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CNRS AIL: Associated International laboratory

AIL is a CNRS tool for initiating and running international collaborations on a well identified although broad research domain. It has been designed to increase the degree of collaborations between two countries, to create a wider researcher basis for future joint projects and to enforce the visibility of the joint venture.

It is a formal network of laboratories between 2 countries with a simple but well defined structure and organization including budget allocation provision, co-direction and steering committee managment, scientific evaluation and protection of intellectual property rights. It relies on nation to nation or organization to organization general research agreements. Based on a 4 years renewable term it has been tailored to the need of bilateral collaborations but can easily be extended to multi-lateral and multi-institutional programs.

Each host laboratory provides the foreign researchers with the necessary support, very much as it would for a domestic visiting researcher. It is open to all researchers regardless of its original laboratory being or not an AIL host laboratory.

Specific support for tenure researcher long term visits (from 1 month up to 1 year) and for hiring PhD students (3 years) and post-docs (2 years) are provided by both countries. The most sensitive issue of international collaboration namely “Project Continuity” is thus addressed through space and time overlap of expertise and through the sustained scientific direction and evaluation.

It has proven to be a quite unique and successful framework for many fields and in many countries. More than 15 AIL are running in the world on different topics like agriculture, genomics, gamma ray, catalyses, molecular engineering …

More specific to Japan, 2 AIL have already been set: one with Tokyo university on MEMS (1987) and one with AIST Tsukuba on humanoid robotics (2002). Beyond their scientific achievements and the visibility given to the programs, they have played a major role in improving the understanding between the communities and the internationalization of both institutions.

AIL for Particle Physics between France and Japan

Based on this successful experience, IN2P3-CNRS, DAPNIA-CEA in France and KEK in Japan have decided to set up an AIL entitled

“ILC-LHC and Particle Physics”

which has both short and long term targets. As French and Japanese researchers have mutual interest in several particle physics projects, it will cover the today needs of teams conducting collaborative activities on detector developments, ILC accelerator R&D, LHC, neutrino and B physics, event generators and computing. Il will help mitigating the access to the experimental, R&D and test facilities available both in Japan and in France. It intends also to act as a modest test-bench for future large research organizations like tackling practical issues raised by ILC world-wide project types.

Host laboratories

The French host laboratories are strongly involved in joint projects with Japan. They will welcome and support Japanese physicists working at CERN (LHC) or at other French facilities. They will contribute together with the funding bodies to the AIL support and budget. Researchers Phd student and post-docs will be exchanged between the partners countries.

The AIL is open to any team (IN2P3 , DAPNIA or related universities) regardless of their affiliation as long as the scientific project has been approved by the AIL steering committee.

• LAPP (Annecy),
• LLR (Palaiseau)
• LPNHE (PARIS),
• LAL (Orsay),
• DAPNIA (Saclay),
• KEK (Tsukuba).

Scientific topics

Research projects will be selected by a bilateral steering committee among proposals submitted by the researchers.

7 Main scientific topics have been identified:

• Detector R&D (ILC, B-Physics, ...)
• LHC (support to Japanese working at CERN, Grid)
• B-Physics and super B factory
• Neutrino Physics (T2K , Opera, ...)
• Simulation, Event generators and data Analysis
• Computing (GRID, Geant4, High precision numerical computation, Lattice Data Grid)
• ILC accelerator R&D

A Collaboration proposal detailed list is being prepared. It is available on the AIL intranet. If you want to see or even contribute to the text, you need to register first at:
http://acpp.in2p3.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration %PDFLATEXIF% %ELSE% -- DenisPerretGallix - 18 Nov 2005 %PDFLATEXENDIF%