The European Strategy and Detector R&D Program

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of the European Detector R&D Program, detailing the organization, focus areas, and current status of collaborations developing advanced detector technologies for particle physics.

Contribution

It introduces the European Detector R&D Collaborations, their structure, and the specific technological domains and themes they are addressing in HEP instrumentation.

Findings

Seven detector R&D collaborations established at CERN.

Coverage of diverse detector technologies including gaseous, noble liquid, and semiconductor detectors.

Progress in setting up collaboration structures and initiating research activities.

Abstract

The latest update of 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. After an intensive period over the last months, seven DRD collaborations have been established, which are now starting to set up their collaboration structures and begin to work. One is still in the preparation phase. In this publication, I will give an overview of the set-up process and the current status of all 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.