IUVSTA Workshop 109 APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics - Industry meets Academia

24 Nov 2025, 08:00 → 26 Nov 2025, 23:00 Europe/Zurich

Sint-Janskerk (Maastricht, NL )

Joachim Wolf, Julie Epas

European physicists in astroparticle physics as well as in neighboring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics. The first event of this series, focusing on vacuum and cryogenics,  took place in Darmstadt/Germany in 2012. A brochure was published after the meeting, providing an overview of participating  experiments and companies.

For a thorough planning of all stakeholders it is important to carefully elaborate the timing of the projects and their needs as well as the market availability of key products. The APPEC Technology Forum is organized jointly with the international union of vacuum societies IUVSTA, national vacuum societies from the Netherlands and Germany, Maastricht University, NIKHEF and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to identify synergies between projects from neighboring fields. It shall provide a discussion forum for companies, project scientist and funding agencies to define future ways of boosting cooperation to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Full registration is now open. If you are from industry, please check first the information in the exhibition and sponsorship section. In particular, students and early career scientists are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster on vacuum and cryogenics related topics of their project.

At the end of the meeting we offer a visit to ET-Pathfinder, a R&D facility for the development and testing of technologies for the next generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope.

2025 11 APPEC Tech Forum Poster A2 300dpi.pdf

2025 11 APPEC Tech Forum Poster für A5.pdf

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Monday 24 November

Registration, coffee

Session 1

1 Welcome and introduction

2 KATRIN/Project-8/QTNM/Ptolomy

Speaker: Thomas Thümmler

3 Atomic tritium source

Speaker: Marco Röllig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:00 Coffee break

Session 2

4 Cryogenic detectors for neutrinos

Speaker: tbc

5 DUNE

Speaker: tbc

6 Industry presentations & talks

16:00 Coffee break

Session 3

7 DarkSide-50/DS-20

Speaker: Ms Bianca Bottino (University of Genoa-INFN)

8 Cuore/Cupid/CRESST

Speaker: Paolo Gorla (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (INFN) (IT))

9 IAXO,MADMAX,ALPS

Speaker: Joern Schaffran (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Poster session with snacks

Tuesday 25 November

Registration, coffee

Session 4

10 XeNT/DARWIN/XLCD

Speaker: tbc

11 Xe Cleaning R&D

Speaker: Christian Philipp Weinheimer (Universität Münster (DE))

12 Industry presentations & talks

10:30 Coffee break

Session 5

13 LEGEND

Speaker: Bernhard Schwingenheuer (Max-Planck-Insitut Kernphysik)

14 QUBIC

Speaker: Manuel Gonzalez (CNRS-APC)

15 LiteBIRD

Speaker: Andrea Tartari (INFN)

12:30 Buffet lunch

Session 6

16 tbc

17 GW: Virgo et al.

Speaker: Antonio Pasqualetti (European Gravitational Observatory)

18 Industry presentations & talks

15:30 Coffee break

Session 7

19 ET tower (vac & cryo)

Speaker: Fulvio Ricci (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

20 ET @ CERN (beam line)

Speaker: Carlo Scarcia (CERN)

21 tbc

Free

Dinner

Wednesday 26 November

Registration, coffee

Session 8

22 ASTEC

Speaker: Keith Middleman (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

23 ET-Pathfinder

Speaker: Henk Jan Bulten

24 Industry presentations & talks

10:30 Coffee break

Session 9

25 Panel discussion

26 Wrap-up

Transfere to ET-PF

ET-Pathfinder visit

Lunch at ET-Pathfinder