4th I.FAST Annual Meeting

8 Apr 2025, 09:00 → 11 Apr 2025, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Krakow

Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

The I.FAST (Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology) Innovation Pilot project for the Particle Accelerator community will hold its 4th Annual Meeting in Krakow, Poland, from Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 April 2025 (plenary sessions).

Activities and recent results of the different Work Packages will be presented. Special sessions will be devoted to collaboration with industry, sustainability, and diversity in science and technology.

Parallel WP meetings and the joint iFAST/EAJADE Workshop on Sustainability will precede the event, on Tuesday 8 April 2025 all day

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Tuesday 8 April

09:00 → 13:20 I.FAST/EAJADE Sustainability Workshop

The EAJADE work was partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges programme under grant agreement no. 101086276.

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09:00 Introduction

Speakers: Dr Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Mike Seidel

09:10 Life Cycle Assessment for ILC/CLIC

Speaker: Dr Benno List (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:40 Japan Research Activities Aimed at Decarbonizing the Life Cycle of Accelerator Facilities

Speaker: Masakazu Yoshioka (K)

10:05 EAJADE: Status of Green ILC Paper

Speaker: Thomas Schoerner (DESY)

10:20 ISAS News

Speakers: Maud BAYLAC, Maud Baylac (LPSC)

10:50 Research Facility 2.0: news from improving research facility sustainability and efficiency

Speaker: Giovanni De Carne (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:20 The European LDG Working Group on Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators

Speakers: Caterina Bloise, Dr Maksym Titov (IRFU, CEA Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

11:50 InfraTech call: NEw Technologies and Solutions for Reducing the Environmetal and Climate Footprint of Research Infrastructures

Speakers: Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)), Mike Seidel

12:20 Challenges towards sustainable accelerators - let´s tackle them

Speaker: Denise Voelker

12:45 Discussion

09:00 → 09:15 WP9 Parallel Meeting (O. Malyshev)

09:00 Opening speaker

Speaker: Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

09:05 Task 9.1: Coordination and Strategy, thin film SRF implementation for ESPP

Speakers: Dr Claire Antoine (CEA), Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

09:15 → 11:00 Task 9.3

Convener: Dr Reza Valizadeh (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

09:15 Progress at INFN on targets, deposition and characterisation

Speakers: Cristian Pira, Davide Ford, Dorothea Fonnesu (INFN)

09:35 Progress at UKRI on deposition and characterisation

Speakers: Christopher Benjamin, Dr Reza Valizadeh (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

09:55 Progress at USI

Speaker: Aleksandr Zubtsovskii (Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen)

10:10 Results from IEE

Speaker: Eugen Seiler (IEE Slovak Academy of Sciences)

10:20 Magnetic field penetration results

Speaker: Liam Smith

10:30 Spilt cavity progress

Speaker: Graeme Campbell Burt (Lancaster University (GB))

10:40 Discussion and Deliverable 9.3

Speaker: Dr Reza Valizadeh (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 13:00 Task 9.2

Convener: Cristian Pira

11:20 1.3 GHz cavity production

Speaker: Cristian Pira

11:30 1.3 GHz cavity deposition facility at INFN

Speaker: Alessandro Salmaso

11:40 1.3 GHz cavity deposition facility at UKRI

Speakers: Dr Reza Valizadeh (STFC Daresbury Laboratory), Dr Stephane Simon

11:50 Cavity testing at HZB

Speaker: Oliver Julius Kugeler

12:00 Cavity testing at INFN

Speaker: Cristian Pira

12:10 Development of new low and high power SRF facility at UKRI

Speakers: Daniel Seal, Taaj Sian

12:20 Discussion and Deliverable 9.2

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch Break (Free choice in the city)

14:00 → 14:20 Task 9.4

Convener: Dr Thomas Proslier

14:00 Progress with ALD deposition at CEA

Speaker: Dr Thomas Proslier

14:20 → 15:10 Task 9.5

Convener: Dr Claire Antoine (CEA)

14:20 Laser treatment at RTU

Speaker: Arturs Medvids

14:40 Progress with FLA at HZDR

15:00 Discussion

15:10 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:40 Task 9.6

Convener: Oliver Julius Kugeler

15:30 QPR polishing at INFN

Speaker: Eduard Chyhyrynets

15:40 QPR polishing at CNRS

Speaker: David Longuevergne (CNRS/IN2P3/IJCLab)

15:50 QPR progress at HZB

Speaker: Oliver Julius Kugeler

16:00 QPR progress at University of Hamburg

Speaker: Marc Wenskat

16:10 QPR progress at CERN

Speaker: Stewart Leith (CERN)

16:20 RF surface resistance measurements on planar samples

Speaker: Daniel Seal

16:30 Discussion

16:00 → 18:00 WP5.2 Paralell Meeting (F. Zimmermann)

Convener: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

16:40 → 17:30 AOB

16:40 iSAS WP3 matters

Speaker: Cristian Pira

17:00 Progress with IFAST-2 proposal for WP on TF-SRF

Speaker: Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

17:15 Final remarks, future meetings, closing WP9

Speakers: Dr Claire Antoine (CEA), Dr Oleg Malyshev (UKRI/STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

Wednesday 9 April

08:30 → 11:30 Visit of the Cyclotron Centre Bronowice (CCB) and The Division of Scientific Equipment and Infrastructure Construction (DAI) Laboratory

