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Effective Theories for Strong Interactions: Precision Tools to Meet Experiment (EFTSTRONG)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The strong force is one of the four fundamental interactions of nature. It is responsible for binding together the constituents of atomic nuclei and for making up the vast majority of the mass of the visible universe. According to present understanding, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory governing strong interactions. Understanding how QCD gives rise to the whole complex phenomenology of n ...
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A Study on Particle Accelerator Components Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometre scale (PACMAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"With new accelerators delivering beams always smaller and more energetic, requirements for very precise beam alignment become more and more challenging. After the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its planned upgrade, proposed lepton linear colliders require unprecedented tolerances of beam alignment at nanometre level.PACMAN, a study on Particle Accelerator Components Metrology and Alignment to t ...
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Fast Tracker for Hadron Collider Experiments (FTK)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"This project aims to develop an extremely fast but compact processor, with supercomputer performances, for pattern recognition, data reduction, and information extraction in high quality image processing.The proposed hardware prototype features flexibility for potential applications in a wide range of fields, from triggering in high energy physics to simulating human brain functions in experiment ...
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Intel-CERN European Doctorate Industrial Program (ICE-DIP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"ICE-DIP, the Intel-CERN European Doctorate Industrial Program, is an EID scheme hosted by CERN and Intel Labs Europe. ICE-DIP offers research training to 5 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The technical goal of this program is to research and develop, through a public-private partnership, unparalleled capabilities in the domain of high t ...
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Training Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics (MCnetITN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

We propose a multi-site ITN consisting of 8 Full and 3 Associated Partners that will deliver a total of 500 ESR-months of training in the physics and techniques of Monte Carlo event generators to a total of at least 15 long-term and 40 short-term appointed researchers.Monte Carlo event generators are central to high energy particle physics. They are used by almost all experimental collaborations t ...
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Precision Higgs Boson Self-Coupling Measurements (HIGGSSELFCOUPLING)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"What is perhaps the most important piece of our theory of elementary particles and their interactions, aptly named the ""Standard Model"" (SM), has finally been discovered. The discovery of this particle, the Higgs boson, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), marked the culmination of years of hard work by thousands of experimental and theore ...
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Directions for BSM Physics after the First Run of the LHC (BSMAFTERLHC8)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In the proposed project, various aspects of the phenomenology of physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) will be analyzed, aiming to an improvement in our understanding of what might complete the SM at high energies.After the first run of the LHC, with the discovery of a Higgs boson, valuable new information about possible extensions of the SM is available. Thus, a first emphasis of the project is ...
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CLOUD Initial Training Network (CLOUD TRAIN) (CLOUD-TRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The aim of “CLOUD-TRAIN” is to establish a multi-site network of Early Stage Researchers (here predominantly PhD students) and Experienced Researchers at 10 partner institutions across Europe. The role of aerosol nucleation for atmospheric CCN levels, clouds and climate is investigated. The influence of various vapours and ions for aerosol nucleation, growth and cloud processes is studied to sign ...
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Conformal Bootstrap Methods and their applications (BOOTSTRAP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The conformal bootstrap methods are an exciting and fast-growing area of research, constituting a definite break-away from the more traditional (and often less rigorous) ways of studying systems at criticality. They provide us with a unique tool for exploring strongly coupled theories which are otherwise inaccessible, by using the powerful constraints of conformal symmetry. The European Union has ...
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Education in advanced VR/AR Safety Systems for Maintenance in Extreme Environments (EDUSAFE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The Edusafe project is a 4-year ITN with 10 ESR and 2 ER researchers, which focuses on research into the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) during planned and emergency maintenance in extreme environments (nuclear installations, space, deep sea etc). The scientific objective of this project is research into advanced VR and AR technologies for a personnel safety system platform ...
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Advanced Radiation Dosimetry European Network Training initiative (ARDENT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

ARDENT is a multi-site ITN that will provide training for 15 ESRs in the field of advanced instrumentation for radiation dosimetry. This training initiative is founded on actions aiming to strengthen and enrich international cooperation amongst all partners involved (7 Full and 5 Associate), promoting the technological transfer of the research results to industry through the active involvement of ...
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Flavour Violation in Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model (SUSYFLAVOUR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

This research belongs to the field of theoretical flavour physics, which is a branch of particle physics. It is carried out as a 2-year fellowship in the Theory group of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.The standard model of particles physics (SM) describes three fundamental interactions acting between the fundamental constituents of matter, the quarks and l ...
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Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironment Technologies (TALENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"TALENT is a 4-year multi-site training network aiming at career development of young researchers on design, construction, manufacturing, testing and commissioning of innovative radiation hard detector modules and novel scientific instruments. TALENT provides, to 15 ESRs and 2 ERs, training for deep understanding of the complexity of scientific instrument building from theoretical design until ind ...
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Pico-second Silicon photomultiplier-Electronics- & Crystal research-Marie-Curie-Network (PicoSEC-MCNet)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

