ARTifical Intelligence For Accelerators,
user Communities and associated Technologies

Adnan Ghribi\(^{1,2}\)
Adrian Oeftiger\(^{3}\)
Thomas Shea\(^{4}\)

1. GANIL
2. CNRS
3. GSI

Christine Darve\(^{4}\)
Carsten Welsh\(^{5}\)
Jonas L’Haridon\(^{4}\)

4. ESS
5. Cockroft Institute
6. ESF

Sabrina Lecerf\(^{1, 2}\)
Jade Varin\(^{2}\)
Amelia Pollard\(^{7}\)

7. ASTEC STFC
8. Univ. Malta
9. CERN

Gianluca Valentino\(^{8}\)
Lukasz Burdzanowski\(^{9}\)
Andrew Mistry\(^{3}\)

10. DESY
11. INFN

Annika Eichler\(^{10}\)
Verena Kain\(^{9}\)
Stefano Pioli\(^{11}\)

November 27, 2023

Now, we need to find the question.

Who’s looking for the question ?

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  • Many …
  • Among whom, some are using research infrastructures …
  • Among whom, some are running and building accelerators …
  • More than 30 000 accelerators worldwide
    • 99 % already got the right question but are also looking (industrial and medical application)
    • Less than 1 % are used in research and discovery science and are asking too many questions

So, what does this picture look like ?

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We keep looking, but we need to do it the right way :

  • Improved beam
  • Environmental aspects
  • Technology transfer
  • From the design
  • And through the life time of the machine

And how can AI help ?

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  • operation and reliability ;
  • Detecting, preventing anomalies ;
  • Optimising beam time ;
  • Frugal complex physics simulation ;
  • Improved models.

so, how do we unlock the use of AI for our RI ?

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  • We bring the missing piece of FAIRness 
    in data, methods and tools in ML for RI
  • We build upon existing
    knowledge and experience
  • And we push it to its edge
    in an integrated smart pilot/prototype
  • Making sure the challenge stays realistic
    within a given time frame and budget.

What sets the time frame and budget

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Scope

  • Name of the call : INFRA-2023-TECH-01-01 ;
  • Call opening : 2023/12/06 ;
  • Call deadline : 2024/03/12 ;
  • Budget/project : 5 to 10 M€
  • Total budget : 63.5 M€

What sets the time frame and budget

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Aim

The aim of this topic is to deliver innovative scientific instrumentation, tools, methods and solutions which advance the state-of-art of RIs in the EU and Associated Countries, and show transformative potential in RIs operation. The related developments, which underpin the provision of improved and advanced services, should lead research infrastructures to support new areas of research and/or a wider community of users, including industrial users. • Cutting-edge technologies will also enhance the potential of RIs to contribute addressing EU policy objectives and socio-economic challenges. • Proposals should ensure complementarity with actions funded under the previous 2022 call (topic HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01-01 in the 2021-2022 work programme), targeting different instrumentation, tools, methods and solutions. • Proposals should address the following aspects, as relevant: • Research and development of new scientific instrumentation, tools and methods for research infrastructures taking into due account resource efficiency (e.g. energy consumption) and environmental (including climate-related) impacts. This could also include the development of new, more sustainable and efficient methods of collecting data and/or of providing access, including remote and digital, as well as digitalisation of instrumentation, services and results; their technology validation and prototyping training of RI staff for the operation and use of these new solutions. When relevant, developing skills on technical validation to industrial standards; the innovative potential for industrial exploitation of the solutions and/or for the benefits of the society, including facilitating proof of concept for use by SMEs.

What sets the time frame and budget

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Expected outcomes

  • Enhanced scientific competitiveness of Research Infrastructures ;
  • Enhanced RI capacities to address research challenges EU policy priorities ;
  • Increased collaboration of research infrastructures with universities, research organisations and industry ;
  • Increase of technological level of industries through the co-development of advanced technologies of research infrastructures and creation of potential new markets ;
  • Integration of research infrastructures into local, regional and global innovation systems and promotion of entrepreneurial culture.

Some history

  • We started meeting and discussing in March last year ; indico
  • We created working groups ;
  • We had a first workshop in July at CERN ; indico
  • We went silent for few months but we kept working really hard.

This is what came out of it

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A network, a community

This is what came out of it

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A network, a community, that extends beyond our walls

  • Industrial partners
  • Academic observers

Further discussions with potential partners are ongoing.

This is what came out of it

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A network, a community, that extends beyond our walls and keeps extending beyond the frame of our projects

Direct connections and transverse contributions to several projects.

This is what came out of it

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There is even a strategy

  • Standardisation
  • Best practices
  • Compliance
  • Documentation
  • Interoperability
  • Environment considerations
  • Ethical considerations

This is what came out of it

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There is even a strategy

  • FAIR1ness in data, methods, tools, models, …
    • from production (raw data) ;
    • to curation ;
    • to structuration ;
    • to publication ;
    • to model training ;
    • to deployment.

This is what came out of it

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There is even a strategy

  • A bridge between :
    • New methods and innovative tools ;
    • Operation of exiting RI and design of the future ones ;
    • Trustworthy, ethical and community driven developments ;
    • Challenging projects through the use-cases organisation.

This is what came out of it

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There is even a strategy

  • Real life integration in test facilities ;
  • Partial integration and validation foreseen at different facilities ;
  • Two test facilities identified for full integration :
    • TEX & CLARA.

This is what came out of it

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There is even a strategy

  • Although enabling actions exist, all developments will be progressing concurrently ;
  • Transverse actions like knowledge transfer and integrating activities will also link the different work-packages.

This is what came out of it

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And a structure

  • 7 workpackages ;
  • 3 transverse workpackages ;
  • 4 technical workpackages ;
  • 2 deputy scientific coordinators.



WP contents are subject to change according to the ongoing discussions until the next workshop on the 27th of Nov. 2023.

But there is still much work to be done

and, for that, we are counting on you.

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