4.1.6Organisation
Organization
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Type of organization
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LAPP is a UMR (mixed unit) between the CNRS and the Savoie University (UdS). It is part of the CNRS-IN2P3 institute (solid network of 20 laboratories to participate to international projects)
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The lab director is in charge of the leadership and reports to CNRS (IN2P3), the CNRS Delegation Regional of Alps and to the University. The lab director has appointed a management team to form an executive body for the lab.
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Details of the organization
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The management team is composed by the lab director and deputy, the technical and administrator directors.
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The laboratory council and the scientific committee advise the management team
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The LAPP management reports to both supervisors (CNRS and UdS) formally once a year during a dedicated meeting “Entretiens Objectifs Moyens”
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The safety and quality control officer intervenes to all groups and reports to the management.
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Each scientific project is discussed inside the laboratory council following a well established procedure and signs a “Contrat d’objectifs moyens” with the management if accepted, insuring the human resources. The financial resources are provided by the IN2P3 and other partners (EU, ANR, CG74) if approved by the institute scientific council.
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4.1.7Partner 3 : LPSC 4.1.8Research and innovation
The “Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble” (LPSC)” is a research laboratory created in 1967. The LPSC is not only a major actor in the local Grenoble research environment but it also plays an important role at both the national and the international level. The size and complexity of the projects in which LPSC is involved are such that they are organized on time scales exceeding sometimes decades and that they request worldwide collaborations formed by hundreds of people. The annual budget of the lab is around 13 M€.
The physics themes we investigate include some of the great enigmas of modern physics including the unification of the four fundamental forces, the origin of the mass of subatomic particles, the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and the search for dark matter and energy. Our experiments require the construction of complex and sophisticated detectors and therefore R&D of specific instrumentation and components in diverse domains (mechanics, electronics, computing …). Moreover the strong connection with our theoretical groups allows advanced experimental preparations, helps the interpretation of the analyzed data sets and optimizes the laboratory’s scientific return.
Interdisciplinary collaborations are another important feature of the laboratory. They address issues like new types of nuclear reactors for energy production and waste reduction, as well as athe interface between physics and other sciences like biology and medicine and more recently plasma physics. Spin-offs arise from the knowledge and the know-how acquired by the members of the lab during their fundamental research studies. The LPSC is also engaged involved in many teaching programs at the UJF and INP universities in Grenoble, in particular in the sole engineering school in France for civil nuclear power generation.
AERES assessment: A+ rating
In its report of July 2010 AERES underlines:
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The excellence of the laboratory: “In these various disciplines, the experiments in which the LPSC is participating have a considerable impact. [...] With a strong technical skill in these domains and in the instrumentation, the LPSC easily finds partners in physics and can get involved completely in important experimental projects. The scientific return of the last four years is obvious. We can quote, as example, the measurement of the W boson mass at the Tevatron at Fermilab, a fundamental ingredient of our model of the subatomic world. This measurement is the best ever performed. At the other end of the spectra, we can also quote the results concerning the Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays by AUGER.”
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Its international collaboration and position: “Most of the physics groups work in big international collaborations. If we take the experiment Alice on the LHC at CERN as example, the LPSC team joined the experiment and took an essential responsibility in the construction and the assembly of the calorimeter. [...] The LPSC plays an international role in the world of subatomic physics. To better appreciate this, we can point out where the experiences in which LPSC participates take place : they are in South America, North America, Antarctica, and everywhere in Europe”
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Interdisciplinary and adaptability: “Part of the members who joined the ATLAS group are physicists who participated to DØ and who brought their expertise from DØ to ATLAS they took very important responsibilities in ATLAS. “
Assessment of the researches
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Field
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High Energy Physics and Fundamental Interactions
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Astroparticles and Cosmology
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Reactors and Nuclear Physics
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Accelerators and Ion Source
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Hadronic Physics
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Phenomenolgy and theoretical Physics
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Scientific and technical results
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ATLAS : R&D, installation and commissioning ; (detectors and computing)
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Fermilab : Data taking with D0
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CALICE :Successful R&D for the future collider electron -positron ;
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Construction of the GRANIT spectrometer at ILL
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Transfer of the RAL-SUSSEX spectrometer for the nEMD experiment at PSI (Switzerland) ;
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LHC Grid computing : Commissioning and operation of a TIER3 node
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AMI and Tag Collector codes for the ATLAS collaboration
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Planck mission : R&Ds for the Satellite (Lagrange point 2, CMB) ;
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NASA CREAM mission : Detectors for the balloon (Antarctic, Cosmic Rays) ;
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AMS mission : Detectors on the ISS (antimatter and cosmic rays) ;
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Pierre Auger Observatory (Argentina): R&Ds (radio) and analysis;
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Large Survey Sky Telescope in Chile : New member (dark energy) ;
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MIMAC : Innovative R&D for the direct detection of WIMPS (dark matter)
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ADS GUINEVERE project : Successful constructions (coupling of accelerator and subcritical reactor) ;
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Generation IV reactors : Innovative scenarios studies;
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Operation at LPSC of the PEREN (neutronics and chemistry) platforms and installation of a Molten salt loop for new concept for reactors
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Program of Nuclear Structure physics at ILL and preparation of a program for SPIRAL2
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SPIRAL2 project : Leader in several tasks and construction in Grenoble (High power RF feedthroughs, ion ECR source and charge breeding, low energy beam line) ;
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GUINEVERE project : Construction and commissioning of the GENEPI-3C Accelerator
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Hadrontherapy : Participation to the construction of the synchrotron of CNAO : centre for cancer treatment
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Innovative concept FFAG (Fixed Field Alternating Gradient) for the hadrontherapy)
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LHC experiment : Successful construction of the EMCal detectors for ALICE at CERN
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Physics program at Jlab and results on GPDs
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Polarized positron source : New R&D
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Lattice QCD calculations
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Phenomenology of the physics beyond the Standard Model at high energy colliders and in astroparticle physics. QCD precision calculation, Higgs, SUSY and GUT predictions
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Few-Body and hadronic physics
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Factual elements
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Organization of the international Conference HEP 2011 in Grenoble ;
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Data taking on ATLAS at LHC (first papers published)
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Nature Physics publication : GRANIT
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W mass publication (Bronze medal for Jan Stark)
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Article in Science (Auger) ;
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Planck mission : Successful launching
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AMS : Launch of the shuttle scheduled end of February 2011
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MIMAC : Successful detection of 3 D recoil tracks
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Commissioning of GENEPI3C in Mol (Belgium) ;
