Advancing European detector development

CALICE 1m3 semi digital hadronic calorimeter, now in beam tests at CERN

The AIDA project addresses infrastructures required for detector development for future particle physics experiments. In line with the European strategy for particle physics, AIDA targets user communities preparing experiments at a number of key potential future accelerators: SLHC (luminosity-upgraded LHC), future Linear Colliders (ILC and CLIC), future accelerator-driven neutrino facilities or future B-physics facilities (e.g. Super-B).

The infrastructures covered by the AIDA project are key facilities required for an efficient development of the future experiments, such as: test beam infrastructures (at CERN and DESY), specialised equipment irradiation facilities (in several European countries), common software tools, common microelectronics tools and engineering coordination offices. The project, coordinated by CERN, involves more than 80 institutes and laboratories from 23 countries as beneficiaries or associate partners. Read more >>

European funding to access test facilities

European researchers from outside the AIDA project can benefit from dedicated Transnational Access funding to access AIDA test beams and irradiation facilities. Read more >>