RI-PATHSExploring Impact-Relevant Interactions Between Research Infrastructures and Users

Case of User Access at the Extreme Light InfrastructureAllen Weeks

ALBABarcelona, SpainMay 10, 2019

Outline

• Background of ELI and what makes it unique as a ‘user facility’

• Overview of the ELI Facilities to understand better the User Access Strategy

• Specifics of the ELI ERIC Access Strategy

Science and Scope

Landmark

• The most capable high-power laser facility being built today, with leading performance across abroad range of categories

• A open-access, single-interface user-facility

• A global technology and innovation leader in high-power, high intensity laser systems

• A leading research infrastructure in the European Research Area

• First large research infrastructurebuilt in Central Europe

The Science Case For a European Initiative

A world-leading European Laser Community since 1990s

ELI builds on the success ofLaserlab-Europe in early 2000s

A well-structured researchlandscape

The science programme will begin with the first call at the end of 2019.

Already today 1,500+ researchers from 25 EU Countries collaborate and co-produce new science and technology

A Long History Already

The Scientific Case is Based on a Limited Aim

The specific goal of ELI is to address two “Grand Challenges”, aiming to develop:

• High Energy beam facility and X-rays: ultra-short energetic particles (> 10 GeV) and radiation (up to few MeV) beams produced from compact laser plasma accelerators.

• Attosecond science: snap-shot in the attosecond scale of the electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, plasmas and solids.

Context Laser and Photonics

7% sector growth over the forecast period (2019 - 2023)

The broad laser/ photonics market valued at €447B in 2016(Europe €69.7B)

Projected 300k employees in Europe by 2020

Europe (15.5%) behind China (26.6%)

https://www.photonics21.org/PhotonicsNew-market-studies.pdf

European Leadership

Bubblechart of total peak power for operational, under construction, and proposed high power laserfacilities. SOURCE: J. Collier, Rutherford Central Laser Facility.

• Investment is driving leadership in laser and photonics, especially for state-of-the-art systems

• Projected total peak power for high power laser systemsoperational and under construction is by far world-leading

ELI helps leads Europe to world competiveness in laser/photonics industry:• The global market for lasers is estimated at €13.5B in 2018• up 5% over 2017 (Laser Focus World, Mar. 2019)

Over the construction period ELI Facilities report:• More than €455 million in contracts • Companies from 19 European countries

ELI Drives Competitiveness Lasers and Photonics

ELI ERIC collaborates with industry as part of its core mission

What is the Status of ELI Now?

• Host Countries are delivering ELI facilities on time and budgetInvestment in ELI is having strong technology impact

• Transitioning from Implementation (Construction) to Operations• The ELI facilities are coming together as a single ELI ERIC

Where are we now?

Four (4) into One (1)

ELI-DC, AIBSLCzech Rep. – Inst. of Physics (Czech Academy)Hungary – ELI-HU, Non-profit Ltd. Romania – IFIN-HH Italy – Elettra (CNR)France – CNRS (CEA)Germany – DESYUnited Kingdom – UKRI (STFC)

ELI-BL ELI-NP ELI-ALPS

To maximise scientific impact and excellence, the three facilities will together.The ERIC enables a single, Member-led consortium.The users we serve and the staff of ELI ERIC will be unifiedto operate effectively.Preparing to begin experiments with open calls.Already working with Commissioning Users.

A Transition to Operations

ELI ERIC: A Basis For Partnership

• Membership and Observer status is countries and intergovernmentalorganizations

• Organizational advantages to the structure in pan-European context

• Strategic Partner – A contractual partner, either country or institution

ELI ERIC: Science and Scope

• Scientific Evaluation – ELI ERIC ‘...shall ensure that research carried out by use of ELI meets the highest standards of quality and excellence, and shall promote training and exchange on best practice. Impact assessment shall provide information on research policy and allocation of resources that support these standards.’

• User Access – Peer- review; ELI ERIC will ensure a common access point for users responding to a unified call for proposals, including all the available capabilities of the three ELI Facilities in an integrated way.

• Technical Innovation – ELI ERIC is responsible to ‘...develop a policy and strategy for innovation, including intellectual property, and support to industrial developments and users.’

Desire to pursue grand challenges and push laser technologies to the

limits of physics and technology…

Forms of Access

Excellence-driven Access

The excellence-driven Access mode depends on scientific excellence, originality, quality and technical and ethical feasibility of a proposal. It is evaluated through peer review. It enables Users access to the best facilities, resources and services wherever located. This mode enables collaborative research and technological development efforts across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

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Market-driven Access The market-driven Access mode applies when Access is defined through an agreement between the User and the Research Infrastructure that will lead to a fee for the Access and that may remain proprietary.

