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H2020Staff exchange2015–2018

E-JADE · Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-01-01 → 2018-12-31
EU contribution
€1,179,000
Participants
17
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme

The Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme (E-JADE) addressed the urgent need of exchange of ideas on R&D and implementation of future accelerators for particle physics. It did so by exchanging experts for accelerator physics and for related subjects between Europe and Japan. This exchange focused on the design, R&D and prototyping of large international future accelerator facilities for particle physics research. Scientifically, E-JADE evolved around three topics, all providing excellent training grounds for young researchers: i) Firstly, R&D for future hadron colliders and in particular the development of magnets for these machines profited massively from the exchange of staff between Japan and Europe. European secondments provided essential support to the Japanese developments for the necessary upgrades of the LHC accelerator complex. ii) Secondly, at the Japanese ATF2 and SuperKEKB facilities at KEK, studies towards nanometer-scale beams for future lepton accelerators were carried out. This is largely generic R&D that will benefit any future research direction in accelerator science, and E-JADE could contribute significantly. iii) Thirdly, work was continued towards future linear colliders, in particular the International Linear Collider (ILC). With the European XFEL – technology-wise a 10% prototype for the ILC – recently completed at DESY in Hamburg, European know-how in terms of design, integration, and production as well as documentation is vital for the ILC, and European industry is well positioned to contribute to the mass-production of accelerator structures. However, the design and layout need to be adapted to the specifics of the suggested cite in Japan, and E-JADE was instrumental in this respect as well.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The Europe-Japan Accelerator Development Exchange Programme (E-JADE) addresses the urgent need of exchange of ideas on R&D and implementation of future accelerators for particle physics. It does so by exchanging accelerator scientists and experts between Europe and Japan.The recent European Strategy for Particle Physics and the Japanese Roadmap identify similar pressing goals of research for the next decades. The strategy emphasises the exploitation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its upgrades, preparation of the cases for new facilities at the energy frontier (FCC or CLIC), identifies the opportunities for electron positron collisions (ILC), particularly after the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, and recognises the need for a long baseline neutrino programme at J-PARC in addition to the BELLE II programme of KEK.The user community at these facilities is international: a strong contingent of Japanese researchers from KEK and universities work on the ATLAS experiment, highly qualified experts from KEK contribute to the LHC itself, some two thousand researchers worldwide have signed the ILC design report and several hundred physicists are actively engaged in accelerator studies, such as on ATF to explore concepts generally applicable to linear colliders. The J-PARC neutrino experiment, with a strong European participation, has recently published important scientific results.The planned exchange of staff of leading European Laboratories and Universities with two prominent Japanese partners, KEK and University of Tokyo will focus on the most critical subjects and profiles namely on the design, R&D and prototyping of the future accelerator facilities mentioned above. Key objectives beyond technical progress are related to sharing of technical knowledge, project organisation, treatment of multiple safety codes for technical equipment, purchase methodologies and industrial capabilities, innovation and networks to significantly advance these projects.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · GENEVE 23CoordinatorSwitzerland
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE · KrakowPoland
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · ParisFrance
  • DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY · HamburgGermany
  • INSTITUT ZA NUKLEARNE NAUKE VINCA INSTITUT OD NACIONALNOG ZNACAJA ZA REPUBLIKU SRBIJU, UNIVERZITET U BEGRADU · VINCA BEOGRADSerbia
  • INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION, HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANISATION · TsukubaJapan
  • KOKURITSU DAIGAKU HOJIN KYUSHU DAIGAKU · FukuokaJapan
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO · TOKYOJapan
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOHOKU UNIVERSITY · SendaiJapan
  • ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE · EGHAMUnited Kingdom
  • TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · Tel AvivIsrael
  • THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordUnited Kingdom
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · LIVERPOOLUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG · StrasbourgFrance
  • UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY · Gif-Sur-YvetteFrance

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union