Day 1, Tuesday 16 March 2010

Introduction and welcome

8:30 -- 8:35 Welcome and organisatorial issues; Bruno Soares Gonçalves

8:35 -- 8:50 Introduction and goals of Workshop; Bruno Soares Gonçalves (EFDA-JET)

• explain technical challenges

• identification of common interests

• tasks of session chairs: o distillation of development items o identification of possible collaborations

• exploration of collaboration study potential

• constraints of development planning (planning cycles, budget constraints, etc) Introduction of each participating organization

• Relevant organisational structure

• Funding structure, approval and procurement process

• Relevant programmatic constraints, technology planning cycles

• Expectations from the workshop

8:50 -- 9:05 CERN, Philippe Farthouat

9:10 -- 9:25 Joint European Torus - JET, A. Murari

9:30 -- 9:45 ESA, Chistian Erd

9:50 -- 10:10 European Spalation Source, Francois Plewinski (ESS)

Coffee

Session 1: Radiation Environments; Markus Brugger

10:30 -- 10:45 Challenges arising from the Super-LHC project -- Nigel Hessey (CERN)

• Plans to increase the beam intensity of the LHC leading to 10 imes higher radiation levels)

• Typical radiation fields

• shielding efforts

• benchmarking requirements

10:50 -- 11:05 Monte Carlo Simulations of Radiation Fields in Accelerator Environments -- Markus Brugger (CERN)

• Radiation Field Estimation

• summary of simulation tools and their use/relevance in design

• benchmarking of transport models and comparison with measurements

11:10 -- 11:25: Radiation Shielding in Accelerator environments -- Helmut Vincke (CERN)

• shielding strategies at high-energy accelerators

• calculation methods for shielding design

• benchmarking of shielding calculations and comparison with measurements

11:30 -- 12:00: Space radiation environment and shielding -- Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

 • Trapped particles

• Galactic cosmic rays

• Solar particles

• Particle transport through matter

• Planetary environment

• modelling tools

• shielding assessment

• range of radiation levels encountered and typical radiation environment

• benchmarking of transport models and comparison with measurements

12:05 -- 12:25: Radiation environment and shielding for fusion -- Andrea Murari (EFDA-JET)

• Typical radiation environment

• methods used for shielding

• comparison of measurements with calculations

12:30 -- 12:50: The problem of determining the radiation field in a fusion machine and its implications for radiation hardness studies -- B. Syme (EFDA-JET)

• radiation damage processes at fusion machines

• models, methods and codes used for damage estimations

• benchmark measurements and requirements

Lunch

Session 2: Standardization, Radiation Hardness Assurance & Qualification (policy and requirements); Christian Poivey

14:00 -- 14:15 Space radiation hardness assurance -- Christian Poivey (ESA)

• Component selection • Shielding & radiation level calculation

• Simulation tools

• Testing • Degradation prediction

• Mitigation techniques

• System impact

14:20 -- 14:35 Standardisation & qualification for space -- Jonh Wong (ESA)

• test methods and applicable standards

• Description of ESCC and ECSS systems (radiation related standards)

• Radiation related qualification flow of components

14:40 -- 15:00 Status of ECI and other European qualifcation programs -- John Wong (ESA)

15:05 -- 15:30 Radiation hardness policy in LHC experiments -- Francis Anghinolfi (CERN)

• Radiation levels
   * Components hardness or tolerance strategies
   * Test program
   * Components database : utility and limitations

15:35 -- 16:25 Discussion

• compilation of common standardization issues

Tea

Session 3: Materials; Federico Ravotti

• Space environment effect on materials

• Characterisation of new materials

• New challenges (planetary missions)

• Approach to testing and test facilities

• possibilities for collaboration

17:10 -- 17:30 Material damage studies at CERN (Testprogram performed for the LHC project) -- Marc Tavlet (CERN)

• Characterisation of materials

• Approach to testing and test facilities

• possibilities for collaboration

17:35 -- 17:50 In-orbit testing of Materials and Components -- Christopher Semprimoschnig (ESA)