We propose to establish a special detector-training network aiming to extend the application of cutting-edge technologies developed in High Energy Physics (HEP) to other domains, such as medical imaging. A large number of detector techniques, developed for and used in particle physics experiments, has been transferred successfully to other fields. Most prominent are their applications in medicine, ...
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optimization of Particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training Network (oPAC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

There are more than fifteen thousand particle accelerators in the world, ranging from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. For many decades these scientific instruments have formed one of the main pillars of modern research across scientific disciplines ...
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LAsers for Applications at Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork (LA3-NET)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. Ever higher laser beam powers, brightness and shorter pulse lengths have helped establish them as an invaluable tool for both a wide range of industry and medical applications, such as for example material treatment, precision measurements, laser cutting, display technologies, and las ...
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COFUNDing of the CERN Fellowship Programme 2010 (COFUND-CERN-2010)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

For many years, CERN has operated a trans-national Fellowship programme, offering scientists and engineers challenging opportunities in particle physics research, and in related fields of physics and technology. The COFUND action offers CERN a timely opportunity to enhance the mobility element of this programme, which is open to nationals of all countries. This opportunity comes at a time when the ...
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Preventing hUman intervention for incREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation (PURESAFE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The network of PURESAFE – Preventing hUman intervention for incrREased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation, aims at enhancing career development and training of 15 Early-Stage Researchers in the field of systems engineering. The program trains young researchers from multidisciplinary fields, such as mechanical engineering, software engineering and robotics for the purpose of cost ...
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Research Training in 3D Digital Imaging for Cancer Radiation Therapy (ENTERVISION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The vision on a future high-precision radiation therapy utilizing either particle or photon beams is a treatment on a technological level which allows for: (1) obtaining information on relevant tumour parameters (volume, position, topology, density - also of the surrounding tissue) during every moment of therapeutic irradiation; (2) adapting the treatment plan in real time; and (3) initiating the ...
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Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE (CATHI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

CATHI is a mono-site ITN with CERN as main host institution, offering research training in the application of advanced accelerator technology, beam instrumentation, ultra-high vacuum, cryogenics, radiation protection and advanced material technologies in one of Europe’s leading Radioactive Ion Beam facilities (ISOLDE) at CERN, and its future upgrade (HIE-ISOLDE).The proposed upgrade, which consist ...
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The phenomenology of Inflation (Inflation-pheno)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Inflationary cosmology as a theory of the very early universe remains a paradigm in search of a theory in which it is realized in a fully consistent manner.Observationally, we are currently confronted with a wealth of data that seems to confirm the simplest realizations of this paradigm. Theoretically, we are still searching for a convincing realization of inflation that consistently embeds itself ...
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IAPP MeChanICs - Marie Curie linking Industry to CERN (MECHANICS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The aim of Marie Curie linking Industry to CERN (MeChanICs) is to enhance knowledge exchange in the field of precision manufacturing. The project gathers five specialised precision manufacturer companies of excellence, of which one is an SME, to enhance their existing research and technology development (RTD) efforts with the University of Helsinki (UH) and CERN. The mechanisms used for the transf ...
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UNIFICATION IN THE LHC ERA (UNILHC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The main research theme of the proposed network is the theoretical interpretation of results coming from the LHC and other experimental and observational sources. The aim is to identify the physics Beyond the Standard Model of strong, weak and electromagnetic forces and ultimately to provide a fully unified description of the fundamental states of matter and their interactions. We will investigat ...
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Precision Parton Distributions for New Physics Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider (DISCOVERY@LHC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"In the next few years very significant progress is expected in the understanding of fundamental interactions, due to information coming from experiments at the LHC collider at CERN. The LHC will pose an unprecedented challenge: to discover new physical phenomena using methods which have so far been used for precision studies of phenomena which are already known. This challenge requires a radical ...
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Search for new long-lived elementary particles decaying to tau leptons in the CMS Experiment (Long-Lived Particles)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

I intend to search for new long-lived elementary particles decaying to tau leptons in the CMS Experiment tracker volume. To accomplish this I will extend the capabilities of the current state-of-the-art detection systems for charged particle “tracking” to enable the inclusion of significantly displaced tau. Initiating such a search gives me the understanding of any limitations in the current syste ...
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Cofunding of the CERN Fellowship Programme (COFUND-CERN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

