NCPRM Regular Meeting

Thursday 26 Mar 2026, 08:30 → 10:00 Europe/Zurich

4/S-020 (CERN)

Participants: Giovanna, Gianluigi, Jamie, Frank (online), Sara (online), Markus, Johannes

FIP/Neutrino Advisory Group

• Idea to have an overview of the field and on-going/planned projects at a low-detail level, including a coarse estimate of needed resources and timescales.
• Scientific committees focus rather on proposals that reached already a certain maturity level and not on resources.
• Timeline to be advanced for an intermediate report by xx (autumn) and the final report summarising findings and recommendations by November 2026.
• Propose Torben Ferber as chair person.

08:30 → 09:00 FIP/Neutrino Advisory Group Mandate

• FIP/Neutrino AG Mandate: link (Frank also available by zoom at 8:30, + Sara also ok) -> aim to send it afterwards for approval to Gautier/Mark

Speaker: Markus Brugger (CERN)

AG draft mandate link

09:00 → 09:45 RB and other follow-ups

• quick iteration of relevant RB notes (see below a quick list from my side, based on informal notes received)
• Academic training lectures -> kick-off and last iteration on subjects -> Johannes proposes his help
• Plan-Of-Work: first draft list to quickly iterate together, before moving on sharepoint and respective tracker

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Follow-ups

• short message to Gautier/Oliver/Mark for RB debrief, suggesting short
  meeting together?
• AICE WS kick-off: Sergio available, + ?
• IEFC/LMC feedback
• LDG Taskforce (see short summary here below)
• additional help: extended core team
• -> Rende (Consolidation, to start), Sylvie (ATS resources), Sergio (Technologies, and respective link to LDG TF), PBC grads? , ACE (
  Timeline visualization), Paolo (SMI, DT aspects) ?, + ?

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Admin:

• Email list
• Indico category
• Sharepoint workspace

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Communication:

• propose debrief with directors (also to agree on high-level
  constraints
• prepare bulletin article draft to iterate with Mark, Gautier,
  Oliver?

Speaker: Markus Brugger (CERN)

Academic Training Lectures - Working Document

Plan-Of-Work (Sharpoint proposal)

Quick status update 18.3.pdf

RB 18.3.pdf

09:45 → 10:00 Laboratories/Facilities - Overview (LDG Input)

LDG Taskforce (kick-off):

• LDG is launching an initiative to promote and strengthen the implementation of scientific diversity in particle physics with a shared European vision. This is a recommendation that was formulated within the 2026 strategy update process for the European Particle Physics. Initially a taskforce should was formed to conduct a community-wide survey on existing facilities, current and proposed projects, and expertise at European laboratories
• Mike Seidel, Jorgen D’Hondt and Sinéad Farrington presented the scope of our mandate, which we discussed for a bit. Much of how we approach this task is up to us; in general, we should identify potential synergies in our current and future national programs; connecting facilities, capabilities and projects at the European labs, focused on those that go beyond colliders. Also the link between theory and experiment was explicitly mentioned, making connections to neighbouring research fields, and the hope that we can identify latent capabilities; skills, equipment and resources that could be leveraged but may not yet be widely recognised. We also discussed the relation to CERN’s PBC and Roadmap initiatives, which we should not duplicate but would like to be complementary to. We are asked to make recommendations for synergies, where in later steps these might be ‘resource loaded’ by the labs or through collaborative granting schemes.
• specifically, we agreed to take a two step approach, aiming to present first results of our survey with the LDG group on the 19th of June, 4-6 pm. We could then work out more details in a second step, to be concluded in the fall. Also, if we find we do not cover the complete field with the current team, we could propose to invite additional members.

Speaker: Markus Brugger (CERN)

first_try_Chamonix_2025.xlsx

NCPR_SharePoint_Import_Template.xlsx

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