• MEDET testing

• Proba 2 Single event effect technology module

• Lessons learned, future opportunities

17:55 -- 18:30 Discussion

• identification of common concerns

• common material testing requirements

• identification of elements for common roadmap

Day 2, Wednesday 17 March 2010

Session 4: Components; Francis Anghinolfi

8:30 -- 9:00 Design techniques and tools for the radiation hardening of ASIC and FPGA -- Agustin Fernandez-Leon (ESA)

• Radiation Hard by Design (RHBD) concept and techniques

• commercial ASIC processes with RHBD libraries

• FPGA technology options and tools to improve and quantify mitigation • How to handle COTS for space applications

• FPGA

• SEEU mitigation and recovery techniques

• ongoing developments, interests and plans

• possibilities for collaboration

9:05 -- 9:35 Radiation related challenges for space applications -- Christian Poivey (ESA)

• Concerns regarding current technologies (MOSFET, MESFET, etc)

• New technologies (DSM, GaN, SiC...)

• possibilities for collaboration

09:40 -- 10:00 The technology of CVD diamond detectors for fusion -- M. Angelone or Mario Pillon (EFDA)

10:05 -- 10:30 LHC experiments: a large scale application of HBD for ASICs -- Federico Faccio (CERN)

   * Principles used in Design Hardening ASICs for LHC
   * Advantages and inconveniences
   * Prototyping and production of ASICs(Foundry Services)
   * Moving to 130-90 nm CMOS
   * Current R&D activities in rad-tolerant ASIC designs

Coffee

10:50 -- 11:20 Radiation damage in optoelectronic components and optical fibers -- Jan Troska (CERN)

11:25 -- 11:50 Evaluating SEU sensitivity in the LHC environment -- Federico Faccio (CERN)

* Is SEU a problem in the LHC radiation environment?
   * Computational method to estimate SEU rates in LHC experiments
   * Benchmarking: using data of available components to test the approach
   * Consequences for testing and qualification

11:55 -- 12:40 Discussion

• identification of common concerns

• common material testing requirements

• identification of elements for common roadmap

Lunch

Session 5: Facilities; M. Watkins (EFDA-JET)

14:00 -- 14:25 Irradiation Test facilities and methods for component testing -- Christian Poivey (ESA)

 • Overview of the European capabilities

• Challenges of the future

• on-In-orbit testing of components

• Test approach and challenges

14:30 -- 14:45 Present and future Irradiation Facilities at CERN -- Michael Moll (CERN)

14:50 -- 15:05 Testing and Qualification of electronic components for accelerators - Thijs Wijnands (CERN)

15:10 -- 15:30 Irradiation test facilities for fusion -- Sehila M. Gonzalez (EFDA)

Tea

16:20 -- 17:05 Discussion

• identification of common facility requriements

WORKSHOP DINNER

Day 3, Thursday 18 March 2010

Session 6: Radiation Monitoring; Petteri Nieminen

9:00 -- 9:30 Dosimetry and radiation monitoring(for Instrumentation protection) at CERN -- Thijs Wijnands (CERN)

9:35 -- 10:05 Dosimetry and radiation monitoring for space applications -- Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

• Radiation monitor classification

• Examples of existing instruments

• Calibration and data analyses activities

• Future prospects

10:10 -- 10:30 Calculation of shutdown dose rate for fusion devices -- Sara Villari (EFDA-JET)

Coffee

10:50 -- 11:30 Discussion

• compilation of standard monitoring requirements

 • identification of elements for common roadmap

Lunch

Session 7: Roadmaps (summary by session chairs); Christian Erd

14:00 -- 14:15 Radiation Environments and benchmarking; Markus Brugger

14:20 -- 14:35 Standardization, Radiation Hardness Assurance & Qualification; Christian Poivey

• summary of issues defined

• programmatics and combined developement plans

14:40 -- 14:55 Materials; Federico Ravotti

• summary of issues defined

• programmatics and combined developement plans

15:00 -- 15:15 Components; Francis Anghinolfi

• summary of issues defined

• programmatics and combined developement plans

15:20 -- 15:35 Facilities; Michael Watkins

• summary of issues defined

• programmatics and combined developement plans

Tea

16:00 -- 16:15 Radiation monitoring; Petteri Nieminen

Session 8: Wrap-up and way forward; Bruno Soares Gonçalves

16:20 -- 16:45 Next steps and conclusions