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Annual Progress Report

of the Organization

for the sixtieth financial year

2014

GENEVA, June 2015

ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLÉAIRE

CERN EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

Annual Progress Report

of the Organization

for the sixtieth financial year

2014

Table of contents

I. Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 1

II. Summary of Revenues and Expenses by Activity ............................................................................... 11

III. Scientific and Non-Scientific Programmes ........................................................................................ 15

IV. Additional Information ...................................................................................................................... 61

1. Human Resources ........................................................................................................................................... 62

2. Safety, Health and Environment .................................................................................................................... 63

3. Collaboration Agreements .............................................................................................................................. 64

V. Financial Figures and Explanations .................................................................................................... 67

1. Overview of Revenues and Expenses by Activity ......................................................................................... 68

2. Expenses by Scientific and Non-Scientific Programmes ............................................................................... 71

2.1. Experiments (CERN’s contribution to the collaborations and experiments on site) and Accelerators................... 72

2.2. Non-scientific Programme (Infrastructure and Supporting Services) ..................................................................... 74

2.3. Projects (Construction, R&D) ................................................................................................................................ 76

3. Summary of Expenses by Nature ................................................................................................................... 80

4. Carry-forward ................................................................................................................................................. 86

5. EU-supported Projects .................................................................................................................................... 87

VI. Appendix: List of acronyms ............................................................................................................... 95

Annual Progress Report 2014 1

I. Executive Summary


Introduction

This document contains the CERN Annual Progress Report (APR) for 2014.

The purpose of the APR is to compare, by activity, the achievements with

respect to the objectives agreed by the Council and also to compare actual

expenses, by objective and activity, with resources planning. The objectives

for 2014 were set out in the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) in June 2013.

The APR provides dedicated information on scientific progress and

publications as well as core information on key human resources and training

figures and developments. Further details are also provided on safety, on

environment and on collaboration agreements as well as financial information

of the European Union-supported projects. The financial summary figures

include a breakdown of revenues and expenses by nature.

The lay-out of this seventh APR has the same structure and arrangement as last

year’s version with only minor amendments that incorporate the

recommendations on format and content issued in 2013 by the Council and its

Committees.

The year 2014 was another excellent year of many achievements and of high

visibility for CERN and for particle physics. The year was dominated by the

first Long Shutdown (LS1) to prepare the LHC machine, injectors and

experiments for operation at high energy between 13 to 14 TeV centre-of-mass

energy at the design luminosity. Preparations were carried out for the highest-

priority item of the 2013 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

of constructing the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The LS1 consolidation

and upgrade work for the LHC injector chain was completed successfully and

the whole accelerator chain apart from the LHC is in operation serving the

fixed-target experiments with excellent performance.

CERN remained in the spotlight and continued to attract much interest and

many visitors, as illustrated inter alia by the very popular celebration of

CERN’s 60th Anniversary throughout the year, with 130 events at CERN and

particularly in the Member States, and the Fête des Voisins in May 2014 with

about 8,000 visitors at the LHC Points 4, 5 and 8.

Main Achievements

The main achievements and progress for 2014 can be summarised as follows:

LHC

• The LS1 of the LHC continued during 2014. The LS1 plan comprised a

significant amount of work for the LHC accelerator and its injectors, as well as

for the experiments, all of which advanced well. The SMACC

(Superconducting Magnets and Circuits Consolidation) project was completed

successfully in July 2014. The additional Copper Stabilizer Continuity

Measurement (CSCM) task fully qualified that the main dipole bypass can take

over the current if the superconducting circuit quenches. Moreover, the

maintenance and consolidation of LHC systems, such as cryogenics, vacuum,

magnets, collimators and infrastructure, were also completed according to

schedule. Measures to mitigate the effects of radiation on electronics (R2E)

installed in the LHC underground areas were completed according to schedule

and all systems are now operational. In addition, many activities relating to the

infrastructure were completed successfully, including upgrades of the CERN

electrical network, and installation of back-up water cooling towers for the

cryogenic installations at LHC Points 2, 4, 6 and 8. International collaborations

with institutes were instrumental in ensuring the good progress of LS1

activities. Powering tests of the LHC began in August 2014 and continue in

preparation for first beam for Run II. LS1 is on schedule for beams in the LHC

in early 2015.

Upgrade of the LHC and injectors

• The year 2014 also saw the continuation of the performance-enhancing

consolidation programme and of R&D for the HL-LHC aimed at realising the

ambitious longer-term plans to provide a total integrated luminosity of the

order of 3,000 fb-1 (recorded) by the end of the LHC’s lifetime. The HL-LHC

was underlined as the highest-priority activity in the update of the European

Strategy for Particle Physics. The HL-LHC phase will also entail the need to

implement modifications to components in the insertion regions of the

machine whose performance will have deteriorated due to radiation effects,

such as the inner triplet quadrupole magnets. HL-LHC installation is planned

for Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) scheduled for the period 2023-2025.

• The highlights of 2014 included progress on the lay-out of the Nb3Sn

superconductor for the magnets; the full qualification of a quadrupole with

120 mm aperture and the design of a quadrupole with 150 mm aperture; the

tests on dipole magnets from CERN and FNAL showed they can reach 11.7 T

after less than twenty training quenches; the down-select of the crab cavities

has been finalised; the objectives concerning the collimation for the dispersion

suppressor were reached; and the tests of the superconducting links also made

progress. The corresponding Phase 2 LHC detector R&D and upgrades

required to make optimum use of the increased LHC luminosity continue, and

in some cases the experiment collaborations have started procurement and

construction of components to be installed already during Long Shutdown 2

(LS2) in 2018.

• The LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project has taken advantage of LS1 for

commencing with the implementation of modifications to the injectors and the

installation of equipment prototypes, which will be tested during upcoming

machine development periods. Studies and simulations, as well as the

construction of equipment to be installed during LS2, are advancing.

4 Annual Progress Report 2014

• The LINAC4 project also made progress. The 3-MeV injector has been fully

re-commissioned and the first of three Drift Tube Linac tanks has been

installed and commissioned with beam up to 12 MeV. The new ion source

(IS02) has reached the required beam current (40 mA) on the test stand and has

been installed in the tunnel. The 100 MeV accelerator section was installed and

hardware tests have started. The beam line elements for connection to the PS

Booster are complete and are being progressively installed.

It should be noted that the schedules for the HL-LHC, LIU and detector

upgrade projects had to be re-profiled in view of the need to focus and partially

re-allocate personnel from the HL-LHC and LIU projects towards the timely

completion of the high-priority and important LS1 work.

LHC experiments

• The LHC experiments continued with the consolidation, maintenance, repair

and improvement work for the detectors during LS1. The LS1 work plan has

been completed successfully and the experiments, after testing of individual

sub-systems, are now in global commissioning mode in preparation for Run II.

In parallel, the experiments continued their analysis of the collision data

collected during Run I. This resulted in the submission of over 290 physics

papers to refereed physics journals and more than 2,000 conference

presentations in 2014.

• ATLAS and CMS have presented results of precision studies on the

messenger of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and on improving and

consolidating our understanding of the Standard Model of Particle Physics

through further precision measurements of the inclusive jet cross-section, the

single- and double- vector boson production, and the top quark. The

experiments have also continued to make extensive searches for new physics

beyond the Standard Model (e.g. as predicted by supersymmetry models). In

2014, ATLAS and CMS have submitted more than 180 physics papers to

refereed physics journals and have made more than 1,200 conference

presentations.

• Analysis of the LHCb Run I data-set is very well advanced and the

collaboration has published over 230 physics papers until now. Significant

results from 2014 include the final Run I measurement of CP violation in Bs

mixing, the measurement of φs, studies of lepton-universality in the system

B → K l+l-, and the world's most precise measurement of the unitarity-triangle

angle gamma. Important measurements have also been made in spectroscopy

and beyond flavour physics, with LHCb making the first observation of

electroweak boson production in proton-lead collisions.

• A joint measurement was presented of the branching fractions B0s→μ+μ− and

B0→μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions by the CMS and LHCb experiments. The

combined analysis produces the first observation of the B0s→μ+μ− decay, with

a statistical significance exceeding six standard deviations, and the best

measurement of its branching fraction so far, and three standard deviation

evidence for the B0→μ+μ− decay. The measurements are statistically

compatible with Standard Model predictions and impose stringent constraints

on several theories beyond the Standard Model.

• For ALICE, the analysis of the data from Run I continues, with results which

have raised considerable interest in the scientific community. The total number

of ALICE physics papers submitted for publication is approaching 100, while

ALICE presentations at international conferences were over 400 for the year

2014.

• Service and consolidation work of TOTEM advanced well, and included

work on the Roman Pot detectors and stations, the T1 and T2 Telescopes and

the DAQ. The first joint physics paper with CMS was published in 2014. The

upgrades of the LHCf detectors were carried out successfully, with the

installation and commissioning of the detectors being completed in November

2014. The full MoEDAL detector has been installed and is ready for the 2015

data-taking period.

Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

• The performance of the WLCG continued to be outstanding, providing a

stable and reliable computing service for physics. The WLCG has successfully

supported the full reprocessing, simulation and analysis activities of the LHC

experiments, which have continued at a very high level even during the LHC

shutdown in 2014. The WLCG also supported the evolving computing models

of the experiments. The new Tier-1 sites in Republic of Korea and the Russian

Federation are in production delivering significant capacity to the experiments

and several new Tier-2 sites are in preparation.

Fixed-target experiments

• At the AD, commissioning of all steps of anti-hydrogen production and

detection has been completed. ASACUSA is preparing for in-flight

spectroscopy of anti-hydrogen. Also, the central detector of AEgIS has been

completed and the detector is now being commissioned with protons, electrons

and positrons. Good progress was reported on the ELENA machine, including

completion of the new annex Building 393 and installation of the

infrastructure. The design of the ELENA machine has continued and its

Technical Design Report was published in 2014 allowing for the

commencement of the construction phase with the signature of the first

contracts.

• At the PS, the CLOUD experiment integrated and commissioned several new

instruments and took data in autumn 2014. The new PS Irradiation Facility has

been commissioned and started operations in mid-October 2014. ISOLDE

celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014. The installation of the HIE-ISOLDE


infrastructure was completed in the ISOLDE hall. Recent physics results

include the production of innovative isotopes for medical applications; the

study of masses of astrophysical interest (Cr, Rb, Cd); and in-source

spectroscopy of At. The commissioning of a new versatile decay station for

beta decay studies has been finalised and the new VITO line for material and

biological applications was commissioned in December 2014. The n_TOF

second experimental area, EAR2, has been completed and successfully

commissioned, opening a unique opportunity to measure radioactive samples

with extremely low mass.

• In the North Area, the installation of the upgraded Gamma Irradiation

Facility (GIF++) was completed in the EHN1 experimental hall. The GIF++

facility combines a powerful 17 TBq Cs137 gamma source with particles from

the H4 beam line and allows testing of large volume detectors of the LHC

experiments and their upgrades. The baseline detector of NA62 was installed

and the first run with beam took place during the latter part of the 2014 SPS

running period. NA61 continued with its physics data-taking runs in the North

Area. Major modifications of the COMPASS target region were completed in

2014 and COMPASS took beam data in the latter part of 2014 to commission

the new detector elements for the 2015 SPS run.

• The modification of the CNGS facility to host AWAKE, an experiment to

study proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, is in progress. The civil

engineering for the electron and laser tunnel is complete, as is the design of the

beam line. The design and the preparation of components of the AWAKE

equipment, as well as the modifications of the service and infrastructure

systems, are on schedule.

• CAST continued with the analysis of 2013 data for the search of chameleons,

giving a significant exclusion region. The experiment also installed several

new detector systems for forthcoming physics runs. In 2014, the OSQAR Light

Shining through Wall (LSW) experiment ran very efficiently with a new laser

and CCD detector. While the full analysis is ongoing, preliminary analysis of

data recorded in 2014 provide new exclusion limits for the search of scalar and

pseudo-scalar light particles that go much beyond the previous limits.

Improvements to the experimental set-up has been successfully tested and

validated in 2014 for future running.

These unique facilities allow for world-class physics with fixed-target beams

for the next decades, complementing and diversifying the LHC physics

programme.

CLIC

• The CLIC studies are now focusing on developing a project implementation

plan for CLIC as a future energy-frontier machine option at CERN after the

LHC in time for the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

• The re-baselining of the CLIC parameters for cost and power performance

gains was pursued throughout 2014 and is now being completed. On the

accelerator side the parameter optimisation has been completed for the higher

energy stages. The stage one parameters await conclusions of ongoing physics

studies for Higgs and top measurements.

• By the end of 2014, three klystron-based X-band test facilities at CERN have

become operational and have successfully been used for accelerating structure

conditioning and operation. The interest in the use of the CLIC technology is

rapidly increasing, particularly for use in Free Electron Laser (FEL) Linacs.

• The CTF3 measurements have established the two-beam acceleration

principle as well as the most central drive-beam performance and deceleration

parameters. In 2014 a complete two-meter CLIC main linac module, currently

50% equipped, has been installed in CTF3 and performance tests are now

starting.

• The common work with the International Linear Collider (ILC) continues

within the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and in 2014 focused on areas

such as civil engineering studies, superconducting input couplers and tuners,

beam delivery systems (at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK),

sources and damping rings.

• The CERN Linear Collider Detector (LCD) activities have taken place in the

framework of the CLIC detector and physics (CLICdp), CALICE and FCAL

collaborations, and in close co-operation with ILC studies. A comprehensive

set of Higgs benchmark studies was completed, and beam tests were carried

out with various CLIC pixel detector assemblies and with a multi-layer

forward calorimeter prototype. Also, the simulation and reconstruction

software was further developed.

CERN’s efforts towards the ILC allow for strengthening the partnership with

Japanese groups, which will also benefit CERN’s next large-scale projects.

Future Circular Collider

• The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is developing options for potential

high-energy frontier circular colliders at CERN for the post-LHC era. It has

been launched as result of the recommendation made in the 2013 update of the

European Strategy for Particle Physics. It is organised as a global collaboration

under the auspices of the European Committee for Future Accelerators

(ECFA) and will produce a conceptual design report to be delivered in time for

the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

• The main emphasis of the conceptual design study is a hadron collider with a

centre-of-mass energy of the order of 100 TeV in a new 80-100 km

circumference tunnel for the study of physics at the highest energies. The

conceptual design study will also include a lepton collider with a centre-of-


mass energy of the order of 90 to 350 GeV and its detectors, as a potential

intermediate step towards realisation of the hadron facility. Options for

electron-proton scenarios and their impact on the infrastructure will be

examined at conceptual level.

• The FCC kick-off meeting was held at the University of Geneva in February

2014 and attracted 341 participants from 23 countries. The FCC conceptual

design study was launched and an international collaboration has been formed.

The first organization and governance structures for the collaboration

framework have been defined. A design study proposal called ‘EuroCirCol’

was submitted in September 2014 to the European Union within the Horizon

2020 programme. This study will cover a sub-set of the FCC study, promoting

the vision of a large-scale post-LHC research infrastructure for the global high-

energy physics community under European leadership1.

CERN neutrino platform

• The CERN neutrino platform calls for R&D and prototyping for the next

generation of neutrino detectors as the main CERN investment to the

development of a worldwide accelerator-based neutrino programme. It also

includes a test-beam for studying neutrino detectors in the SPS North Area.

• Preparations for neutrino detectors are underway. For WA104 - covering

R&D for the magnetisation of large volumes, including large-volume Liquid

Argon Time Projection Chambers (LAr-TPC) - the Memorandum of

Understanding has been signed between CERN and INFN, the ICARUS

detector has been moved to CERN and the clean room and logistics required

have been procured and are operational. For WA105 - covering large-scale

neutrino detector prototyping and phased-performance assessment in view of a

long-baseline oscillation experiment - the re-organisation of the Building 182/2

is complete, the clean room has been constructed and is operational, the warm

cryostat has been procured and installed, and the contract for the membrane

cryostat concluded. Additional detector proposals are being discussed with the

SPSC.

• Discussions with the US (Fermilab) have started concerning common efforts

on both neutrino detector and accelerator topics. The setting up of the

framework agreement is well advanced for both hardware developments and

collaborations, and it will allow for building a strong link between CERN and

US particle physics.

Theory Unit

• The Theory (TH) Unit has an active research programme with important

results in vital areas of theoretical particle physics, astroparticle physics and

1 Note added in proof: approved with maximum possible score 15/15.

cosmology. The TH Unit is strongly engaged in supporting the LHC physics

programme, including proton-proton, ion-ion and proton-ion physics.

• In 2014, numerous activities in a broad range of research subjects, including

particle physics phenomenology at the LHC, astroparticle physics, cosmology,

heavy-ion physics, lattice field theory, mathematical physics and string theory,

were carried out.

• The TH Unit members also play an active role in the study groups for future

upgrades of the LHC, CLIC and linear colliders in general, as well as for the

FCC study.

• The TH Unit published 270 TH preprints and hosted 59 fellows, 44 students,

37 scientific associates, 3 guest professors and 780 short-term visitors (482

paid), representing a total of 1,350 visitor weeks. The TH Unit organised 2

schools and 5 TH institutes on site. It hosted 5 ERC grant holders (4 advanced

and 1 starting), as well as one MCnet grant and one HotLHC grant. The LHC

Physics Centre at CERN organised a number of activities centred on the

physics programme of the LHC and its upgrades, including 7 workshops and

32 working group meetings. It also organised 2 workshops and 14 WG

meetings for the physics study of the FCC-hh project.

External relationships

• Bilateral agreements were signed between CERN and several parties. The

year 2014 continued to see significant developments in the geographical

enlargement of the Organization. In chronological order: Israel acceded to

Membership, thus becoming CERN’s 21st Member State; the Agreement on

Associate Membership of Turkey was signed and is awaiting ratification by the

Turkish Parliament; Croatia submitted an application for Associate

Membership; and CERN and Pakistan signed the agreement admitting Pakistan

to CERN Associate Membership, subject to ratification by the Government of

Pakistan.

• CERN also enhanced its relationships with the regions and communes

surrounding CERN, developed its relationship with the European Commission

and strengthened its connections with the United Nations and its agencies in

Geneva while also making use of its Observer Status at the United Nations in

New York.

Knowledge Transfer

• CERN is consolidating its activities in medical physics with the creation of a

new coordinating office (as well as a budget line) for medical applications. The

ultimate aim is for CERN to establish itself as an important facilitator of

medical physics in Europe. An International Strategy Committee was created

in June 2014. MEDICIS, a new research facility that will produce


radioisotopes for medical applications using the proton beams at ISOLDE, has

made significant progress and has achieved a number of critical milestones,

including the completion of the MEDICIS building.

• Business Incubator Centres (BICs) of CERN technologies continue to be

developed. Four new BICs were launched in 2014 - in The Netherlands,

Norway, Greece and Austria.

• The Knowledge Transfer (KT) Fund is CERN’s incentive scheme to help

transfer the Organization’s knowledge and technologies to society. Twenty-

five projects have been financed, 6 of which were submitted for approval and

financed in 2014.

• IdeaSquare was launched in 2014 with the aim of bringing together

physicists, engineers, industrial partners, early-stage researchers and cross-

disciplinary teams of students to work together on detector R&D technologies

for particle physics and for society in general.

European projects, education, training and outreach

• CERN had a significant participation as either coordinator or partner in

funding calls under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 framework

programme for research and innovation. During 2014, CERN participated in

the submission of 60 proposals under Horizon 2020. Projects that CERN is

participating in have had a good early success rate.

• CERN’s commitment to the work, research and training of young scientists

and engineers continued in the framework of the fellowship programme, which

includes the Graduate Engineer Training (GET) scheme targeted at scientists,

engineers and technical engineers. CERN hosted a total of 598.3 FTEs of

fellows in 2014 (including team accounts). The Technician Training

Experience (TTE) Programme is growing and in 2014 had 48 participants from

9 Member States. In addition, there were 20.9 FTEs of apprentices, all paid on

CERN accounts.

