Integrating Space Radiation Sensing Infrastructures ISRSI

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• Integrating Space Radiation Sensing
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Review of Old ISRSI Proposal
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Programme and Goals

• Original ISRSI I3 activity (actually I2
  activity)
• Coordinated Action (Network)
• Joint Research Activities
• Trans-national Access Not Mandatory
• Establish stable links among a targeted number of
  leading groups in the fields of experimental
  astronomy/astrophysics and particle physics. The
  main theme of these activities was space related.
• Focus on
• X-ray, IR Photons
• Low energy gamma rays
• Low energy particles
• Radiation effects
• Databases and modelling tools
• Exploit the extraordinary amount of knowledge
  disseminated around Europe in these fields.
• Networking activity - catalyst for the larger
  European research community involved in the
  development of space based radiation detectors,
  radiation environment modelling and radiation
  data base organisation.

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Programme and Goals

• JRA-1 planned to develop and enhance radiation
  detector technology
• Hybrid detectors for broad band X-ray
  spectroscopy (Compound Semiconductors, CCD, pixel
  arrays)
• Compound semiconductor detectors for the infrared
• Cryogenic arrays for X ray detection and far
  infrared (mm) wavelengths
• JRA-2 planned to address the problem of the
  near Earth radiation environment.
• A new global radiation environment model was to
  be developed using available datasets. Through
  standard interfaces data would be accessed to
  develop empirical and statistical models.
• Advanced modelling of belts based on wave
  dynamics was to be pursued.
• These data and models would be used as a starting
  point to design and build a prototype of a new
  generation 4p detector devoted to the high
  precision measurement of the radiation at high
  count rates.

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Old ISRSI Consortium

• Countries
• Network JRA1 JRA2
• Belgium Belgium
• Bulgaria Bulgaria
• Denmark Denmark
• Finland Finland
• France France
• Germany Germany
• Greece Greece
• Hungary Hungary
• Italy Italy Italy
• Netherlands Netherlands
• Portugal
• Romania Romania
• Russia Russia Slovakia Slovakia
• Spain
• Sweden Sweden

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ISRSI Refereed

• General view of the proposal, network,
  management/organisation and certain elements of
  JRAs were positive. Proposal above threshold but
  unfunded.
• Integrating activity
• Achieving the technical goals would benefit at
  the European level
• Improved detector technology and transfer to
  industry
• Increased standardisation
• Brings together universities and industry with
  complementary expertise
• Enduring collaboration (cryogenic detectors
  highlighted) will catalyse next generation space
  missions.
• More commitment from ESA required
• Inclusion of Germany flagged as important, also
  other institutes missing DSRI in Denmark.
• Network
• Management plan professional and conceived.
• Authority balanced amongst institutions.
• Funds modest.
• Protection of intellectual properties foreseen.
• Memorandum of understanding / consortium
  agreement included.
• Network co-ordinate, highly relevant, forum for
  exchange of data, strategic importance,
  leadership.

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ISRSI Refereed

• JRA 1
• Development of new detectors excellent
• Technology transfer was viewed very positively
• Efforts towards HgCdTe arrays for IR redundant
• Aim more towards existing infrastructures
• JRA 2
• Motivations not clear
• Redundancy on radiation belt model development
• Need for these to inform detector development not
  justified
• Construction of 4p detector outside remit of I3
• No link to infrastructure.
• Additional Points
• The networking activities are high merit and
  proposal may be resubmitted as coordinated
  action.
• Above threshold 3.83/5 (lowest score combined
  JRAs of 3.5/5 other sections scored 4/5)

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• Integrating Space Radiation Sensing
  Infrastructures (ISRSI)

Review of the Proposed Way Forward
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ISRSI Redefined Outline

• ISRSI consortium has decided to resubmit the
  proposal with modifications
• Add trans-national access component.
• Network must be more inclusive of countries
  flagged by ESA and EU.
• Stronger commitment from ESA.
• JRAs must be more focused with a clear goal on
  deliverable infrastructure and aim at existing
  infrastructures.
• More streamlined coordination and management.
• To address some of these points the ISRSI
  consortium has agreed to use the ESA Cosmic
  Visions goals as a guide to alter some of the the
  aims proposal and JRA goals.
• Increasingly difficult for single laboratories or
  countries to undertake detector development,
  propose build and test instruments without
  collaboration, within a country and with EU
  partners.
• Complexity of focal planes and instruments
  warrants collaboration. Commitment to planetary
  exploration requires more cooperation at a
  European level.
• EU and ESA have agreed to a joint policy on
  Space which now includes research - lead to a
  FP7 with stronger Space themes.

