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CLOUD-MOTION

CLOUD-MOTION: CLOUD Mobility, Training and Innovation Network

The aim of CLOUD-MOTION is to establish a network of early stage researchers at 10 institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric aerosol, clouds and climate is investigated. A focus of the investigations is on a considerably improved understanding of pre-industrial aerosol concentration levels, which are crucial for an assessment of the climate forcing exerted by present-day aerosols. For this, the influence of Extremely Low Volatility Organic Compounds (ELVOCs) together with ions for aerosol nucleation without sulphuric acid is studied (“pre-industrial ELVOC nucleation”). Furthermore, the nucleation and initial growth induced by oxidation products from anthropogenic emissions of organic vapours (“anthropogenic ELVOC nucleation”) is studied, as well as the formation of ice on glassy Secondary Organic Aerosol acting as Ice Nucleating Particles (“glassy SOA as INP”).

Coordinator: GUF, Germany

Scientists in Charge from CERN:
Antti Onnela, Jasper Kirkby

Full costs of the project: 3.9 M€

EU funding: 3.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 530 k€

1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021

AVA

AVA: Research with low energy antiprotons - a European training network

Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions, on the static structure of exotic antiprotonic atomic systems or of (radioactive) nuclei as well as on the time-dependent quantum dynamics of correlated systems. Fundamental studies include for example CPT tests by high-resolution spectroscopy of the 1s-2s transition or of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen, as well as gravity experiments with antimatter. Antimatter experiments are at the cutting edge of science; they are, however, very difficult to realize and presently limited by the performance of the only existing facility in the world, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. Advances are urgently required in the development of numerical tools that can adequately model beam transport, life time and interaction, the development of new beam diagnostics tools and detectors to fully measure the beam’s properties, as well as collaborative R&D into advanced experimental techniques for improved precision and novel experiments. These open challenges are addressed within AVA. This network between universities, research centers and industry partners will realize an interdisciplinary and cross-sector research and training program for a cohort of 15 Fellows which shall provide them with an ideal basis for their future careers.

AVA

Coordinator: UNILIV, United Kingdom

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Michael Doser

Full costs of the project: 3.8 M€

EU funding: 3.8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 400 k€

1 January 2017 - 31 December 2020

AMVA4NewPhysics

AMVA4NewPhysics: Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the LHC

The project will focus on developing advanced statistical learning techniques to data analyses at the LHC with the objective of maximizing the chance of new physics discoveries. The project will also setup a network of European institutions to foster the development and exploitation of Advanced Multi-Variate Analysis (AMVA) for New Physics searches.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Paris Sphicas

Full costs of the project: 2.4 M€

EU funding: 2.4 M€

EU funding for CERN: 596 k€

1 September 2015 - 31 August 2019

POP SCIENCE

POP SCIENCE

Every year, on the last Friday of September, the European Researchers’ Night takes place simultaneously in about 300 cities all over Europe and beyond. POP SCIENCE is the Geneva region programme for European Researchers’ Night 2014, on Friday September 26.

With POP SCIENCE, the science investigating the most profound mysteries of our origins and the researchers who contribute to this new knowledge through their passionate work will be brought to the masses.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Paola Catapano

Full costs of the project: 968 k€

EU funding: 210 k€

EU funding for CERN: 95 k€

1 May 2014 - 31 January 2016

ULTIMA

ULTIMA: ULTrafast Imaging sensor for Medical Applications

The project addresses the challenges of the Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) for functional medical imaging of specific breast cancer biomarkers and contributes to providing safe oncology screening possibilities for larger patient-base. The project will demonstrate the proof of concept of a state-of-the-art nuclear imaging innovation, based on photonic crystals and optimized electronics. It will enable the detection of energy deposition with significantly improved energy and time resolution levels for a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) application.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientist in Charge from CERN: Paul Lecoq

Full costs of the project: 150 k€

EU funding: 150 k€

EU funding for CERN: 150 k€

1 September 2015 - 28 February 2017

TWIST

TWIST: TOF PET with Strip SiPMs

Using the breakthrough of the Strip Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SSiPM) obtained during the ERC TICAL project; TWIST will build a new type of detector modules for PET scanners that will offer high sensitivity together with precise position and time resolution.