• CERN teacher schools were held for about 1,200 teachers from 22 countries

participating in one of the 34 one-week programmes and the international

3-week High School Teacher (HST) programme in July 2014 had 54

participants from 32 countries. Many teachers subsequently returned to CERN

with their classes.

• The highly successful Beamlines for Schools (BL4S) competition was

launched in 2014 with the objective of the winning team(s) of high school

students to propose and carry out a physics experiments at the PS.

• Over 100,000 people took part in guided tours of CERN, continuing the

upward trend of recent years. New exhibitions at CERN were inaugurated at

several visit points, including the CERN Control Centre, computing data

centre, SM18, and at the refurbished synchrocyclotron. A new Microcosm

exhibition has been designed and the works started in December 2014. The

new S’Cool LAB for visiting school students, allowing them to perform any of

15 modern physics experiments, has been completed, commissioned and

inaugurated. CERN traveling exhibitions were shown in the framework of the

60th anniversary in several Member States.

• The year 2014 saw a large number of media visits to CERN, with 1,177

journalists welcomed, representing over 500 different media – the highest level

in the previous five years. These visits include the National Media visits

programme, which was set up for LS1 and reached its conclusion in 2014, and

support for media activities related to CERN 60th anniversary events. CERN’s

presence on social media - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and

LinkedIn – was extended in 2014 to include Instagram plus two "ask me

anything" events on reddit. The Organization has secured the top-level domain

CERN, a sign of CERN’s recognition as a global brand.

• The Protocol Office managed 218 VIP and other high-level visits in 2014, an

increase on all previous years.

• Much progress was made on SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open

Access Publishing in Particle Physics. Following the signing of agreements

and contracts with hundreds of partners in several countries, SCOAP3 was

officially launched on 1 January 2014. Around 4,300 articles by authors from

88 countries were published under SCOAP3 in this first year of operations,

corresponding to about two-thirds of all high-energy physics output

worldwide. Furthermore, the American Physical Society (APS) agreed to

participate in Gold Open Access with CERN during 2015 and 2016.

• CERN also launched the Open Data initiative. The service is tailored for the

LHC experiments and aims to open their data for public education and

research purposes, as requested by the funding agencies.

• The CERN & Society Foundation was established in 2014 to raise funds for

projects outside the basic programme of CERN. Examples of interest are in the

domains of education, outreach and knowledge transfer.

Consolidation

• The Management continued with the implementation of an extensive

programme aimed at consolidation of the general infrastructure, logistics and

services. Considerable and continuing effort is required to maintain an ageing,

large and distributed site, and providing good support to Staff and Users is the

main priority. Delays were reported on the construction projects for Buildings

107 and 774, resulting from a number of factors, including difficulties with the

respective contractors. The Building 774 project was pending commissioning

and final reception at the end of 20142. Due to disagreements with the

2 Building 774 was delivered to users on 23/02/2015.


construction and consultancy companies, the contract for the Building 107

project has been terminated and a new way forward is being sought. For the

LHCb building complex, the engineering work and the tendering process have

been completed, while the works have started and are proceeding according to

schedule. The annual consolidation plan has been executed according to the

planned interventions on the safety items, façades, roofs, toilets blocks, HVAC

and electricity. In addition, a new campaign concerning the technical galleries

fire compartment has been put in place and initiated. The PS Access Project is

complete and is operational since mid-2014. A master plan was agreed for the

priority settings for infrastructure consolidation for the next decade.

• The focus of health and safety in 2014 was on LS1 activities. The Safety

performance of LS1 was good and the objective of keeping the dose to the

radiation workers below 3 mSv/year was met. Measures were also

implemented in the areas of occupational health and safety including radiation

protection, environmental protection, safety training, occupational medicine,

emergency preparedness and crisis management. Several services have been

further improved to allow the Organization to systematically implement

adequate preventive measures. Highlights for 2014, other than LS1 related,

include the signature of a co-operation agreement with the Hôpitaux

Universitaires de Genève (HUG) for emergency response services, the

publication of the new Safety Policy and Safety Organisation documents and

the construction of the new Radiation Protection Calibration Facility.

Budget Position of the Organization

In contrast to the announced and planned increase of the cumulative budget

deficit in the Final 2014 Budget, the budget position of the Organization shows

stabilisation with respect to the end of 2013.

With respect to the annual balance of -132.0 MCHF anticipated in the Final

2014 Budget, the 2014 out-turn shows -0.2 MCHF, resulting in a cumulative

budget deficit of -86.3 MCHF compared to -86.1 MCHF at the end of 2013.

This positive improvement of the budget position of 131.8 MCHF was

achieved in spite of the considerable work-load during the LS1 period. Some

110 MCHF of the differences in the expenses were already anticipated and

explained as outcome of the probable revenues and expenses exercise for 2014

and presented as part of the Final 2015 Budget document. The Management

informed Council and its Committees in the December session of the impact of

the limited experienced manpower, which in some cases needed to be re-

deployed to ensure the completion of the highest priority, the LS1 activities,

and illustrates the upper limit of achievable work packages within a given

workforce, in particular during a laboratory-wide maintenance period like LS1.

The main differences are as follows:

Delays of building construction and renovation projects (Buildings 107,

774, magnetic measurements building, Globe) for various reasons,

including difficulties with the contractors;

Need to focus and partially re-allocate personnel from HL-LHC and LIU

towards LS1 activities to finish important milestones (such as hardware

tests, cold check-out, setup with beam for the LHC injectors and pressure

tests, cool-down and powering tests for LHC) and to maintain the

schedule. This resulted in re-profiling of the HL-LHC, LIU and detectors

upgrade projects as well as in delays for the diversity programme;

Difficulties in the R&D for science diversity projects that delayed the start

of construction, e.g. for HIE-ISOLDE, ELENA as well as some delays in

the starting contracts for the extension of the North Area building for the

Neutrino Platform.

Actively trying to steer expenses, i.e. optimizing orders when compatible

with the overall schedule, without endangering safe and reliable operation

of the laboratory.

The impact of the re-profiling as well as the increasing focus on the

affordability will have to be assessed in detail for the upcoming Medium-Term

Plan, especially for what concerns the lessons learnt from the impact of the

limited workforce strength on pursuing operation and maintenance activities at

the same time as launching the construction of upgrade and science diversity

projects.

In order to help in the comparison between the final budget and out-turn, the

table on the next page provides a summary of the Final 2014 Budget (as

presented in CERN/FC/5781) and the 2014 Out-turn given in the present APR

2014 document. Due to decisions taken in 2014, the numbering scheme for the

Fact Sheets between the two documents has been modified as illustrated in the

table on the next page.


(a) (b) (c) = (b)-(a) (c)/(a)

kCHF kCHF kCHF %

341,100 LHC programme (incl. projects) 317,926 -23,174 -7%

1 123,065 LHC machine and injectors 1 122,262 -803 -1%

114,335 LHC machine and experimental areas 116,066 1,731 2%

8,730 Spares 6,196 -2,534 -29%

1 86,695 LHC machine and areas reliability and consolidation 1 70,450 -16,245 -19%

80,890 LHC experiments 78,923 -1,967 -2%

2 21,095 ATLAS detector 2 20,845 -250 -1%

3 25,625 CMS detector 3 26,698 1,073 4%

4 12,365 ALICE detector 4 11,791 -574 -5%

5 11,800 LHCb detector 5 11,280 -520 -4%

6 10,005 Common items, other experiments (incl. Totem, LHCf) 6 8,264 -1,741 -17%

Detectors re-scoping 45 45

7 2,480 LHC detectors consolidation 7 1,356 -1,124 -45%

8 47,970 LHC computing 8 44,935 -3,035 -6%

195,245 Other programmes (LHC support and non-LHC programmes) 190,311 -4,934 -3%

9 9,975 Non-LHC physics (fixed-target programme) 9 12,079 2,104 21%

10 12,205 Theory 10 11,790 -415 -3%

11 180 LHC physics centre at CERN (LPCC) 11 82 -98 -54%

12 31,255 Scientific support (computing and technical support) 12 30,245 -1,010 -3%

13 11,090 Low- and medium-energy accelerators 13 12,510 1,420 13%

13 54,635 PS and SPS complexes 13 56,759 2,124 4%

13 33,655 Accelerator technical services 13 35,237 1,582 5%

13 33,285 Accelerator consolidation 13 25,278 -8,007 -24%

13 8,965 Experimental areas consolidation 13 6,331 -2,634 -29%

498,805 Infrastructure and services 449,885 -48,920 -10%

14 13,560 Manufacturing facilities (workshops, etc.) 14 11,372 -2,188 -16%

15 71,985 General facilities & logistics (site maintenance, transport) 15 62,662 -9,323 -13%

16 50,050 Informatics 16 48,906 -1,144 -2%

17 42,280 Safety, health and environment 17 39,796 -2,484 -6%

18 50,035 Administration 18 49,511 -524 -1%

19 33,075 Outreach, scientific exchanges (students, associates) and KT 19 35,424 2,349 7%

20 63,845 Infrastructure consolidation, buildings and renovation 20 29,669 -34,176 -54%

21 173,975 Centralised expenses 21 172,546 -1,429 -1%

216,175 Projects 181,340 -34,835 -16%

123,140 LHC upgrades 95,572 -27,568 -22%

29 20,270 LINAC4 22 19,363 -907 -4%

30 38,265 LHC injectors upgrade 23 24,840 -13,425 -35%

31 36,510 HL-LHC construction 24 28,437 -8,073 -22%

32 17,640 LHC detectors upgrade (phase 1) and consolidation 25 16,523 -1,117 -6%

32 10,455 HL-LHC detectors, including R&D (phase 2) 25 6,408 -4,047 -39%

33,355 Energy frontier 35,748 2,393 7%

22,23 31,855 Linear collider studies (CLIC, ILC, detector R&D) 26,27 32,105 250 1%

26 1,500 Future circular colliders study 28 3,643 2,143 143%

59,680 Diversity activities 50,020 -9,660 -16%

25 10,355 ELENA 29 7,664 -2,691 -26%

24 20,625 HIE-ISOLDE 30 20,209 -416 -2%

6,215 CERN neutrino platform 31 1,875 -4,340 -70%

26 1,920 Proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration 32 1,951 31 2%

26 2,940 Superconducting RF studies 33 3,314 374 13%

28 3,650 R&D for medical applications 35 3,004 -646 -18%

26,27 13,975 Other R&D (FAIR, ITER, EU, detectors, etc.) 36 12,002 -1,973 -14%

1,251,325 Grand Total 1,139,463 -111,862 -9%

Final 2014 Budget

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices )

2014 Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices )Activity

Fact sheet as

in APR 2014

Fact sheet as

in MTP 2013

Variation of Out-Turn

with respect to Budget


II. Summary of Revenues and Expenses by Activity


Summary of Revenues and Expenses by Activity

Figure 1: Summary of Revenues and Expenses by Activity

Explanations on Figure 1:

More detailed information on revenues and expenses is given in Figures 2 and

3. The budget balance is more positive than anticipated. The main reasons for

the 131.8 MCHF difference are as follows:

As published in the Final 2015 Budget (CERN/FC/5873), expenses were

significantly lower owing to multi-annual project re-profiling

(108.1 MCHF). Notably, it concerns delays of building construction and

renovation projects (Buildings 107, 774, magnetic measurements building,

Globe) and re-profiling of the HL-LHC, LIU, detectors upgrade projects

and delays in the diversity programme due to the focus on finishing

important milestones and to maintain the LS1 schedule.

Less cost under the centralised expenses heading for energy and

insurances.

The annual payment of 60 MCHF towards recapitalisation of the Pension Fund

was decided by the Council in 2010 as part of the package of measures to

restore the Pension Fund to full funding (CERN/FC/5498-CERN/2947) and

was paid for the first time in 2011.

The cumulative balance of -86.1 MCHF represents the accumulated deficit as

at 31/12/2013, as stated in the Financial Statements for 2013 (CERN/FC/5818,

page 13).

(in MCHF, rounded off)

MCHF %

(a) (b) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

REVENUES 1,205.5 1,225.5 20.0 1.7%

Member States' contributions 1,099.6 1,099.6 0.0 0.0%

Additional contributions from Host States 1.6 1.6

Additional contribution from Romania as a Candidate for Accession1a 7.9 7.9 0.0 0.0%

Special contribution from Israel 1b 9.0 12.0 3.0 33.3%

Additional contribution from Serbia as an Associate Member State1c 1.0 1.0

EU contributions 18.8 20.9 2.1 11.2%

Other revenues 69.2 82.5 13.3 19.3%

EXPENSES 1,251.3 1,139.5 -111.9 -8.9%

Scientific programmes 536.3 508.2 -28.1 -5.2%

Infrastructure and services 324.8 277.3 -47.5 -14.6%

Centralised expenses 174.0 172.5 -1.4 -0.8%

Projects and studies 216.2 181.3 -34.8 -16.1%

BALANCE

Annual balance -45.8 86.0 131.8

Capital repayment allocated to the budget (Fortis, FIPOI 1, 2 and 3, SIG) -26.2 -26.2 0.0

Recapitalisation pension fund -60.0 -60.0

Annual balance allocated to budget deficit 2 -132.0 -0.2 131.8

-Cumulative Balance ³- - 86.1 -218.1 -86.3 131.8

Final 2014 Budget

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)

2014 Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)

Variations of Out-Turn with respect to

Budget

1aRomania as a Candidate for Accession will pay 75% of its theoretical Member State

contribution until 2015 and 100% as of 2016, as defined in Council Resolution CERN/2829

and updated by the Agreement signed by CERN and Romania on 11 February 2010.

³ The cumulative balance of -86.1 MCHF is the accumulated budget deficit as stated in

the Financial Statements for 2013 (CERN/FC/5818, page 13).

2The difference in the annual balance allocated to the budget deficit of 131.8 MCHF is

due to a) the re-profiling and anticipated carry-forward as already included in the Final

2015 Budget with the 2014 Probable Revenues and Expenses CERN/FC/5873; b) the carry-

forward in line with CERN's financial rules as shown in Section V.4; c) savings that

reduce the deficit as shown in Section V.4 of 6.6 MCHF, notably due to less costs under

centralised expenses heading (energy and insurances).

1cSerbia became an Associate Member State on 15 March 2012. As defined in Council

Resolution CERN/2999/RA, Serbia will pay the statutory minimum contribution of 1

MCHF until 2015 and either 50% of its theoretical Member State contribution or the

statutory minimum contribution of 1 MCHF in 2016. It is assumed that Serbia will become

a Member State in 2017 and will pay 100% of its contribution as of 2017.

1bIn line with Council Resolution CERN/3079/RA entitled "Amount and payment

modalities of the special contribution by Israel", Israel sent an amount of 9,033 kCHF

towards its special contribution as a Member State at the end of 2013, included in the

budget for 2014. Israel has paid a further 1,279 kCHF towards its special contribution in

2014. The remaining 1,732 kCHF of the special contribution will be paid over a period of

maximum 10 years, partly in cash and partly in kind.


III. Scientific and Non-Scientific Programmes


LHC programme (incl. projects) 1. LHC machine and injectors, reliability and consolidation

Goals

LHC machine and

experimental areas

Complete the LS1 program of splice consolidation and the mitigation of the effects on radiation on the electronics installed

underground.

Spares

The main actions for 2014 are:

Order final set of spare RF Klystrons,

Complete the UPS replacement program,

Order the last spare parts for the DFB’s and cryogenic dipoles,

Complete the purchase of the additional vacuum pumps for the cryostat insulation vacuum.

Consolidation

The main actions for 2014 are:

The installation of the superconducting RF facility in SM18,

Finish the installation of the back-up cooling towers,

Complete the LS1 program of infrastructure consolidation (Cooling, ventilation, electrical networks, transport &

handling and workshops),

The following major works will be completed for the project for the consolidation and upgrade of the CERN electrical

distribution network this year: the consolidation of one substation (ME59) in Meyrin mandatory for the operation of the

LHC at 7 TeV, the construction of a new electrical substation in Meyrin (MEH59) and the upgrade of CERN distribution

network substations,

Exchange of tertiary collimators for the LHC with newly produced collimators with integrated Beam Position Monitors

allowing a more precise positioning of the collimators in the interaction regions. This will enhance the safety of the

machine and reduce the setting time,

For the R2E project: installation phase of relocation and shielding mitigation measures (LS1), RadMon V6 (new

generation) procurement and quality control, implementation of the combined (PH/A&T) East Area irradiation facility,

power-converter FGClite final prototyping and first procurement phase, radiation tolerant development and first proto-

typing for power parts, radiation tolerant developments and certain respective procurements (QPS, SPS-BPM), related

radiation test campaigns, injector chain radiation inventory and some mitigation related measures.

Achievements

The LS1 program of splice consolidation was fully completed by July 2014. The maintenance and consolidation of all LHC

systems (cryogenics, vacuum, magnets …) were accomplished according to schedule. Powering tests started in Autumn 2014 and

are under progress.

Spares:

The final set of spare RF klystrons was ordered.

The UPS replacement program was successfully completed; in addition, the new UPS configurations now ensure a

higher level redundancy. Finally the UPS power distribution network for the LHC, including all related interlocks with

machine protection systems, was fully validated prior to the LHC powering test campaigns.

The ordering of spare parts for the DFB’s and cryogenic dipoles has been done partially due to unforeseen events during

LS1 (twice the number of splices to unbraze-rebraze, leaky cryoline compensators exchange and four DFB’s repair).

Remaining items will be ordered in 2015, especially to accommodate the variety of DFB’s.

Prior to LS1, all insulation vacuum volumes of the arc and QRL had redundant pumping except the extremities of the

QRL (16 locations). These 16 additional units have been purchased and installed during LS1 (pumps, instrumentation,

cabling, controls).For the LHC insulation vacuum, the maintenance contract for the turbo pumps of the arc and QRL was

extended until December 2017. These turbo pumps will be replaced under the consolidation program during LS2.


Achievements

Consolidation:

The superconducting RF facility in SM18 is being installed: in 2014, the refurbishment of the clean room was carried out

and the part necessary to work on the LHC modules has been prepared.

The installation of back-up cooling towers to allow maintenance without impacting the operations of the cryogenics

plants was completed.

The consolidation program planned for the cooling and ventilation systems was completed and the concerned plants are

now operational. It included the renewal of the control systems for many cooling and ventilation systems (cooling

towers, chilled water production stations and cooling plants in the LHC underground), the installation of sensors in the

LHC tunnel to monitor air conditions (air speed and temperature), the renewal of the ventilation in an LHC Point 8

surface building, the replacement of chillers in points 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the LHC, the upgrade of the pumping system for

the raising of the infiltration water from Sector 34, the upgrade of the demineralized water pumps in the underground

stations as well as the upgrade of the pumping station in LHC Point 4.

The consolidation program of CERN’s Handling and Hoisting equipment continued, executing 10

replacement/consolidation projects of cranes and hoists and 5 projects of industrial truck renovation and replacement.

The most relevant works were the renovation of the BOOSTER ring cranes, the revamping of the TCC8 crane, the

revamping of the BB4 surface crane, the replacement of 2 cranes in BA1 and BA6 respectively, the renovation of the

lateral forklift PRATT used in SPS magnet transport and the replacement of the tri-directional forklift used at the

CERN’s store warehouse.

The consolidation and upgrade plan for the electrical substations in Meyrin was completed alongside the construction of

a new substation to improve redundant powering of the Meyrin site.

All the tertiary collimators in the LHC have been replaced with new collimators equipped with beam position monitors.

Commissioning is still on-going; it will be completed as soon as a probe beam becomes available in spring 2015.