Wide Access This mode guarantees the broadest possible Access to scientific data and digital services provided by the Research Infrastructure to Users wherever they are based. Research Infrastructures adopting this mode maximiseavailability and visibility of the data and services provided.

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Forms of Access

Management and quality is critical to success! Management of Access affects the all the facilities, so it is not just the work of the Science director and team; It can affect/influence a number of things:

• Member contributions• User interest and participation• Interactions with industry• Data and IPR policies

Access to the facility is the main product of the facility!Should be defined at the highest levels of governance, usually in the founding documents. There is no ‘right’ answer … should be adapted to the RI.

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Our Approach to Access

Costs & Contributions Are Linked to Access

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ELI BeamlinesDolní BřežanyCzech Republic

ELI-Beamlines Facility(Dolní Břežany, Czech Rep.)

Offices & Lecture Hall

Experiment & Laser Hall

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ELI-Beamlines Layout

ELI-BL Schematic

ELI-ALPSSzeged, Hungary

ELI-ALPS(Szeged, HU)

Experimental hall 6200 m2

Labs & workshops 7900 m2

Offices & conf center 7400 m2

Maintenance 2900 m2

ELI-ALPS Layout(Szeged, HU)

ELI-ALPS Schematic (Szeged, HU)

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High repetition rate (HR1 &HR2) lasers:By 2019: 100 kHz, > 5 mJ, < 6 fs, VIS-NIR, CEPIn 2017: 100 kHz, > 1 mJ, < 6,2 fs, VIS-NIR, CEP

Single cycle (SYLOS) laser:By 2019-20: 1 kHz, >100 mJ, < 5 fs, VIS-NIR, CEPIn 2017: 1 kHz, >45 mJ, < 10 fs, VIS-NIR, CEP

High field (HF) laser:By 2024-25: 10 Hz, >2 PW, <10 fsBy 2018: 10 Hz, >2 PW, <17 fs

Mid-infrared (MIR) laser:By 2024-25: 10 kHz, > 10 mJ, < 2 cycles, 4 µm-8 µmIn 2017: 100 kHz, > 150 µJ, < 4 cycles, 2.3 µm-3.8 µm

Terahertz pump laser:By 2020-21: 100 Hz, > 1 J, < 0.5 ps, 1.5 µm-2 µmBy 2018: 50 Hz, > 500 mJ, < 0.5 ps, 1.03 µm

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Attosecond studiesin atomic and molecular physics

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ELI-NP Layout(Māgurele, RO)

Access

Excellence-driven Access

The excellence-driven Access mode depends on scientific excellence, originality, quality and technical and ethical feasibility of a proposal. It is evaluated through peer review. It enables Users access to the best facilities, resources and services wherever located. This mode enables collaborative research and technological development efforts across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

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EU CharterProvides definitions (Research Infrastructure, Users, Access, Access Unit), as well as non-regulatory principles and guidelines(including Access Modes) to be used as a reference when defining Access policies for Research Infrastructures and related services.

ELI-Access in a nut shellØ Open Access through a Common entry pointØ Selection based on international peer-reviewØ Evaluation solely based on the S&T quality of the expected

outcomeØ Proprietary Access and Access for Training acceptable if not

conflicting with Open Access

ELI Access Policy

Access-related DefinitionsResearch InfrastructureIn the case of ELI, the Research Infrastructure is represented by the facilities, resources and services offered by ELI ERIC and that might be additionally offered by the ELI Partner Facilities.

UsersCan be individuals, teams, consortia and institutions from academia, research, business, industry and public services.

AccessThe legitimate and authorized admission to, interactions with and use of ELI facilities, resources and services offered by ELI to its Users.

Access UnitA measure specifying the Access offered to the Users. To account for the diversity of experimental needs at ELI, a small unit should offer necessary flexibility: Access Unit is 8 hours, or one ‘shift’. No maximum number of allocated units per project foreseen

Access Unit CostIntended to benchmark across the ELI Facilities as well as with other RIs. Not necessarily intended as a basis for external costing. It is intended for budgeting Member contributions.

