ECFA-WISPP is a new two-week annual school on instrumentation in particle physics, established under the auspices of the European Committee for Future Accelerators.
The first edition will take place at CERN from February 1 to February 12, 2027. The school is primarily intended for final-year Master’s students and first-year PhD candidates.
The program will include morning lectures covering a broad range of topics, complemented by hands-on laboratory sessions in the afternoons.
This generic school will address a wide spectrum of detector technologies, including gaseous detectors, silicon detectors, scintillators, noble-liquid detectors, Cherenkov and transition-radiation detectors, cryogenic and quantum detectors. It will also cover particle reconstruction techniques (tracking, calorimetry, muon detection), particle identification, electronics, signal processing, triggering and data acquisition systems, as well as detector modeling and simulation.
In addition, dedicated lectures will present major current and future projects such as the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and the FCC, together with a selection of advanced topics in detector instrumentation.
Accommodation at CERN has been pre-booked for participating students.
Further information regarding registration procedures and fees will be announced at a later stage.
In the meantime, candidates can start preparing their application file :
- a short CV
- a motivation letter
- a transcript of academic records
- a cover letter by the PhD superviser or a master's professor
- all these documents collected in one pdf file of less than 5 Mbytes