Particle physics tools to push the boundaries of knowledge
08/03/2019

View of the ATLAS calorimeters from below (Image: CERN)

From the European Commisions’ website:

Detectors at the accelerators of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) help answer big questions about the Universe and support advances in fields such as medical technology. An EU-funded project is fostering collaboration on detector development to boost such scientific progress.

'Projects like AIDA-2020 combine intellectual, infrastructural and financial resources and allow researchers to make best use of public funding by promoting common goals for international collaboration and transfer of knowledge to industry,' says project coordinator Felix Sefkow from the DESY research centre in Germany. 'AIDA-2020 exploits the innovation potential of detector research. The project engages with European industry for large-scale production of detector systems and aims to develop applications for fields outside of particle physics, such as medical imaging and treatment, space radiation monitoring and x-ray imaging for non-destructive testing.'

Read the full article at the European Commission website: ec.europa.eu/news/article_18_AIDA2020