During the LS1 in the LHC, the programme for R2E mainly consisted in the relocation of electronics and the shielding of

certain areas: it entailed cabling work and the re-installation of cooling and ventilation systems. All the work planned, as

well as the additional work decided during the LS1 (Point 4), was completed according to schedule and the concerned

systems are now operational. The other important activities in the R2E project during LS1 included the deployment of

the new version of radiation monitors in the LHC injector complex, the construction of the new CERN irradiation facility

(CHARM) in the East Hall, the development of radiation resistant versions of existing electronics systems (FGClite,

QPS) as well as the irradiation campaigns to validate the developments. Finally, all existing and future R2E requirements

have been reviewed in an extensive combined R2E/availability workshop to streamline all future R2E activities.

2014 Budget

(a)

2014

Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 315.3 319.0 101% 3.7Personnel (kCHF) 55,640 56,100 101% 460Materials (kCHF) 58,695 59,966 102% 1,271Total (kCHF) 114,335 116,066 102% 1,731Personnel (FTE) 1.7 0.0 0% -1.7Personnel (kCHF) 165 0 0% -165Materials (kCHF) 8,565 6,196 72% -2,369Total (kCHF) 8,730 6,196 71% -2,534Personnel (FTE) 186.3 191.2 103% 4.9Personnel (kCHF) 29,525 26,434 90% -3,091Materials (kCHF) 57,170 44,016 77% -13,154Total (kCHF) 86,695 70,450 81% -16,245

Consolidation

Comparison Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn (2014 prices)

LHC machine and

experimental areas

Spares Due to the focus on finishing LS1, some of the activities on

spares and on consolidation items not linked to the shutdown,

have experienced delays, with some 14 MCHF re-profiled to

2015, as already announced in the Final 2015 Budget. At the

end of the year, open commitments amounted to 4 MCHF.


LHC experiments 2. ATLAS detector

Goals To complete the work packages in progress, related to maintenance and repairs for the detector during the long shut down.

Achievements

The LS1 work plan has been completed for the detector systems, for the magnets and the general infrastructure. Components have been individually

commissioned. The ATLAS is now configured in RUN mode, and the global commissioning is ongoing: the magnet system was tested at full field, the

global cosmic runs started in late fall 2014. The global commissioning is continuing and will be completed on time for the first beam.

The new software system has been completed and is being commissioned in parallel with the detector.

3. CMS detector

Goals

Complete the Phase I infrastructure preparation (beam pipe, YE4), re-insertion of the pixel detector, installation of the Muon endcap 4th layer station

and the upgrade of the DAQ infrastructure. Software upgrade and physics studies to prepare for the 2015 run and its new and more challenging

conditions.

Achievements

The Phase I infrastructure is being readied for data-taking. Beam pipe, YE4 and 4th Muon layer are successfully completed and installed. The tracker

operates cold. The magnet & infrastructure consolidation & upgrade is nearly complete.

The trial closure of detector & magnet test to full field has been completed. The Pixel tracker detector has been re-inserted after repair. The final

closure & pump down will be done early in 2015 in order to be ready for 1st beam. The DAQ2 infrastructure and the new Trigger control and

distribution system have been installed. Commissioning is going on and will be completed on time for first beam.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 87.8 93.7 107% 5.9

Personnel (kCHF) 17,680 17,672 100% -8

Materials (kCHF) 3,415 3,173 93% -242

Total (kCHF) 21,095 20,845 99% -250

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 113.6 120.1 106% 6.5

Personnel (kCHF) 22,130 23,024 104% 894

Materials (kCHF) 3,495 3,674 105% 179

Total (kCHF) 25,625 26,698 104% 1,073


4. ALICE detector

Goals

2014 will be a very important year, in which ALICE will have three major goals.

The completion of the analysis of the data taken during the first three years of data-taking, completing the more complex analysis subjects.

For the upgrades, complete the R&D and start procurement of components and setting up of assembly and test systems for the new detectors. In

addition, the TDR of the online systems will be completed.

The consolidation of the detector in view of the runs at full LHC energy in 2015, 2016 and 2017 will be completed, including the installation of the

rest of the TRD and of the DCAL and the fourth module of PHOS.

Achievements

The analysis of the data from Run1 has continued vigorously, with results which have raised considerable interest in the scientific community. The total

number of physics papers submitted for publications approaches 100. Presentations to international conferences were over 400 for the year 2014.

The work on the preparation of Run2 has progressed very effectively, keeping pace with the detailed planning defined at the beginning of the

Shutdown. The installation of the new detectors (Full TRD, DCal, PHOS and CPV) has been completed, the consolidation work proceeds according to

schedule, and the new ALICE Run Control Center is in operation.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 53.1 53.2 100% 0.1

Personnel (kCHF) 10,495 9,858 94% -637

Materials (kCHF) 1,870 1,933 103% 63

Total (kCHF) 12,365 11,791 95% -574


5. LHCb detector

Goals

Shutdown year. Major consolidation work to be achieved in the course of 2013 and 2014. Preparation to upgrade infrastructure. Analysis of the whole

set of experimental data (~3.2 fb-1). Recommissioning and improvement for the whole detector in preparation for the 2015 – 2018 run at 14 TeV CM

and 25 ns bunch crossing.

Achievements

During LS1, extensive consolidation and maintenance work has taken place, in particular on the beam pipe and dipole magnet as well as preparation of

infrastructure for the planned upgrade. Re-commissioning of the detector is on schedule, with an improved trigger adapted to the new running

conditions with increased energy and 25 ns bunch crossing. Preparation of the LHCb upgrade is proceeding according to schedule, with all TDRs

submitted and approved.

Analysis of the Run1 data-set is very well advanced with the collaboration continuing to exploit it, producing so far over 230 papers. Significant results

included the final Run1 measurement of CP violation in Bs mixing, φs, studies of lepton-universality in the system B → K l+l-, and the world's most

precise measurement of the unitarity-triangle angle gamma. Important achievements have also been registered in spectroscopy and beyond flavour

physics, making the first observation of EW-boson production in pA collisions.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 49.1 53.6 109% 4.4

Personnel (kCHF) 10,175 9,821 97% -354

Materials (kCHF) 1,625 1,458 90% -167

Total (kCHF) 11,800 11,280 96% -520


6. Common items, other experiments

a. Totem detector

Goals Consolidation of T1, T2 and RP silicon detectors, re-insertion after LS1. DAQ, DCS: consolidation and replacement of obsolete components. Roman

Pots enclosures: relocation, RF optimisation, consolidation of moving system. Definition of upgrade plan.

Achievements

DAQ: Test of the S-Link protocol to interface the CMS-FRL and the TOTEM optical read-out link – development of online software modules capable

of inter-operating with the CMS DAQ Run Control system.

T1 & T2: service work and consolidation performed. T1 services back in CMS, T1 installation on CMS schedule for 2015. T2 installed in CMS.

Roman Pots: Service work on all RP Si detector packages performed (leak tested at -25⁰C). Service work on all 24 RPs done (exchange of ferrites,

ferrite lifter, anti collision switch vertical RPs). All 24 RPs (re)installed in 210m and 220 m region and all detector packages reinstalled.

Services in tunnel from 147 m extended to 220 m (LV, HV, DCS, Motor control, cooling). New vacuum system installed in tunnel and Alcove LHC.

New RP motor control architecture – enlargement of control for new horizontal RPs. New cylindrical RP R&D; 3 new cylindrical RP stations built, 2

installed in LHC tunnel; 4 new RP carriers built and installed in LHC tunnel.

Upgrade plan defined and described in TDR documents. First TOTEM+CMS physics paper published.

b. LHCf detector

Goals Upgrade to the radiation hard detectors, beam test at SPS and installation in LHC.

Achievements Upgrades of the detectors were completed. Detectors’ performance was tested using at the SPS North area in October. The installation and

commissioning of the detectors were carried out in November successfully.

c. MoEDAL

Goals Analyse the test stacks exposed to 7, 8 TeV pp data and p-Pb data. Full deployment of the complete detector set-up.

Achievements

The full MoEDAL detector has been installed and is ready for data-taking starting in the spring of 2015. Preliminary analyses of test data acquired

during 7 and 8 TeV pp data running have been finalised. Final results await the completion of a model of the complex material budget in the VELO

region, which will be available in the spring of 2015.

Total for fact sheet 6: Common items, other experiments

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 37.0 33.9 92% -3.1

Personnel (kCHF) 5,945 5,595 94% -350

Materials (kCHF) 4,060 2,669 66% -1,391

Total (kCHF) 10,005 8,264 83% -1,741

Some material budget was transferred to CMS and ALICE. Also savings

have been made on this heading to cover for additional needs for

consolidation of the detectors in 2015.


7. LHC detectors consolidation

Goals Finalize installing and commission new equipment during the second year of the shutdown. Main domains of consolidation work are: magnets,

cryogenics, electrical and UPS network, cooling & ventilation, shielding, IT networks, maintenance area, beam pipe.

Achievements

Major items for infrastructure and detectors consolidation in 2014 included:

ATLAS: gas detection systems in UX15, racks cooling and ventilation; re-installed Pixel detector equipped with new services, installed IBL including

new Be beam pipe; replaced SS vacuum pipes with Al versions; re-built LUCID; Thermo-siphon completed; new 10 kL He dewar installed, ALFA re-

installed in new location, repair/consolidation of many detector components, including HVPS & LVPS.

CMS: 500 kVA UPS and Helium dryer units.

ALICE: upgrade of the L3 ventilation and fire extinguishment systems, workshop and clean room refurbishment, electrical maintenance.

LHCb: new UX85/3 beam pipe and UX85/2 and UX85/3 support structures. New field map.

TOTEM: relocation and re-installation of Roman Pots.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 0.0 0.0 0.0

Personnel (kCHF) 0 0 0

Materials (kCHF) 2,480 1,356 55% -1,124

Total (kCHF) 2,480 1,356 55% -1,124

Re-profiling of 1.6 MCHF from 2014 to 2015 as indicated in the Final 2015

budget (work on surface facilities that will remain accessible during the

next run was postponed).


8. LHC computing

Goals

Continued processing and analysis workloads world-wide, including support for:

Reprocessing of the full 2010-2012 data sets;

Processing of the “parked” data from 2012;

Simulation campaigns in preparation for higher energy running of the LHC in 2015 onwards;

Ongoing group and individual physics analyses of the full data sets from 2010-2012;

Use of the HLT farms where possible during LS1 for simulation and analysis.

Achievements

Provided stable and reliable service for physics during the whole of 2014, with no service disruptions:

o The Tier 0 migrated to new infrastructure management tools, and a significantly virtualised infrastructure without service impact;

o Managed and coordinated the robust operation of the WLCG global infrastructure;

o The Wigner data centre in Budapest was in full production mode for the full year as capacity ramped up. The capabilities and performance

achieved fully meet expectations. The ramp up of capacity in preparation for 2015 is ongoing.

Supported the LHC experiments’ data processing, simulation, and analysis activities, including the final reprocessing of the full Run 1 data

samples for long term preservation, as well as the various data and service challenges in preparation for Run 2.

Grid-wide CPU and storage services were available and performing at or in excess of required levels; continued high occupancy of global

resources even during the shutdown period; all experiments demonstrated large-scale use of their HLT farms for simulation workloads.

Supported the evolution of the experiments’ computing models as described in the document submitted to the LHCC: CERN-LHCC-2014-014;

this includes introduction of remote data access services, use of the Tier centres optimised to the capabilities, upgrades of various key services.

New Tier 1 sites in Rep. Korea and in Russia are in production, and delivering significant capacity to the experiments, although the signature of the

WLCG MoU with Russia is still pending; Several new Tier 2 sites have signed, or are in the process of signing the MoU (Institutes in Pakistan,

Mexico, and S.Africa).

The resources pledged by the WLCG funding agencies for 2015 meet the reviewed experiment requirements.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 103.5 113.7 110% 10.3

Personnel (kCHF) 21,880 22,622 103% 742

Materials (kCHF) 26,090 22,312 86% -3,778

Total (kCHF) 47,970 44,935 94% -3,035

The budget was fully committed. Open commitments amounted to

7.5 MCHF at the end of 2014.


Other programmes (LHC support and non-LHC programmes) 9. Non-LHC physics (fixed-target programme)

Goals

Reach goals defined in the experiment proposals and approved by scientific committees and Research Board. The first half of 2014 will be used to

complete and commission new or improved detectors which will gradually restart in the second part of the year, following the availability of the

corresponding injector.

Achievements

AD: Commissioning all steps of antihydrogen production: positronium formation and laser excitation, antihydrogen detection, proton source. Among

the experiments ASACUSA is preparing for in-flight spectroscopy of antihydrogen, and the central apparatus for AEgIS has been finalized, now

commissioning with p, e- & e+ and preparing for the longer term.

NA62: The baseline detector was installed and a run took place during the last part of 2014. The sub-detectors were commissioned with the kaon beam

and the experiment collected a lot of kaon decays. It has been a hectic year with many teams from many different institutions working to bring together

a new flag-ship experiment at the CERN SPS.

COMPASS: There have been major modifications of target region of spectrometer: Displacement of polarised target (PT) and infrastructure; Repair

of PT magnet and new power & control system; Installation of a hadron absorber for Drell-Yan programme; New DAQ, integration of some new

detectors. Taking beam since October, successful commissioning of the new elements for the 2015 run.

ISOLDE: Celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014. The new building B508 was ready 1st November. HIE-ISOLDE infrastructure in place in the

ISOLDE hall. Recent results include innovative isotopes for medical applications; masses of astrophysical interest (Cr, Rb, Cd); in-source spectroscopy

of At; new versatile decay station for beta decay studies: 11Li (2n-decay mode), 31Ar (3p-decay), 206Hg. The New TATRA electron spectrometer

from Bratislava commissioned. The new VITO line for Material and Biological applications commission in December. Test new target structure to

produce new beams boron, carbon, barium, etc.

CLOUD: Unique, successful and now well recognized in its field. 5 high-impact publications (2 Nature, 1 Science, 2 PNAS); 8 further publications

(physics + technical & method developments); 3 manuscripts under review and 5 close to submission. CLOUD9 run, autumn 2014: “cloudy” run with

fast expansions, cloud droplet & ice particle formation; followed by ion run: atmospheric ion production and loss vs temperature, and ion production by

ice. Several new instruments integrated, in particular for cloud droplet & ice particle studies; new aerosol (CCN) generators; optical fibre temperature

measurement string, functioning in the 30 kV/m HV field.

CAST: Analysis of 2013 chameleon search with Silicon drift detector completed, giving a significant exclusion region. Second X-ray telescope (XRT)

constructed and installed in CAST with new-generation Sunrise Micromegas detector (MM). New InGrid detector installed on existing XRT, sensitive

to both sub-keV chameleons and keV axions/WISPs. Sunset MM detectors operate with very low backgrounds. Solar tracking data taken with all four

of the final detectors for the final month. Request to SPSC in October 2014 to run in 2015 to complete solar Axion/WISP physics and improve solar

chameleon sensitivity (~6 months vacuum running).

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 29.9 36.3 121% 6.3

Personnel (kCHF) 5,730 6,335 111% 605

Materials (kCHF) 4,245 5,745 135% 1,500

Total (kCHF) 9,975 12,079 121% 2,104

NA62 commitments carried-over from 2013 (covered by carry-forward),

early deliveries for which budget from 2015 was re-profiled to 2014. Also

0.5 MCHF of operational savings were reallocated to the project to cover

for some additional items and additional costs on an existing contract.


10. Theory

Goals Continue producing world-class results in theoretical physics; support the experiments and TH community by organising common workshops, schools,

institutes and hosting visitors.

Achievements

Numerous activities in a wide field of research subjects, ranging from particle physics phenomenology through astroparticle physics, cosmology, heavy

ion physics, and lattice field theory, to formal theory including mathematical physics and string theory. Several workshops have been hosted, as well as

four TH-Institute programs. Published approximately one paper per day on average.

11. LHC physics centre at CERN (LPCC)

Goals Provide resources to organise seminars, lectures and workshops to the whole LHC community for the analysis of the large data sample collected in

2011-2012.

Achievements

Ten workshops have been organised in the framework of the LPCC. In addition 17 workshops have been organised between Working groups in the

context of the FCC-hh project. As examples of working groups, the Top LHC Working Group is a forum for the study of the experimental and

theoretical systematics in the measurements of top quark properties, the definition of measurements and tools (MC generators, theory calculations, etc.)

required to address the systematics and carry out the physics programme, the combination of the results of the experiments and the presentation of the

results in a way useful for the theoretical interpretation. The Working Group on forward physics and diffraction at the LHC studies and documents the

LHC potential for forward and diffractive physics, in the context of the upgrade plans of all LHC experiments; it reviews, in collaboration with the

accelerator colleagues, the needs for special running conditions, to coordinate runs and minimize impact on high-luminosity running, prepare a yellow

report with the findings and report to the LHCC, to help the assessment and motivate the LHCC recommendations.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 59.3 61.3 103% 2.0

Personnel (kCHF) 10,060 9,510 95% -550

Materials (kCHF) 2,145 2,280 106% 135

Total (kCHF) 12,205 11,790 97% -415

The differences in personnel expenses for Theory are linked to more

fellows working on EU projects, and slightly less staff allocated to

Theory activities.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments



Materials (kCHF) 180 82 46% -98

Total (kCHF) 180 82 46% -98

Due to the shutdown, the analysis activities of the experiments were

reduced.


12. Scientific support (computing and technical support)

Goals Assure safe, reliable and efficient operation of the experiments. Provide support to the community of users.

Achievements

DT: engaged in an extensive program supporting the consolidation and maintenance work for various experiments at CERN and the users community,

with a strong focus on:

LS1 activities for LHC experiments: infrastructure consolidation (magnets, gas systems, CO2 cooling), detector repairs (e.g. LHCb RICH, ATLAS

TRT, TOTEM, CMS Tracker ) and contribution to Phase 0 detector upgrades e.g. ATLAS IBL and CMS PLT,

Completion of detectors (RICH, Straws, GTK) and infrastructure for NA62,

Upgrade of infrastructure for detector R&D, e.g. new proton (IRRAD) and gamma (GIF) irradiation facilities,

Integration of the Micro-Pattern Technologies workshop (former TE PCB workshop) in PH, focusing the activity into prototyping and production

of detector components,

Specific partnerships for Phase 1 and 2 detector upgrades have been settled with CERN teams, in particular with ALICE and LHCb; engineering

and detector prototyping support for ATLAS and CMS has started.

SFT: A huge effort was made, together with the LHC collaborations, to integrate ROOT6 in the LHC data processing software. This forms a powerful

and stable software platform for the coming Run2 data-taking period. Feedback collected from Run1 data has been used to improve the accuracy of

Geant4 physics models and the toolkit has been qualified as giving fully reproducible results when running in multi-threaded mode. CernVM is

providing a critical service for deploying software and for running applications of all 4 LHC collaborations on institutional & commercial clouds. Good

progress is being made with the R&D project to develop a new simulation vector prototype (GeantV) and performance improvements have already

been integrated in the Geant4 release.

ESE: Main achievements include:

NA62: GTK ASIC produced and tested, and module produced (with micro-channel cooling) Straws readout electronics produced and installed

LKr readout electronics installed and commissioned,

ALICE: First prototypes of monolithic pixel; New soldering technique for integrating chips on kapton bus,

ATLAS: ABC130 ASIC produced and used; CTP upgrade done,

CMS: New TTC installed; Upgraded BCM-BRM,

LHCb: Major progress with VELOPIX,

Medipix: Timepix3 production,

RD53 start.

New contracts for 65 and 130 nm CMOS technology in place; Rad-hard DC-DC converters moving to production; Submission of the GBT chipset;

First specifications for xTCA issued.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 126.9 126.3 100% -0.6

Personnel (kCHF) 21,660 22,999 106% 1,339

Materials (kCHF) 9,595 7,246 76% -2,349

Total (kCHF) 31,255 30,245 97% -1,010

Reallocation of personnel to shutdown. Open commitments amounted to

1.3 MCHF end 2014. This heading contains a provision for investments in

electronics and in the electronics workshop (machines), which was re-

profiled to 2015 and 2016 as announced in the Final 2015 Budget.


