EuCARD2  Third in a series of FP6/7 IAs on Accelerator R&D: Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe(FP6) to coordinated by CEA - 22 partners European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development to coordinated by CERN - 37 partners Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development to coordinated by CERN - 40 partners

EuCARD2 Work Packages  13 Work Packages, see for detailshttp://eucard2.web.cern.ch/ WP1: Management and Communication (MANCOM) Networking Activities: WP2: Catalysing Innovation (INNovation) WP3: Energy Efficiency (EnEfficient) WP4: Accelerator Applications (AccApplic) WP5: Extreme Beams (XBEAM) WP6: Low Emittance Rings (LOW-e-RING) WP7: Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc2 ) Transnational Access: WP8: WP9: and Joint Research Activities WP10: Future Magnets (MAG) WP11: Collimator Materials for fast High Density Energy Deposition (COMA-HDED) WP12: Innovative Radio Frequency Technologies (RF) WP13: Novel Acceleration Techniques (ANAC2)

EuCARD2 Work Packages  13 Work Packages, see for detailshttp://eucard2.web.cern.ch/ WP1: Management and Communication (MANCOM) Networking Activities: WP2: Catalysing Innovation (INNovation) WP3: Energy Efficiency (EnEfficient) WP4: Accelerator Applications (AccApplic) WP5: Extreme Beams (XBEAM) WP6: Low Emittance Rings (LOW-e-RING) WP7: Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc2 ) Transnational Access: WP8: WP9: and Joint Research Activities WP10: Future Magnets (MAG) WP11: Collimator Materials for fast High Density Energy Deposition (COMA-HDED) WP12: Innovative Radio Frequency Technologies (RF) WP13: Novel Acceleration Techniques (ANAC2)

Objectives  Task 1: Coordination - Rob Edgecock (Huddersfield & STFC)  Task 2: Low energy accelerators – Marco Cavenago (INFN)  Task 3: Intermediate energy proton and ion accelerators – Marco Schippers & David Meer (PSI)  Task 4: High beam power proton and ion accelerators – Giulia Bellodi (CERN)  Task 5: High beam power targets – Hywel Owen (Manchester)  Website at:  53 partners: - 35 not EuCARD2 partners - 19 industry/users

First workshops  Modern hadron therapy gantry developments – UMAN & PSI - 16 th -17 th January Cockcroft, UK  Accelerators for accelerator driven systems - CERN - 20 th -21 st March CERN - organised jointly with MAX -  Accelerator based neutron production (ABNP2014) - INFN - 14 th -15 th April Legnaro - BNCT, radioisotope production, security, etc -

Further planned workshops  Electron beams for industrial and environmental applications – HUD - 6 th -7 th November Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw - see  Compact muon sources – HUD - 12 th -13 th January Huddersfield - Jointly organised with NMI3 - Muons for muCF, muSR, security screening, etc -  Compact accelerators for radioisotope production - UMAN - 26 th -27 th March Cockcroft, UK

Further planned workshops  Reliability of Accelerator Driven System accelerators - Spring CERN  High power accelerator applications for industry and energy - Summer/Autumn Legnaro  Compact gantries for charged particle therapy - Autumn PSI  Boron Neutron Capture Therapy meeting – Pavia  Applications of Particle Accelerators in Europe - 18 th -19 th June RAEng  Other suggestions are very welcome!

Muon workshop  Particular interest in: - muCF - Security screening with muon beams - Muon nuclear transmutation - Other applications  Need compact, easy to operate, cheap muon source  Ideal aims workshops: - identified particular problems to address - form collaborations to do this - applied for funding from, e.g. H2020  To be discussed………….