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 early-stage PhD students or advanced Master's students with an interest in particle detector instrumentation.
The program will include morning lectures covering a broad range of topics, complemented by hands-on laboratory sessions in the afternoons.
Designed as an intermediate-level school, it will cover 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 40 participants.
Applications are now open. The application deadline is 15 September 2026 for applicants requiring a visa, and 15 October 2026 for all other applicants.
Candidates can begin preparing their application, which should consist of a single PDF file (maximum size 10 MB) containing :
- a short CV;
- a motivation letter;
- a transcript of academic records;
- a reference letter from their PhD superviser or, for Master's students, from one of their professors.