13. Low- and medium-energy accelerators / PS and SPS complexes / Accelerator technical services / Accelerator consolidation / Experimental areas

consolidation

Goals

In 2014 the following major works will be completed for the LHC Injector chain:

1. Replacement of the radiation damaged cables in LSS1 of the SPS;

2. Replacement of the PS tunnel ventilation system;

3. Replacement of the PS Complex access system with an LHC style system with biometry and automatic material access doors. This will cover

LINACs, PSB, PS AD, LEIR and CTF;

4. Radiation shielding for the PS machine in critical areas will be reinforced;

5. Consolidation of the 66kV protection system, consolidation of electrical substations in the SPS and in the Meyrin West Area;

6. Completion and commissioning of n_TOF EAR2;

7. Construction of a class A laboratory for Isolde including the CERN-MEDICIS project;

8. Studies for AD target consolidation;

9. Installation of a new PSB beam dump in the framework of the LHC Injector Upgrade project;

10. Test beams in North Area and HiRadMat;

11. Start of consolidation of East Hall and North Area for the most urgent items, as well as some preparation works for the LHC injectors upgrade Project.

Achievements

1. 1000 signal (copper) cables plus 60 cables for the kickers were successfully replaced in the SPS (in LSS1). This replacement was necessary as

these cables suffer from severe radiation damage in this zone of the SPS. The replacement required the removal of the complete accelerator beam

line in the area and the development of procedures minimising the radiation doses on the intervening personnel. The cabling worksite ended right

on schedule for the subsequent re-installation phase of the accelerator equipment, prior to the successful re-start of the physics for SPS. In addition,

several modifications were implemented to improve accessibility of components in highly radioactive areas.

2. The replacement of the ventilation system for the PS tunnel was completed and the plants have been commissioned and tested beginning 2014;

additional works have been made to increase the fire safety for the tunnel by installing dry risers and separation doors between the tunnel as well as

the galleries and cable galleries. The system is in operation.

3. A new access system was installed in the PS complex, with similar features as in LHC, enabling strict control of the entry in the different areas, and

a link with the radiation database through IMPACT (Intervention Management Planning & Activity Coordination Tool). The new system has been

fully validated and is operational, except the system to access CTF that will be commissioned later.

4. Radiation shielding was installed on top of the PS extraction septum, and the road Goward road was shielded as well.

5. Continuation of the consolidation of electrical systems:

66 kV protection system: the hardware of the new 66 kV protection system, composed of more than 50 electronics racks and 20 km of control

cables, was installed during the first ten weeks of the LS1. The system is fully operational since February 2014 and provides a high level of

reliability and availability as well as advanced tools for the network operation and supervision.

BA5: the high voltage electrical substation of the SPS in point BA5 has been consolidated. In addition to the replacement of the ageing

equipment, the powering layout has been optimized to improve the operability of the pulsed and stable networks. Two new high voltage

switchgears and the associated protection and control systems have been installed during the LS1, the successful commissioning ended in May

2014, followed by the decommissioning and elimination of the old equipment.

West Area: the studies for the consolidation of the West Area have started as from March 2014. The existing electrical configuration of the

three concerned substations (ME62, ME71, ME72) has been reviewed and optimized taking into account the actual and future power needs as

well as the required level of flexibility for the operation of the network in the West Area. The consolidation works will continue during 2015.

6. n_TOF EAR2 has been completed and successfully commissioned, opening a unique opportunity to measure radioactive samples with extremely

low mass.

7. New robots for the handling of the targets and a hot-cell in the class A lab were installed at ISOLDE; the latter will be used to separate the different

materials before disposal of the spent targets. The Medicis building has been completed, the second phase of the project will be completed with the

installation of the new ventilation system.


8. A thorough study of the actions needed in the AD target area has been completed resulting in a proposal for the consolidation of the area to be

achieved until the end of LS2. The first work packages have been approved within the consolidation project and funded.

9. The new PSB dump has been produced and installed according to schedule. The replacement has been particularly challenging due to the levels of

radiation. A careful preparation and a thorough analysis of the working procedures have allowed to optimise and considerably reduce the exposure

of personnel.

10. The first phase of the consolidation project for the East Area (b.157) was completed successfully. The area previously occupied by the DIRAC

experiment was converted and now houses the new CHARM and IRRAD irradiation facilities which were commissioned with beam in October 14.

Both the East and North Area particle beams, as well as HiRadMat were restarted successfully and provided beam to the fixed target experiments

(CLOUD, COMPASS, NA61, NA62) and numerous test beam users for the short PS/SPS run of 2014. The NA62 detector installation in the ECN3

high-intensity underground facility in the SPS North Area was completed at 90% and received low-intensity beam in November 2014; it is

expected to restart operation in July 2015 after the refurbishment of the ventilation system in the cavern is completed. The installation of the

upgraded Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) was completed in the EHN1 experimental hall. The GIF++ facility combines a powerful 17 TBq

Cs137 gamma source with particles from the H4 beam line and allows testing large volume detectors used for the present LHC experiments and

their upgrades.

11. Start of consolidation of East Hall and North Area for the most urgent items, as well as some preparation works for the LHC injectors upgrade

Project.

Concerning preparation works for the LHC injectors upgrade Project:

o Finemet cavity installed Longitudinal Damper Cavity in SS02 (Improve beam quality by damping the bunch oscillations for high-intensity

LHC beams, using a dedicated Longitudinal Damper).

o Installation of two new octupoles in the PS Ring The installation of two extra-octupoles opens the possibility to study the compensation of

the normal fourth order betatronic resonance that could help in increasing the brightness of the LHC-type beams, in particular for the HL-

LHC.

o New 1-turn delay feedback, now completely digital.

o Identification of obsolete cables in PSB especially have started.

North Area: in TCC2 and TDC2, the corrosion due to humidity on PVC cables put under stress the vacuum equipment:

o Eradication of water leaks: fix leaks on magnets, water circuit valves and hoses, water infiltration from the tunnel ceiling and maintenance

of the drain network.

o Consolidation of the ventilation systems: new chilled water pipes and air handling unitcooling coils.

o Replacement of damaged equipment: vacuum beam pipes, beam monitors and collimator.

o Re-routing of the cable trays and exchange the PVC insulated DC cables in this splitter area.

The pipeline between the SPS loop and the BA3 for the new cooling station for the upgrade of the RF in the frame of the LIU-SPS program has been

installed; a temporary station is foreseen to be operational in 2017 for the testing of the new RF equipment.


2014 Budget

(a)

2014

Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 35.6 35.4 99% -0.2

Personnel (kCHF) 6,290 6,718 107% 428

Materials (kCHF) 4,800 5,791 121% 991

Total (kCHF) 11,090 12,510 113% 1,420

Personnel (FTE) 185.1 178.4 96% -6.7

Personnel (kCHF) 33,060 36,143 109% 3,083

Materials (kCHF) 21,575 20,617 96% -958

Total (kCHF) 54,635 56,759 104% 2,124

Personnel (FTE) 100.6 116.1 115% 15.5

Personnel (kCHF) 21,725 22,830 105% 1,105

Materials (kCHF) 11,930 12,407 104% 477

Total (kCHF) 33,655 35,237 105% 1,582

Personnel (FTE) 60.9 58.3 96% -2.5

Personnel (kCHF) 9,305 9,110 98% -195

Materials (kCHF) 23,980 16,168 67% -7,812

Total (kCHF) 33,285 25,278 76% -8,007

Personnel (FTE) 10.1 8.2 82% -1.9

Personnel (kCHF) 1,410 1,116 79% -294

Materials (kCHF) 7,555 5,214 69% -2,341

Total (kCHF) 8,965 6,331 71% -2,634



Low- and medium-

energy accelerators

The higher expenses on materials linked to two projects: the

n_TOF-upgrade (n_TOF-EAR2) and ISOLDROBOT. Part of the

expenses were covered by carry-forward of budget from 2013,

and for n_TOF the expenses are covered by future savings.

Accelerator technical

servicesMore manpower allocated to finish LS1 for the injector chain.

Experimental areas

consolidation

PS and SPS complexesSome allocation of manpower to Accelerator Technical

Services.

Due to manpower shortage priority given to finish LS1, this

consolidation budget was not fully used and activities were

delayed. As indicated in the Final 2015 Budget, the budget is re-

profiled to until after 2015.

Accelerator

consolidation

Due to manpower shortage priority given to finish LS1, this

consolidation budget was not fully used and activities were

delayed. As indicated in the Final 2015 Budget, the budget is

re-profiled to until after 2015.


Infrastructure and services 14. Manufacturing facilities (workshops, etc.)

Goals

Projects:

LHC, injectors and experiments consolidation, responsibility over all welding and Quality Control for the Long Shutdown 1, support for

interventions (e.g. ATLAS and CMS gas lines).

LINAC4, complete fabrication and “as built” documentation.

HIE-Isolde, support for production in Industry of the first 10 SC RF cavities, specification and procurement of high-quality raw materials, support

for the design and fabrication of cryomodules.

ELENA, first magnet integration and support studies.

Support in design, fabrication and assembly for Cloud and n-TOF projects.

Studies and support for a possible neutrino programme at CERN and the AWAKE collaboration.

R&D for HL-LHC, LIU, CLIC, SPL: focus on 11 T magnets, SC link, RF crab cavities, ultra-precision fabrication of RF cavities.

Organisation:

Consolidate workshop equipment and conformity to current standards,

Support the CERN-wide safety conformity of machine tools,

Consolidation of group quality policies and procedures,

Launch a program of selective investment in modern fabrication technologies.

Achievements

Projects:

The activities planned for LS1 were completed. These included the tunnel work (10 170 welds equivalent to 3.3. km of welds, external body

certification according to ISO 5817 highest level B requirement, over 40 persons involved with internal and external collaborations), the associated

Non-Destructive Testing (e.g. in-situ radiography of hundreds of bellows) and quality control. Vacuum components, vacuum chambers for

ATLAS, TOTEM roman pots required design work and internal fabrication in the workshop.

LINAC4: the fabrication of vacuum components for the transfer lines (L4T and L4Z) was completed, while the support to BE/RF for electron

beam welding of PIMS (PI-Mode-Structure) RF cavities continues. All the design work was completed. The as-built documentation is in

preparation.

HIE-ISOLDE: urgent design and fabrication of components for the RF cavities and the cryomodules and the fabrication, through subcontracting, of

clean room tooling and the thermal screen with large-surface nickel coating.

ELENA: significant design progress, including integration studies and the procurement of supports for the vacuum chambers. Design and

fabrication of “Y” chambers for the BASE experiment.

HL-LHC: Design and fabrication of assembly tools for the 11T superconducting dipole prototypes, production of the structural components of the

superconducting quadrupole prototype, design and coordination work for crab cavities, design and fabrication support for the superconducting link,

initial design of hollow-electron lens.

Design and manufacturing of vacuum chambers and other components in the context of CERN- MEDAUSTRON collaboration.

Organisation:

Continuation of CERN-wide support to safety conformity of machine tools: The programme to obtain the conformity of machine tools to current

safety standards started in 2013 and continued in 2014. Interventions involved a wide range of actions, from small to large, electrical and

mechanical, including documentation and notices, up to scrapping the machine in extreme cases. Of the over 900 machine tools on the CERN site,

60% are now totally conforming. The conformity campaign continues in 2015.

Completion of the works for the new Open-space design office (building 376).

Start of the refurbishing of building 156 for installing large machining equipment required for safety conformity in the Main Workshop.


15. General facilities & logistics (site maintenance, transport)

Goals

Ensure a similar level of service to the CERN community as in 2013. Perform capacity planning to adapt site services to requirements. Establish

Service Level Agreements. Continue the site consolidation programme using an adequate prioritization matrix. Pursue the extension of the Service

Management support to Departments such as FP/HR.

Extensive maintenance of technical infrastructures during LS1.

Achievements

Recommendations of the Internal Audit of the CERN Stores (DG-IA/14-R2) are being put in place (1/3 implemented). Site services are being right-

sized as LS1 was winding down, and in preparation of the operational budget cut. KPI’s for site services are gradually being put in place for improved

monitoring.

Based on the GS data of the Service Management support, on 2014 the number of new tasks have increased by 15%, the resolved tasks by 10% and the

backlog by 26%, with respect to 2013. Similar trend is found for the FP and HR services included in the catalogue.

The consolidation plan for 2014 was carried out 100%. Among the most important interventions, it is worth mentioning the partial renovation of the

building 376, the start of the renovation buildings 119-128-129, the various campaign on roofs, asbestos removal, toilets, drainage and safety

compartmentalisation of the technical galleries.

The support to activities linked to the LS1 was timely and efficiently provided.

The CV, EL and HE maintenance programs scheduled for LS1 were completed with success. All these systems were maintained following a detailed

plan and schedule which had been validated with machines and area coordination teams.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 60.5 61.1 101% 0.6

Personnel (kCHF) 10,575 10,099 95% -476

Materials (kCHF) 2,985 1,273 43% -1,712

Total (kCHF) 13,560 11,372 84% -2,188

The manufacturing facilities (workshop, design office) show lower

expenses, the work being charged directly to the projects (LIU, CLIC, HL-

LHC).

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 155.9 168.5 108% 12.5

Personnel (kCHF) 27,615 28,941 105% 1,326

Materials (kCHF) 44,370 33,722 76% -10,648

Total (kCHF) 71,985 62,662 87% -9,323

Negative carry-forward of some 3.5 MCHF applied to cover the advanced

purchase of cables for LS1 in 2013. Delays in hostel renovation (2 MCHF

re-profiled to 2015), and in the Globe car park and Place des Particules

(1.7 MCHF re-profiled to 2015).


16. Informatics

Goals

Ensure adequate level of availability of the Informatics services including data loss protection (backups) against accidental errors or human mistakes for

its user base, as well as perform capacity planning to anticipate the needs. Ensure prompt corrective actions in case of service failures. Protect and

educate against the risks of computer security vulnerabilities.

Maintain and operate the activities of the international SCOAP3 consortium.

Achievements

The services were generally delivered to users' satisfaction, capacity increased as requested and backup performed.

The protected power & cooling for critical IT services consolidation has proven to be effective during the power incident on 16.10.2014.

The second Data Centre in Wigner (HU) has been commissioned, features some 20000 cores and 45 PB of storage and is connected with two

redundant 100 Gbps circuits to the Geneva Data Centre. It also offers further prospects for off-site business continuity.

In addition to continuous responses to security incidents, the CERN bulletin featured regularly computer security awareness articles. Copyright

violations, software licences violations and compromises were dealt with as usual without apparent damage for the Organization.

The SCOAP3 international consortium was operated to the satisfaction of partners in the 44 participating countries. Sufficient payments were

received to cover CERN liabilities as expected. The CERN SCOAP3 informatics infrastructure to handle the reconciliation process and to receive

articles from participating publishers operated according to specifications with no appreciable downtime, allowing to fulfil the bi-lateral contract

obligations.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 175.9 167.9 95% -8.0

Personnel (kCHF) 31,565 28,817 91% -2,748

Materials (kCHF) 18,485 20,089 109% 1,604

Total (kCHF) 50,050 48,906 98% -1,144

Materials include some 0.5 MCHF in-kind contributions for OpenLab. The

expenses under this heading also include those linked to the SCOAP3

consortium, with corresponding revenues under “sales and

miscellaneous”.


17. Safety, health and environment

Goals

LS1 continues in 2014. It remains the focal point of Health and Safety.

Occupational Health and Safety:

Limit number of incidents.

Improve safety of equipment.

Improve hazard control.

Occupational Medicine & Emergency preparedness:

Medical fellow’s survey: Evaluation of the factors contributing to discal hernias in the CERN population.

Operate optimized emergency care system in collaboration with the French and Swiss authorities in order to face any medical emergency

during the LS1 and later.

Implementation of a strategic crisis response plan for the Organisation; regular training of the CERN Crisis Coordination Team.

Radiation protection:

Keep doses to personnel As Low As Reasonable Achievable.

Further shipping of radioactive waste to Host State Treatment Centres. Free release according to Tripartite Agreement.

Further infrastructure consolidation (calibration hall start-up, Radioactive Waste Treatment Centre build-up).

Further extension of RAMSES system (e.g. replacing ARCON in North and East Area), maintenance and upgrade of existing installations.

Continued studies on waste classification and transport of radioactive material.

Environmental protection:

Continued consolidation of environmental monitoring installations.

Elaborate action plan following the 2013 inventories covering several domains, e.g. conventional waste.

Achievements

Focal points of Health, Safety & Environment 2nd part of LS1 Good Safety performance, ALARA became essential and natural part of CERN culture. Evacuation signalling completed also for accelerators PS/SPS. Preparation of restart of accelerators and experiments Beam facility inspections completed (pressure vessels, electrical and about 5000 Safety valves not accessible during operation). CERN’s 60 year celebrations

Successful performance through proactive safety engineering checks, inspections and Safety coordination. Additional achievements

A New Safety Policy and Safety Organisation was decreed, giving CERN a state-of-the-art Safety framework.

Some HSE research and Safety projects are now co-funded within the Knowledge Transfer framework, or are EU-funded research. Occupational Health and Safety: Limit number of incidents: CERN deplores 240 accidents at work (77 MPE, out of which 19 with 608 days off work, 33 MPA, 130 contractors), plus 26 commuting

accidents of MPE (out of which 7 with 154 days off). Accident prevention: 11 major evacuation exercises (restaurants, ATLAS, kindergarten, …) were done. Safety training covered 5,664 classroom and 23,703 e-learning E-learning sessions. Equipment and activity safety improvements Work at height: all crane life lines inspected; inspection & support of personal protective equipment (PPE) centralised. Prevention of oxygen deficiency hazard improved (spill test, calculations, revised self-rescue mask training and additional e-learning courses). Improvement of hazard control: ProSanTra project (GS-ME & HSE): see below under Occupational Medicine. All 2014 inspections were run according to schedule. About 1000 new installations or devices inspected and added to inspection inventory. Occupational Medicine & Emergency preparedness: A pre-study carried out by the medical Fellow stated there was no common causes (i.e. professional ones) to some severe cases of discal

hernias in the CERN population. Hence, no specific preventive measures found, but the usual ones reminded: ergonomics & gestures and


postures’ training and advice. A co-operation agreement with HUG for emergency response services has been approved by the Finance Committee of CERN on the 10th of

December 2014. This agreement, strongly supported by the Swiss Confederation and the Canton de Genève, will allow on one hand the implementation of a SMUR (Emergency Medical vehicle) on the CERN site available for any person on the CERN site and all the Geneva population (Right bank/Rive droite), and, on the other hand, a better management of the medical emergencies on the CERN sites thanks to a triangulation 74444-144. In addition, a continuous theoretical and practical training in the emergency management will be given by HUG to CERN’s Fire Brigade and Medical personnel.

Launch of the ProSanTra (Promotion de la Santé au Travail) Health at work policy, to improve prevention at the workplace: OHS-003 form

included in the medical file and used during medical visits; improved prevention of chemical hazards: 8 joint workplace visits HSE GS-ME to

help writing the ‘Fiche de poste’, summarizing local chemical hazards and their prevention; launch of a working group to build a central data-

base for all chemicals.

A common project had been launched by CERN’s Medical Service, Fire Brigade, Radiation Protection and ISOLDE and HUG to train for emergency interventions at ISOLDE. An emergency exercise had been performed in 2014. A working group is now transforming the lessons learnt into procedures aiming at a final version in 2015.

In 2014, a second Crisis Management Centre was established in building 864.

