Highlights The AIDA project addresses infrastructures required for detector development for future particle physics experiments. The 3rd Annual Meeting will take place from 26-28 March 2014 at the Vienna University of Technology. A special Tutorial session will be organized for students on the afternoon of 25 March. The topic of the tutorial is: Trigger, DAQ and Control System. The Academia meets Industry event will take place from 24-25 March 2014. The topic of this years event is: Resistive-Plate Chambers and Thin-Gap Chambers. Work package highlights Networks LHCb VELO foil WP2 main developments include the USolid library of geometrical shapes and DD4Hep geometry toolkit. This new library shows sizeable CPU time and memory reduction which could benefit a lot the LHC experiments, as already applied to the complex shape of the LHCb VELO foil. The new Particle Flow Algorithms developed within the WP has shown promising application in the case of the future neutrino experiments. WP3 networking activities were focused on the investigation of several 3D technologies and the creation of a common microelectronics library. Good progress is already achieved for many of these sub-projects. The Academia meets Industry event on 3D Interconnections was co-organized with WP4. Regarding the shareable IP blocks, the submission of IP blocks in 65nm CMOS technology by CERN is soon to come. Group photo taken at the Academia meets Industry event in Frascati, Italy WP4 organized 2 topical academia-industry matching events; on Solid-state position sensitive detectors and Advanced interconnections for chip packaging (co-organized with WP3). WP4 is closely collaborating with the HEPTech Technology Transfer Network. WP activities include the development of a new service, Collaboration Spotting to provide the HEP community with information on Academia and Industry key players in the relevant fields. The tool also enables the community to spot academic-industry collaborations active in technology themes of importance for public procurement. Joint research activities Photosensor and plastic scintillator test stand WP8 highlights include the excellent progress that was achieved in the construction of the irradiation facilities at CERN; the Proton & Mixed field irradiation facility in the East Area and the GIF++ facility in the North Area. The installation of the GEM tracker system has been finished at Frascati. A first design of a low energy beam at CERN for Neutrinos detectors has been presented. Detailed studies of the photosensor connector design - used for neutrinos prototypes - are underway to determine the requirements for further machining of the scintillator bars to create the grooves that will accommodate the wavelength shifting fibers and the photosensor connectors WP9 organized a tutorial in conjunction with the Annual Meeting on Gaseous detectors. Nine machines for the production of large Micro Pattern Gas Detectors are now in use. The upgraded superconducting magnet PCMag was successfully commissioned by June 2012 and intensively used since then. Good progress has been made on the telescope development also, all the mechanical elements of the Precision Pixel telescope are available. Progress in silicon tracking was mainly focussed on the construction of the detector modules. The silicon sensors, recuperated from previous detector assemblies, have been cleaned and electrically tested. The calorimeter test beam campaign using the Tungsten structure was completed with 3 different sensors; the collect data is being analysed. The HARDROC3 chip, including improved data transmission for large detector surfaces, was also submitted. View of the microMegas chambers Transnational Access In WP5 AIDA supported 15 projects in the test beam facility at DESY, providing financial support for 51 users. In WP6 the project supported a total number of 50 user projects in the test beam and irradiation facilities at CERN. Through AIDA 211 users access was supported to these facilities. WP7 provided access to 41 projects of 55 users at JSI (Slovenia), 6 projects of 6 users at UCL (Belgium) and 17 projects of 19 users at KIT (Germany). European funding to access test facilities European researchers from outside the AIDA project can benefit from dedicated Transnational Access funding to access AIDA test beams and irradiation facilities. Read more >>
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