Project description
New detector technologies for more powerful particle accelerators
The EU-funded AIDAinnova project brings together 46 partners from 15 countries to develop advanced infrastructure and detector technologies for future particle accelerators. Expanding on the success of the previous AIDA and AIDA-2020 initiatives, AIDAinnova will offer well-equipped test beam and irradiation facilities for testing detector systems in line with the European Strategy for Particle Physics. This shared high-quality infrastructure will ensure optimal use and coherent development, thus increasing knowledge. Certain technologies developed within the project will be used in applications outside of particle physics.
Objective
Particle physics attracts a global community of more than 10,000 scientists, and Europe’s leadership, with CERN as its major laboratory, is internationally recognised. Discoveries are technology-driven; more performant accelerators require innovative detectors to unfold their scientific potential, driving available or emerging technologies beyond their limits. The role of industry is rapidly increasing, due to the need for highly specialised equipment and due to the scale of the installations, where thousands or millions of components require industrial-scale infrastructure.
AIDAinnova advances the European detector development infrastructures through fostering an intensified co-innovation with industry. Based on the success of the previous EC-funded initiatives AIDA and AIDA-2020, the project as a novel element fully integrates commercial players, 10 industrial companies and 3 RTOs, together with academic institutions into the consortium, which comprises 46 partners from 15 countries. Knowledge transfer will be catalysed through co-innovative work in common detector projects, and it will strengthen the competence and competitiveness of the industrial partners in other markets.
AIDAinnova provides state-of-the-art upgrades of research infrastructure such as test beam and irradiation facilities, and it covers all key technologies for future detectors, following the guidance by the European Particle Physics Strategy Update. The focus is on strategic developments at intermediate technological readiness levels TRL 2-7, where developments are not yet as specific to one particular experiment as in the engineering phase, and it also includes prospective R&D at TRL 1. Therefore, AIDAinnova will unfold synergies by bringing together the expertise from communities aiming at various future projects and maximise the use of resources. Through the large leverage on matching funds from national sources the project leads to enhanced coherence and coordination at a European level.
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1060 Wien
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1010 Wien
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10000 Zagreb
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116 36 Praha 1
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182 21 Praha 8
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75015 PARIS 15
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75794 Paris
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69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
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91190 Gif-Sur-Yvette
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01710 Thoiry
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91140 Villebon-Sur-Yvette
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26600 La Roche De Glun
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22607 Hamburg
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55122 Mainz
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80539 Munchen
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69117 Heidelberg
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53113 Bonn
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69978 Tel Aviv
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55049 Viareggio
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52100 Arezzo
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38122 Trento
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00044 Frascati
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01513 Vilnius
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3526 KV Utrecht
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2013 Skjetten
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7491 Trondheim
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5020 Bergen
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30-059 Krakow
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1000 Ljubljana
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28040 MADRID
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28006 Madrid
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46980 Valencia
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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50018 Zaragoza
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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2000 Neuchatel
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3012 Bern
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8006 Zurich
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BS8 1QU Bristol
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WC1E 6BT London
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M13 9PL Manchester
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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TW20 0EX Egham
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BN1 9RH Brighton
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CV4 8UW COVENTRY
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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751 05 Uppsala
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