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Grant Agreement No 764879

EASITRAIN European Advanced Superconductor Innovation & Training

ECC MEETING 06

ECC MEETING MINUTES

11 DECEMBER 2018

Document identifier: EASITRAIN-P1-WP1-ECC, EDMS 2061516

Date and Time: 2018-12-11, 08:30

Place: Brussels, Belgium

Work package/Domain: WP1 - Management

Document status: RELEASED

Type: Management

Participants:

Present = , Excused =

Bertrand Baudouy, Emilio Bellingeri,

Johannes Bernardi, Sergio Calatroni,

Elisa Cantergiani, Jean-François Croteau (representing

E. Cantergiani), Michael Eisterer, Dorothea Fonnesu,

Johannes Gutleber, Christoph Haberstroh,

Julie Hadre, Simon Hopkins, Coralie Hunsicker

(Secretary), Peter Keinz, Torsten Koettig,

Oliver Kugeler, François Millet, Christian Pira,

Marina Putti, Dmitry Tikhonov,

Alexander Usoskin, Matteo Tropeano,

Michael Vogel, Damian Vogt

Link to Indico: https://indico.cern.ch/event/737120/

Copyright notice: Information provided with this document is subject to the H2020 EASITrain –

European Advanced Superconductivity Innovation and Training grant agreement. This Marie

Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN) receives funding from the

European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 764879. Copyright 2017

https://indico.cern.ch/event/737120/

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AGENDA

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ................................................................................................................................... 3

2. FCC CDR AND EUROPEAN STRATEGY FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS STATUS ........................................ 4

3. FCC WEEK 2019 ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

4. EASISCHOOL 2 ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

5. EUROCIRCOL INDUSTRIAL CO-INNOVATION WORKSHOP (LIVERPOOL, 22 MARCH) ................. 6

6. PLANNING OF WP MEETINGS IN 2019 ............................................................................................................ 6

6.1. WP2 – MATERIALS ............................................................................................................................................ 6 6.2. WP3 – MANUFACTURING................................................................................................................................... 6 6.3. WP4 – CRYOGENICS .......................................................................................................................................... 7 6.4. WP5 – VALORISATION ....................................................................................................................................... 7 6.5. WP6 – TRAINING ............................................................................................................................................... 7 6.6. DISCUSSION AND INTERATION ............................................................................................................................ 7

7. WORK PACKAGE STATUS ................................................................................................................................. 7

7.1. WP 2 STATUS .................................................................................................................................................. 7 7.2. WP3 STATUS ................................................................................................................................................... 8 7.3. WP4 STATUS ................................................................................................................................................... 9 7.4. WP5 STATUS ................................................................................................................................................. 11 7.5. WP 6 STATUS ................................................................................................................................................ 11

8. NEXT ECC MEETING ......................................................................................................................................... 12

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1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Johannes Gutleber opens the 6th ECC meeting at 10.am.

Minutes of 10 October 2018: it has been pointed out that the list of tasks is uncompleted. Therefore, the minutes are not approved.

Minutes of 14 September 2018 have to be approved as well by the Consortium.

Tasks of Minutes of 10 October 2018 and 11 December 2018

Tasks are ordered by completion status, new and ongoing tasks first. Status is one of {New, Ongoing, On hold,

Done, Postponed or Cancelled}.

Description and Actions Status Assigned Due date

Minutes of the 14 September (reviewed by F. Millet) to be approved by the consortium

New The Consortium Next ECC

MS5 completion: HZB contribution is needed Done Oliver Kugeler

Change of enrolment university for ESR 9 and 10: Emilie to update I-CUBE and INFN accordingly. C. Hunsicker will follow up with I-CUBE and INFN as of January 2019 to enter the data in the PCDPs and where else officially needed.

Done Coralie Hunsicker

Deliverable D5.1: Johannes to work with L. Kretschmar on the exact contents. J. Gutleber met with P. Keinz and L. Kretschmar and discussed the contents of D 5.1. It will include a general list of applications, starting with the superconductor and magnet topics.

