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ELAN
ELAN
is the European Network on Electron Accelerators,
part of the CARE project which intends to coordinate
all European resources to perform an active R&D on
European particle accelerators and test facilities.
ELAN is formed by the collaboration of 50 institutes
from twelve countries. It comprises CERN and DESY, the 2
largest centre in Accelerator Physics in Europe, as well as
the major centres which are involved in the effort in view
of a Global Linear Collider. It also comprises new groups
from medium size laboratories and universities which are
active in the field of instrumentation, a major asset for
these future machines. ELAN also intends to look into new
techniques of acceleration which requires a good
coordination between accelerator experts and laser/plasma
specialists.
CARE has been recently approved in the framework of FP6,
therefore providing the necessary resources, in the case of
ELAN travel money, to start the work. A detailed description
of ELAN can be found in : http://esgard.lal.in2p3.fr/Project/Activities/Current/Networking/.
ELAN will work in tight connection with two related Joint
Research Activities of CARE: the JRA on a photo-injector and
the JRA on superconductivity. The structure and activities
of ELAN are summarized in the chart below.
The ELAN workshop in Frascati is a two day and a half
meeting, from May 4 till May 6 mid-day. The primary goal is
to start the effective work in the 5 work packages and to
have a broad discussion on the strategy of ELAN.
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