EURO-LABS FINE FINal Annual Meeting 2026

Jun 29, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jul 1, 2026, 4:45 PM Europe/Berlin

Seminar room (KIT CN, Bldg. 348, KARA)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) hosted the Final  Annual Meeting FINE  (FINal  EURO-LABS) of the EURO-LABS EC funded project. This meeting followed the Kick-Off Meeting (KOM) held in Bologna in 2022, the Second Annual Meeting (SAM) held in Krakow in 2023, the Third Annual Meeting (TAM) hosted in CERN in 2024 and the Fourth Annual Meeting (FAME) hosted in JSI Ljubljana.

FINE (FINal EURO-LABS) meeting was the final opportunity for participants to comprehensively assess and share project achievements, deliberate upon outcomes, and prepare the final report to be submitted after the end of project (31th August 2026).

FINE featured a scientific presentation of the work done during the project. Posters were also presented.

Attendance was encouraged by all EURO-LABS members as well as users of the facilities, particularly students and early career researchers. The participation of financial and administrative staff from various EURO-LABS laboratories were also encouraged, to support the preparation of the final report.

Visits to two facilities on the KIT Campus North, KARA and Energy Lab, were conducted.

The Governing Board (GB) meeting met on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 1st.

Thank you for visiting KIT !

^{European Laboratories for Accelerator Based Sciences (EURO-LABS), a programme for research infrastructures services advancing the frontiers of knowledge, aims to provide unified transnational access (TNA) to leading Research Infrastructures (RI) across Europe. The programme brings the nuclear physics, the high-energy accelerator, and the high-energy detector R&D communities together to foster collaborations and to stimulate synergies.}

^{With 33 partners from European countries, EURO-LABS forms a large network of RIs, offering TNAs ranging from a modest size test infrastructure to large scale ESFRI facilities. The offered access enables research at the technological frontiers in accelerator and detector development to explore new physics ideas and open wider avenues in both basic and applied research in diverse topics ranging from optimal running of reactors to mimicking reactions in the stars.}

^{https://web.infn.it/EURO-LABS/}

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101057511.

Mon, June 29

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Bus Transfer from Quadro City Hotel Karlsruhe to KIT Campus North and passage through gate

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Arrival and Information

9:15 AM → 10:15 AM KARA Tour

10:15 AM → 10:25 AM Bus Transfer to Energy Lab

10:25 AM → 11:25 AM Energy Lab Tour

11:25 AM → 11:35 AM Bus Transfer to Canteen

11:35 AM → 12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Walk to KARA and Arrival

1:00 PM → 1:20 PM Welcome KIT & EURO-LABS

Chair: Maria Colonna

Speaker: Anke-Susanne Müller (KIT)

1:20 PM → 1:50 PM Project Scientific Report

Chair: Maria Colonna

Speaker: Navin ALAHARI (GANIL)

FINE_Opening_AN.pptx

1:50 PM → 2:20 PM Nuclear Physics for Lunar Exploration: Radiation Protection for the Next Era of Human Space Exploration

Speaker: Marco Durante (GSI)

Durante plenary space.pptx

2:20 PM → 2:45 PM Access to nuclear physics facilities – overview of the main achievements

Speaker: Adam Maj (IFJ-PAN)

Maj_WP2_EURO-LABS_FINE.pptx

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM WP3 Update

Speaker: Ilias Efthymiopoulos (CERN)

05-ieEURO-LABS_FINE_WP3.pptx

3:05 PM → 3:30 PM Status of WP4

Speaker: Marko Mikuž (Univ. Ljubljana / J. Stefan Inst.)