Ongoing Johannes Gutleber Week 42

ECTS/accreditation points: Liaise with Dorothea Fonnesu and ask her to launch among the ESRs an investigation at their institutes to know how they could get ECTS points from their certificates of participation

Done Coralie Hunsicker,

Dorothea Fonnesu

Damian Vogt to provide further information on Linde company and their possible contribution as a potential new partner to the EASITrain project and to the EASISchool 2. Damian to discuss with CEA supervisors

Done Damian Vogt,

François Millet,

Bertrand Baudouy

Update sample naming convention in D1.3 and re-publish document to consortium and on SharePoint

Done Johannes Gutleber

and Coralie

Hunsicker

25 January 2019

FCCWeek 2019 : preparation of ESR presentations inside the common scientific program

New ESRs, supervisors Next ECC

EASISchool 2: : confirmation of no overlapping event

among the potential participants (ESRs) with the

selected date : 30 September 2019 – 4 October 2019

Ongoing all ESRs,

supervisors

January 2019

EASISchool 2: Establish a provisional budget New François

Millet/Bertrand

Baudouy

Next ECC

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EASISchool 2: Creation of the Indico webpage Done Coralie Hunsicker Next ECC

EASISchool 2: ECTS points: to be clarified by the

organisers (CEA) of the school. New François

Millet/Bertrand

Baudouy

Next ECC

EASISchool 2: Create and share the list of

participants with Laurent Tavian New François

Millet/Bertrand

Baudouy

Next ECC

EASISchool 2: Send the invitation letter template Done Coralie Hunsicker

EASISchool 2: Public activities New Jakub Tkaczuk and

Andrea Vitrano

Next ECC

EASITrain: Rescope the milestones MS 7 due on 1st March

Done Johannes Gutleber and Damian Vogt

EASITrain – WP4 : inform the EC (Milestones of 1st

March needs to be re-scoped. 10 pages) New Damian Vogt and

Maxime Podeur

EASITrain – WP6 : Send the ESRs feedbacks –

EASISchool1 to CEA Done Coralie Hunsicker

and Dorothea

Fonnesu

EASITrain – WP6 : Collect input suggestions for the

program of EASISchool2 from all ESRs New Dorothea Fonnesu

EASITrain: to provide with the IP form New Simon Hopkins

Accelerating Innovation workshop: Add EASITrain

logo on the Website Done Coralie Hunsicker

Accelerating Innovation workshop: Email invitations New Johannes Gutleber

Accelerating Innovation workshop: List of topics New Johannes Gutleber

Finalise IP agreement form, put on Sharepoint site

and distribute it New Coralie Hunsicker

Created a dedicated page with the WP meetings, the

links and the minutes

C. Hunsicker will distribute the link when finished.

Done Coralie Hunsicker

ECC meeting : next one on the 21st of March 2019

afternoon at Liverpool

Done all

2. FCC CDR AND EUROPEAN STRATEGY FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS

STATUS

The four FCC Conceptual Design Report volumes are ready and will be published in the coming weeks.

For the ESPP process, short summary documents have been produced (10 pages + annex each document)

outlining a) science, b) strategic goals, c) technology, d) impact, e) cost, f) implementation schedule, g)

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computing matters. Documents will be submitted to the ESPP process on December 18 about 1) physics, 2)

FCC-ee, 3) FCC-hh, 4) HE-LHC, 5) Combined FCC program.

Press release by the CERN press office on 15 January 2018.

The volume will be submitted to the high impact journals Eur. Phys. J. C and ST.

3. FCC WEEK 2019

The next FCC week will take place in Brussels (Belgium) from 24 to 28 June 2019. Although this is the

EuroCirCol final event, the EC has been asked to grant an unpaid project extension until 31 December 2019.

The goal is to submit a proposal for a detailed technical design study, still within H2020. The EASITrain project

is part (co-organiser) of the FCC week. Therefore, all ESRs are kindly requested to actively participate (present

research during the week).

This goal needs to be well prepared with the ESR supervisors.

We will ask the EC if it is thinkable to carry out the mid-term review in the scope of the FCC week, as was the

case for EuroCirCol.

It has been noted that there is no dedicated session for the EASITrain project. It has been suggested by Johannes

Gutleber that the ESRs contribute to the presentations of the project inside the common scientific programme.

It is mentioned that the SRF 19 conference will take place in Dresden, Germany, from 30th June to 05th July

2019. See: http://www.srf2019.org/?s=welcome. It will be composed by 3-day tutorials.

Then, the SRF sessions should take place on 25th and 26th June during the FCC Week.

4. EASISCHOOL 2

An update has been asked on the preparation status in order to start preparing (budget, invitations, planning,

block dates, invite external participates, create stationary).