09:00 → 12:00 WP10 Parallel Meeting (A. Ratkus): https://indico.cern.ch/event/1516055/

Convener: Andris Ratkus (Riga Technical University (LV))

09:00 → 11:00 WP11 Parallel Meeting (M. Seidel)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break (Free choice in the city)

13:30 → 15:10 Plenary Session 1: Introduction, communication, Training

Convener: Prof. Toms Torims (Riga Technical University (LV))

13:30 Introduction by the Project Coordinator

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

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13:50 Status of CBI and other training initiatives

Speakers: Dr Nicolas Delerue (CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay), Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))

14:05 The Accelerator Communication and Outreach (ACO) workshop

Speaker: Mr Thomas Brent

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14:20 Results of the Industry survey and feedback from BSBF

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))

14:40 Lasers for Plasma Accelerators: a Strategy

Speaker: Dr Leonida Antonio (Leo) Gizzi (CNR, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa, Italy)

14:55 Novel particle accelerators, EuroNNAc and EuPRAXIA

Speaker: Massimo Ferrario

15:10 → 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 → 17:40 Plenary Session 2: New concepts

15:40 Progress of the International Muon Collider Collaboration (TBC)

Speaker: Nadia Pastrone (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

15:55 Progress at the Accelerator frontier

Speaker: Frank Zimmermann (CERN)

16:10 Slow extraction improvement final achievements within IFAST-REX

Speaker: Peter Forck

16:25 ThomX Compton Source: Milestones and Scientific Highlights

Speaker: Dr Iryna Chaikovska (CNRS/IJCLab)

16:40 The P3 experiment: a positron source demonstrator for future lepton colliders (TBC)

Speaker: Thomas Geoffrey Lucas

16:55 Electron-beam based neutron source

Speaker: Laurence Matthew Wroe (CERN)

17:10 The Polish Particle Accelerators community – current status and plans

Speaker: Dariusz Bocian (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków, PL))

18:30 → 20:30 Welcome Drink

Thursday 10 April

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary Session 3: Accelerator Technologies

09:00 Status of the I.FAST superconduting magnet prototypes

Speaker: Ernesto De Matteis (INFN Milano - LASA)

09:20 Development of superconducting thin films for SRF cavities

Speaker: Dorothea Fonnesu (INFN)

09:35 Evaluation of superconducting thin films with DC and RF measurements

Speaker: Daniel Seal

09:45 Developing ALD for superconducting thin film coatings

Speaker: Yasmine Kalboussi

09:55 Photodesorption from NEG coated vacuum chambers

Speaker: Eleni Marshall (STFC Daresbury)

10:05 The Additiove manufactured RFQ prototype

Speaker: Maurizio Vedani (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering)

10:25 Machine learning at ESS

Speakers: Irena Dolenc Kittelmann (ESS - European Spallation Source (SE)), Thomas Shea

10:40 → 10:45 Official Group Photo

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:30 Plenary Session 4: Light Sources and Sustainability

11:10 Beam windows and materials

Speakers: Federico Carra (CERN), Marilena Tatiana Tomut (GSI Helmholtzzentrum Darmstadt, WWU Münster)

11:25 Test results of the HL-LHC High Efficiency klystron prototype

Speaker: Chiara Marrelli (CERN)

11:40 Progress with the Longitudinally Variable Dipole

Speaker: Yannis Papaphilippou (CERN)

11:55 The I.FAST Innovation Fund projects

Speaker: Dr Luca Garolfi (TERA Foundation / CERN)

12:15 The AMIS IIF and its integration in the SPES facility

Speaker: Michele Ballan (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break (organized at PAU)

13:30 → 15:00 Plenary Session 5: Innovation and Highlights

Convener: Dr Sylvie Leray

13:30 Overview of Ultralow Emittance Rings

Speaker: Riccardo Bartolini (DESY)

13:40 Final results of the C-band Guns

Speakers: David Alesini, Thomas Geoffrey Lucas

13:55 Status of CompactLight Prototype Structures

Speaker: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra Trieste)

14:10 Status of permanent magnet dipole-quadrupole

Speaker: Mr Alex Hinton

14:25 Overview of the SLS 2.0 synchrotron

Speaker: Romain Ganter

14:40 Update on sustainability

Speaker: Denise Voelker

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:45 Plenary Session 6

15:30 From high-tech ideas to start-ups: the Swiss experience

Speaker: Elena Benedetto (Foundation Tera-Care (CH))

15:50 Accelerating Innovation: Supporting Startups in Science and Technology

Speaker: Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

16:10 Start-up experience (TBC)

16:40 Discussion

17:00 Electron-beam based neutron sources

Speaker: Laurence Matthew Wroe (CERN)

17:15 Results of irradiation of thin foils

Speaker: Nikolina Vejnovic (CERN)

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17:30 ESMA: Energy Saving Magnet for HEP Accelerators

Speaker: Lorenzo Balconi

17:45 → 18:30 .: Poster Session

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday 11 April

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session 7: Future Programme and concluding remarks

09:00 The new proposal for accelerator R&D

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

09:30 Discussion

10:00 Presentation by the Scientific Advisory Committee

Speakers: Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool), Michiko Minty

10:20 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary Session 8: Governing Board

Convener: Jose Manuel Perez-Morales (CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas)

11:00 Governing Board

12:30 → 14:30 Steering Committee Lunch

Reserved to Steering Committee members