Programme
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
16:45 -- 17:05 Materials in space environment -- Christopher Semprimoschnig(ESA)• 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