The next EASISchool (2) will take place in France, organised by CEA. We have asked the EC to accept a

change of the Grant Agreement plan without amendment: a 1-week short school at a later point in

time (until early autumn).

This event is split between two different locations. A smooth transfer between CEA Paris-Saclay and

Grenoble (4 hours by train) is required.

EASISchool 2 focuses on more exposure to the industry with alternating lecturers from academic

institutes and industries, visits of Research centres and industries. A provisional agenda is available on

François Millet’s slides: https://indico.cern.ch/event/737120/. This event is open to external

participants.

A tentative date for is event is 30 September 2019 (one week after the week planned initially). It is

needed to inform Mr. François Millet for any potential overlapping event.

A budget for this event has to be set up and an Indico webpage is needed.

A creation of a dedicated webpage for this event is not needed.

For EASISchool2, relevant mailing lists should be identified that can be used to announce the event.

Johannes suggested to contact L. Tavian for cryogenics related lists and other people who are active

in the field.

ECTS points: to be clarified by the organisers (CEA) of the school.

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For the reimbursement of travel costs, a letter of invitation has to be done by the CEA as the host

institution. The EASITrain office will send a template to François Millet and Bertrand Baudouy for

review and use if convenient.

Regarding the public activities during the EASISchool 2, Jakub and Andrea are in charge to develop

proposals.

5. EUROCIRCOL INDUSTRIAL CO-INNOVATION WORKSHOP

(LIVERPOOL, 22 MARCH)

University of Liverpool (C. Welsh) is organising in the scope of EuroCirCol an industry co-innovation

workshop in Liverpool (UK) on March 22. The program is at http://indico.cern.ch/event/747618 . EASITrain is

co-organiser.

The goal is to brainstorm and draft concrete potential follow-up R&D projects for which participating institutes

can prepare EU funded R&D proposals. The FCC CDR has defined a list of key technology R&D priorities.

The EASITrain R&D topics are fully part of this priority list and therefore a strong participation of EASITrain

is suggested during this workshop.

This is an academy/industry event with keynote speakers such as former CERN accelerator director Steve

Myers. This event has an Indico webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/747618/ The idea is to explore possible

R&D projects/topics and potential funding instruments.

EASITrain logo has to be added on the Indico site.

Email invitations and list of topics must be sent to the organisers at UNILIV.

6. PLANNING OF WP MEETINGS IN 2019

The preparation of the progress check has revealed that WPs do not regularly hold WP coordination and

planning meetings. The EC is very keen that the project is progressing in a well-organised manner. It is also for

us, the project members helpful to plan well the work and to ensure that all resources and work to be carried out

is well defined.

Therefore, each WP should plan for a monthly "jour fixe" at which the key persons should interact (telephone,

video conference, in person) in order to plan and track the work progress.

Each meeting should at least have a) an agenda, b) an item tracking on Indico and c) a participation list, so we

can easily compile a list of meetings for the several upcoming reports.

EC participants share their opinions:

6.1. WP2 – MATERIALS

J. Gutleber informs that A. Ballarino confirms the need for regular meetings with Vidyo support. M.

Eisterer proposed short monthly Vidyo meetings and also supported the concept of joint WP2-WP3

meetings (i.e. summarize his slide)

Simon Hopkins to discuss with the colleagues on how to organise.

6.2. WP3 – MANUFACTURING

Cristian Pira to agree with WP2 on continuation of joint meetings or separate monthly meetings with

Vidyo support.

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J. Gutleber adds that tentative dates should be added in Indico. They can be changed later on. The

coordinator relies on the Indico entries for the periodic reporting to the EC.

6.3. WP4 – CRYOGENICS

François Millet: Suggests to make meetings with specific topics to set up this meeting and then it will

done.

Bertrand Baudouy: Once a month is convenient by video.

J. Gutleber asks who is the WP leader taking the lead for this item. C. Haberstroh said that as WP

leader he will discuss internally the approach.

6.4. WP5 – VALORISATION

WP 5: meeting is already set up on Fridays, once per month.

6.5. WP6 – TRAINING

Marina Putti will agree with J. Gutleber on regular dates for short alignments in a small group.

6.6. DISCUSSION AND INTERACTION

François Millet pointed out that no ESRs specific session was planned on 11 October 2018.

Dorothea Fonnesu suggests to have a dedicated ESR specific reporting meeting in addition to an ECC

meeting. The agenda would be shared with ECC participants and the ESRs.

