co-Conveners

The objective is to develop strategic planning and engagement that promote applications and technology transfers of knowledge gained in particle physics research. In addition, we would like to develop and improve mechanisms to disseminate impacts.

The preliminary version of the report is here Report version after feedback from Summer Study Workshop here

Application and Industry topical group is considering the relationship between HEP laboratories, Universities, and Industrial stakeholders. In particular, there are two objectives under consideration: (1)how do we maximize the HEP funded research outcomes which benefit practical applications, and (2) how to engage the industry to develop the technology base in support of the long term HEP programs.

Below is the list of the specific white papers:

1. Nurturing the Industrial Accelerator Technology Base in the US
Lead author: Alan Todd, ammtodd[at]gmail.com
The purpose of this white paper is to discuss the importance of having a world class domestic industrial vendors base, capable of supporting the needs of the accelerator facilities, and necessary steps to support and develop such base i n the United States. The paper focuses on the economic, regulatory, and policy-driven barriers and hurdles, which presently limit the depth and scope of the broader industrial participation in the accelerator construction projects, discusses international competition landscape, and steps to improve the strength and vitality of the domestic industrial sector in this field.

2. FLASH Radiation Therapy
Lead author: Reinhard Schulte, rschulte[at]llu.edu; Carol J Johnstone, cjj[at]fnal.gov
The purpose of this white paper is to discuss challenges and opportunities in the emerging field of FLASH radiation therapy (FLASH-RT). FLASH-RT refers to ultra-high dose rate delivery of therapeutic radiation doses within microseconds to a fraction of a second. At these dose rates, radiation-induced side effects are greatly reduced, but tumors are not spared. The white paper will cover promising advances in the accelerator and detector technologies, which could potentially accelerate the development and practical realization of FLASH-RT.

3. Collaboration between industry and the HEP community
Lead author: David Bruhwiler, bruhwiler[at]radiasoft.net
Effective long-term collaboration between national laboratories, academia and industry will lead to important benefits for the entire HEP community. Labs and universities will have access to better software with lower lifecycle costs. Companies will be strengthened by knowledge transfer from labs and universities. Computational scientists will be able to concentrate on core competencies, without spending time on UI design, ease of use, cloud computing, etc. Society will reap the benefits of better science, more innovation, and stronger businesses. State-of-the-art simulation codes will become readily available to students. Training time and associated costs will be reduced, as new team members will become productive more quickly. This will contribute to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), as barriers to entry are removed for scientists in developing countries and for those at US institutions with less federal funding and no direct access to code developers.

4. Engaging with Scaleups
Lead author: Ash Ravikumar, CERN
Most National labs have established programs to work with startups and large companies. The gap that has been identified is engaging with Scaleups, which don't fit into either group. This document is a summary of the why, what and how we want to address this.

5. Tech transfer from National Labs
Lead author: Mauricio Suarez, Fermilab
This white paper focusses on how to facilitate start-ups resulting from National Lab IP. How to create a processes for national lab inventors to commercialize their technology.

6. Application-driven engagement with universities leveraging synergies with other funding agencies
Lead author: Jim Hoff, Fermilab, Seda Memik, Northwestern University

This white paper focusses on co-development of applications across various funding agencies. How to enable codevelopment of HEP instrumentation with other office of science experiments as well as beyond DOE initiatives such as for NASA, DARPA, NSF etc. Can engaging Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at Universities typically involved in programs supported by other federal agencies to work on HEP instrumentation be a starting step.

7. Big Industry engagement to benefit HEP: Microelectronics Support from large CAD companies
Lead author: Shaorui Li, Fermilab

The development of modern microelectronics is a highly sophisticated and complex endeavor. There are few companies that have the capabilities to take on this challenge that requires a range of deep expertise in device and circuit performance and their limitations, as well as sophisticated Computer Aided Design (CAD) – Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design for DOE extreme environments such as high ionization radiation or cryogenic temperatures does not have a significant commercial market to engage large companies in developing the required solutions. DOE national labs with academic and other collaborators spearhead the development of next generation instrumentation required for the DOE mission, however one major bottleneck is the access to low cost, high volume microelectronics CAD tools. The European community has established Europractise software by engaging the large CAD companies to provide reserach licenses we are investigating a similar possibility.

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.