The first meeting of the ISRSI consortium was held on the 17th of January. The presentations summarising most of the points discussed can be downloaded from the website: http://www.pg.infn.it/ricerca/esperimenti/spacerad/index.html The most salient points are summarised below. Please read this carefully and send the relevant information as requested. The New ISRSI Proposal will follow the goals set out by ESA Cosmic Visions in order to make a stronger link between the needs of the astronomical/astrophysical community and the technology development that next generation instruments must face.
Best part of the old proposal so will not change significantly. A stronger presence from the aerospace industry would be beneficial to the goals of the bid, specifically in relation to the trans national access and the infrastructures and skills transferable between the research community and industry and vice versa. Working groups 1-8 will remain almost unchanged. A suggestion is to remove Working Group 6 which should be covered by the trans national access. Working group 1 may be split into two one on benchmarking and one of development of detector technologies in support of ESA Cosmic Visions. WG1 Innovative detectors for ESA Cosmic Visions Please remember to indicate which working groups you would like to participate in. Infrastructures and Trans National Access The project will focus on the exploitation of existing infrastructures in order to achieve its goals. The infrastructures will be in the form of several small world class facilities that already service the detector development community and have the expertise required to assist in the development of the detectors described in the JRAs. These include specialised laboratories, accelerator facilites, foundries, X-ray test facilities, etc... . The infrastructures must have skilled personnel to provide necessary support. Infrastructures can also refer to skills, samples and analysis of samples, the provision of support in the form of experimental-based consultancies. The development of new infrastructure accessible by the community will be covered in the JRAs and will be in the form of instrumentation, technology and new skills or techniques developed. Joint Research Activities The focus of the JRAs in the proposal will be development of innovative detectors for photon detection ranging from hard X-rays to IR. These are described below. JRAs will be small and focused. JRA0 High speed, high resolution electronics for pixellated Si detectors
JRA0 is currently a Germany, UK led JRA and it is not assigned a number because it is not yet clear whether it will be a stand alone JRA or included in the Si Photomultiplier JRA or possibly Pixel Array JRA. It will be clearer once the written case is drafted including the costs and work packages. The idea of fusing the two cryogenic detector JRAs was discussed given the synergy between the two. We agreed that now is too soon to decide, we need to look at the synergy between the two cryogenic detector JRAs and the work packages before deciding whether to merge them or not. If they were to remain separate, SRON would act as a point of contact between two JRAs and possibly use the trans national access component to exploit the synergy between two JRAs. Actions The stronger commitment from ESA, action on the Leicester group to pursue this. Action on the editorial board to determine the facilities which should be included in the infrastructures and trans national access component of the proposal, with strong links to the Joint Research Activities. Please contact facilities in respective countries and and ask to complete the attached trans national access forms and A2 forms, also forward details of single point of contact. Action on SRON, IASF Roma, and Universita` Roma 1 to contact Cardiff and Cambridge groups to discuss joining the ISRSI consortium specifically with regard to the cryogenic detector projects. Action on Leicester to submit “intent to submit” a proposal to FP6 Infrastrctures programme before 3 February 2005. Suggestion to find a new name for the consortium.
All members of ISRSI should send updated information regarding your institute or company involved in the the proposal and your specific area of interest together with a description of your facilities. Please send information regarding the parts of the proposal you are interested in only if you can genuinely make a contribution. Please keep this as concise as possible. Also please fill in the A2 form and List of Participants attached including in the latter your specific area of research and interest, your role in the consortium, facilities, number of staff members and breakdown but no names (eg: researchers, postdocs, technical etc...). If involved in the JRAs please forward These are required fields to include: To reduce the list of JRA participants if there is an umbrella research entity that covers more than one institute please select a lead institute and two representatives and refer to the other institutes in name only, this is to prevent long lists of names in the proposal. Committee Selection Editorial Board Reza Ansari/Stavros Katsanevas (FR)
Henk Hoevers (NETH)
Network - Gille Trans-national Access - Ambrosi JRA0 Ambrosi, Strueder
Next meeting is a working workshop on 3-4 February in Leicester and only open to the editorial board and advisors. Final Draft should be ready 21 February 2005. Submission by 3 March 2005. Regards
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