WP4-FINE.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM WP5-Task 5.2: Open Science and Data

Speakers: Antoine Lemasson (GANIL), Quentin Fable (GANIL (CNRS/IN2P3))

EURO-LABS WP5.2_Lemasson_Fine.pptx

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM WP5-Task 5.4: Report on Hands-on Training

Speaker: Livius Trache (IFIN-HH)

EURO-LABS_WP5.4 Report final.pdf

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM WP5-Task 5.3: Rapid, Automated Accelerator Tuning with Geoff

Speakers: Penny Madysa (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung), Sabrina Appel (GSI)

Euro_labs_W5_sappel_2026.pptx

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Poster Session

5:00 PM A Python framework for integration of measurements into the EPICS control system

Many measurements in accelerator physics require dedicated scans of parameters, such as the main frequency of the RF system for chromaticity measurements or a variation of quadrupole strength for beta function measurements, etc. Such measurements cannot be performed by simply reading an instrument, but require a certain measurement procedure. These measurements are typically implemented as scripts, as they are often written by staff or students whose task is the measurement itself. For reusability and maintainability, however, an integration into the EPICS control system is favoured. This has multiple benefits such as the easy archiving of results in the central database or the integration of the measurements into the standard operator panels. To allow non expert staff and students to easily build measurements exposed via the EPICS control system, we built a framework in Python to implement such measurement routines as EPICS input-output-controllers (IOC). This framework allows the author of such measurements to focus on the measurement itself and still benefit from an EPICS integration without the need for extensive knowledge in EPICS IOC development.

Speaker: Patrick Schreiber (KIT)

5:00 PM ATSOA at CERN: A hands-on accelerattor course in the EURO-LABS framework

Beyond providing Transnational Access to major Research Infrastructures (RIs) across Europe, the European Laboratories for Accelerator Sciences (EURO-LABS) programme supports advanced training activities. Within this framework, an Advanced Training School on the Operation of Accelerators (ATSOA) is organised at CERN. The school targets students, young researchers, and professionals in the field of accelerator science, offering them a unique opportunity to participate in a week of hands-on training. Five CERN facilities — CLEAR, AD/ELENA, ISOLDE, PSB and LEIR — are involved in the training, allowing participants to familiarise themselves with different accelerator types and particle species. Under the guidance of experienced instructors, they carry out dedicated experiments designed to illustrate key physics concepts and operational principles that can be applied in their own work. This contribution gives an overview of the past schools and an outlook for future courses.

Speaker: Foteini Asvesta (CERN)

poster_IPAC26_eurolabs.pdf

5:00 PM In-situ Photoelectron Yield Studies of Carbon-based Beam Screen Coatings at BESTEX-KARA

The Beam Screen Test Experiment (BESTEX) at the Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA) is built as a specialized platform to study synchrotron-radiation-induced surface effects that are important for accelerator vacuum systems, i.e. for mitigating electron cloud formation and controlling desorption processes in future high-intensity storage rings like the FCC-ee. The setup allows for in-situ irradiation of beam screen materials and vacuum chambers under realistic synchrotron radiation conditions, enabling systematic studies of the evolution of the material characteristics and the photon-induced conditioning behaviour during accelerator operation.
While the original setup was designed for photon-stimulated desorption (PSD) measurements, the present campaign transferred the experiment to a setup for Photoelectron Yield (PEY) measurements. Four LHC-type beam screen samples, including degreased OFE copper and copper substrates coated with amorphous carbon (a-C) of varying thicknesses and configurations, are under investigation. The PEY measurements were acquired at KARA under synchrotron radiation exposure by tracking the drain current caused by photoemission as a function of the total photon dose that the samples had been exposed to. A specific arrangement of multi-sample switching and biasing allowed for the sequential measurement of each sample during beam operation, while reducing the interference between adjacent samples.
All the surfaces exhibited conditioning induced by the synchrotron radiation, with the PEY gradually decreasing for higher photon doses. The PEY values of the bare Cu OFE sample (LHC standard) were the highest, generally ranging between ~0.12 and 0.14, and a clear surface conditioning occurred to 0.17. In contrast, all a-C coated samples showed significantly reduced electron emission and better operational stability. After only slight conditioning, the 15 nm a-C/Cu coatings had PEY values of approximately 0.09–0.10, whereas the 100 nm a-C/Ti/Cu configuration delivered the best overall performance, with the PEY dropping from around 0.07 to about 0.065 during irradiation, accompanied by smooth and stable conditioning behaviour. The measurements also showed good reproducibility between independently coated 15 nm a-C prepared samples.
These results give experimentally relevant input for assessing surface treatments with low electron emission aimed at reducing the electron cloud in future accelerator beam screens. The ongoing BESTEX program also serves as a preparation platform for future PSD studies, using FCC-ee type vacuum chambers under synchrotron radiation exposure at KARA.