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ISRSI Cosmic Vision
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ISRSI Redefined Network Coordination

• Most of what was in the original proposal
  received good feedback so it will not need a much
  modification.
• ISRSI consortium made contact with research
  laboratories and institutes in Germany and invite
  them to join both consortium and JRAs
• MPE, Munich, Tubingen
• DLR, Berlin
• All have expressed an interest in taking part.
• Action Contact DSRI in Denmark and Metorex in
  Finland as an additional SME, what about PSI?
• Although it is good to have a broad
  representation from all the interested countries
  and institutes in a network, not all institutes
  can contribute effectively to all ISRSI goals
  especially JRAs.
• Action determine whether there is a role for all
  the old ISRSI interested institutes and what role
  will best suit the institutes interested in
  taking part.

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ISRSI Redefined Network Coordination

• Example the role of the British Antarctic Survey
  is not clear so should not be a member of the
  revised ISRSI consortium.
• It is a politically difficult issue but we need
  to streamline as much as possible, how this is
  tackled in a sensitive way should be discussed.
• ESAs role should be enhanced
• Action to meet with Science Payloads Technology
  Division of the Research and
• Science Support Department (Anthony Peacocks
  division)
• Action ESA should be invited to act as a
  mediator at management committee level.
• Role of aerospace industry should be enhanced,
  since industry is more involved in
  instrumentation RD and integration in more
  complex payloads and spacecraft GAIA is an
  example
• Action contact companies like Alenia Spazio,
  Astrium etc and invite them to form part of the
  Network.

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ISRSI Redefined Trans-national Access

• The objective of this scheme is to sponsor new
  opportunities for research teams (including
  individual researchers) to obtain access to
  individual major research infrastructures they
  require for their work. Such infrastructures must
  be rare in Europe, must provide a world-class
  service essential for the conduct of top quality
  research, and must typically have investment or
  operating costs that are relatively high in
  relation to those costs in their particular
  field. The infrastructures must also be able to
  provide adequate scientific, technical and
  logistic support to external, particularly
  first-time, users.
• Access may be made available to external users,
  either in person ("hands-on") or by suitable
  electronic communications. It may also take the
  form of provision of remote scientific services,
  such as the provision of reference materials or
  samples, the performance of sample analysis, of
  specific measurements or of experiment-based
  consultancies. Access to a given infrastructure
  will be granted following a selection of
  potential users by "peer review".

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ISRSI Redefined Trans-national Access

• Trans national access component will be access
  to the technology developed for specific
  experiments or access to the facilities involved
  in the development (hardware, expertise etc) -
  enabling step, access to the expertise.
• Promote interaction between members of the
  consortium and facilities.
• Technology transfer between facilities.
• Access to small institutional laboratories -
  resulting in growth of the laboratories.
• Allow research organisations in the consortium to
  access technology and branch into new research
  areas, something which is not possible due to
  lack of expertise or funds.
• Also includes consultancy work

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ISRSI Joint Research Activities

• The old JRA1 will be expanded into smaller more
  focused JRAs. JRA2 deleted.
• Link JRAs with Trans-national Access and
  infrastructures.
• Number of named institutes in each JRA reduced.
• Reduce the number of named researchers from each
  participating institute to just one or two
  representatives.
• Management structure ok.
• Topics
• JRA1 - Compound Semiconductor Pixel Arrays
• JRA2 - Cryogenic Detectors (X-ray)
• JRA3 - Cryogenic Detectors (IR)
• JRA4 - Particle Detection (Si Photomultipliers)

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ISRSI JRA1 Pixel Arrays

• Innovative steps to meet Cosmic Visions aims for
  Solar System Exploration and Astrophysics.
• SiC, GaAs, CZT, CdTe - Better materials
• High resolution spectroscopy and imaging of
  X-rays and gamma rays
• Large area pixel arrays
• Within JRA
• Explore commonality for different compound
  semiconductor materials
• Architecture
• Design
• Electronics (ASIC)
• Reduce duplication of effort
• Optimise use of funding resources
• Collaborations already exist between members of
  ISRSI studying the physics of the materials,
  developing better materials, developing prototype
  working systems and involvement in flight
  programmes.