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Support by a Carnot Institute and the cross disciplinary CNRS PACEN program ;
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Gamma multidetector EXOGAM : Agreement for hosting at ILL (Grenoble)
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International agreement for a 60 GHz source ;
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Collaborations with the LNCMI ;
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CPER project for a technological platform
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Partner in the LINAC 4 project (LHC) upgrade
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Synergy with the experimental group activities Coordination of Theory-LHC-France initiative
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Coordination and participation to two ANR projects
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Coordination of FCPPL (LIA with China)
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Researcher or Professor of very high level or potential
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Name
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Michael Klasen (UJF)
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Barrau Aurelien (UJF)
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Billebaud Annick
(CNRS)
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Collot Johann (UJF)
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DeConto Jean-Marie (UJF)
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Kox Serge
(CNRS)
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Stark Jan
(CNRS)
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Sortais Pascal (CNRS)
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Albrand Solveig (IN2P3
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Derome Laurent
(UJF)
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Santos Daniel (CNRS)
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Kraml Sabine (CNRS)
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Corps grade
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PR1-UJF
(HDR)
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MCF1-UJF
(HDR)
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DR2 CNRS
(HDR)
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PR1-UJF
(HDR)
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PR2-UJF
(HDR)
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DR1 CNRS
(HDR)
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CR1 CNRS
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IP1-CNRS
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IP1-CNRS
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MCF1-UJF
(HDR)
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DR1
(HDR)
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CR1
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Discipline
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Physics at Colliders and Astroparticles
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Astroparti-cules and Cosmology
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Nuclear Physics and Reactors
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High Energy Physics
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Accelerators
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Hadron Physics
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High Energy Physics
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Accelerators/Plasma
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Computing
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Astroparticles and Cosmology
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Astroparticles and Cosmology
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Theory
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Distinction and prize
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Emmy Noether excellence group
Heisenberg fellow
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Bogolioubov Prize, IUF Junior member
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Thibaud Prize
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Thibaud Prize
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Cristal CNRS Prize
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CNRS Silver Medal
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CNRS Bronze Medal
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Joliot-Curie prize
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Cristal CNRS Prize,
ADEME prize for innovating technologies,
IN2P3 prize for technology Transfer
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Cristal CNRS Prize
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CNRS Bronze Medal
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Junior Member of the Austrian Academy of Science
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Bibliography during the last 4-years
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36 publications
1 book
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14 publications
2 books
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4 publications
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16 publications
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6 publications
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12 publications
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more than 30 publications
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5 publications
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9 publications
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7 publications
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10 publications
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19 publications
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Other
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Deputy vice-president of UJF in charge of international collaborations
Member of CERN fellow selection committee
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Director of PSA Master
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French spokesperson of GUINEVERE project
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Former director of LPSC.
Former member of ILL scientific council.
Coordinator of an International Associated Laboratory of CNRS between France/Morocco and Sweden
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FP6 and FP7 work packages
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Director of the LPSC, Former member of International Scientific committees (GSI, CERN, JLab), spokesperson of experiments at JLab and Saturne
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Spokesperson of MIMAC project
Co I of Planck HFI
Member of scientific council of PNPP CNRS department
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Available equipments and infrastructures
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Infrastructure
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Type of equipment
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Use
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Subatomic Physics Paltform
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Platform for Nuclear Science
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Educational (Practical)
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I3AP
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Platform for Plasma Science
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Educational (Practical)
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LBA
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Low Activity measurement
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Valorisation and Environment
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PEREN
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Platform for Nuclear Energy (neutronics and chemistry)
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Research
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FFFER
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Molten Salt Loop
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Research (Generation IV nuclear reactor)
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Tier3
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Grid Tier
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LHC computing, LQCD, CIMENT
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Hall Ariane
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Assembly and test Hall
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ALICE calorimeter assembly (LHC)
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Hall B
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Assembly and test hall, clean rooms
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All experimental projects
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SARA
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Assembly and construction halls
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Accelerators and Ions Sources
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CAD mechanics and workshop
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Mechanical design and fabrication
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Mechanical part of the experiment
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CAD electronics
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Electronics hardware design
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Electronics part of the experiment
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CAD radiofrequency
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RF cavity design
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SPIRAL2 project
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Accelerator building and infrastructure
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Shielding, electrical power, de-ionized water, compressed air, cranes
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SPIRAL2, GUINEVERE project, …
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General instrumentation equipment (hardware and software)
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RF and beam measurements, data acquisition,...
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All experiments
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