Marina Putti suggests that the ESRs may prepare and organize the meeting by themselves.

J. Gutleber reminds that ECC participants can submit agenda items before the meeting and are

usually invited to do so.

7. WORK PACKAGE STATUS

7.1. WP2 STATUS

Intellectual property issues solved. An agreement has been signed between TU Wien and ASG, but this was

drafted to rely on the terms of the GA and CA, and may therefore be suitable for all participants. . Simon

Hopkins has provided a summary of the terms and a form that will be properly put in an editable format, put on

the EASITrain Sharepoint site and distributed to all participants.

Current work

Tl-1223 films and bulks (CNR) → TU Wien (ATI, USTEM)

Nb3Sn wires (TVEL,CERN) → TU Wien (ATI, USTEM)

Coated Conductors (Bruker): Secondment of ESR2 at TU Wien, publication under discussion

Next Steps

Tl-1223 films and bulks (CNR): Continuation of characterizations, new samples to be supplied.

Nb3Sn wires (TVEL,CERN): Continuation of characterization

Bruker, TU Wien: Preparation of manuscript

ASG: Start of sample characterization at TU Wien (ATI, USTEM)

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Showstoppers

Delicate intellectual properties

Problems resolved

7.2. WP3 STATUS

Current work

ESR 6 Aisha Saba Kunjashk

Optimization of Tl(1223) SC phase preparation in form of pellet

Optimization of Electrochemical deposition of Highly reactive

precursor for in-situ reaction of the superconducting coating Tl

(1223)

ESR 7 Mattia Donato Monitoring of the temperatures during the intermediate heat

treatment implemented

Characterization of the superconducting and mechanical properties

of the wire produced

Design of a new test facility for high critical current measurements

ESR 9 Jean-François Croteau Characterization of the mechanical proposed of OFE copper at high

strain rate in tension

Finalizing the layout for the samples for the characterization of the

mechanical properties of single crystal niobium at low and high

strain rates in tension and compression

ESR 10 Vanessa Garcia Diaz Development and test of vibro-tumbling mechanical polishing in 6

GHz copper cavities

Refurbishing of the coating system

ESR 14 Stewart Leith Initial testing and experimentation of surface treatments underway:

Mechanical polishing, SUBU and Electropolishing (2 Students

involved). First results are promising and the process is far better

understood.

Coating machine maintenance being completed

Next steps

ESR 6 Aisha Saba Kunjashk

Validation of other deposition techniques from inks, spin coating,

doctor blade and pulsed layer deposition

Texturing of silver substrates

Planned secondment in TUW, ATI and Ustem (Feb-March)

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ESR 7 Mattia Donato Assessment of the process parameters influence on the SC

properties

Design and commissioning of the new test facilities for high current

wires

Implementation and qualification of the new test facilities for high

current wires

Analysis of the samples characterization from TUW

Planned secondment in TUW, ATI 04.03.2019 – 17.03.2019

ESR 9 Jean-François Croteau Complete the first tests on OFE Cu

Characterization of the mechanical properties of single crystal

niobium at low and high strain rates in tension and compression. The

samples should be cut by the end of this month or early January and

tests start in 2019

Planned secondment at Michigan State University and Arizona State

University Early 2019, 2-4 weeks (Mechanical characterization of

niobium single crystals)

ESR 10 Vanessa Garcia Diaz Continue the R&D and test of vibro-tumbling mechanical polishing

Set up of trapped flux characterization RF-test for 6 GHz cavities

Planned secondment at iCube in the first part of 2019

ESR 14 Stewart Leith Nb and NbN sample to be produced to test four-point electrical

resistance measurement device for future characterization use.

Coating machine mandatory maintenance

Investigation of surface preparation methods over the next 6 months

Planned secondment at CemeCon AG (Germany), 02.2019, +-2

weeks, PVD coating training, including use of CemeCon CC800

coating machine

Showstoppers

NA for all

7.3. WP4 STATUS

ESR 3 Andrea Vitrano

Bibliography study on the subject performed

Use of Open Foam software and the production of codes learnt

Transient heat transfer model for superfluid helium completed

Issues/risks: the

lack of technician support to perform the experimental part of the

work

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Correction actions: concentration on the numerical part of the

project until the problem will be solved internally at CEA

Planned secondments: SIGMAPHI (planned)

ESR 4 Jakub Tkaczuk Review of the state-of-the-art for cryogenic cooling architecture with

a special focus on precooling stages and gas mixtures properties

done;