In October a third Crisis Management exercise was organised, with the aim of testing the operation of the Crisis Management Centre in building 864 and rehearsing the procedures set out in the Crisis Management and the Crisis Communications Plan, in order to establish whether they are fit for purpose. This year two additional departmental “Silver” teams also participated in the exercise to rehearse the communications between the departmental response and the Crisis Management Team. The exercise was based upon the response to a major incident affecting the Meyrin site, which later resulted in (simulated) loss of life, potential environmental implications and a threat to the reputation of the organisation. The scenario was designed in order to present a number of challenging strategic issues for the different teams to manage. Radiation protection: Management and operation of 9,300 dosimeters; total collective dose is 719.9 man.mSv with a maximum single dose of 3.2mSv; CERN’s

objective to keep workers below 3mSv largely met. Reception and safe storage of 1,500 cubic meters of radioactive waste over LS1 and, in parallel, preparation of over 100 tons of radioactive

waste for disposal in 2015. The waste study was finalised, submitted to Host State agencies (ASN/OFSP) and approved. Further infrastructure consolidation, e.g. the RWTC infrastructure has well advanced during 2014, including completion of the handling

infrastructure (3D-forklift, 60t trailor, two 60t and one 30t cranes plus a telescopic 5t crane).

The Calibration Hall construction and instrument commissioning has been finished in time; sources to arrive soon. Environmental protection: Environmental impact monitoring for RUN2 is ready {installation of additional stations for stray radiation (20), ventilation (5) and outgoing

water with hydrocarbon detection capability (1)}. Conventional waste reporting including the recycling rate established as standard and recurrent procedure.

HSE and GS elaborated and, with the help of other departments, implemented action plans for better incident prevention and mitigation of the

risk of accidental release of substances hazardous for the environment.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 148.3 151.5 102% 3.2

Personnel (kCHF) 22,475 23,558 105% 1,083

Materials (kCHF) 19,805 16,237 82% -3,568

Total (kCHF) 42,280 39,796 94% -2,484

late deliveries in RAMSES project, the Radio Infrastructure upgrade for

firefighters and the SC dismantling and museum. Open commitments

amounted to 2.2 MCHF at the end of 2014.


18. Administration

Goals

Directorate:

Progress on enlargement: attract new Associate Member States and support from non-Member States.

Secure revenues.

Ensure high visibility throughout external relations and VIP visits.

Finances & Accounting:

Implement the upgrade of the accounting software.

Continue to improve the controls over processes and identified risks and .further advance automation of accounting processes.

Procurement:

Implement modified procurement rules submitted for FC approval in June 2013, in order to further improve the industrial return coefficient of all

member states, based on the enlargement of the Organization.

Prepare for, and implement, the new rules governing the applicable law for contractors at CERN.

Implement continuous improvements in the field of procurement based on:

o Definition, follow-up and update of the procurement policy, strategy and process resulting from experience gained;

o Best practice procurement principles and legal developments;

o Implementation and monitoring of key performance indicators.

Treasury:

Reduction of CERN’s long term debt (BNP_FORTIS).

It is forecasted that there will be no need to have recourse to short-term loans providing that all Member States pay their contributions on

schedule. In the event that this is not the case, steps have been taken to ensure that the Organization has a sufficient amount of credit.

Implementation of IPSAS 29-‘Financial instruments’.

Human Resources:

Fostering a professional environment that confirms CERN as a top-ranking employer, able to adapt its HR strategies and processes to changing needs,

while attracting, retaining, motivating and developing a competent and diverse workforce, by:

Pursuing the transformation from a traditional HR Department into a service and delivery partnership.

Furthering the integration of the CERN Competency Model into the main HR processes.

Rolling out the Diversity, Recruitment and Learning & Development Policies.

Conducting projects related to Managerial Culture, Capacity Planning and Performance & Talent Management.

Continuing to implement process simplification and effectiveness gains.

Launching the Five-Yearly Review of financial and social conditions (to be completed by end of 2015).

Achievements

Finances & Accounting:

Following recommendation of the new External Auditors (NIK - Poland) on the 2014 Financial Statements, two new projects have been launched:

Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE project) with the objective to review the CERN's accounting policy towards Property, Plant and Equipment

(PPE), ensure a higher conformity with the IPSAS Standards, recognition of more classes of PPE assets as well as a definition and introduction of

a simplified PPE register.

Intangible Assets – Internally developed software having the objective to review the CERN's accounting policy towards intangible assets, identify

and value internally developed software.

Implement the upgrade of the financial and accounting software: Qualiac (Sales module), new Payroll software.

Procurement:

The workload remained at a very high level in 2014 and in some areas there was even a significant increase compared to the year before, e.g. the

number of invitations to tenders increased by 30% between 2013 and 2014. Since 2008 the increase is of 82%.

The modified procurement rules have been fully implemented and information sessions have been organised with all purchasers and all

departments.


The new rules governing the applicable law for contractors at CERN have been fully implemented. Information meetings with host state

authorities and trade unions were held. Information sessions were also organised with all departments and an e-learning module has been

developed and is available for CERN personnel on the Procurement Service’s web portal. A separate Web portal for CERN contractors has also

been made available.

Several projects aiming at continuous improvements in the field of procurement have been implemented, such as:

o The establishment of the EIROFORUM Working Group on Procurement. A first meeting was organised at CERN in June 2014 and a

program of work has been defined, aiming at benchmarking procurement activities between Organizations.

o An e-learning module covering best-value-for-money adjudications has been developed and is also available for CERN personnel on the

Procurement Service’s web portal.

o A series of fraud detection and avoidance measures have been implemented in order to further strengthen the internal control and minimise

the risk of fraud.

Treasury:

Reduction of CERN’s long term debt as planned with no short term loans in 2014.

IPSAS 29 - ‘Financial Instruments’ has been implemented and conformed to in the Financial Statements of the Organization.

Human Resources:

The Learning and Development Policy was rolled-out which led to the reorganisation of the training offer into five training curricula (Leadership,

Personal Development and Communication, Technical Management, Technical and Language). The CERN Competency Model has started to be

integrated in the various training programmes.

The Diversity Office continued the implementation of actions towards the seven strategic diversity objectives agreed for the 2012 to 2014 period,

which focus on the areas of recruitment, career development and work environment.

As part of the Capacity Planning initiative, the 3-year rolling plan was updated to take account of long term (IC) contract commitments. Initial

benchmarking of other organisations was carried out.

The 2015 five-yearly review of the financial and social conditions of members of the personnel was launched in 2014 and is due to be completed

by December 2015. Apart from the mandatory elements of the review i.e. basic salaries for staff members, stipends for fellows and subsistence

indemnities for associated members of the personnel, the proposal made by the Management to also review the CERN career structure as well as

diversity-related social and financial conditions, was unanimously approved by Council in June 2014.

Directorate:

Israel became CERN’s 21st member state, Turkey and Pakistan in the process of ratifying their Associate Membership.

218 Protocol Visits organised.

Celebration of CERN’s 60th Anniversary: events at CERN, in Member States, and « Fête des Voisins ».

Concluded « Partenariat quadripartite » between CERN - France - Conseil général de l'Ain and Communauté de communes du Pays de Gex.

Established foundation “CERN & Society” to raise funding for projects outside CERN basic program.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 206.1 229.4 111% 23.3

Personnel (kCHF) 38,745 37,968 98% -777

Materials (kCHF) 11,290 11,543 102% 253

Total (kCHF) 50,035 49,511 99% -524

The Out-Turn contains the 20.9 FTE apprentices (not in the Budget)


19. Outreach, scientific exchanges (students and associates) and KT

a. Outreach, corporate communication and scientific exchanges (students and associates)

Goals

General: to continue the development of exhibitions and animations that will facilitate the understanding of CERN research and its applications, and

which can be used in schools to inspire and to motivate students to engage in scientific studies.

Specific activities: Celebration of CERN’s 60th anniversary, at CERN and particularly in its member states (end September 2014).

Completion of school student lab and refurbished exhibition in Microcosm.

To continue deploying targeted strategic communications to all key stakeholder groups through LS1 and beyond. To continue developing the unfolding

narrative of particle physics research that has been the key thrust of CERN’s corporate communications for over a decade.

Specific actions throughout 2014 will be built around the organisation’s 60th anniversary.

Achievements

CERN guided tours for 103,000 visitors (of which about 40% school children); about 65,000 visitors to the permanent exhibitions “Universe of

Particles” and “Microcosm”.

CERN teacher schools were held for about 1200 teachers from 22 different countries, participating in one of the 34 one-week programmes. The

international 3-week High School Teacher programme in July 2014 had 54 participants from 32 different countries.

New exhibitions at CERN were inaugurated at several important visit points: control centre, data centre, SM18, and at the refurbished

synchrocyclotron, including a 12-min video and light show. A new Microcosm exhibition has been designed and transformation work has started in

December 2014.

The new S’Cool LAB for visiting school students, allowing to perform any of 15 modern physics experiments, has been completed, commissioned and

inaugurated.

CERN traveling exhibitions were shown in the framework of the 60th anniversary in several Member States: the large “Accelerating Science”

exhibition went to Poland (Warsaw), Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki), and Spain (Valencia), attracting in total more than 300,000 visitors. Smaller

exhibitions and “the interactive LHC tunnel” were shown in Austria (Wels), Belgium (Brussels), Bulgaria (Sofia), Czech Republic (Prague), Finland

(Jyväskylä, Oulu, Tietomaa), France (St. Genis), The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Eindhoven), and Switzerland (Fribourg, Geneva).

Press office activities: 2014 saw a large number of media visits with 1,177 journalists welcomed, representing over 500 different media – the highest

level in the last 5 years. These visits include the National media visits programme, which was set up for LS1 and reached its conclusion in 2014, and

support for media activities related to CERN 60th anniversary events. In addition, CERN’s press office delivered 32 press releases, some 40 media

invitations to CERN related events and organised 3 press conferences. The CERN press office also renewed its contract for contact management and

media monitoring for a 3-year period, to have a reliable and stable work environment during the whole restart period. The press office worked with the

HR Learning & Development group organising two newly designed sessions of media training.

Publications: 2013 Annual Report; 10 issues of CERN Courier including special articles and a cover linked to the 60th anniversary and science for

peace; bi-weekly issues of CERN Bulletin; bi-lingual 60th anniversary brochure produced; 119,000 other brochures printed in various languages for

CERN and Member States.

Web and online: CERN’s presence on social media - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn - extended in 2014 to include Instagram

plus two "ask me anything" events on reddit. In 2014, 358 tweets and retweets were issued on Twitter from the English-language account and 218

tweets and retweets from the French-language account. There were 529 CERN Facebook posts and responses, 362 Google+ posts and responses and 33

video uploads to YouTube, of which 9 were related to the inaugural CERN Beamline for Schools competition. On 31 December 2014, CERN had

1,066,483 followers of the English-language Twitter account and 12,647 followers of the French-language account, 373,584 likes on Facebook,

113,036 followers on Google+, 43,081 subscribers on YouTube, 25,150 followers on LinkedIn and 1,531 followers on Instagram. CERN60 was

mentioned 45,135 times on social media in 2014, with 7,335 mentions on 29 September 2014 and there was a #MyCERN60 campaign. Added 60th

anniversary symposia together with other talks in a CERN 60th collection on iTunesU. In summer 2014, CERN, building on its heritage as a

pioneer in the use of the internet, became the first intergovernmental organization to acquire it’s own top-level domain, cern.


Events: The communication group wholly organised French and Swiss heats of the International FameLab competition to develop the communication

skills of young scientists, a very successful second edition of TEDxCERN with a local audience of 1300 and an online audience of 10,000, sponsored

by Rolex, and POPscience, the first "out-of-CERN” Researchers Night event with hundreds of visitors at FNAC (Geneva), Saint-Genis theatre (200

people) and Salle Centrale Madeleine (500 people). The group also contributed fully to the major events for the 60th anniversary at UNESCO, CERN

and the UN in New York.

Local communication and education: “Fête des Voisins" on May 25-26 2014 with about 8000 visitors at Points 4, 5 and 8 including more than 7,000

underground; promotion of CERN60 events in September with the UN Orchestra Concert (800 attendees), Particle Fever screening and (700 attendees);

4th edition of "Dans la Peau d'un Chercheur" with local primary schools, with 700 children participating.

b. Knowledge transfer

Goals

General target: To continue deploying the KT long term strategy to maximize the dissemination of CERN’s technologies and know-how.

Specific targets and projects for 2014 are:

Organise the ICTR-PHE conference 2014.

Help to promote the role of HEP and resulting technologies in the health arena by activities such as establishing Life Sciences seminar series.

Produce and develop flyers, animations and video-clips on medical physics, and dissemination material such as “ENLIGHT-Highlights”.

Coordinate the submission of EC projects in the field of Hadron Therapy for H2020.

Foster applications of new projects for the KT Fund and follow up the existing funded projects.

Continue the work on the pre-incubator and the network of incubators concepts.

Achievements

The ICTR-PHE 2014 conference was successfully organised. Together with an excellent scientific programme, there was a press conference, an

industrial exhibition and a public seminar. The conference was attended by more than 400 participants.

All the following dissemination & communication activities were done in 2014: several articles on CERN media; an animation and an interactive

map of a virtual hadron therapy facility; ENLIGHT Highlights published in January; KT video for the CERN 60th anniversary; participation in

ESOF 2014; interview for BBC Horizon series; communication for the CERN Medical Applications Office.

Establishment of the Medical Applications seminar series (3 excellent seminars in 2014), Student/ teachers talks, VIP visit talks.

Visiting and advising countries interested in building new hadron therapy centres (Greece, Norway, Bulgaria, UK, Spain, Lithuania)

The BRIGHT project was submitted to obtain funding from the EC, but unfortunately was not funded. The submission of the OPENMED project

was prepared but it was finally decided not to submit it and wait for 2015.

Support to the CERN Medical Applications (CMA) office and participation to the activities (KT deputy group leader is also deputy of CMA):

CMA Study Group, International Strategy Committee for CMA, White paper for OPENMED.

Expanding collaborations with NCI and ESTRO (to investigate future possible funding possibilities).

Organisation of ENLIGHT meeting, ENVISION final meeting, ULICE final meeting, ENTERVISION meetings.

There were 7 new projects submitted to the KT fund in 2014. 6 of these were approved and financed. 25 projects were financed so far since 2011,

and all these projects are still being followed up.

The UK BIC admitted 1 more company in the incubator in 2014, bringing to 4 the total number of companies admitted so far. Of these 4

companies, 3 are still being hosted in the incubator (1 is not existing anymore). 4 more BICs were launched in 2014, in The Netherlands, Norway,

Greece and Austria. Students from the NTNU Entrepreneurship School were admitted in the CERN pre-incubator, and 2 companies were created

following the pre-incubation period.


Total for fact sheet 19: Outreach, scientific exchanges (students and associates) and KT

2014 Budget

(a)

2014

Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 0.6 1.9 322% 1.3

Personnel (kCHF) 620 233 38% -387

Materials (kCHF) 10,660 9,727 91% -933

Total (kCHF) 11,280 9,960 88% -1,320

Personnel (FTE) 25.8 31.3 121% 5.5

Personnel (kCHF) 4,370 4,860 111% 490

Materials (kCHF) 7,315 7,570 103% 255

Total (kCHF) 11,685 12,430 106% 745

Personnel (FTE) 16.7 16.9 101% 0.2

Personnel (kCHF) 3,530 3,063 87% -467

Materials (kCHF) 1,940 3,640 188% 1,700

Total (kCHF) 5,470 6,703 123% 1,233

Personnel (FTE) 17.7 17.0 96% -0.6

Personnel (kCHF) 3,155 3,102 98% -53

Materials (kCHF) 1,485 3,229 217% 1,744

Total (kCHF) 4,640 6,331 136% 1,691



Associates and

students

programmes

Some of the students were charged to other activities.

Outreach and

corporate

communication

Adding of travelling exhibition to the celebration of CERN 60th

anniversary.

EducationCERN S'Cool LAB project was introduced in 2014 (sponsoring

was obtained from the Loterie romande).

Knowledge transferIncreased contribution from CERN to the KT fund to foster

new projects.


20. Infrastructure consolidation, buildings and renovation

Goals Termination of Building 774 project; completion of Building 107. Civil engineering work for the new LHCb building complex.

Execution of the annual consolidation plan covering primarily safety, façade, roof, toilet block, HVAC and Electricity interventions.

Achievements

Building 774 project pending of the commissioning and final reception by middle February 2015 due to delays of the company in charge of the HVAC

system regarding control implementation. Building 107 project on standby due to disagreements with the construction company and the consultancy

company. Both contracts have been terminated. For the LHCb building complex the engineering work and the tendering process have been completed,

the works have started and they are proceeding according to the schedule. The annual consolidation plan has been executed according to the planned

interventions on the safety items, façade, roofs, toilets blocks HVAC and electricity. In addition a new campaign concerning the technical galleries fire

compartment has been put in place and initiated. The new methodology regarding the approval process of construction and consolidation projects has

been put in place and the first round completed.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 15.8 16.1 102% 0.4

Personnel (kCHF) 2,630 2,488 95% -142

Materials (kCHF) 61,215 27,181 44% -34,034

Total (kCHF) 63,845 29,669 46% -34,176

Delay in the delivery of Building 107 (surface treatment, -19 MCHF), delay

in projects (Globe renovation, magnetic measurements building). Open

commitments amounted to 8 MCHF at the end of the year (without

Building 107).


21. Centralised expenses

Centralised personnel

expenses

This heading is dominated by the CERN share of the health insurance scheme for the pensioners, the costs for personnel arrivals and

departures and unemployment benefits. These costs can be estimated but there is no specific goal associated. The amount will continue

rising due to the increasing number of CERN pensioners as well as the Council approved higher health insurance contribution rate.

Internal taxation The internal taxation appears in centralised expenses and offsets the equivalent heading in revenues. The personnel costs in all other

headings are thus without internal taxation.

Personnel internal mobility This heading aims to enhance internal mobility between departments by helping to pay salary differences between an experienced staff

member and a new recruit.

Personnel on detachment CERN personnel that is on a detachment for collaboration or other institute. The full personnel cost of the detachment is covered by the

third party and is accounted as revenues for CERN.

Paid but not available The amount of staff members exercising their saved leave or compensation leave usually at the end of their career. The heading is

funded by the provision for “amortisation of staff benefits accruals”.

Personnel paid on team

accounts This heading concerns staff and fellows working funded by third parties as shown also under revenues.

Budget amortisation of staff

benefits accruals

Corresponds to the funding over 10 years of saved leave and shift work compensation of employed members of personnel as

recognised for the first time in the balance sheet when implementing IPSAS.

Energy and water This heading is dominated by the electricity supply. It further includes heating gas and water costs.

Insurances, postal charges,

miscellaneous Personnel and goods insurances as well as the postal charges.

Interest, bank and financial

expenses

This heading includes the interest on the FORTIS and SIG loan, bank charges and financial expenses (i.e. exchange loss). In spite of

the difficult economic environment in some Member States, CERN has no short-term loans outstanding as of 31/12/2014.

In-kind Relating to the fair value of CERN’s right to freely use the land and having been granted some interest free loans (also under

revenues).


2014 Budget

(a)

2014

Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments


Personnel (kCHF) 35,680 35,550 100% -130

Materials (kCHF) 0 0 0

Total (kCHF) 35,680 35,550 100% -130


Personnel (kCHF) 28,480 29,028 102% 548


Total (kCHF) 28,480 29,028 102% 548

Personnel (FTE) 3.6 4.0 112% 0.4

Personnel (kCHF) 1,690 1,203 71% -487


Total (kCHF) 1,690 1,236 73% -454


Personnel (kCHF) 0 2,163 2,163


Total (kCHF) 0 2,163 2,163

Personnel (FTE) 86.7 93.3 108% 6.6

Personnel (kCHF) 12,575 13,254 105% 679


Total (kCHF) 12,575 13,254 105% 679


Personnel (kCHF) 17,300 17,328 100% 28


Total (kCHF) 17,300 17,328 100% 28



Materials (kCHF) 53,300 43,261 81% -10,039

Total (kCHF) 53,300 43,261 81% -10,039



Materials (kCHF) 7,165 11,940 167% 4,775

Total (kCHF) 7,165 11,940 167% 4,775



Materials (kCHF) 13,050 13,872 106% 822

Total (kCHF) 13,050 13,872 106% 822



Materials (kCHF) 4,735 4,913 104% 178

Total (kCHF) 4,735 4,913 104% 178



Centralised

personnel expenses

Please see for details the table "Personnel Expenses by

nature".

