CARE: Coordinated accelerator research in Europe

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0611-2

Key words (English)

Accelerator research and development; particle physics; neutrinos

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)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Université de Genève
Département de Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire

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 (IRA). 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 IRAs aim in developing critical and/or beyond the actual state-of-the-art components and systems to upgrade the infrastructures.
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. The particular contribution of the Swiss Universities covered through University of Geneva will be in the BENE NA network for study of future neutrino beams in Europe, and is therefore , essential for the SPL project at CERN. The costs below cover the networking costs of the Swiss universities involved (Geneva, Bern, Neuchâtel, Zurich). The deputy BENE network coordinator, in charge of dissemination of knowledge, is member of University of Geneva.

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: 03.0611-2