• 0: Home .
• 1: ARD Lunch Seminar .
• 2: ERC Synergy Grant 2014 - 2019 .
• 3: Accelerator Calendar .
• 4: DESY-M ARD Team .
• 5: Publications .
• 6: ARD Organization .
• 7: Involvements & Collaborations .
  • 7.1: Accelerator Physics University Hamburg .
  • 7.2: Helmholtz VI Plasma Acceleration .
  • 7.3: Plasma Acceleration Group .
  • Standort: 7.4: Helmholtz ARD .
  • 7.5: LAOLA .
  • 7.6: PIER Campus .
• 8: Voss Wideröe Center .
• 9: EuPRAXIA .
• 10: SINBAD .
• 11: Hamburg Alliance .

The accelerator initiative of the Helmholtz Association

The Helmholtz Association is in charge of 18 Helmholtz Centres that work on a wide range of topics, including astrophysics, accelerators, biology, cell research, physics, and so on. Almost 34,000 staff use the most modern scientific infrastructure, including, in particular, large-scale facilities and instrumentation, which are also open to use by members of the international scientific community. Working on behalf of the state, Helmholtz scientists pursue an ambitious goal: To make an essential contribution to solving the grand challenges which society faces.

In 2011 the Helmholtz society has started a so-called accelerator initiative (ARD), that should promote accelerators as motors for discovery and innovation. As part of this initiative, dedicated funding for accelerator R&D has been allocated. The following Helmholtz institutes are members of the accelerator initiative: 

1) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

2) Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

3) Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

4) Helmholtz Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI)

5) Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

6) Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) 

 

The research areas covered by the accelerator initiative have been defined as sub-topics 1 to 4:

 

ST1 - Superconducting RF technology

ST2 - Concepts & technology for hadron accelerators

ST3 - ps & fs electron and photon beams

ST4 - Novel acceleration concepts

 

DESY is involved in sub-topics 1, 3 and 4 where it collaborates with other Helmholtz centers.

 

• Link to the web page of the accelerator initiative of the Helmholtz Association (in German)