Unveiling CERN's Innovations: Pushing Frontiers and Cultivating Collaboration

1. CERN an (unusual) introduction Rolf-Dieter Heuer Director-General, CERN India and CERN – Visions for Future Collaboration Mumbai 28 February 2011

2. The Mission of CERN Push back the frontiers of knowledge E.g. the secrets of the Big Bang …what was matter like within the first moments of the Universe’s existence? Develop new technologies for accelerators and detectors Information technology - the Web and the GRID Medicine - diagnosis and therapy Train scientists and engineers of tomorrow Unite people from different countries and cultures United Kingdom and CERN / September 2010

3. CERN was founded 1954: 12 European States Today: 20 Member States ~ 2300 staff ~ 790 other paid personnel > 10000 users Budget (2011) ~1000 MCHF • 20 Member States:Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. • 1 Candidate for Accession to Membership of CERN: Romania • 5 Applicants for Membership of CERN: Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey • 8 Observers to Council:India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO • New status of Associate Membership 3

4. Breaking the Walls between Cultures and Nations since 1954

5. Opening the door… • CERN Council opened the door to greater integration in particle physics when it recently unanimously adopted the recommendations to examine the role of CERN in the light of increasing globalization in particle physics. • Particle physics is becoming increasingly integrated at the global level. • Council’s decision contributes to creating the conditions that will enable CERN to play a full role in any future facility wherever in the world it might be. • The key points agreed by Council include: • All states shall be eligible for Membership, irrespective of their geographical location; • A new Associate Membership status is to be introduced to allow non-Member States to establish or intensify their institutional links with CERN; • Associate Membership shall also serve as the obligatory pre-stage to Membership. • Participation in Global Projects wherever sited

6. Primary motivation for research: CURIOSITY • Results of Research: • Fundamental Research ↔ Applied Research • Knowledge / Know-how ↔ Application / Use • Culture ↔ Technology • Primary aim of fundamental research – KNOWLEDGE • Primary aim of applied research – APPLICATIONS • Fundamental and applied research are inseparably connected

7. Fundamental Research • Fundamental research results in gain of knowledge/know-how • But also results in applications • Applications from the research itself (time frame and areas are not predictable) • Applications from the tools and methods needed to perform the research • Fundamental research • Is innovation • Needs innovation • Drives innovation

8. Essential Ingredients to Drive Innovation • A concrete project with ambitious goals & a deadline • Highly competent and motivated teams in all domains and at all levels • Open collaboration with competent partners • Prestigious universities and research institutes • Industrial partners for key technologies • Learning from others, sharing the results freely • Investment in training and education

9. Innovation in Fundamental Research Large scientificprojectsstimulate innovation • Space : Apollo missions, Space Station, Pioneer/Voyager Missions • ParticlePhysics : accelerators in general • at CERN : LEP, LHC Pushing back the frontiers of technology. CERN Examples: • Superconductivity, magnets, cryogenics, vacuum, survey/metrology. • Transport and installation of heavyequipment. • Solid-state detectors resistant to high-intensity radiation. • Large-scaleindustrial control systems. • Electronic and information systems. • Project management and co-ordination.

10. CERN’s Tools – Innovation at all Levels • The world’s most powerful accelerator: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) • A 27 km long tunnel filled with high-tech instruments • Equipped with thousands of superconducting magnets • Accelerates particles to energies never obtained before • Produces particle collisions creating microscopic “big bangs” • Very large sophisticated detectors • Four experiments each the size of a cathedral • Hundred million measurement channels each • Data acquisition systems treating Petabytes per second • Top level computing to distribute and analyse the data • A Computing Grid linking ~200 computer centres around the globe • Sufficient computing power and storage to handle 15 Petabytes per year, making them available to thousands of physicists for analysis

11. CERN Technologies - Innovation Medical imaging Example: medical application Accelerating particle beams Detecting particles Tumour Target Large-scale computing (Grid) Grid computing for medical data management and analysis

12. Detectors for Industry Detection of Container Contents with a Multi-wireChamber (G. Charpak - Nobel Prize Physics 1992)

13. Breaking the Wall of Communication 22 years ago: the Web was born . . . and today ?

14. Breaking the Wall of Communication: yesterday the Web, today the Grid One of the most extensive computer systems in the world… To analyse the data, tens of thousands of computers around the world are being harnessed in the Grid. The laboratory that gave the world the web, is now taking distributed computing a big step further.

