The RF Coordination Panel for the ESPP Accelerator R&D
Peter McIntosh (STFC, UK)
The next (ESPP) European Strategy for Particle Physics update in 2026 is anticipated to provide further clarity for future High Energy Physics (HEP) accelerator priorities. As a consequence of the previous ESPP update in 2020, the European Laboratory Director’s Group (LDG) have coordinated an R&D roadmap assessment process, which has been used to prioritise many of the key R&D areas (7 themes) which would be required to develop more extensively to match the future HEP machine expectations. In 2022, LDG also formed a corresponding implementation team who could work with the associated discipline communities to more extensively address the principal performance targets envisaged. One such priority theme area is High Gradient RF Structures and Systems, for which an RF Coordination Panel (RFCP) has been established.
The talk today will describe the LDG driven R&D implementation process, whilst also identifying the progress that has been made by the RFCP in the relative fields of RF system performance improvement, with a view to submitting its summary report to LDG and corresponding input to the next ESPPU in spring 2025.