CARE: Coordinated accelerator research in Europe

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0611-1

Key words (English)

Accelerator research and development; particle physics

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: 506395

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 2.3.2 Integrating Activities

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

The main objective of the CARE-IA is to generate a structured and integrated European area in the field of accelerator research and related R&D. The program includes the most advanced scientific and technological developments relevant to accelerator research for Particle Physics. It is articulated around 3 Networking Activities (NA) and 4 Joint Research Activities (JRA).

The aim of the NAs is to foster and strengthen the European knowledge to evaluate and develop efficient and cost effective methods to produce intense and high-energy electron, proton, muon and neutrino beams as recommended by the European Committee for Future Accelerator (ECFA). They will carry comparative studies on the various techniques, establish collaborative and prioritised R&D programs aimed at improving the exiting infrastructures and technical roadmaps toward their longer-term evolution and the construction of new facilities of worldwide interest. The participants will integrate their infrastructures, establishing a European technological platform for accelerator research allowing one to develop joint R&D projects and to foster strong and effective collaborations.

The JRAs aim in developing critical and/or beyond the actual state-of-the-art components and systems to upgrade the infrastructures, They include the developments of:
· Superconducting cavity and RF technology
· Photo-injector technology, in particular for 3 beam acceleration technique
· Normal and superconducting structures for the acceleration of very high-intensity proton beams as well as challenging beam chopping magnets
· The technology for constructing very high magnetic field and high density currents magnets.

Twenty two contracting participants and about 80 associated institutes (including industrial partners and SMEs) participate in this unprecedented integrating effort, including accelerator physicists involved in Nuclear Physics, FEL and Neutron Spallation.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 03.0611-1