SAIP2025

Detector Research and Development projects for future High Energy Physics experiments

9 Jul 2025, 15:10

30m

Solomon Mahlangu House (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Oral Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics-2

Speaker

Rachid Mazini (School of Physics, The University of the Witwatersrand)

Description

The European Strategy for Particle Physics stimulated the preparation of the European Detector Roadmap document in 2021 by the European Committee for Future Accelerators ECFA. This roadmap, defined during a bottom-up process by the community, outlines nine technology domains for HEP instrumentation and pinpoints urgent R&D topics, known as Detector R&D Themes (DRDTs). Task forces were set for each domain, leading to Detector R&D Collaborations (DRDs), now hosted at CERN. Eight DRD collaborations have been established and set up their collaboration structures, with some having already started their R&D
I will give a brief overview of the current status of DRD collaborations covering detector developments in the field of gaseous detectors, noble liquid detectors for rare event searches, semiconductor detectors, photodetectors and concepts for particle ID, quantum sensors, calorimetry, electronics for HEP instrumentation and mechanical and integration aspects. Many of these topics would be of great interest to South African particle physics community to plan their involvement in future accelerator projects such as CEPC, FCC as well as in technology transfer and applications in other fields.