Options for Access

Multi-campaign projectsØ Whenever this is justified, the project can be implemented through not one

but a series of experimental campaigns (visits to the RI)Ø In case of multi-campaign projects by consortia, each campaign might involve

the whole consortium or only specific teamsØ In case of Access by teams and consortia, a reasonable maximum number of

participants per campaign might be set

Long-term or Block Allocation Group (BAG) proposalsØ Might be motivated by the lengthy assembly and installation time of

equipment which might be kept installed for extended periods of time (and optionally might be used by other users as well) for efficiency reasons

Ø BAGs might aim at accessing several instruments/BL of the infrastructure (not necessarily on the same site) in solving a complex scientific problem. BAG proposals are necessarily multi-campaign and might be multi-site projects

ELI Will Operate ‘Dual Mode’

1 PW and 0.1 PW and Ultra-short, High Rep Stations, Secondary Sources• Instrumentation for materials and bio sciences at 1PW • Instrumentation for light-by-light scattering and for applications at 0.1 PW • Proton and Electron accelerator sources 3-10 PW Stations operate in Open Mode• Select few broad, long range scientific goals • Build international user teams/large long term collabs around these goals • Implement advanced instrumentation not possible at smaller facilities• Motivated also by difficulty of frequently changing 10 PW setups

Open stations: users and beamline scientists collaborate to build complex experimental setups (“nuclear physics community model”)

Service-based stations: laser/target adapted to user needs (“synchrotron model”)

User Proposal Structure

Proposals should includeØ an introduction describing the background and the state-of-the-art;Ø the motivation for conducting this research project; Ø the expected outcome; Ø the methodology and the experimental plan; Ø the technical requirements (source performances, instruments); Ø the justification of the required number of Access Units; Ø description of the User team or consortium; Ø well-documented reference list

Returning UsersØ Returning Users must always accompany their submission of a new proposal

by a report summarizing the results, scientific outcomes and dissemination of previous results obtained from a project ran at ELI-ERIC from the excellence-based, Non-proprietary research allocation scheme.

ELI Peer Review Panel (PRP)PRP StructureØ External experts proposed by the three pillars and receiving the

endorsement of the ELI-ISTAC Ø Consists of several sub-panels and (possibly) a PRP coordinatorØ PRP sub-panels:

- AMO Physics and Chemistry in gas and liquid phase - Nuclear Physics & fundamental interactions- Life Sciences (Bio, Med, Environment) - Structural determination & imaging applications - Surface / Material Science- Plasma Physics / Relativistic Interactions

Ø PRP Coordinator: ELI ERIC position selects reviewers, takes decision (approval/disapproval), seeks further reviewing if reports are inconclusive, formulates the PRP decision.

Ø Evaluates and ranks the proposals according to their meritØ Provides via VUO feedback to the applicants under the form of a report

Support Measures

Proposed User Access support measuresELI might support users in various mattersØ Provision of necessary documents required for visa applicationsØ Travel and accommodation arrangementsØ Sample/equipment shipmentØ Users safety training (laser, ionizing radiation, nuclear, chemical and domestic

safety, IT and data safety, facility’s int. safety regulations)Ø User training for the use of the research equipment

Virtual User Office (VUO)Ø Receives proposals, validates them and guides them through the feasibility

check, the peer review evaluation process, the selection and the allocation steps

Ø Communicates the outcome of the evaluation to the Users Ø VUO interacts via it's local implementations with the users in order to

prepare and facilitate their visit

User Access Quality and Performance IndicatorsØ Users' feedback requested through a satisfaction survey after

the visit to ELI: quality of access, support, work environment, etc.

Ø Users asked to acknowledge the contribution of the ELI in any output (i.e. publication, patent, data, etc.) deriving from research conducted at ELI

Ø VUO monitors access statistics and documentation ➜ ISTACØ VUO monitors dissemination and scientific output

(publications)Ø Technology Transfer Office will ‘track’ developments and

impact on competitiveness.

Indicators & Monitoring

Access Policies Survey

Survey of access policies was conducted with international access providers in photon science and nuclear physics

Information collected from (EU and non-EU):APS, CERIC-ERIC, CLF, ELETTRA, ESRF, European XFEL, GANIL, GSI, LaserLab Europe, LCLS, SACLA, SOLEIL

First ACCESS Workshop April 2016 (Szeged):ELI and external experts discussed the results of the survey and exchanged expertise on Access policies

Working document on ELI Access PoliciesA proposal (working document) for the ELI Access policy & user support has been prepared by ELI-TRANS and approved by the General Assembly. The document is being used in the application for the ELI-ERIC

Summary

• The ELI Facilities will be governed within the context of the ELI European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).

• The mission is to provide effective access to the ELI Facilities and define common standards to improve interoperability.

• The mission is also to support technology transfer, innovation and push technical development in the field.

• Sustainability (finance) is linked to access, especially by the ELI Member countries.

Important point: The ELI key stakeholders expect to see complementarity in excellence between ‘pure science’ and ‘application’