Speaker: Varun Pathania (CERN)

5:00 PM Remote irradiation controls at the UMCG PARTREC cyclotron

Recent geopolitical and health crises have highlighted the need to provide accelerator users with the means to perform experiments with minimal in situ personnel. At UMCG-PARTREC, a user-friendly system was developed to provide online access to irradiation controls (beam on, fluence, energy, etc) without compromising the IT system’s security.
The system is composed of a Python server residing in the restricted accelerator network, which can receive user commands as text strings and interact with the pre-existing LabVIEW irradiation control system. Users do not have direct access to this network and can only communicate with the server over a serial connection. Due to its simplicity, the attack surface of said connection is minimal.
Users are given a client device (optionally their own laptop) that connects to the serial interface and exchange text strings with the server. The client is connected to PARTREC’s unprivileged network and can be accessed via VPN. Camera feedback from the irradiation room and a non-interactive screen grab of the control system are available on the client.
The remote access system is available on request. New features and a GUI will be added based on interest.

Speaker: Jacopo Magini (UMCG-PARTREC)

JMagini-eurolabs_poster_2026.pdf

5:00 PM Research Data Management at KIT’s Accelerator Facilities

This contribution presents the successful deployment and operational integration of Kadi4Mat, an open-source virtual research environment, within the framework of Service Improvements in the EURO-LABS project at the Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The project established a self-hosted, scalable, and FAIR-compliant infrastructure tailored to the research data management requirements of accelerator and beam physics. FAIR = Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

Two independent Kadi4Mat instances have now been deployed and are in productive operation at KIT-IBPT. The first instance is intended for internal institutional use and supports collaborative research workflows, data organization, and long-term data management for researchers within KIT. The second instance provides external users with read-only access to published research data, enabling secure and controlled dissemination of scientific results beyond the institution.

This use case demonstrates how Kadi4Mat enables reproducible and interoperable research workflows while providing a modular and extensible model for integrating modern research data infrastructures into institutional environments in accordance with FAIR data principles.

Speaker: Dr Saeid Masoumi (KIT (IBPT))

5:00 PM Toward clinically reliable ion FLASH therapy: a dosimetry framework for synchrotron-based proton and carbon beams

FLASH radiotherapy has emerged as a promising approach for widening the therapeutic window of cancer treatment. Proton and carbon ion beams offer additional advantages through their superior dose localization and high dose conformity enabled by pencil beam scanning delivery.
However, synchrotron-based beams exhibit complex temporal structures, including variations in spill shape, extraction dynamics, and scanning patterns. These delivery characteristics directly influence dose-rate characterization and detector response, introducing additional challenges for reliable dosimetry under ultra-high dose-rate (UHDR) conditions. A delivery-aware dosimetric framework is therefore required to establish meaningful dose-rate metrics and appropriate measurement strategies for ion FLASH research and clinical implementation.
This work presents recent developments in a UHDR dosimetry framework dedicated to synchrotron-based proton and carbon ion beams. By connecting beam delivery physics, dosimetric measurements, and detector modelling, this work contributes to the development of clinically reliable ion FLASH therapy and provides practical tools for future research and clinical translation.

