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Welcome to LPSC !

Annick Billebaud, LPSC Director

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Location

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Polygone scientifique

Campus universitaire

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The LPSC laboratory

Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie

• Operating agencies : CNRS and Universities of Grenoble :

- Université Joseph Fourier

- Grenoble INP

• Manpower: ~ 220 people

• ≈ 65 Physicists, 90 Technical staff, 35 PhD students, 25 Post-doc, ...

• 40-60 students trained in research each year

• Scientific projects: about 25 projects underway

• Experiments, constructions (detectors, instruments, facilities, softwares), theory

• At international facilities (accelerators, reactors), or space !

• International programs : Europe (FP5,6&7) and world level collaborations

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• Institut National de Physique des Particules et de Physique Nucléaire:

• IN2P3 (created in 1971) is one of the 10 Institutes of the CNRS

• Devoted to fundamental research in nuclear physics, particle and astroparticle physics

• Additional vocations : sharing competencies with other domains, solving some society

problems, providing industry with technological ressources,…

• Program coordination on behalf of the CNRS and universities, in partnership with CEA

• ~2500 permanent people

The LPSC laboratory

One of the 20 labs of IN2P3

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• Research:

• Grenoble is a leading research center in France

• Many scientific domains: physics, mathematics, computing, mechanics,

microelectronics, nanotechnology, astrophysics, geophysics, environment…

• About 200 laboratories, 20 000 positions in research

• Several facilities and major labs on the “polygone”: ILL (neutrons), ESRF (light

source), EMBL (Biology), LNCMI (Magnetic Field), Neel Institute, CEA (INAC, LETI),

MINATEC (nanotechnology)

• Education:

• 6 Universities or Engineer Schools : 60 000 students

• Many Masters in sciences and technologies, several closely linked with LPSC

competencies

• …

The LPSC laboratory

Local scientific environment

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• Quarks, leptons and fundamental interactions

• Astroparticles and cosmology

• Hadronic and nuclear Physics

• Theory and phenomenology

• Physics of nuclear reactors

• Accelerator and Ion Sources

• Physics for medical applications

• Plasma technology

+ Teaching and Training, Technology Transfer

Research at LPSC

Physics of the 2 infinities: infinitely small to infinitely large

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LPSC history

• Creation of the lab: 1967 “Institut des Sciences Nucléaires”

• 5 hectares of land, 9 buildings (20,000 m2)

(Université Joseph Fourier)

• 1964-1966: installation of a cyclotron

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LPSC history

• Creation of the lab: 1967 “Institut des Sciences Nucléaires”

• 5 hectares of land, 9 buildings (20,000 m2)

(Université Joseph Fourier)

• 1964-1966: installation of a cyclotron

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LPSC history

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• From 1968: cyclotron available for nuclear physics

• 1975-1980: design and construction of a second stage cyclotron (“SARA”)

Important local manpower on this

project and for the facility

exploitation (1980-1998)

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LPSC history

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• From 80’s: Evolution towards new fields of physics (neutrino physics, hadron

physics, high energy particle physics,… ) and at other facilities in France and

foreign countries (ILL, Bugey, GANIL, Saturne, CERN, Jlab,…):

Physics research is no more “local”, building new machines or instruments

requires international collaborations (and fundings): LPSC contributes to other

large scale facilities (SPIRAL2, CERN, ion sources)

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LPSC history

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• End of 90’s: introduction of astroparticles physics and cosmology: observations

from Earth and in space !

• In 2003 ISN becomes “LPSC”: Lab for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology

AMS

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• In the 90’s accelerators are also instruments for medical and nuclear reactor

sciences : society issues

• In particular : renewal of the concept of nuclear reactor driven by accelerator

“ADS”

• LPSC designs and builds an electrostatic deuteron accelerator for neutron

production: the GENEPI accelerator, for ADS experiments at the MASURCA (CEA)

research reactor (MUSE program: 1998-2004)

• LPSC builds a second GENEPI machine for the lab

• A third and upgraded GENEPI is designed within a

IN2P3 collaboration to be coupled to the VENUS

Belgian reactor (SCK-CEN)

GUINEVERE project

• 2014: building the low

energy line for the LINAC

of the MYRRHA project

GE-1

GE-3C

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LPSC (ISN) and JUAS

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• Since the cyclotron design at ISN (SARA):

• Several engineers give lectures to the DEA “Méthodes Physiques Expérimentales”

• In 1990, through the impetus given by Pr. Fernand Merchez (UJF) and Pr. Jean-Pierre

Longequeue (INPG) a first international school is organized with lectures from 4

experts from CERN (including Louis Rinolfi !) and Jean-Louis Laclare (ESRF):

immediate success !

• A proposition is made to CERN director (Carlo Rubbia !) to renew this school in name

of 4 universities: INPG, Université Joseph Fourier, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

(TU Darmstadt), Universität Karlsruhe.

• First lectures at the “chalet” on ISN site,

before installation at Archamps…

JUAS was born !

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And now…

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• Thanks to pioneer construction projects in the 60’s people acquired experience,

expertise, and decided to share it

• Multiplication of projects, large scale facilities, built by international collaborations

required more people with dedicated skills

• JUAS school really brought at the right moment (at the right place !) what a

community was needing to expand and face the new challenges driven by physics

research

• The success of this school, attracting many students allows the sustainability of

making science(s) for and with accelerators (and related technologies)

• Today a lab like LPSC, born with a small cyclotron in the 60’s is still able to take

part to new challenges of international research thanks to this close link between

research and education, especially in such advanced technologies.

• Congratulations to people who carried on this school project

• Wishes for 20 additional years (or more !) of success !