Preliminary contacts with institutions and industries established

Planned Secondments: NIST, Air Liquide (planned)

ESR 11 Sofiya Savelyeva Cool-down model for the “Cold mass” and secondary cycle done;

Model of the turbo-compressor operation depending on the inlet

parameters done;

Part-load operation model; analysis of existing Turbo-Brayton and

conventional Brayton cycles;

Neon production process study done

Issues/risks: no issues

Planned Secondments: Linde Kryotechnik (to be settled for 2019);

University of Stuttgart (academic)

ESR 15 Maxime Podeur Model to predict the performance of radial compressors coupled to

an optimisation algorithm; first turbo-compressor design and its

improvement; test rig compressor chosen; feasibility study done and

validated by the supplier; first design of the large scale compressor

worked out

Issues/risks: a delay in the commissioning of the test rig is expected

because of the difficulty of finding a suitable compressor

manufacturer and motor provider

Correction actions: development of the test rig model is preponed;

this model will be helpful for further practical steps

Secondments: MAN (1st secondment done, 2nd planned)

Milestones of 1st March needs to be re-scoped since a new turbocompressor development will take

much longer than originally foreseen. Therefore the test stand goes in operation with an existing

compressor and part of the research is the development of a new compressor.

It is required to inform the EC: process diagram, bill of materials, components, photos, paragraph with

a description, before the deadline of 1st March. No more than 10 pages. D. Vogt and M. Podeur should

prepare the document based on the milestone template to be sent by C. Hunsicker as soon as possible.

Bertrand Baudouy pointed out that the Helium price is increasing and it is needed to anticipate the

risks. Mitigation actions have to be checked and discussed with the ESRs. Johannes suggested to first

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document the issue and then speak to the experts in the relevant engineering domain. If needed, the

topic can be put on the agenda of the upcoming ECC meeting.

7.4. WP5 STATUS

ESR 5 Linn Kretzschmar

Has started her dissertation project which will be dealing with the

question how AI may be leveraged in the management of dispersed

R&D projects

Currently running a project to analyse the value chain of the

production of superconducting magnets; next semester, we will look

in detail into the most important use cases; will do similar studies for

thinfilm RF cavities in 2019

We have developed the “non-scientific” module (Technological

Competence Leveraging, Business Design) for the EASISchool 1; the

concept can directly go into the curriculum for the PhD program on

Applied Superconductivity

7.5. WP6 STATUS

Current work

Preparing the FCC Week 2019, which will take place from 24 to 28 June 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.

Organization of the EASISchool2

Next steps

Organise EASISchool 3

Organise transferrable skills trainings.

Dedicated workshop including diversity experts from CERN with extensive experience in international

research projects, how to promote concrete initiatives to further promote gender equality.

Assessment of a new, international and interdisciplinary PhD program on applied superconductivity.

PhD curriculum in "Applied Superconductivity" at the University of Genova has been drawn up. The

following issues were discovered:

o There is no possibility to establish new PhD-level course at the level of an individual initiative,

but it is possible to open new curricula within an already existing course.

o A new curriculum requires external supporters. We received positive feedbacks from

institutions (INFN and CNR) from local institutions (Liguria region) and from a national agency

(ASI). Project partner IEEE agreed to provide limited funding for distinguished lecturers and to

help facilitating engaging them via their university networks. A dedicated agreement between

IEEE and CERN needs to be established for this purpose, permitting the funding, travel

arrangements via CERN and the provisioning of lecturing infrastructures by CERN.

We need feedback from industry.

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Training activities of the curriculum must be implemented and coordinated within the program of the

PhD course.

Showstoppers

To define carefully the topics of further training activities in order to avoid duplication of subjects, do

not overload with information.

Consider the results of ESR questionnaires.

Marina Putti suggested to make the students more active in the organisation of the EASISchool. They may

prepare a side programme, invite other students and organise tutorials. They may propose an agenda and topics.

F. Millet asked if ESRs qualitative feedbacks of EASISchool 1 are available.

The next ESRs feedback must have more open questions.

D. Fonnesu will gather additional feedback.

8. NEXT ECC MEETING

The next ECC meeting is merged with FCC Innovation workshop in Liverpool. It will be held on Thursday,

March 21 2019 in Liverpool, UK at the premises of the physics department. The meeting will take place around

15:00 in the afternoon.

The meeting is closed at 10:57 am.