Insurances, postal

charges,

miscellaneous

The expenses for insurances were lower than foreseen and will

be adjusted for future years. This heading contains also 5.7

MCHF of litigation settlement and advance payment for

building 107.

Internal taxation

The internal taxation increase is linked to the evolution of staff

complement and to the respective salary positions as well as to

the applicable taxation rates. These expenses are offset by

revenues.

Personnel internal

mobility and on

detachment

More personnel were on detachment (expenses being offset by

identical revenues).

Personnel paid on

team accounts

Paid but not available

This heading shows staff that used their saved leave and

compensation leave before leaving the Organization: they are

still paid but unavailable.

In-kind

Budget amortisation

of staff benefits

accruals

Energy and water

This heading was already adjusted downwards during the

MTP 2014, linked to LS1 schedule and a more detailed planning

of the needed MWh.

Interest, bank and

financial expenses


Projects

LHC upgrades

22. LINAC4

Goals

Complete the recommissioning of the 3 MeV injector in its final position. Install and commission with beam the three Drift Tube Linac tanks, up to 50

MeV beam energy. Install the new ion source (IS02) and complete installation and hardware commissioning of the accelerator section up to 100 MeV.

Start beam tests at 100 MeV. Complete construction of the beam line elements required for an emergency injection in the PS Booster of 50 MeV

protons.

Achievements

The 3 MeV injector has been fully recommissioned in the accelerator tunnel. The first of the three Drift Tube Linac tanks up to 12 MeV beam energy

has been installed and commissioned with beam, the others being delayed to spring 2015 because of delays with the suppliers and of reduced

availability of experts during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1). The new ion source (IS02) has reached the required beam current (40mA) on the test stand

and has been installed in the tunnel. The 100 MeV accelerator section was installed and hardware tests have started. The beam line elements for

connection to the PS Booster are completed and progressively installed.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 58.0 56.0 97% -2.0

Personnel (kCHF) 10,410 8,549 82% -1,861

Materials (kCHF) 9,860 10,815 110% 955

Total (kCHF) 20,270 19,363 96% -907

Some main components were delivered in 2014 (covered by a carry-

forward from 2013). Some RF components will be delivered in 2015 (open

commitments at the end of 2014).


23. LHC injectors upgrade

Goals

Finalisation of installation in the machines,

Continuation of studies and simulations,

Commissioning of the modifications implemented during LS1 in the injectors,

Test with beam of the prototypes installed during LS1,

Continuation of construction of equipment.

Achievements

The LIU project is on schedule and has taken full advantage of the LS1 for starting the implementation of modifications to the injectors and

the installations of equipment prototypes, which will be fully tested during Machine Development sessions. Studies and simulations, as well as

the construction of equipment to be installed during LS2 are as well on schedule.

Finalization of installation in the machines

The LIU installations scheduled in LS1 were performed as planned:

o LIU-PSB: e.g. new Low Level Radio Frequency control system for all four rings; five additional prototype Radio Frequency cells, new main

beam dump and upgrade of beam diagnostics.

o LIU-PS: e.g. increase of radiation shielding, two new octupoles for resonance compensation and two new sextupoles for vertical chromaticity

control.

o LIU-SPS: e.g. new power system and Low Level Radio Frequency for 800 MHz system, two fully amorphous-Carbon coated cells,

impedance reduction measures on kicker magnets.

o LIU-IONS: e.g. upgrade of beam diagnostics.

Continuation of studies and simulations

Excellent progresses were performed on theoretical and simulation studies:

o LIU-PSB: e.g. full 6-dimensional simulation studies for H- injection from LINAC4 to predict new brightness line for LHC and high intensity

beams, improved production of LHC beams.

o LIU-PS: e.g. study of new LHC beam production variants, identification of impedance sources, new simulation code for multi-particle

longitudinal instabilities.

o LIU-SPS: e.g. longitudinal impedance identification and reduction, electron scrubbing studies for future operation, simulation, optics design

and functional specifications for protection devices.

o LIU-IONS: e.g. optics studies, simulation for ion beams production.

Commissioning of the modifications implemented during LS1 in the injectors

All modified systems (e.g. above) were successfully commissioned.

Test with beam of the prototypes installed during LS1

Tests with beam were successfully performed.

o PSB: e.g. prototype Radio Frequency system tested and its use for beam control fully demonstrated.

o PS: e.g. resonance compensation with displaced skew sextupoles validated.

o SPS: e.g. pressure in the amorphous-Carbon coated cells monitored over the scrubbing runs, showing effective electron cloud suppression.

o Linac3 + LEIR: e.g. upgrade of beam diagnostics validated.

Continuation of construction of equipment

o PSB: e.g. entire injection and extraction systems under construction, as well as the new Main Power Supply equipment and building.

o PS: e.g. transverse damper power amplifiers under construction, as well as beam diagnostics equipment and Radio Frequency system

upgrades.


o SPS: e.g. 200 MHz building completed, system power amplifier tendering and testing in progress. In-situ amorphous-Carbon coating system

for main dipoles being developed. New beam diagnostics.

o LEIR: e.g. development of new beam diagnostics.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 82.5 87.8 106% 5.3

Personnel (kCHF) 14,630 14,322 98% -308

Materials (kCHF) 23,635 10,518 44% -13,117

Total (kCHF) 38,265 24,840 65% -13,425

The budget for materials has been re-profiled to future years, to be in line

with delivery dates.


24. HL-LHC construction

Goals

Select the Nb3Sn conductor lay-out for the magnet upgrade. Qualify completely the Nb3Sn quadrupole at an aperture of 120 mm and the 11 T dipole at

operative level and finalize the design of the final IT quadrupole at 150 mm (QXF). Fully qualify the CC system and reduce the choice to one or two

variants, further advancing in the downselection. Make a comprehensive proposal for the RF harmonic system in the LHC (800-1200 MHz). Make

preliminary design of the new collimation system in the DS zone and qualify the new material for the jaws of the new system. Experimental validation

of the first long (60 m) SC link with a vertical cryogenic test at full power.

Achievements

The Nb3Sn conductor lay-out has been fully selected for one type of superconductor, the RRP (Rod-Restack-Process). The second type, so-called

PIT (Powder-In-Tube), needs to be further improved by 10%-12% in performance. The current version of conductor PIT is acceptable for the pre-

industrialization phase, it has however not sufficient margin for the series production. The additional time necessary for PIT final selection (6-12

months) has no influence on the global schedule since the final qualification can be carried out by using the RRP conductor, which is possible

thanks to the strategy of double sourcing that was pursued. This procedure has been endorsed by an International review committee.

The 120 mm quadrupole has been fully qualified with the successful test of the second magnet model (HQ-02). It has been confirmed with great

success during the testing of the third model (HQ-03) that has recently passed the threshold of 80% current limit (operation level) at the first

powering at 1.9 K with no quench. It is an important milestone reached for the project.

The third 11 T model dipole of FNAL has reached 11.7 T with less than twenty training quenches. The first CERN 11 T model magnet (2 m long)

has reached 11 T at first campaign after about ten training quenches, which is a very encouraging result considering that it is the first Nb3Sn

accelerator magnet manufactured at CERN since 25 years. This is the highest field reached by a CERN produced magnet with accelerator quality.

The results of the extensive testing have however shown that the operating point does not yet have sufficient margin, and the focus of the 2015

program is to improve on this aspect, while starting long prototype production. An International review committee has given suggestions to

mitigate the risk and improve the performance. This objective is hence shifted by 6 months.

The design of the 150 mm Quadrupole (QXF) has been finalized and endorsed by an International review committee.

The crab cavities down-selection has been carried out, with the help of an International review committee. Two options for the design were

retained and a prioritization between the two has been done in view of the SPS test.

The objective that concerned the collimation for the dispersion suppressor zone and new materials was fully reached and approved in the 4th

LARP-HL-LHC Annual Meeting held in October 2014.

SC Links: After the successful tests on models of 2 and 6 m long, the decision was taken to first test a 20 m long link in horizontal position before

testing 60 m. This test has been fully successful and is today the world record of current (> 20 kA) in a superconducting cable at high temperature

(24 K). A decision was taken to have no superconducting link in P7 and carry on developing Radiation hard power converters and electronics for

this location. This proposal was made by the HL-LHC project and endorsed by the LHC Machine Committee. The test on a 60 m long link has

been delayed by 1 year to support the design of links needed at Point 1 and Point 5.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 85.3 80.4 94% -4.9

Personnel (kCHF) 15,340 14,370 94% -970

Materials (kCHF) 21,170 14,067 66% -7,103

Total (kCHF) 36,510 28,437 78% -8,073

As already indicated in the Final 2015 Budget, re-profiling to future years

was done for 2014 and 2015 to be more in line with the expected delivery

schedule of the material.


25. LHC detectors upgrade (Phase 1) and consolidation / HL-LHC detectors, including R&D (Phase 2)

Goals

Continue R&D and in some cases start procurements and construction of components which will be installed during the Long Shutdown 2 planned

around 2018. Plans of the collaborations have been endorsed by the LHCC and detailed TDRs have been already or will be soon presented.

The definition of CERN’s contribution is almost complete. It will include mainly contributions to: DAQ improvement and new ITS for ALICE;

contribution to new small muon wheels with Micromegas technology, improvement of Trigger and DAQ systems for ATLAS; a new pixel detector, a

luminosity telescope, 4th RPC station, new forward muon chambers and DAQ improvement for CMS; New electronics for a 40 MHZ readout for

LHCb; improvement of Roman Pots for TOTEM; general infrastructure items for all.

Continue R&D for the large upgrades expected during the Long Shutdown 3 planned around 2022, in particular in the fields of electronics, pixels and

silicon sensors, large micro-pattern gas detectors, detector cooling and parallelization of software.

Achievements

MoUs for the ATLAS Phase I Upgrade projects have been defined, with about 2/3 of the signatures already in hand. The New Small Wheel (NSW),

Fast TracKer (FTK), TDAQ, and some smaller projects, are already well under way. Significant R&D is carried out for the ATLAS Phase II Upgrades,

in particular the new tracker (ITK), the LAr HEC and FCAL, and the Trigger and Data Acquisition System (TDAQ). The planning for the ATLAS

Phase II Upgrades has been adapted to the latest LHC schedule, resulting in a somewhat smoother expenses profile in comparison with the cost table of

the ATLAS Phase II LoI.

The CMS Phase I upgrade is progressing well with the major CERN contribution to CMS being completed in 2014 (for pixels, DAQ, RPC and lumi

detectors). The Pixel detector will be installed during YETS 2016/2017, while the rest will be operational at restart. R&D for CMS Phase II has

concentrated mostly on Tracker, GEM and calorimetry. The GEM project is very advanced and a TDR is scheduled to go the LHCC in 2015.

The ALICE Upgrade projects for Long Shutdown 2 are in very good state: The ITS TDR and the Trigger and Readout TDR have successfully gone

through all levels of approval and MoUs are being prepared, the TDR for the TPC is being discussed by the LHCC, who expressed a very positive

evaluation of its prospects. The TDR of the Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) will be submitted shortly, and the one for O2 in mid 2015. The R&D

progresses rapidly and the construction is in an advanced planning phase.

The LHCb Upgrade, scheduled for installation in LS2 has made significant progress. The LHCb upgrade was fully approved as part of the long-term

exploitation of the LHC. All the sub-system TDRs have been completed and approved by the Research Board and work is now underway on the last

stages of R&D and design prior to production. Major schedules and milestones have been defined. Addenda 1 and 2 to the MoU for Construction have

been submitted to the RRB and Funding Agencies.

For TOTEM, two TDRs were presented to the LHCC in September 2014, for high β* “Timing Measurements in the Vertical Roman Pots of the

TOTEM Experiment”, and low β* “CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer”. Low impedance & low material budget RPs built and ready for

insertion in LHC beam at 210m from IP5. Beam tests performed with diamond detectors and new hybrid. Precision clock distribution; RP carrier &

cylindrical RP built with insert designed for Cherenkov L-bar; R&D on new cooling system heat exchanger for new horizontal RP timing detector.

DAQ system consolidated with new front-ends and upgraded with ten-fold increase in trigger rate and larger online disk buffer.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 66.1 58.7 89% -7.5

Personnel (kCHF) 14,040 13,036 93% -1,004

Materials (kCHF) 14,055 9,895 70% -4,160

Total (kCHF) 28,095 22,932 82% -5,163

Open commitments amounted to 600 kCHF at the end of the year, and a re-

profiling was done end 2014 of 2.5 MCHF from 2014 to 2016. The

underspending of 900 kCHF on personnel for Phase 2 upgrades was due

to personnel re-allocation to LS1 activities.


Energy frontier

26. Linear collider studies (CLIC, ILC)

Goals

Rebaseline the project in order to optimize each stage and create a new set of parameters for the Project Plan studies, taking into account LHC results

and improved cost and power models established during the CDR phase. Establish with the collaboration a research programme for power/energy

reduction/efficiency. Improve the X-band structure test-capacity, both at CERN and in collaborating institutes. Perform key measurements in CTF3,

among other of complete modules, as well as other test-facilities related to damping ring performance, final focus/stability and beam-based alignment.

Initiate an RF power unit development programme for the CLIC drive beam. Full implementation of the work programme as defined for the

Implementation Plan in 2016/17.

Achievements

After the conceptual design report published in 2012 and the European Strategy update in 2013, the CLIC studies are now focused on developing a

project implementation plan for CLIC as a future energy frontier option at CERN after LHC. The time-period considered is up until the next European

Strategy update in 2018-19.

The re-baselining of the CLIC parameters for cost and power performance gains, also targeting stages as needed for initial Higgs and top

measurements, was pursued throughout 2014 and is now being completed. On the accelerator side the parameter optimization has been completed for

the higher energy stages. The stage one parameters await conclusions of on-going physics studies for Higgs and top measurements. The tools used to

optimize the parameters of the machine in terms of cost and power remain available for the case when further optimization will be needed once LHC

results at 13-14 TeV will be available. Power reduction studies beyond the on-going parameter optimization efforts are focusing on key components

where changes might have a large impact, for example the drive and main beam magnets and RF power systems.

By the end of 2014 three klystron-based X-band test facilities at CERN have become operational and have successfully been used for accelerating

structure conditioning and operation. One more facility is being prepared for operation in 2015. This represents a factor three increase in capacity for

structure evaluation. The interest in the use of the CLIC technology is rapidly increasing, for example for use in Free Electron Laser (FEL) linacs.

Several collaboration partners are considering extension of existing linacs or new compact FEL linacs making use of the high gradients achievable with

X-band technology. For CLIC this could substantially increase the overall industrial basis for X-band and high-gradient technology.

The CTF3 measurements have established the two-beam acceleration principle as well as the most central drive-beam performance and deceleration

parameters. During 2013 a first complete mechanical main linac module was constructed and measured in the laboratory and in 2014 a complete two

meter CLIC module, currently 50% equipped, has been installed in CTF3 and performance tests are now starting. The demonstrations of beam-based

alignment and emittance preserving methods have been further developed in the FACET facility at SLAC including important verifications of the CLIC

wake-field models, and further progress has been made concerning final focus parameters in ATF2 at KEK. The collaborative effort with light source

laboratories related to low emittance rings have developed further in 2014, involving ALBA, ANKA, CesrTA, ALS and ATF2 to mention some of the

most central laboratories.

The development programme for high-efficiency RF sources, modulators and klystrons, including studies and specification towards procurement of

prototypes has been fully defined in 2014. A broad group of collaborators are now involved and industrial studies are well underway. Other technical

developments related to beam-instrumentation, magnet prototypes, vacuum-studies, control systems, alignment and stability are progressing well with

many collaborating institutes involved. These technical developments address key technical performance challenges, are needed for system-test

measurements, or are linked to power/cost reduction studies.

The CLIC development programme until 2019 has been adjusted according to the CERN MTP as approved by the CERN Council in June 2014. It is

optimized towards the goal of providing a project implementation plan by that time. Numerous agreements at Memorandum of Understanding level, or

as R&D contracts, have been signed with laboratories and universities in Europe and beyond in 2014. The resources necessary for the future

development programme are largely covered by these and existing agreements, combining resources at CERN with the resources available among the

CLIC collaborating institutes. Two new collaboration partners have joined in 2014 (SINAP Shanghai and IPM Tehran) bringing the total number of

collaborating institutes to 50 in 25 countries.

The common work with ILC has continued in areas such as civil engineering studies, SC input couplers and tuners, beam delivery systems/ATF,

sources and damping rings. The LCC organization is pursuing a possible Higgs factory implementation based on the ILC technology in Japan, and in

parallel CLIC as a future energy frontier option at CERN after LHC for exploration of a wide range of energies extending into the multi-TeV region.


27. Linear collider detector R&D

Goals

Continued physics and detector studies with electron-positron collisions at the energy frontier. CLIC detector optimization studies in line with the

physics goals and in close relation to the accelerator project, with the aim of converging towards a new CLIC-specific detector design by the end of

2014. Development of low-mass pixel detector modules with fast timing and small pixels and with power-pulsed read-out electronics. Deeper

understanding of tungsten-based calorimeter responses with analog and digital readout, and comparison with simulation models. Overall progress in

other key R&D items, e.g. CLIC-specific readout with power-pulsing and super-conductors for high-field detector solenoid coils.

Achievements

The CERN Linear Collider Detector (LCD) activities have taken place in the framework of the CLIC detector and physics (CLICdp), CALICE and

FCAL collaborations, in close co-operation with ILC studies. A comprehensive set of Higgs benchmark studies was completed, providing estimates of

accuracies on Higgs couplings at different CLIC energy stages. Beam tests were carried out with various CLIC pixel detector assemblies and with a

multi-layer forward calorimeter prototype. The pixel tests assessed the performance of thin sensors with new Timepix3 readout and AC-coupled

assemblies of HV-CMOS active sensors and CLICpix readout. Engineering studies were performed on vertex detector supporting structures and air

cooling. The data analysis of the scintillator hadron calorimeter with tungsten absorber plates was completed, providing detailed information on

hadronic shower profiles. Good progress was made with a new optimised CLIC-specific detector design. These studies will continue in the first half of

2015. At the same time, the simulation and reconstruction software is streamlined with a new geometry description package and a new all-silicon track

reconstruction.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 64.8 63.1 97% -1.7

Personnel (kCHF) 11,740 10,650 91% -1,090

Materials (kCHF) 15,870 17,243 109% 1,373

Total (kCHF) 27,610 27,893 101% 283

The marterials expenses were covered by a carry-forward of budget from

2013 for late deliveries, that was allocated in the beginning of 2014.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 20.2 20.5 102% 0.3

Personnel (kCHF) 3,620 3,682 102% 62

Materials (kCHF) 625 530 85% -95

Total (kCHF) 4,245 4,212 99% -33


28. Future Circular Collider study

Goals Form an international collaboration and launch the conceptual design study of future circular colliders (FCC).

Achievements

An FCC coordination group, consisting of 21 renowned experts has been established at CERN, the host organization of this international, collaborative

design study. Adequate organization and governance structures for an integrating collaborative framework were defined, documented and put in place

(see also the web site http://cern.ch/fcc). The FCC kick-off meeting at the University of Geneva in February 2014 attracted 341 participants from 127

international research laboratories, universities and industry in 23 countries. The FCC collaboration is growing, today consisting of 43 organizations

from 19 countries, with further agreements being in preparation. A preparatory International Collaboration Board (ICB) meeting was organised in

September 2014 at CERN and Prof. Leonid Rivkin from PSI and EPFL was unanimously elected as interim chairperson of the ICB.

