Staying at the frontier of technology is a constant challenge for the technicians, engineers and physicists of the world, and of CERN in particular. Consolidating and optimizing existing technological solutions is no longer enough to respond to the challenges and big open questions of particle physics. We need to promote technological innovation and create a new concept of accelerators and detectors that respond to ever greater demands!

The vigorous R&D plan promoted by CERN, through collaborations worldwide, is exploring future options in accelerator technologies, ultra fast and compact detectors, and powerful computer systems. The pre-industrialization and evaluation of its technological capacity are among some of the least known dimensions of the technologies used in large scientific instruments, and they will highlighted in this lecture.

SPEAKER

José Miguel Jiménez and Mar Capeáns