CERN Accelerating science

COFUND-CERN-2014

This project offers COFUND Fellowships in the form of three-year CERN Fellow appointments, out of which at least two years will be spent at CERN. Mobility of COFUND fellows will be enhanced through the opportunity to spend up to one third of the fellowship in external institutions. Working on frontier research and technology projects and profiting from the unique facilities available at CERN, the Fellows will deepen their knowledge in their own field, acquire international visibility and reputation and ultimately enhance their career prospects. 

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Full costs of the project: 6.3 M€ 

EU funding: 6.3 M€ 

EU funding for CERN: 6.3 M€

1 October 2015 - 30 September 2020

PROBES: Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics 

PROBES will explore elusive aspects of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the Standard Model of Cosmology (SMC) and search for new physics exploiting particle accelerators and gravitational wave (GW) interferometers. Several low-energy aspects of quark-gluon interactions still remain a challenge, like the mechanism of color confinement, which accounts for 99% of the mass of standard matter of the Universe, and the equation of state (EoS) of ultradense matter, fundamental for the study of compact stars. Joint EM-GW-neutrino observations could probe astrophysical sources and constrain physics under extreme conditions of electromagnetic and gravitational fields. The collaboration with world-class laboratories in US and Asia will open new career prospects for the participants.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Marzio Nessi

Full costs of the project: 2 M€ 

EU funding: 2 M€

EU funding for CERN: 73 k€

1 July 2021 - 30 June 2025

Implementation and application of the new generation of pseudo-random number generators based on Kolmogorov-Anosov K-systems

MIXMAX aims to develop and test a new class of pseudorandom number generators, with the strongest mathematical underpinnings coming from the theory of Ergodic systems, for use in Monte-Carlo simulations.

Coordinator: Demokritos, Greece

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Lorenzo Moneta

Full costs of the project: 360 k€

EU funding:  252 k€

EU funding for CERN: 18 k€

1 January 2015 - 31 December 2018

InvisiblesPlus

InvisiblesPlus is addressing the neutrinos and dark matter properties at large, their interfaces and the connections of their particle/antiparticle asymmetries with those of the visible universe. The project, coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid, will also complement, continue and extend the knowledge sharing and collaboration of the ITN Invisibles project. 

Coordinator: UAM, Spain

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Marzio Nessi

Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€ 

EU funding: 2 M€ 

EU funding for CERN: 130 k€ 

1 February 2016 - 31 January 2020

INTENSE: particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spin-offs. A cooperative Europe - United States - Japan effort

INTENSE promotes the collaboration among European, US and Japanese researchers involved in the most important particle physics research projects at the high intensity frontier. The observation of neutrino oscillations established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavors with three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. Various key parameters of this oscillation measurements provide, if measured with high precision, new physics observables. Experimental anomalies point to the presence of sterile neutrino states participating in the mixing and not coupling to fermions. Lepton mixings and massive neutrinos offer a gateway to deviations from the Standard Model in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). 

A new generation of modern and large neutrino detectors open new frontiers in the search for proton decay and understanding of the dynamics of super novae explosions.

INTENSE also promotes multidisciplinary collaboration through “muography” which uses cosmic-ray muons to image the interior of large targets, including volcanoes, glaciers and archaeological sites.

Coordinator: University of Pisa, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Marzio Nessi

Full costs of the project:2.1 M€

EU funding:  2.1 M€

EU funding for CERN: 83 k€

1 January 2019 - 31 December 2022

INTELUM: International and intersectoral mobility to develop advanced scintillating and Cerenkov fibre based detectors for the future high luminosity large hadron collider

Currently, new concepts are being considered for hadron and jet calorimetry in high energy physics experiments, in order to improve the energy resolution of these detectors by a factor of at least two. This is a prerequisite for future studies at the high luminosity, large hadron collider as well as at future electron and proton colliders. Amongst the few concepts being proposed, scintillating and Čerenkov fibres are considered very promising candidates.The INTELUM project will be a 4 year project funding international, industry-academia exchanges to develop micro-pulling-down crystal growth and other new types of fibre technology. This new fibre production technology has the potential to enable fast, low-cost, manufacture of heavy crystal scintillating fibres.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN: 
Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns

Full costs of the project: 1 M€ 

EU funding: 922 k€ 

EU funding for CERN: 252 k€ 

1 March 2015 - 28 February 2019