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Knowledge Transfer @ CERN
WIPO Conference on Innovation and
Climate Change
Geneva, 12th July 2011
Giovanni Anelli
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CERN was founded 1954: CERN was founded 1954: 12 European States12 European States
““Science for PeaceScience for Peace””
Today: 20 Member StatesToday: 20 Member States
~ 2300 staff
~ 930 other paid personnel
> 10500 users
Budget (2011) ~1000
MCHF
~ 2300 staff~ 2300 staff
~ 930 other paid personnel~ 930 other paid personnel
> 10500 users> 10500 users
Budget (2011) ~1000 Budget (2011) ~1000
MCHFMCHF
20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
1 Candidate for Accession: Romania
8 Observers to Council: India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO
20 Member States:20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom the United Kingdom
1 Candidate for Accession: 1 Candidate for Accession: RomaniaRomania
8 Observers to Council:8 Observers to Council: India, Israel, Japan, India, Israel, Japan,
the Russian Federation, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO
5 applicants for MS:Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia,
Turkey
and Associate Membership
discussions: Brazil, Ukraine, India, ...
5 applicants for MS:5 applicants for MS:Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Israel, Serbia, Slovenia,
TurkeyTurkey
and and Associate Membership Associate Membership
discussions: discussions: Brazil, Ukraine, Brazil, Ukraine,
India, ...India, ...
Austria and CERN / May 2009 3 3
CERN worldwide
collaborations
CERN worldwide
collaborations
Austria and CERN / May 2009 4
The Mission of CERNThe Mission of CERN
� Push back the frontiers of knowledge
E.g. the secrets of the Big Bang …what was the matter like
within the first moments of the Universe’s existence?
� Develop new technologies
Information technology - the Web and the GRID
Medicine - diagnosis and therapy
� Train scientists and engineers of tomorrow
� Unite people from different countries and cultures
The Knowledge Transfer group
Our objective:
promote, support and maximize
knowledge and technology
transfer from CERN to society
G. Anelli – Conference on Innovation and Climate Change – 12.07.2011
We innovate mainly in three areas:
Accelerating
particle beams
Detecting
particles
Large-scale computing (Grid)
CERN Technologies
G. Anelli – Conference on Innovation and Climate Change – 12.07.2011
Vacuum
(10-13 atm)Magnets
(8 T)
Superconductivity
(12kA)
Cryogenics
(1.9 K)
Base Technologies: LHCAccelerator Technologies
G. Anelli – Conference on Innovation and Climate Change – 12.07.2011
Challenge: sample the results of up to 600
million proton-proton collisions per second!
LHC detectors have sophisticated electronic
trigger systems that precisely measure the
passage time of a particle to accuracies in the
region of a few billionths of a second. The
trigger system also registers the location of
the particles to millionths of a metre. This is
essential for ensuring that the particle
recorded in successive layers of a detector is
one and the same.
Detector Technologies
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LHC Computing Grid:
Integrate over 100,000
processors from over
170 sites in 34 countries
into a global computing
resource.
After filtering, CERN detectors select ~100 interesting collisions per second.
Several MBs of data to be stored for each collision...
up to 15 Petabytes/year of data!
8 Megabyte (8MB)
A digital photo
1 Gigabyte (1GB)
= 1000MB
A DVD movie
1 Terabyte (1TB)
= 1000GB
World annual
book production
15 Petabytes (15PB)
= 15000TB
Annual LHC data output
CERN, home of the World Wide Web, is a driving force
in Grid Computing
Computing Technologies
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Particle beams for cancer treatment
Particle detector technologies for medical imaging
Grid computing for medical data management and analysis
Charged hadron beam
that loses energy in matter
Tumour
Target
Focus on Medical Applications
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� Hybrid silicon pixel detectors for tracking applications in High
Energy Physics
153 high energy particle tracks flying through a telescope of half a million
pixels in the WA97 experiment back in 1995
Silicon pixel detectors
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� Medipix 2 collaboration
17 institutes and labs
Medipix
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(courtesy of MARS Bioimaging Ltd)
Medical Imaging – Computed Tomography (CT)
� MARS project
Colour CT X-ray scanner based on Medipix technology
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� Partnership and license agreements with a company to build a
X-ray diffractometer
Material analysis
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� NEG (Non-Evaporable Getter thin film coatings)
Technology used to create and maintain ultra-high vacuum in the
accelerator vacuum chambers.
From high vacuum…
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� License and partnership with a start-up company
Development of a commercial product able to use diffused or indirect
light and reach very high temperatures of up to 300 degrees
Development of a prototype production chain
… to “green” energy!
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� Civil-engineering company opened a new solar power plant
Environmentally friendly "solar field" heats close to 80,000 cubic metres
of bitumen to 180 degrees.
Solar panels plant
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