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ISRSI JRA2 Cryogenic Detectors (X-ray)
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ISRSI JRA2 Cryogenic Detectors (X-ray)

• TES and advanced microcalorimeters for X-ray
  astronomy - XEUS
• STJ development
• Magnetic calorimeters
• Understanding fundamental solid state physics of
  the detectors
• Readout development and electronics
• Improving resolution - if we examine the energy
  resolution vs time we see that it has reached a
  plateau and is not getting better at the rate
  that is required.
• Making arrays - fundamental enabling step.
• Development of refrigeration technologies for
  space.
• Technological commonalities with JRA3 (expertise,
  read out and electronics, microcalorimeter
  manufacturing, cryogenics).
• Collaborations exist already

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ISRSI JRA2 Cryogenic Detectors (X-ray)
SRON - the work proposed in JRA2 appears to
match closely with an activity initiated by SRON
in October 2004 which aims to develop a
cryogenic spectrometer for XEUS. The work
(European CryoSpectrometer) addresses, amongst
others, TESs and magnetic calorimeters Amongst
the groups involved in the European
CryoSpectrometer SRON, Genoa (Gatti), Leicester
(Fraser), VTT (Helisto, electronics and SQUIDs),
as well as Heidelberg (Enns, on magnetic
calorimeters, currently lacking in ISRSI). The
goal is to have a working prototype spectrometer
(i.e. a detector with 25 operating pixels and
read-out electronics) and SRON and partners are
currently defining a work plan to realize this.
SRON is eager to share the plan with ISRSI and/or
might serve as point of contact between ISRSI
and the EuroCryoSpectrometer consortium. IASF
Rome - Our program (Gatti/Genova, Piro/IASF
Rome) is focused on TES and advanced
microcalorimeters for X-ray astronomy, i.e. JRA2.
For the read-out, we have in place a
collaboration with the IFN SQUID group of CNR
Romewe are collaborating with SRON on the
development of a cryogenic spectrometer for XEUS.
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ISRSI JRA3 Cryogenic Detectors (IR)
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ISRSI JRA3 Cryogenic Detectors (IR)
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ISRSI JRA3 Cryogenic Detectors (IR)

• Clarification on the technology to pursue.
• Possibilities include TES, KID, and/or the Cold
  Electron Bolometer? Will the work be targeted to
  a specific application and which one?
• What groups are expected to participate? SRON
  collaborates with Cardiff (Mauskopf, Ade),
  Cambridge (Whittington), Chalmers (Kuzmin) works
  on CEB.
• In the summer of 2004 SRON, Cardiff, Cambridge,
  Chalmers, VTT and ESA (project management
  Leone, Bathia) have submitted a STREP (NEST-B3)
  outline proposal on KIDs and CEB (abbreviated
  DUS3, which is still under consideration by the
  EU).
• Dependent on the ideas within ISRSI the DUS3
  consortium might be approached to contribute to
  ISRSI.
• Commonalities in JRA2 and JRA3 Both JRA2 and
  JRA3 need dedicated electronics this is
  currently covered by VTT. There are a number of
  options to broaden this IFN (Rome, Torrioli),
  JENA, and Heidelberg.
• Propose fusing JRA2 and JRA3 and focus only on
  cryogenic detectors.

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ISRSI JRA4 Si Photomultipliers

• Proposal led by INFN Perugia, Tubingen,
  Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow
  State University.

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ISRSI Message from MPE

• MPE have agreed to join the consortium and agreed
  to be part of a JRA on the development of high
  speed, high resolution, readout systems for next
  generation Si detectors - ASIC development
• Link with industry - both in UK, Germany and
  Italy.
• The development of these systems would be the
  infrastructure available to the detector
  community for future missions.
• The addition of the JRA would alter as follows
• JRA1 - High Speed, High Resolution Readout, Si
• JRA2 - Compound Semiconductor Pixel Arrays
• JRA3 - Cryogenic Detectors (X-ray and IR)
• JRA4 - Particle Detection (Si Photomultipliers)

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• Integrating Space Radiation Sensing
  Infrastructures (ISRSI)

Final Points
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ISRSI Final Points

• Discussion
• Writing Committee
• Review of Integrated Activities
• Review of Management
• Trans-national Access
• JRA1 - Compound semiconductor pixel arrays
• JRA2 - Cryogenic detectors (X-ray)
• JRA3 - Cryogenic detectors (IR)
• JRA4 - Si Photomultipliers
• Calendar
• FP6 workshop London 26 January
• Meeting UKRO 31 January
• Proposed date of next meeting - 3 4 February
• Action to meet with Anthony Peacock asap.
• Venue for next meeting - TBD