15. Large-scale Science Projects • Address - fundamental science questions at the forefront of research and technology • Need - large and sustained infrastructures - global collaboration on long time scales • Provide - unique equipment - challenging requests for high technology and innovation - stimulating ideas which in turn attract good people - occasion to bring people together

16. Age Distribution of Scientists - and where they go afterwards Survey in March 2009 2500 PhD students in LHC experiments They do not all stay: where do they go?

17. “Discovery” of Standard Model Past few decades through synergy of hadron - hadron colliders (e.g. Tevatron) lepton - hadron colliders (HERA) lepton - lepton colliders (e.g. LEP, SLC)

18. Enter a New Era in Fundamental Science Start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), one of the largest and truly global scientific projects ever, is the most exciting turning point in particle physics. CMS LHCb ALICE ATLAS Exploration of a new energy frontier proton-proton collisions at ECMup to 14 TeV LHC ring: 27 km circumference + LHCf, MoEDAL, TOTEM United Kingdom and CERN / May 2009

19. 2010-2013: Decisive Years • Experimental data will take the floor to drive the field to the next steps: • LHC results • 13 (T2K, DChooz, etc..) •  masses (Cuore, Gerda, Nemo…) • Dark Matter searches • ……. • 2012 Update of the • European Strategy for Particle Physics

20. Road beyond the Standard Model Next decades through synergy of hadron - hadron colliders (LHC + upgrades) lepton - hadron colliders (LHeC ??) lepton - lepton colliders (ILC/CLIC ?)

21. Linear e+e-Colliders • The machine which will complement and extend the LHC best, and is closest to be realized, is a Linear e+e- Collider with a collision energy of at least 500 GeV. PROJECTS:  TeV Colliders (CMS energy up to 1 TeV)  Technology ~ready ILC with superconducting cavities  Multi-TeV Collider (CMS energies in multi-TeV range)  R&D CLIC  Two Beam Acceleration

22. Results from LHC will Guide the Way Expect • Period for decision enabling on next steps earliest 2012 (at least) concerning energy frontier • Similar situation concerning neutrino sector Θ13 We are NOW in a new exciting era of accelerator planning-design-construction-running and need • intensified efforts on R&D and technical design work to enable these decisions; • global collaboration and stability on long time scales(don‘t forget: first workshop on LHC was 1984)

23. …Facts today Facilities for HEP (and other sciences) becoming larger and more expensive. Funding not increasing. Fewer facilities realisable. Time scales becoming longer. Laboratories are changing missions.  More coordination and more collaboration required

24. CERN Education Activities 2nd Latin American School of High Energy Physics Mexico, 2003 Scientists at CERN Academic Training Programme School of Computing Norway, 2008 Young Researchers CERN School of High Energy Physics CERN School of Computing CERN Accelerator School Physics Students Summer Students Programme CERN Teacher Schools International and National Programmes

25. CERN Education Activities CERN Teacher Programme Participants: 1998 – December 2010 CERN / February 2011

26. CERN Education Activities CERN / February 2011

27. Large-scale Science Projects - Summary - address fundamental science questions - stimulate general interest - fascinate and inspire - stimulate fantasy - increase knowledge - educate - train scientists and engineers for tomorrow - drive innovation and technology - are global by nature - need international collaboration and understanding - need giving and sharing

28. Today, the LHC is attracting immense attention, it is possibly THE most watched science project CERN is in the spotlight of the general public, the journalists, and, and, and . . . Fascinating Science • Fascinating science • Addresses long standing questions of mankind • Forefront science • Forefront technologies • Sociological experiment Why?

29. Sociology Large International Collaborations • a place where people learn to work together • collaboration and competition • diversity: good opportunity to recognize differences, accept them and learn to use them • influence the way of thinking, planning at general level • information sharing: role of computing in internationalization and communication • experience can be used by individuals and in other fields  management through ‘common goals’  management by ‘convincing partners’

30. CERN –Innovate, discover, publish, share … and bring the world together