1. ARIES A new Integrating Activity for Particle Accelerators
Maurizio Vretenar
EUSC
09 March 2016

2. ARIES What is ARIES Accelerator Research and Innovation for European
New Integrating Activity (IA) for European Particle Accelerators, presently in the final preparation stage. To be submitted on March 30th to the EC call H2020- INFRAIA (Integrating and opening Research Infrastructures of European interest). Success rate 60% built into the call (27 communities, 160 M€ budget). Competitors from all fields of science. 4th in a series of accelerator IA’s started in 2004 (CARE – EuCARD – EuCARD2). Requested EC funding 10 M€, total budget 24 M€ (42% rate). Duration of 4 years (May 2017-April 2021), starting at the end of EuCARD participants from 18 EU countries; coordination by CERN.
ARIES
Accelerator
Research and
Innovation for
European
Science and Society

3. 12 years of EU support to accelerators
Proposals coordinated by the ESGARD (now TIARA) Committee
Integrating Activities
Design Studies,
Preparatory Phases
CARE 01/2004 – 12/2008
5 years, 15.2 M€ EC contribution
FP6
EuroNu DS, 2008/12, 4M€
SLHC-PP, 2008/11, 5.2M€
EuCARD 04/2009 – 03/2013
4 years, 10.0 M€ EC contribution
ILC-HiGrade, 2008/12, 5M€
TIARA-PP, 2011/13, 3.9M€
FP7
HiLumi LHC, 2011/15, 4.9M€
Reduced budget for general R&D, increasing competition
EuCARD-2 05/2013 – 04/2017
4 years, 8.0 M€ EC contribution
EuroCirCol, 2015/19, 3M€ ?
EuPRAXIA, 2015/19, 3M€
ARIES 05/2017 – 04/2021
4 years, 10 M€ EC request
H2020
61 M€ in 12 years for particle accelerator research

4. 18 WP’s: 8 Networks 5 Transnational Access, 5 Joint Research Activities.
Project structure

5. ARIES objectives
To develop novel concepts and technologies with the aim of increasing performance, affordability, reliability and sustainability of next generation accelerators.
To further the integration of the particle accelerator community, by establishing new geographical and interdisciplinary connections between accelerator laboratories, universities and industries.
To promote innovation, by setting up co-innovation programmes with industry, feeding back from industry to the accelerator field, and promoting societal applications of accelerators.
To ensure the long term sustainability of particle accelerator research by defining scenarios and strategic roadmaps and by enhancing the scientific and technical training for young European researchers.

6. The concept

7. EC request by country
Country
EC request %
CERN
1,770,519.00
17.7%
ESS
64,800.00
0.6%
Austria
91,250.00
0.9%
Belgium
85,000.00
France
1,550,607.64
15.5%
Germany
2,811,694.50
28.1%
Hungary
46,250.00
0.5%
Italy
623,375.00
6.2%
Latvia
287,000.00
2.9%
Malta
50,000.00
Netherlands
114,375.00
1.1%
Poland
197,000.00
2.0%
Portugal
83,500.00
0.8%
Romania
Slovakia
90,000.00
Slovenia
Spain
143,000.00
1.4%
Sweden
381,677.00
3.8%
Switzerland
278,313.00
2.8% UK
598,821.00
6.0%
User support
592,817.86
5.9%
Total
10,000,000.00
100%
18 European countries, 6 new in accelerator projects
(Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia)

8. The CERN involvement Motivation:
CERN has limited resources to invest in long-term accelerator R&D
Objectives:
Integrate the CERN strategic R&D directions into a wider European effort
Maintain potentially useful contacts with other R&D axis
Integrate and structure a network of competences and institutes that can be useful for future projects.
However:
To avoid the argument of double funding, CERN does not ask funding for its approved (MTP) activities.
Funding to CERN goes only to management, coordination, user support, some fellows for general studies.
As for the last two IA projects, CERN provides the central management and coordination (coordinator, assistant, administrative and financial support)

9. CERN strategic R&D directions in ARIES
High Temperature Superconductors
Thin films and low loss for SC cavities
Materials for collimators
Electron lenses
Plus activity on energy efficiency, isotope production, beam optimisation, diagnostics, etc.

10. CERN summary Involved in 15 Workpackages Total cost 7.9 M€
EC funding 1.99 M€
Low funding rate because CERN does not charge operational costs for TA facilities (3 M€)
Personnel 299 pm = 25 PY in 4 years
(6.3 FTE: 1.5 management, 0.7 communication/KT, 1.5 fellows, 2.5 ATS staff)

11. CERN budget
Travel 273’000
Support 693’000 (workshops, common pot, funding for partner organisations)
User support 217’000 (Transnational access)
Fellows (50%) 300’000
Assistant 300’000
Total request 1’783’000
17.5% overheads for FI
excluding user support 274’000
Final total 2’057’000
EC contribution 1’990’000
Total
Person months
298.60
Personnel costs
2,607,800.00
Travel
273,200.00
Equipment & consumables
170,000.00
Other direct costs
692,671.00
User support
217,317.50
Sub-contracting
0.00
Material direct costs
1,353,188.50
Direct costs (excluding access)
3,960,988.50
Indirect costs
990,247.13
Full Access costs
2,952,905.60
Access costs (Annex 2)
Total costs
7,904,141.23
Requested EC contribution
1,987,836.50

12. Additional slides

13. ARIES participants
Laboratories and research institutions hosting large accelerator infrastructures
Universities and research centres
Industries and industrial associations
Total
Based in the high-technology European hub: DE, UK, FR, IT, CH
PSI, DESY, GSI, KIT, CEA, CNRS, SOLEIL, CERN, INFN, STFC
UNIGE, JGU, SIEGEN, HZB, IAP, FAU, POLITO, POLIMI, UOXF, HUD
FEP, HIT, BRUKER, CNI, BREVETTI 25
Based in other EU-15 countries: BE, NL, PT, ES, AT, SE
ESS, ALBA
CIEMAT, UT, UU, UL, IST
RHP, IBA 9
Based in other EU countries: HU, LT, MT, PL, RO, SI, SK
WIGNER RCP, RTU, UM, WUT, INCT, ELI-NP, IEE/SAS
COSYLAB 8 12 22 42
42 beneficiaries from 18 European countries (+CERN and ESS).
Objective: building bridges between laboratories, university and industry and between the technological hub of Europe and its dynamic periphery.
New in accelerator IA’s: Portugal, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.