The objective of TWIST is to capitalise on this novel SSiPM development to deliver higher resolution PET images with a lower background and as a consequence use a much lower dosage of the injected radio-tracer.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

Scientists in Charge from CERN:
Paul Lecoq, Crispin Williams

Full costs of the project: 150 k€

EU funding: 150 k€

EU funding for CERN: 150 k€

1 January 2018 - 30 June 2019

PanScales

PanScales: Spanning TeV to GeV scales for collider discoveries and measurements

The PanScales project will radically transform the way in which parton showers are conceived, by introducing innovative methods that establish the relation with another field of research called resummation, to which the PI has made ground-breaking contributions. The main outcome of the project will be a novel parton shower with accuracies up to an order of magnitude higher than in current approaches. This will be essential for reliably exploiting the information that is present across the full range of energy scales at high-energy colliders.

Coordinator: UOXF, United Kingdom

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Gavin Salam

Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€

EU funding: 2.3 M€

EU funding for CERN: 566 k€

1 October 2018 - 30 September 2023

Ampl2Einstein

Ampl2Einstein: Scattering Amplitudes for Gravitational Wave Theory

The observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger in 2016 marked the beginning of an exciting new era for astronomy. More findings about black holes and neutron stars are expected to be revealed in the future. To make use of the new observations, theoretical physicists will need to develop more accurate numerical methods and better mathematical descriptions of gravitational signals. Ampl2Einstein will build on advances in quantum scattering amplitudes that are used to calculate collisions of elementary particles. Furthermore, use of the Yang–Mills theory will play a key role in making this route simpler than direct classical calculations. The project's advances will allow astronomers to detect weaker gravitational signals and resolve long-standing puzzles regarding the internal structure of neutron stars.

Coordinator: CEA, France

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Gian Giudice

Full costs of the project: 2.3 M€

EU funding: 2.3 M€

EU funding for CERN: 75 k€

1 January 2021 - 31 December 2025

Neo-Nat

Neo-Nat: Understanding the mass scales in nature

The experimental results of the first run of the Large Hadron Collider led to the discovery of the Higgs boson but have not confirmed the dominant theoretical paradigm about the naturalness of the electro-weak scale, according to which the Higgs boson should have been accompanied by supersymmetric particles or by some other new physics able of protecting the Higgs boson mass from quadratically divergent quantum corrections. This project aims at exploring and developing new non-conventional ideas about the origin of mass scales in nature and in particular of the electroweak scale.

Coordinator: UniPi, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Alessandro Strumia

Full costs of the project: 1.8 M€

EU funding: 1.8 M€

EU funding for CERN: 1.4 M€

1 December 2015 - 30 November 2021

4DPHOTON

4DPHOTON: Beyond Light Imaging: High-Rate Single-Photon Detection in Four Dimensions

The 4DPHOTON project aims to develop and construct a photon imaging detector with unprecedented performance. The proposed device will be capable of detecting fluxes of single-photons up to one billion photons per second, over areas of several square centimetres, and will measure - for each photon - position and time simultaneously with resolutions better than ten microns and few tens of picoseconds, respectively.
With its excellent granularity, timing resolution, rate capability and compactness, this detector will represent a new paradigm for the realisation of future Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors, capable of achieving high efficiency particle identification in environments with very high particle multiplicities, exploiting time-association of the photon hits.

Coordinator: INFN, Italy

Scientist in Charge from CERN:
Michael Campbell

Full costs of the project: 1.9 M€

EU funding: 1.9 M€

EU funding for CERN: 368 k€

1 June 2019 - 31 May 2024

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