In parallel a design study proposal called "EuroCirCol" was prepared and submitted in September 2014 to the EC within the HORIZON2020 program.

The evaluation result of the EC for this proposal, federating 16 leading research organizations from the ERA and beyond is expected for end January

2015. If funded by the EC, this study will cover a sub-set of the FCC study, promoting the vision of a large-scale post-LHC research infrastructure for

the global high-energy physics community under European leadership. The work program focuses on the core design of the hadron collider option and

its key enabling technologies.

The physics and detector activities for the pp, e+e- and ep colliders focused on the first phase of the study, exploring the physics landscape at these

facilities (including opportunities at the injectors), identifying the main physics and technical requirements and issues, developing first ideas about

detector design, and establishing collaboration with the worldwide community. A FCC physics coordination group was set up to coordinate the physics-

related activities and complementarities across the three projects. A working group structure, regular meetings and dedicated workshops have been

established. High priority has been given to put in place a common software framework and initiate simulation studies. Machine-Detector-Interface

working groups are now active.

Preliminary sets of hadron and lepton collider baseline parameters were documented after defining the primary design goals for the FCC study. For the

hadron collider, the option of using the existing CERN accelerator complex including the LHC as injector chain has been studied in some detail. As an

alternative, a new high-energy booster will be studied. Both injector variants will be assessed in the next study phase. For the lepton collider,

compatibility with the draft layout options has been confirmed.

Infrastructure studies gathered geological data of the region and surveyed the existing assets to permit the definition of a set of collider layout options.

A tunnel optimization tool was developed which will allow identifying optimum tunnel geometry and location in the Geneva region.

Enabling key technologies for both collider options have been identified and working relationships with relevant existing R&D activities have been

established in order to be able to exploit synergies in the following domains: superconducting cables, superconducting accelerator magnets, quality/cost

optimization of superconducting RF, efficient power conversion, efficient and reliable large-scale cryogenics infrastructures, high-power collimation

concepts, fast beam transfer elements, development of reliability and availability models for future accelerators based on the LHC infrastructure. An

R&D work plan for the subsequent study phase is under preparation with the goal to significantly push key enabling technologies beyond the current

state-of-the art as a collaborative effort together with industrial partners.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments


Personnel (kCHF) 0 3,298 3,298

Materials (kCHF) 1,500 345 23% -1,155

Total (kCHF) 1,500 3,643 243% 2,143

The activity started officially in 02/2014, the personnel was allocated to

FCC only in the course of the year. Part of the materials budget (0.5

MCHF) was converted into personnel budget for fellows for the period

2014-2016.

http://cern.ch/fcc


Diversity activities

29. ELENA

Goals Construction of ELENA components, which should be ready for installation starting in spring 2015 after moving hardware for kickers, installed at

present at the location for ELENA, into the new building.

Achievements

The new annex building 393 has been completed and infrastructure has been installed. The relocation of kicker generators in the new building has

started as planned immediately after the AD run 2014 and is going on at present.

The design of the machine and components has continued and construction has started with the signature of contracts for large equipment as bending

magnets and the magnetic system of the electron cooler. The technical design report of the project has been published in spring (“yellow report” CERN

2014-002).

Cost and schedule estimates for the project have been updated based on input collected from work package holders; this updated information has been

presented to a cost and schedule review in Autumn 2014.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 21.5 25.5 119% 4.0

Personnel (kCHF) 3,810 4,634 122% 824

Materials (kCHF) 6,545 3,030 46% -3,515

Total (kCHF) 10,355 7,664 74% -2,691

The construction phase of the machine has some delays. Based on the

progress of the project and the overall planning which was reviewed in

November 2014, some 1.7 MCHF were re-profiled from 2014 to 2015 and

2017, as shown in the Final 2015 Budget.


30. HIE-ISOLDE

Goals

Refurbishment of the old ALEPH Cryo-Plant: installation and hardware commissioning of compressors in building 190, of the cold box in building 198

and of the cryogenic transfer line in building 170.

HIE-ISOLDE SC Linac: Assembly and test of the first 2 high-beta cryomodules in SM18 and transport to building 170.

HIE-ISOLDE HEBT: Installation, alignment, cabling and hardware commissioning of power converters, resistive magnets, beam diagnostic boxes and

vacuum chambers.

Installation of the controls and interlocks infrastructure.

HIE-ISOLDE Design Study: completion of the design study for the Intensity Upgrade and submission of the TDR.

Achievements

Refurbishment of the old ALEPH Cryo-Plant (compressor and cold box): The cryo-plant (except the new cryogenic transfer line) has been installed and

the hardware commissioning will start in February 2015.

HIE-ISOLDE SC Linac: Because of delays in the design, manufacturing and procurement of equipment it was decided to start operation of HIE-

ISOLDE with the first cryomodule: this will allow physics in October-November 2015 with a beam at 4.3 MeV/u. Phase 1 will be completed with the

addition of the second cryomodule in 2016, to bring the energy up to 5.5 MeV/u.

HIE-ISOLDE HEBT: Because of delays in the procurement and delivery of equipment, it was decided to give priority to the installation of the first

beam line and the experiments which will run in 2015.

Installation of the controls and interlocks infrastructure: the installation of the racks and the cables has started. The control software for the power

converters, the beam instrumentation, the vacuum and cryogenic systems is being finalised.

HIE-ISOLDE Design Study: HIE-Isolde aims at an increase both in energy (from 3 to 10 MeV/u) and in intensity (a factor between 10 and 1000

depending on the ion species) of the post-accelerated ion beams. The scope of the project, as it is defined and funded today, addresses the study, the

design and the implementation of the energy upgrade (Phases 1, 2) and only the study of the intensity upgrade. The report of the HIE-ISOLDE Design

Study for the Intensity Upgrade is in preparation. The latter indicates that major upgrades of the target front-end’s, the beam dumps and their

surrounding shielding are required for the acceptance of the high intensity beam from LINAC4 whether or not we operate at 2 GeV.

The Technical Design Report, including the cost estimate and the schedule, is in preparation.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 40.8 46.8 115% 6.0

Personnel (kCHF) 6,290 6,713 107% 423

Materials (kCHF) 14,335 13,496 94% -839

Total (kCHF) 20,625 20,209 98% -416

Of the 2014 expenses for HIE-ISOLDE were covered by external funding

(1.9 MCHF).


31. CERN neutrino platform

Goals

Setup the Neutrino Platform ecosystem, including CERN support,

Start WA104 activities at CERN (MOU, move the detector to CERN, start overhauling plans),

Start WA105 activities in bldg. 182, build a 3m prototype,

Coordinate new proposals related to the Platform activities,

Prepare the technical documents and award the contract to start the construction of the EHN1 extension,

Include the Neutrino Platform in the plans of the Neutrino Community towards a short baseline,

Include the Neutrino Platform in the plans of the Neutrino Community towards a long baseline,

Start organizing a CERN team working on Neutrino Research.

Achievements

Neutrino Platform established and well visible inside and outside CERN, with adequate level of resources approved by the Council as part of the

agreed MTP plan. Mailing lists, EDMS structure, budgets organization, meeting organization set up.

WA104: MOU signed between INFN and CERN, ICARUS detector moved to CERN, Clean room and logistics necessary procured and

operational. Overhauling activities started, several CERN contracts in the pipeline.

WA105: reorganization of the building 182/2 done, Clean room constructed and operational, Warm cryostat procured and installed, Contract

negotiations for the membrane cryostat concluded. First orders out.

3 others proposals discussed with SPSC (MIND, NESSiE and LBNE). An additional proposal (ArgonCube) has been prepared. Will be submitted

in January. In all proposals the CERN support has been worked out.

Definition and execution drawings for the EHN1 construction prepared through a dedicated CERN contract with the firm ARCADIS. MS and IT

done for the civil engineering construction. Final firm selected, FC approval received and selected firm notified. Contract prepared. Execution

work starts in January 2015.

Direct participation in the writing and presentation of the LOI for a short baseline neutrino program (SBN) done in summer 2014. Proposal

finalized end of December 2014. Presented to the FNAL program committee in January 2015. Active participation in various plans and activities

necessary to define and setup a SBN experimental setup.

Active participation in the definition of the Road map for a neutrino long baseline facility. CERN beam solutions frozen, an agreement reached to

co-develop a facility in the US (LBNF) with an experimental program (ELBNF). Proactive participation in all phases of this process. LOI prepared

in 2014 and presented in January 2015. CERN Neutrino Platform included in the plans and landscape of this new born facility.

Active negotiation with various CERN departments in order to create synergy in various activities of the Platform (DG, PH, TE, EN).

Agreement reached with TE to re-create a LAr cryogenics group. A few people associated to the Platform and moved to PH/DT. Effective support from

EN on various technical services to prepare and execute the various activities (incl. clean rooms, logistics, transports, EHN1 infrastructure).

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments



Materials (kCHF) 6,215 1,739 28% -4,476

Total (kCHF) 6,215 1,875 30% -4,340

As announced already in the Final 2015 Budget, the budget for materials

has been re-profiled to future years, to be in line with delivery dates.


32. Proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration

Goals Design and component preparation of equipment for AWAKE, civil engineering and infrastructure modifications in the CNGS area.

Achievements

The modification of the CNGS facility to host AWAKE is taking place: the civil engineering for electron and laser tunnel was completed. The laser

system was delivered to MPP Munich. The beam-line (e, p, laser) design was completed. The design and the preparation of components of the AWAKE

equipment, as well as the modifications of the service and infrastructure systems, are ongoing.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 6.2 3.4 54% -2.9

Personnel (kCHF) 1,010 651 64% -359

Materials (kCHF) 910 1,301 143% 391

Total (kCHF) 1,920 1,951 102% 31

Additional costs for civil engineering were covered from operational

savings.


33. Superconducting RF studies

Goals As part of the collaboration with ESS, HP-SPL will assemble a string of 4 cavities into a prototype cryo-module and prepare for high RF power tests in

2015. For ERL R&D, begin a pre-study of prototype components.

Achievements

HP-SPL cryo-module

Four high-power couplers with ceramic disks are ready for installation. An SPL-type cavity constructed by CEA/Saclay (EuCARD) achieved 20 MV/m

in Saclay after baking at CERN. The start of cavity tests was delayed since traces of silicon grease were found on the cavities. After cleaning, cavity

SPL1 was electro-polished and high-pressure rinsed and underwent two cold tests in a vertical cryostat. At first only 3 MV/m (Q0=3E9) were achieved,

then above 10 MV/m (initial Q0=2E10) could be reached. The 2nd test was stopped because of faulty measurement equipment. All 4 Nb cavities were

fully qualified (metrology, vacuum, field flatness). A single cell SPL type cavity was tested up to 20 MV/m.

Cavity pieces were made in industry using a new method called electro-hydro-forming; first results are encouraging. If successful it could severely

reduce cavity manufacturing costs.

The cavity tuning machine has been commissioned and tested.

The delivery of the 704 MHz klystron for the SM18 test stand was delayed because an RF window broke during qualification tests at the supplier. It

was received in September 2014 and qualified at high power. All waveguide components for operation with two cavities in parallel were procured. The

high-duty-cycle klystron modulator, which is financed by ESS, was delivered to CERN, successfully tested and installed in the SM18 RF test stand. It

is presently used for high duty-cycle tests of LINAC4 cavities. The cryogenic mock-up of the cavity-coupler was successfully tested and confirmed the

principle of supporting the cavities with the coupler.

The procurement of the cryo-module vacuum vessel via the French exceptional contribution was delayed and the construction started in July 2014. The

delivery is expected in May 2015. The delivery of helium tanks through the French exceptional contribution was accepted in spite of non-conformities

on dimensions and the magnetisation of the welds. The procurement of the magnetic shielding was launched; delivery is expected by October 2015.

High RF power tests of the complete cryo-module are foreseen for the 2nd half of 2015.

SCRF Infrastructure

The SM18 infrastructure upgrade was finalized, commissioned and operated in 2014. This includes a new ISO4 cleanroom with a new, state-of-the-art

ultra-pure water station and a high-pressure rinsing cabinet. These upgrades were co-financed by the FP7 project CRISP.

ERL Design Study

The pre-design study of an ERL test facility was started with a conceptual design of 5-cell cavities for 800 MHz and Continuous Wave (CW) operation

with beam currents of up to 50 mA.

In view of Superconducting RF needs for future accelerators (including HL-LHC, HIE-ISOLDE, SPL, ERL and FCC), a new SRF co-ordination body

was created in 2014 and started work towards a common strategy. It concentrates the R&D effort on optimizing the overall power consumption

(minimization of cryogenic losses) for very large systems and CW operation with large beam currents.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 3.7 6.6 180% 2.9

Personnel (kCHF) 655 993 152% 338

Materials (kCHF) 2,285 2,321 102% 36

Total (kCHF) 2,940 3,314 113% 374

Direct charging from personnel in the workshop and the design office for

work on the cavities; M to P for fellow on SPL.


34. Superconducting magnet R&D (SCM)

Goals The main goals of the 2014 activity on Superconducting Magnets R&D was to prepare the technology R&D and installation upgrades complementary

to the HL-LHC program, and the FCC.

Achievements

The SCM program of 2014 has focussed on the following main items:

Definition and initial superconductor R&D – Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) and High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) - to improve

performance beyond the HL-LHC specification;

Exploration of innovative magnet design options;

Plan and preparation of test laboratories and test facilities of general interest for high-field magnet R&D and test.

LTS conductor R&D initiatives were initiated with Luvata Pori and Luvata Waterbury, aiming at a Nb3Sn wire with high critical current density (non-

copper critical current density JC at 12 T, 4.2 K of 2450 A/mm2), high Residual Resistivity Ratio (150) and small magnetisation (in the range of 30 m

sub-element), i.e. better than the present HL-LHC specifications. Material was produced and characterization results are expected in 2015. In addition,

contacts were initiated with TVEL, the Russian producer of ITER superconductor, who also initiated internal R&D to the same specifications as above.

First material and tests from this work are also expected in 2015. This development is of importance not only to advance material performance through

innovative strand architectures, but also to provide additional options for strand manufacturers. Further R&D actions in 2015 will take into account

targets for FCC that were defined and presented in 2014 (JC at16 T, 4.2 K of 1500 A/mm2).

HTS conductor work for high field magnets was mainly, but not exclusively, in support to the EuCARD2 WP10. The main achievement was the

production by Bruker (EuCARD2 beneficiary) of a 4 mm and 12 mm wide YBCO (Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide) tape reaching the highest industrial

layer JC, the highest low-temperature current carrying capacity of a single tape, and an engineering current density well in excess of the EuCARD2

specifications, of 600 A/mm2 at 20 T and 4.2 K. Orders of YBCO tape material to EuCARD2 specs were placed at four alternative worldwide

manufacturers (SuperPower, Fujikura, SuperOX, Sunam) to benchmark performance and diversify sources. At the same time, BSCCO (Bismuth

strontium calcium copper oxide) precursor powder was procured and characterised at NSC, a work that allowed to identify the origin of a major

manufacturing process issue (hard particles) affecting JC in finished wires. This work was in collaboration with the US-DOE financed BSCCo program,

thus maintaining a strong connection to the second candidate material for very high field magnets (in the 20 T range).

On alternative accelerator magnet designs the activity was mainly driven by the EuCARD2 “FEATHER” design, an aligned-block and flared-ends

dipole that is well suited for YBCO tapes. Winding technique and parts are procured, and magnet prototyping work will start in 2015. To be remarked

that CERN is also involved in the design and analysis of additional dipole geometries that are under the responsibility of EuCARD2 partners, such as

single-tape racetracks (pursued by CEA-Saclay), a cos-theta (pursued by CEA-Saclay), and an alternative block with twisted ends (pursued by CNRS

Grenoble). Additional work is on-going on the canted-cosinus-theta configuration. Following design ideas from the US laboratories, with a small scale

short demonstration made out of 3D printed blue-stone resin former, and a Nb-Ti cable. A test is planned in 2015, and further design work will

continue.

On the side of test facilities, a major milestone for the test of superconductors for high field magnets was the commissioning of the superconducting

transformer in the present FReSCa test facility, and the calibration of a new superconducting DCCT that allows precision current measurement up to 80

kA. This equipment is an essential piece of the new FReSCa2 cable test facility, still at the stage of concept definition. Contacts were taken with

laboratory magnet manufacturers to prepare the upgrade of the critical current test facilities towards 18 T. Finally, a large part of the cryostat

components of the HFM test cryostat in SM-18 was procured, with cryogenic feed-box, quench buffer and lines planned for 2015.

The activities described above are linked to the EuCARD2 task 10 activities and will be shown as of 2015 under the heading Superconducting Magnet R&D. The

Budget (736 kCHF for materials) and Out-Turn (267 kCHF for personnel, 110 kCHF for materials) for 2014 are shown under 24: HL-LHC construction.


35. R&D for medical applications

Goals

Preparation of a bid for EU funding of a Bio-LEIR facility.

Establishing an international advisory of oncologists, radio-biologists, clinicians, and accelerator physicists to plan the next generation hadron

therapy facility.

Continuation of MEDICIS activity.

Achievements

Several proposals for funding of OPENMED (Bio-LEIR) were made to the EU as well as other funding agencies such as Wellcome trust. So far

none have been successful.

The International Strategy committee was created in June 2014. All proposed members (who are the most reputed medical people in their fields)

accepted their nominations without hesitation, and the first meeting took place in November 2014. The mandate of the committee was accepted

during this first meeting and a strategy is being developed.

An internal CERN studies group has also been established. This group meets on a bi-weekly basis and discusses the details of the seven medical

initiatives in the mandate given by the DG. A lot of work and interest has gone into evaluating the use of CERN large scale computing and data

expertise for use in medicine. A joint proposal is being prepared for submission to the EC in January 2015. In addition in early 2014, a study was

initiated to construct a high frequency RFQ with multiple uses in the medical applications field. During 2014 it was confirmed that the required

parameters for medical applications could be attained with the new concept, and the RFQ is now under construction.

In 2014, MEDICIS has progressed significantly and achieved a number of critical milestones. First of all, the MEDICIS building was completed

and the Isolde facility resumed operation in July 2014. A conveyor system to transport the irradiated material from the target area to the building

was designed and the first section of the mechanical conveyor from the HRS target was assembled. The target and the conveyor were

commissioned with a proton beam in November 2014. Several other activities took place: these include the design and procurement of the shielded

doors, the design of the controlled access, as well as the selection of a company which will install the ventilation of the radioactive area. The latter

was installed during the 2014-2015 winter shutdown.

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 6.0 4.4 73% -1.6

Personnel (kCHF) 1,000 1,013 101% 13

Materials (kCHF) 2,650 1,991 75% -659

Total (kCHF) 3,650 3,004 82% -646

The materials budget was fully committed at the end of the year,

0.5 MCHF was re-profiled from 2014 to 2015 as already announced in the

Final 2015 Budget for late deliveries for the MEDICIS project.


36. Other R&D

a. EU supported R&D

Goals Participation in first Horizon 2020 funding calls (details not yet available).

Achievements

During 2014 CERN has participated as a partner in the submission of 14 H2020 proposals. Feedback from some of these proposal submission is still

pending.

Coordinator for the following FP7 projects:

Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud: use of commercial cloud services by public research organisations. This initiative has established a bridge

between publicly funded e-infrastructures (GEANT and EGI) and commercial cloud service suppliers in Europe. The project successfully

completed in May 2014 and has led to a follow-on H2020 project called PICSE (started Oct’2014) to develop procurement best practises for

commercial cloud services in the public research sector.

ICE-DIP: Intel – CERN Industrial Doctorate Programme. This project is funded under the Marie Curie programme and provides an example of

how public-private partnerships can contribute to training the next generation of highly qualified ICT specialists to take on leading roles in

European research and industry.

