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H2020Staff exchange2017–2023

NEWS · NEw WindowS on the universe and technological advancements from trilateral EU-US-Japan collaboration

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-07-01 → 2023-06-30
EU contribution
€1,566,000
Participants
41
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

NEw WindowS on the universe and technological advancements from trilateral EU-US-Japan collaboration

NEWS promotes the collaboration between EU, US and JP research institutions in key areas of fundamental physics than can open new windows on the universe. These include gravitational wave astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. NEWS researchers have given leading contributions to develop cutting-edge physics experiments to explore the universe and study particle physics. They are involved in the data analysis of these experiments and in new experimental challenges that require substantial technological advancements. The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have built the largest gravitational wave observatories in the world in US and Italy. Based on km-long laser interferometers located thousands of kilometres apart, they detect gravitational waves and probe their astrophysical sources. The observation of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational wave astronomy pursued in an international collaborative effort which includes also the Japanese observatory KAGRA. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration built and operates the principal scientific instrument on the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope spacecraft launched by NASA in the year 2008. The LAT is a high-energy gamma-ray telescope covering the entire sky in few hours. It has recorded more than one billion gamma-rays over the whole sky and released the catalogue of thousands of sources in condition of strong gravity and magnetic fields. These detectors allow to study the most violent phenomena in the Universe in a new multi-messenger way, by taking advantage of the simultaneous observations of different cosmic messengers, gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. This is complemented by the study of phenomena produced in the laboratory by employing high-intensity and high-energy particle beams. The Muon Campus at the Fermilab is hosting two world class experiments dedicated to the search for signals of new physics in the interactions of high-energy particles. Muon (g-2) will determine with a ten-fold improvement the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon while Mu2e will improve by four orders of magnitude the sensitivity on the search for the as-yet unobserved Charged Lepton Flavour Violating (CLFV) process of a neutrino-less conversion of a muon to an electron. EU research institutions have a leading role in these experiments. The results will complement those from similar CLFV searches carried out in Europe and produce fruitful collaborations in this field. These researches require the development of new cutting-edge technologies in several areas, including superconducting materials, used to develop particle accelerators and detectors, cryogenics, radiation detectors, particle detectors, analog and digital electronics for hostile environments and for space, computing infrastructures. NEWS coordinates the research activity of about 100 researchers from 13 EU research institutions, 3 small/medium size enterprises and 15 partners from US, JP, RF and HK and promotes these international and inter-sectoral collaborations by means of secondments of personnel.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

NEWS promotes the collaboration between European, US and Japanese research institutions in some key areas of fundamental physics. LIGO and Virgo collaborations have built the largest gravitational wave observatories and exploit the propagation of light and spacetime to detect gravitational waves and probe their sources. The first observation of a signal from a merging black hole system has inaugurated the era of gravitational wave astronomy. The Large Area Telescope collaboration operates a gamma-ray telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mission and has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray Universe, by increasing the number of known sources, unveiling new classes of gamma-ray emitters, and probing particle acceleration and electromagnetic emission in space with unprecedented detail. Fermi is the reference all-sky gamma-ray monitor for the follow-up searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. The multimessenger astronomical observations will soon be enriched by X-ray polarization detectors. New-generation space telescopes will measure the polarization of X-rays from the cosmic sources and probe the laws of physics under extreme conditions of gravitational and electromagnetic fields. A complementary approach to probe the Universe is provided by particle accelerators built in laboratories. FNAL will provide the cleanest probes for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The Muon (g-2) experiment will measure the muon anomalous magnetic moment with unprecedented precision. Mu2e will search for the neutrinoless coherent muon conversion to an electron in the Coulomb field of a nucleus, which would be the unambiguous evidence of new, unknown, physics. These endeavors require innovative detectors and cutting-edge technologies that NEWS will develop to open new “windows” in fundamental physics.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · FrascatiCoordinatorItaly
  • BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDUnited States
  • CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYCORP · PasadenaUnited States
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • CLEVER OPERATION · Saint-Genis-PouillyFrance
  • EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY(EGO) (OSSERVATORIO GRAVITAZIONALE EUROPEO) · CascinaItaly
  • FARADAY TECHNOLOGY INC. · Englewood, OhioUnited States
  • FERMI RESEARCH ALLIANCE LLC · Batavia IlUnited States
  • HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF EV · DresdenGermany
  • HOGSKOLAN DALARNA · FalunSweden
  • IMPEX HIGHTECH GMBH · MUNSTERGermany
  • INSTITUTO DE FISICA DE ALTAS ENERGIAS · Cerdanyola Del VallesSpain
  • INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES · TokyoJapan
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · AmesUnited States
  • JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES LLC · WashingtonUnited States
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · BaltimoreUnited States
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · CambridgeUnited States
  • NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION · WashingtonUnited States
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY · Higashi HiroshimaJapan
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO · TOKYOJapan
  • ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE · GENEVE 23Switzerland
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • PRISMA ELECTRONICS SA · ALEXANDROUPOLISGreece
  • ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY · MontrealCanada
  • STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · StockholmSweden
  • TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM · College StationUnited States
  • THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI · ColumbiaUnited States
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · PokfulamHong Kong SAR China
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
  • TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY · TOMSKRussia
  • Triad National Security, LLC · Los AlamosUnited States
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA · GENOVAItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · NapoliItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · PerugiaItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · RomaItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
  • UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN · LOUVAIN LA NEUVEBelgium
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · GainesvilleUnited States

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