Collaboration
Project Management
Within AVA, the project partners will carry out research across three scientific work packages.
The Steering Committee is responsible for the overall network strategy and takes all the decisions concerning the network. It presently consists of the following elected members:
• Facility Design and Optimisation, • Beam Diagnostics, • Antimatter Experiments. The network comprises European expertise in these research areas. It joins universities, national and international research centres with partners from industry.
Dr Michael Doser (CERN, Switzerland) Prof Dr Erich Griesmayer (CIVIDEC Instrumentation GmbH, Austria) Prof Dr Carsten P Welsch (University of Liverpool / Cockcroft Institute, UK) Prof Dr Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute, Austria)
Beneficiary Partners
ACCELERATORS VALIDATING ANTIMATTER PHYSICS
The Steering Committee is supported by a dedicated Project T.E.A.M. from the University of Liverpool, based at the Cockcroft Institute. An elected Fellow representative will join the Steering Committee in due time.
Contact us Prof Dr Carsten P Welsch AVA Coordinator
Associated Partners
Head of Department Department of Physics University of Liverpool L69 7ZE Liverpool, UK c.p.welsch@liverpool.ac.uk
www.ava-project.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721559.
A Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network
Laser based beam diagnostics
Project Overview
Antimatter Matters
Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics (AVA) is the goal of this new network within the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network scheme.
Antimatter experiments are at the cutting edge of science although they are very difficult to realise. The AVA project aims at enabling new antimatter experiments, probing the fundamental laws of nature. The developments within the network will pave the way for entirely new studies that have not been possible to date. The Fellows will jointly tackle these challenges by working across disciplinary and country borders. Furthermore, the close collaboration between industry partners and academic institutions guarantees that the technologically most advanced solutions are actively sought. Results from the network are communicated via the project website and our quarterly newsletter MIRROR.
AVA will enable an interdisciplinary and crosssector program on antimatter facility design and optimisation, advanced beam diagnostics and novel antimatter experiments. The AVA network consists of an international consortium of more than 25 partner organisations who will jointly train 15 early stage researchers.
Research Projects The Fellows will work on the following research projects:
In AVA, antimatter research boldly goes towards physics’ final frontier
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University of Liverpool / Cockcroft Institute Beam stability and life time in low energy storage rings A DMD based beam halo and emittance monitor
Prof Dr Carsten P Welsch
Collision dynamics of correlated quantum systems CERN Generation of cold electrons for an eV electron cooler
CIVIDEC Instrumentation GmbH Novel diamond-based detector for beam characterisation Cosylab d.d. Development of a versatile control system FOTON s.r.o. High stability, rampable power supplies for keV ion beams
Instrumentation and detector beam line and test stand
Image courtesy University of Liverpool
Forschungszentrum Jülich Liquid target-based antiproton detectors GSI Ultra-sensitive beam intensity measurement Reservoir trap to deliver single antiparticles to Penning trap experiments Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) Sympathetic cooling of antiprotons
OEAW – Austrian Academy of Sciences/ Stefan Meyer Institute Ramsey technique to measure ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen Stahl-Electronics Cryogenic detectors for low energy particle detection University of Manchester Optimisation of degrader integration, beam injection and B-field measurements
Training & Events The fundamental core of the training is a dedicated cutting-edge research project for each Fellow at their host institution.
Accelerator magnet
Scintillating fibre detectors
Image courtesy A Zschau, GSI
Image courtesy M. Doser, CERN
A structured combination of local and network-wide training will also be offered within AVA. This includes hands-on training on accelerator facilities, in addition to an international training programme consisting of schools, topical workshops and conferences that will be open to all Fellows, as well as the wider scientific community.