) with important scientific and
strategic goals with respect to European Particle Physics (i.e. not limited to the CERN program)
– reported on in the large September sessions
 Recently (2009) we also have agreed to give topical overview (per strategy point) in these
sessions
 2008: Council appointed a Strategy Secretariat with four members to prepare the European
Sessions of Council, and follow up the Strategy in a continuous manner – since then (Sept 2008)
there has been regular European Strategy Sessions of Council
 2008: Rules for implementation of how to recognize and follow up projects as part of the
European Strategy for Particle Physics was approved by the Council in December 2008 (CERNCouncil-S/030) – the focus is on project in the initial phase, i.e. future projects.
 Strategy Update: The composition of the extended Strategy Group that need to be set up to
prepare the Strategy Update is described in the Council documents from 2007 (Secretariat,
members from SPC, ECFA and Director’s Meeting). The update should not happen more often
than every 5 years. Usually 2011 is assumed, but it is probably too early to have LHC results – the
timescale will be discussed in the March 2010 Council Meeting
Steinar STAPNES
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