Speaker: Warisara Charuchinda (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

FINE-POSTER-Warisara_final.pdf

7:20 PM → 7:50 PM Bus Transfer to Quadro City Hotel Karlsruhe

Tue, June 30

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Bus Transfer from Quadro City Hotel Karlsruhe to KIT Campus North and passage through gate

9:00 AM → 9:25 AM WP2 - Service Improvements

Speaker: Marco Durante (GSI)

EURO-LABS FINE task 2.5.pptx

9:25 AM → 9:50 AM Research Data Management and Measurement Framework at KIT-ALFA (KARA & FLUTE)

In this talk, we present two frameworks used for Research Data Management and Measurement at KIT-ALFA (KARA & FLUTE) within the framework of Service Improvements in the EURO-LABS project at the Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

For Research Data Management, we successfully deployed and operationalized Kadi4Mat, an open-source virtual research environment. The project established a self-hosted, scalable, and FAIR-compliant infrastructure tailored to the research data management requirements of accelerator and beam physics. Two independent Kadi4Mat instances have now been deployed and are in productive operation at IBPT. The first instance is intended for internal institutional use and supports collaborative research, data organization, and long-term data management for researchers at KIT. The second instance provides external users with read-only access to research data, enabling secure and controlled dissemination of scientific results beyond the institution.

Many measurements in accelerator physics require dedicated parameter scans and are typically implemented as scripts. For reusability and maintainability, however, integration into the EPICS control system is preferred. This approach provides multiple benefits, such as easy archiving of results in a central database and integration of measurements into standard operator panels. To enable non-expert staff and students to easily develop measurements exposed via the EPICS control system, we have developed a Python framework to implement such measurement routines as EPICS Input/Output Controllers (IOCs). This framework allows an author to focus on the measurement itself while still benefiting from EPICS integration, without requiring extensive knowledge of EPICS IOC development.

Speakers: Dr Patrick Schreiber, Dr Saeid Masoumi (KIT (IBPT))

presentation_Saeid_Patrick_merged.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:15 AM Service Improvements in WP4

Speaker: Marko Mikuž (Univ. Ljubljana / J. Stefan Inst.)

WP4.4-FINE.pdf

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM The universe in the laboratory

Speaker: Thomas Nilsson (GSI/FAIR)

EUROLABS-2026-06-30-Nilsson-V01.pptx

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 11:40 AM EURO-LABS activities with stable ion beams

Speaker: Paul Greenlees (University of Jyväskylä)

euro-labs-wp21-FINAL.pdf

euro-labs-wp21-FINAL.pptx

11:40 AM → 12:05 PM EURO-LABS activities with Radioactive ion beams

Speaker: Iulian Stefan (IJCLab Orsay)

Stefan_EURO-LABS_WP22_2026.pptx

12:05 PM → 12:25 PM Overview of EURO-LABS activities with neutron beams

Speaker: Alberto Mengoni (INFN-CERN)

AMengoni_Task-2.3-FINE_updated1.pptx

12:25 PM → 12:45 PM Theory for Experiment: Serving the EURO-LABS Community

Speaker: Manuela Rodriguez Gallardo (Universidad de Sevilla)

2-04-theory_service.pdf

12:45 PM → 1:00 PM Group photo

12:45 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch

Canteen

1:50 PM → 2:20 PM European Strategy for Particle Physics: The Process and Key Recommendations

Speaker: Paris Sphicas (NKUA, CERN)

document.pdf

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Financial Officers&Admin zoom meeting

2:20 PM → 2:45 PM HiRadMat Facility - Overview of EURO-LABS supported experiments

Speaker: Nikolaos Charitonidis (CERN)

HiRadMat_FINE_2026.pptx

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Synchrotron radiation based material and vacuum component qualification studies for the Future Circular Collider in the Beam Screen Test Bench Experiment at KARA

The design, development, and upgrade of vacuum components for current and future particle accelerators requires a thorough qualification of all dynamic processes that lead to pressure increments during beam operation. Knowing the amount of deposited energy on the vacuum materials that needs to be extracted by the cooling system, and the related thermal material surface effects, is essential. In addition, especially electron-, ion- and photon-induced desorption and emission of secondary particles processes require to be quantitatively understood to model potential pressure loads to the vacuum system and to properly design the required pumping equipment and interlock system. The mentioned phenomena must be characterised experimentally at conditions that are close to the operational ones. The beam screen test bench experiment (BESTEX) setup at KARA contributes one ingredient for the development of new vacuum designs for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the selection of best suited materials and functional surface treatments: exploration of photon-induced processes. I will summarise the past activities of photon-stimulated desorption (PSD) studies for the FCC-hh beam screens as well as measurements of different surface functionalisation. Furthermore, the technical challenges and solutions for the fabrication of FCC-ee prototype chambers will be described together with a description of the requirements and plan of future PSD measurements for FCC-ee relevant conditions. Finally, the adaption of the experimental setup to allow for photoelectron yield (PEY) measurements will be described.