For many years, CERN has operated a trans-national Fellowship programme, offering scientists and engineers challenging opportunities in particle physics research, and in related fields of physics and technology. The COFUND action offers CERN a timely opportunity to enhance the mobility element of this programme, which is open to nationals of all countries. This opportunity comes at a time when the ...
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Marie Curie Training Network on Particle Detectors (MC-PAD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"The challenging questions of particle physics, like the origin of mass, the existence of new forms and states of matter, can only be addressed in technically complex and expensive large-scale research facilities. Well coordinated international effort is required to design, build and operate world class infrastructure comprising accelerators of highest energy and/or intensity and detector systems ...
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Precision study of W bosons pair production in association with jets at High Energy Colliders (SAMURAI-apps)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

With the beginning of the experimental programs at the LHC, the need to describe multi-particle scattering events with high accuracy has become more pressing. On the theoretical side, perturbative calculation within leading order precision cannot be sufficient, therefore accounting for effects due to Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) corrections becomes mandatory.In the last few years, tremendous progre ...
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"Data Acquisition, Electronics, and Optoelectronics for LHC Experiments" (ACEOLE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"We propose a mono-site Initial Training Network (ITN) with CERN as main host institution, and offering research training in the application of advanced microelectronics, optoelectronics, networking and real-time data processing technologies in the world’s state-of-the-art particle detector systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and a future upgraded Super-LHC (SLHC). This ITN will help stren ...
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Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"A Particle Training Network for European Radiotherapy (PARTNER) will be established in response to the critical need for reinforcing research in ion therapy and the training of professionals in the rapidly emerging field of hadron therapy. This is an interdisciplinary, multinational initiative, which has the primary goal of training researchers who will help to improve the overall efficiency of i ...
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Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section (Jet X Section)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The goal of this proposal is to contribute to the measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in the ATLAS detector at 10TeV using the proton-proton collisions of the LHC. The aim is to profit my experience in the US with jet calibration and bring it to Europe. In addition the wide experience of the CERN scientists in the field will help me to boost my career as a physicist. The work plan is fi ...
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CLOUD Initial Training Network (CLOUD-ITN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"The aim of the proposed Marie Curie Initial Training Network is to establish a multi-site network of early stage researchers (ESRs, here predominantly PhD students) at 9 partner institiutions across Europe to investigate various aspects of the interactions of cosmic rays with aerosols and clouds, which bears on the possibility of a ""solar indirect"" contribution to climate change. Besides the i ...
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novel DIagnostic Techniques for future particle Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork (DITANET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The Council of the European Union expressively welcomed the development of a first European roadmap for research infrastructures. The aim of this recently published roadmap was to identify vital new infrastructures that are crucial for the future European research area, in particular for capacity building. These multi-disciplinary projects require substantial investments, forty percent of which ...
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Nuclear structure studies of neutron-deficient nuclei in light Pb region using radioactive ion beams (HEAVYRIB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"It is proposed that an IEF Fellow should work at the CERN-ISOLDE laboratory for pioneering nuclear physics experiments utilizing heavy radioactive beam from the REX-ISOLDE post-accelerator. The nuclear structure of heavy neutron-deficient nuclei will be studied via Coulomb excitation employing the novel MINIBALL gamma-ray detector array and the CD particle detector system. The Fellow will be resp ...
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Determination of proton parton densities using early LHC data and of contrains on new physics beyond the Standard Model (Lepton Pairs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will collide protons at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV. The combination of its high collision rate and centre-of-mass energy will make it possible to probe new interactions at very short distances. Such interactions might be revealed in the production of cross-sections of particles at very high transverse momentum as a deviation from the Standard Model. H ...
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Heavy Ion Collisions and Strings at CERN (HICSCERN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"The present project aims at studying the fundamental properties of matter close to the deconfinement phase transition of QCD. To do so, we explore a new theoretical development, the AdS/CFT correspondence, which allows us to study the physics of strongly coupled plasmas by string theory techniques. With this new tool, we shall address the propagation of probes in strongly coupled matter, as well ...
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Probing Chiral Perturbation Theory from realistic two-flavour Lattice QCD simulations (LATQCD-CHIPT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

"Research objectives and content: we propose to apply recently developed non-perturbative techniques for the simulation of two-flavour QCD with sea quark masses at physical values in order to investigate the convergence properties of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChiPT) in pi-pi scattering and other light-quark physics quantities. Our approach is based on the Wilson formulation of the fermionic QCD ...
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Muon reconstruction and trigger optimization towards early beyond the Standard Model discovery at the LHC with the CMS detector (CMSMuRecoTrigBSM)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

The work proposed here has a three-fold scope: 1. Optimize muon reconstruction at CMS on a muon-by-muon basis such that the best possible resolution and efficiency is achieved across all momentum and rapidity ranges. 2. Investigate and implement non-standard use of the information from the muon detectors enabling a time-of-flight measurement. 3. Study the muon trigger requirements and trigger p ...
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