Speaker: Marcel Himmerlich (CERN)

EURO-Labs-260630_BESTEX_mh.pptx

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM WP4-Task 4.1 - Test Beams

Speaker: Marcel Stanitzki (DESY)

eurolabs-fine2026.pdf

3:25 PM → 3:45 PM WP4-Tasks 4.2, 4.3 - Irradiations and Detector Characterization

Speaker: Igor Mandić (JSI)

FINE_WP4_T2andT3_2026.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 6:15 PM Plenary Discussion

Meeting was held in plenary mode with all work packages.

6:15 PM → 6:45 PM Bus Transfer to Dinner at Q - Qaudro City Hotel Karlsruhe

7:00 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Wed, July 1

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Bus Transfer from Quadro City Hotel Karlsruhe to KIT Campus North and passage through gate

9:00 AM → 9:25 AM Horizon Europe - Next Steps

Speaker: René Martins

EURO-LABS_final_event_-_INFRASERV-2027_202260630.pdf

9:25 AM → 9:35 AM Presentation by the Project Officer

Speaker: Alessandro Zardini (REA/C/04)

9:35 AM → 10:00 AM Final Report

Speaker: Barbara Pezzotta (INFN)

FINE-Slides-Barbara.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM Impact of the project

Speaker: Maria Colonna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - LNS)

FINE2026_Colonna_f1.pptx

10:20 AM → 10:45 AM EURO-LABS@CLEAR: Experiments, Infrastructure, and Training at a Cutting-Edge Accelerator Facility

Speaker: Antonio Gilardi (CERN)

1-05-EURO-LABS@CLEAR_AG.pptx

10:45 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM → 11:30 AM Electron beams for Applications - Highlights of experiments at INCT-RAPID facility

Speaker: Urszula Gryczka (INCT)

WP 3.4 Final meeting U. Gryczka.pptx

11:30 AM → 11:45 AM Fast silicon detectors as proton therapy beam monitors

Speaker: Pawel Olko (IFJ-PAN)

EURO_LABS_AM2026_WP4_3_Olko_final.pdf

11:45 AM → 12:00 PM Pixel development at PSI for tracking in HEP and non-HEP applications

Speaker: Tilman Rohe (PSI)

Euolabs_Fine_V1.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Two-photon decay studied with Radioactive Ion Beams at GSI/FAIR

Speaker: Iulian Stefan (IJCLab Orsay)

Stefan_EURO-LABS_doubleGamma.pptx

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Imaging the Pygmy Dipole Resonance with neutrons

Speaker: Iolanda Matea Macovei (ijclab)

EuroLabs_NFS_IMatea.pptx-2.pdf

12:30 PM → 12:45 PM A secure remote access system for users of the UMCG-PARTREC accelerator

Speaker: Jacopo Magini (UMCG-PARTREC)

EUROLABS FINE J Magini highlights presentation.pptx

MAGINI-abstract.pdf

12:45 PM → 12:50 PM Closing remarks

Speakers: Adam Maj, Ilias Efthymiopoulos, Maria Colonna, Maria J.G. Borge, Marko Mikuž, Navin ALAHARI, Paolo Giacomelli

12:50 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:55 PM Governing Board

Speakers: Adam Maj, Marko Mikuz (Univ. Ljubljana/Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

EURO-LABS - FINE - Financial Update_INFN.pptx

Maj_WP2_EURO-LABS_FINE_GB.pptx

WP3 slides

WP4-FINE-GB.pdf

WP5-Meeting-GB-FINE Meeting.pptx

2:10 PM → 3:10 PM Bus Transfer to Karlsruhe Main Station

4:00 PM → 4:45 PM Bus Transfer to Quadro City Hotel Karlsruhe