Partner in the following FP7 projects:

CRISP (completed Sept’2014).

EUDAT (completed Sept’2014).

iMarine (completed Jun’2014).

OpenAIRE+ (completed Dec’2014) – CERN is a partner in the follow-on H2020 project called openAIRE2020 (started Jan’2015) which extends

CERN’s Zenodo data storage service to provide advanced data storage services to many research communities and EU projects.

Active contribution to the EC-cofunded Research Data Alliance (RDA) and has organised the engagement of the EIROforum IT Working Group as

RDA Member.

As part of the EIROforum IT Working group, CERN has provided feedback and input on the Horizon 2020 work programme 2016-2017 for e-

Infrastructures during a meeting held in Brussels in November 2014.

CERN has produced an update of the e-Infrastructures for the 21st century examining the progress made to date:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13148.

Under a cooperation agreement with EPFL to provide assistance in the context of the Human Brain project FET flagship initiative, CERN has deployed

a volunteer computing platform for use by the neuroscience community.

CERN-IT personnel have participated at the following events organised by the EC:

Open Access in H2020: services and support for projects (Brussels, February 2014).

JRC workshop on Best Practices for Data Management & Sharing, held at the JRC site in Ispra (Italy, April 2014).

Consultation workshop on FET Flagships policy working paper (Brussels, April 2014).

Cloud Computing uptake in the Public Sector (Brussels, May 2014).

European Research e-Infrastructures and Innovation Clusters Workshop (Brussels, October 2014).

CERN IT personnel have taken the following roles:

Experts of the external advisory board for the FP7 project BioMedBridges (ESFRI cluster project co-funded by DG-RTD).

Project reviewer for a FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013 project (DC4Cities.

Participates as part of the "Reykjavik" group determining the future of the European Research Networking governance.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13148


b. Detectors R&D

Goals Seed funding and support for generic R&D activities on gas, solid state, silicon, fiber and crystal detectors. Operation of R&D facilities.

General development of detector components.

Achievements

Continued contribution to R&D projects RD18 (crystals), RD50 (silicon sensors), RD51 (Micro Pattern Gas Detectors), RD52 (dual readout

calorimetry), and RD53 (pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation). In addition, generic R&D also continues on radiation-hard

technologies such as for optical links and DC-DC power converters, on detector power management, and development of new cooling technologies.

These R&D activities are essential input to the upgrade plans of LHC experiments during the future shutdowns.

Total for fact sheet 36: Other R&D

Comparison

Final 2014 Budget

and 2014 Out-Turn

(2014 prices)

2014 Budget

(a)

2014 Out-Turn

(b)

Budget usage

(b)/(a) in %

Variation

(b)-(a)Comments

Personnel (FTE) 73.1 48.6 66% -24.5

Personnel (kCHF) 10,590 7,127 67% -3,463

Materials (kCHF) 3,385 4,875 144% 1,490

Total (kCHF) 13,975 12,002 86% -1,973

In the Final 2014 Budget the heading “Other R&D” contained 22 FTE

fellows linked to the EU COFUND 3 and COFUND 4 programmes. During

2014, as these fellows started at CERN, the budget moved to the activities

that the fellows were assigned to.


IV. Additional Information


1. Human Resources

Status

The total CERN staff member strength in 2014 was 2,477.1 FTEs, of which

2,417.2 FTEs were charged to CERN accounts and 59.9 FTEs to team

accounts. 25.4 FTEs were using their saved leave, resulting in a staff strength

of 2,391.8 active FTEs charged to CERN accounts (2372.7 active FTEs on

CERN’s core budget).

The fellow strength corresponded to 598.3 FTEs, including 564.2 FTEs

charged to CERN accounts and 34.1 FTEs to team accounts. Following the

success of new proposals submitted in 2014 to the European Commission

under the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Actions, CERN secured additional

funding for one Innovative Training Network (3 Fellows for CERN / 108

FTEs) and three Research and Innovation Staff Exchange projects (two

coordinated by CERN), all of which will start in 2015. Some 94 fellows were

assigned to the Graduate Engineering Training Programme branch of the

Fellowship Programme. A total of 109.8 FTEs of fellows were funded by the

EC. There were also 20.9 FTEs of apprentices, paid on CERN accounts. Using these new categories of associated members of the personnel, the

number of those at CERN for the purpose of international collaboration

amounted to 11,383, of those for exchange of scientists were 625 and of those

for training was 495.

Recruitment

In 2014, 146 limited-duration contract selection boards were held and just over

20,000 applications received (compared with 106 boards and just over 18,000

applications in 2013). This small increase is mainly attributable to the

demographics and turnover as the posts are predominantly replacements of

departing LDs and retirements.

Technician Training Experience (TTE Programme)

In line with CERN’s mission of education, contributing to enhance the talent

pool in its Member States, and taking into account the Organization’s own

challenges in recruiting high-calibre international technicians, a pilot started in

2012 for a programme to enable recently qualified technicians to apply to

CERN for a first career development experience. This programme has now

grown with 48 participants covering nine Member States.

Five-yearly general review of financial and social conditions

The main highlight of 2014 was the launching of the 2015 five-yearly review

of the financial and social conditions of members of the personnel which is due

to be completed by December 2015. The purpose of the review is three-fold: it

is to ensure, as regards staff members, that the financial and social conditions

offered by the Organization allow it to recruit and retain the staff members

required for the execution of its mission from all Member States, as regards

fellows, that the financial and social conditions offered remain attractive

compared to those in comparable research institutions and, finally, as regards

associated members of the personnel (MPAs), that the financial and social

conditions offered allow CERN to host MPAs in its research facilities, taking

into account the highest cost-of-living level in the local region of the

Organization. Apart from the mandatory elements of the review i.e. basic

salaries for staff members, stipends for fellows and subsistence indemnities for

associated members of the personnel, the proposal made by the Management to

also review the CERN career structure as well as diversity-related social and

financial conditions, was unanimously approved by Council in June 2014.

Following this approval, the data collection procedure on the various social

and financial conditions could commence with a view to be completed by early

2015.

Learning and Development

Following the roll-out of the Learning and Development Policy, the L&D

Group reorganised the training offer into five training curricula (Leadership,

Personal Development and Communication, Technical Management,

Technical and Language) and continues to embed the CERN Competency

Model in the various training programmes. A new process to identify learning

needs was launched in the Accelerator Sector and is now deployed throughout

the Organization in an effort to improve planning and prioritise training needs

according to departments’ annual Programme of Work. In addition, corporate

training components (safety, languages, safety, core communication,

leadership, diversity) have been identified and will be implemented in close

collaboration with Departmental Training Officers. A new supplier for

language training was selected following a major call for tender, in order to

respond to the Organization’s evolving needs for new learning methods.

In 2014, 129 Technical courses took place (257 sessions: 1,958 participants);

15 Leadership courses (28 sessions: 237 participants); 24 Personal

Development & Communication courses (44 sessions: 785 participants); 30

Language courses (70 sessions: 709 participants); 21 Technical Management

courses (33 sessions: 475 participants). A grand total of 4,164 participations

were registered for all L&D courses.

On average, 2.8 working days per head were invested in L&D in 2014. The

total number of days invested in training amounts to 11,493. These figures do

not include training days spent in safety training, academic lectures or training

courses not organised by CERN.

Diversity

In 2014, the Diversity Office continued the implementation of actions towards

the seven strategic diversity objectives agreed for the 2012 to 2014 period,

which focus on the areas of recruitment, career development and work

environment. New actions were put in place in 2014 with a particular focus on


engaging CERN contributors in diversity activities, mainstreaming diversity

principles within the Organization and seeking to promote a better

understanding of diversity in the CERN context. Regarding the various

diversity initiatives that were held throughout the year, an increasing

willingness was observed among the CERN personnel to support them and

take part.

2. Safety, Health and Environment

Health and safety services have been further improved or newly established to

allow the Organization to systematically implement preventive measures,

including the following highlights:

A co-operation agreement with HUG for emergency response services has

been approved by the Finance Committee of CERN on the 10th of

December 2014. This agreement, strongly supported by the Swiss

Confederation and the Canton de Genève, will allow on one hand the

implementation of a SMUR (Emergency Medical vehicle) on the CERN

site available for any person on the CERN site and all the Geneva

population (Right bank/Rive droite), and on the other hand, a better

management of the medical emergencies on the CERN sites thanks to a

triangulation 74444-144. In addition, a continuous theoretical and practical

training in the emergency management will be given by the HUG to the

personnel of the Fire Brigade and the Medical service.

The safety training centre at Prevessin has been substantially extended.

The LHC mock-up is complete; LASER, Electrical, RP facilities and

further classrooms were made operational. On the lines of improving road

safety, tests have been performed by introducing modifications to the

circulation of motorised vehicles close to Restaurant 2. Experience

gathered will give input to a final solution.

In 2014 the RAMSES radiation monitoring and data acquisition project

ran well under the new management structure using 5 sub-projects plus a

steering committee. ARCON replacement continued wherever possible.

Consolidation of several areas (e.g. equipping the new ventilation units of

PS) went on.

ALARA became part of CERN’s Safety culture and spread its wings into

occupational exposure other than radiation protection (e.g. non-ionising

radiation).

Technical safety inspections of CERN’s equipment, installations and

facilities focussed on the LHC tunnel and its injector chain fully accessible

in 2013/14 (e.g. safety valves, all lifting equipment, all electrical,

hydraulic and air conditioning installations). Periodic inspections of other

CERN equipment and installations on file were carried out in parallel.

Safety training, after the laborious LS1 peak, started a big effort into

modernising the e-learnig offer. At the same time classroom courses were

adapted to today’s needs and brought to the latest standard. Most

prominent the revised self-rescue mask training owing to results of the

latest Helium spill tests.

ActiWiz, the software tool for advice on material choice with a view to

minimising the environmental impact, dose to personnel and the

production of radioactive waste, made it into knowledge transfer with first

licences given out already.

The preliminary accident statistics for the year 2014 comprises a total of

240 work accidents and 26 commuting accidents, out of which employed

members of CERN personnel suffered 77 work and 7 commuting

accidents resulting in 762 days off work.

The preliminary collective radiation dose to personnel for the year 2014

was 719.9 person-mSv. Again the number of dosimeters distributed has

increased in 2014, reaching the record number of 9,300 dosimeters. All

radiation workers except one, who received 3.2 mSv, could be kept below

3 mSv, CERN's internal objective of max. 3 mSv per person per year.

The LS1 period allowed for renewals and extensions of the environmental

monitoring network. Twenty stray radiation stations could be added.

Monitoring of effluent water was amended to detect hydrocarbons. Five

ventilation stations received monitoring capability.

The radioactive waste treatment centre (RWTC) received the bulk of its

handling equipment. Due to LS1 material influx requiring rearrangement

of the entire storage the RWTC the waste conditioning and shipping

operations were limited to the preparation of some 100tons of waste for

departure in early 2015.

The calibration hall was finished in 2014. Sources are on order.

The number of accidents over the three last years is shown below. The

Management aims to continuously reduce the number of accidents in line with

the policy “safety first”.

year total accidents of which

commuting

2012 253 50

2013 286 53

2014 240 26


3. Collaboration Agreements

The year 2014 continued to see significant developments in the geographical

enlargement of the Organization. In chronological order:

On 6 January 2014, Israel acceded to Membership, thus becoming

CERN’s 21st Member State following its two-year status as an Associate

Member in the pre-stage to Membership.

The Agreement on Associate Membership of Turkey was signed on 12

May 2014 and is awaiting ratification by the Turkish Parliament.

Croatia submitted an application for Associate Membership on 13 May

2014, and at its Session in June 2014 the Council established the Fact

finding Task Force for Croatia.

On 19 December 2014, CERN and Pakistan signed the agreement

admitting Pakistan to CERN Associate Membership, subject to

ratification by the Government of Pakistan.

Serbia is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership and the Council

is currently expected to take a decision on Serbia’s admission to Membership

in 2017. Romania, which applied for Membership prior to the introduction of

the Geographical Enlargement policy, is a Candidate for Accession and is

expected to step up to Membership in 2015.

Furthermore, progress was made in treating the earlier formal applications for

Membership received from Cyprus and Slovenia, and for Associate

Membership from Brazil, Russia and Ukraine.

In 2014 five new International Co-operation Agreements (ICAs) have been

concluded with States (Albania, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Mongolia and

Tunisia) and several existing ICAs have been enlarged in scope through the

conclusion of new implementing Protocols. The complete list of such

agreements is given below.

CERN’s long tradition in collaborating with Intergovernmental Organizations

generally as well as International Scientific Organizations has been further

strengthened in 2014 with the conclusion of a new ICA with the European

Space Agency (ESA) and of several Implementing Agreements with

specialised Agencies of the United Nations. The several European Union-

supported projects are detailed in Section V.5.

In addition, CERN’s expertise continued to contribute strong support to

external research projects and infrastructures such as CNAO, ESS, FAIR,

ITER, and MedAustron.


Country /

Organization

Agreement

Reference

Title

Albania ICA-AL-

0128

Co-operation Agreement between the European

Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the

Government of the Republic of Albania concerning

Scientific and Technical Co-operation in High-

Energy Physics

Algeria P116 Protocol to the 2008 Co-operation Agreement

between the European Organization for Nuclear

Research and the Directorate-General of Scientific

Research and Technological Development, on behalf

of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific

Research of the People's Democratic Republic of

Algeria concerning scientific collaboration between

CERN and Algerian universities and scientific

institutions

Argentina P092/LHC/

A1

Agreement N P092/LHC/A1 between the European


National Scientific and Technical Research Council

of Argentina (CONICET) concerning collaboration

between CERN and the Laboratorio de

instrumentacion y control (LIC)

Bangladesh ICA-BD-

0129



Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

concerning Education, Scientific and Technical Co-

operation in High-Energy Physics

China P118 Protocol to the 1991 Co-operation Agreement


Research (CERN0 and the Chinese Academy of

Sciences (CAS) concerning scientific and technical

collaboration between CERN and the Shanghai

Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), Chinese

Academy of Sciences

China P118/A1 Addendum N. 1 to the Protocol concerning scientific

and technical collaboration between the European


Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINA),

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Costa Rica ICA-CR-

0124



Republic of Costa Rica concerning Scientific and

Technical Co-operation in High-Energy Physics

European

Union

ICA-ESA-

0125



European Space Agency (ESA)

Georgia P119 Protocol P119 to the 2008 Co-operation Agreement


Research (CERN) and the Government of Georgia

concerning collaboration through Research and

Development in Accelerator Physics and Technology

Georgia P119/01 Addendum N. 1 to Protocol P119 to the 2008 Co-

operation Agreement between the European


Government of Georgia concerning collaboration in

the design, manufacture and assembly of beam

instrumentation devices for ELENA and the LHC

injector upgrade and consolidation projects

Japan P090/CTF/5 Collaborative Research Contract

Lithuania P120 Protocol P120 to the Co-operation Agreement dated 9

November 2004 between the European Organization

for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Government of

the Republic of Lithuania concerning participation of

Institutions of the Republic of Lithuania in CERN's

scientific programme

Mongolia ICA-MN-

0127



Government of Mongolia concerning Scientific and

Technical Co-operation in High-Energy Physics

Pakistan P066/LHC/

A4

Addendum N. P066/LHC/A4 to the Protocol dated 7

July 2003, as extended on 6 September 2006 and 27

June 2011 to the 1994 Co-operation Agreement


Research (CERN) and the Government of the Islamic

Republic of Pakistan concerning scientific and

technical contribution of Pakistan in the LINAC4

Project at CERN

Pakistan P114 Protocol to the 1994 Co-operation Agreement


Research (CERN) and the Government of the Islamic

Republic of Pakistan concerning a contribution by

Pakistan to CERN in the framework of the

CESSAMag Project

Russia P115 Protocol to the 2010 Co-operation Agreement

concerning scientific and technical Co-operation


Research (CERN) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear

Research (JINR) concerning collaboration and

common developments in the area of controls and

related software activities for accelerators

Russia P109/A7 Addendum N. 109/A7 to the 2013 Protocol

concerning scientific collaboration between the

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

and the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute

(NRC-KI) to the 1993 Co-operation Agreement

between the Government of the Russian Federation

and CERN concerning the production of Flat

Ionization Chambers of the Beam Loss Monitor

system

JINR (in P101/CLIC/ Addendum N. P101/CLIC/BE-A4 concerning


Russia) BE-A4 scientific collaboration for Design and Construction

of Magnets for the CERN Accelerator Complex to

CERN-JINR Protocol P101 to the 2010 Co-operation

Agreement ICA-RU-0111 between the European


Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

Russia P109/A8 Addendum N. P109/A8 to the 2013 Protocol

concerning scientific collaboration between the

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

and the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute

(NRC-KI) to the 1993 Co-operation Agreement

between the Government of the Russian Federation

and CERN concerning the production of Ionization

Chambers of the Beam Loss Monitor system

Tunisia ICA-TN-

0126

Accord de cooperation entre l'Organisation

europeenne pour la Recherche nucleaire (CERN) et le

Gouvernement de la Republique Tunisienne

concernant la cooperation scientifique et technique en

physique des hautes energies

US P117 Co-operation Agreement concerning Scientific and

Technical Co-operation on Large Hadron Collider

activities - Accelerator Protocol II between the

European Organization for Nuclear Research and the

Department of Energy of the United States of

America


V. Financial Figures and Explanations


1. Overview of Revenues and Expenses by Activity

Figure 2: Total Revenues


Outstanding Member States’ contributions amounted to 87.9 MCHF as at

31/12/2014.

The higher revenues for EU projects are explained by a few new projects being

selected by the European Commission. For more details on EU projects, please

refer to the section V.5.

In the Final 2014 Budget, the “Additional contributions” consisted of

contributions to the HIE-ISOLDE (2.4 MCHF) and ELENA (0.2 MCHF)

projects. The revenues for these two projects were re-profiled, resulting in

1.9 MCHF of revenues for HIE-ISOLDE in 2014. The budget under this

heading contained as well revenues covering the collaboration with ITER

(0.5 MCHF); in the 2014 Out-Turn new revenues from ITER are shown under

“Sales and miscellaneous”.

The “Additional contributions” heading contains as well 2.3 MCHF for the

IdeaLab project and 1.6 MCHF for the Neutrino platform in the 2014 Out-

Turn. External revenues for these two projects were in the Final 2014 Budget

under the heading “Sales and miscellaneous”. Finally, the “Additional

contributions” contain 0.2 MCHF from FAIR for the magnet testing (the

remainder of the amount from FAIR is accounted for as deferred revenue

linked to the future expenses).

The increase of revenues for “Knowledge transfer” activities is explained by a

change in the accounting policy on how the expenses by external partners

incurred on CERN accounts should be reimbursed.

The “Sales and miscellaneous” heading is higher due to the SCOAP3 revenues

of 4.2 MCHF not presented in the Final 2014 Budget. It contains also

exceptionally the second half of the donation of 1 MCHF from “Loterie

romande” to the S’Cool LAB project.

“Financial revenues” heading includes gains and losses resulting from changes

in the fair value of the financial assets held by CERN during the year. These

are normally not foreseen in the Final Budget.

Conversely, the partial renovation of one of the CERN hostels resulted in

lower revenue for housing activities.

Final 2014 Budget 2014 Out-Turn

(in MCHF, rounded off) CERN/FC/5781 CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices ) (2014 prices ) MCHF %

(a) (b) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

REVENUES 1,205.5 1,225.5 20.0 1.7%

Member States' contributions 1,099.6 1,099.6 0.0 0.0%

Additional contributions from Host States 1.6 1.6

In-kind 1 1.6 1.6

Additional contribution from Romania as a Candidate for Accession2a 7.9 7.9 0.0 0.0%

Special contribution from Israel 2b 9.0 12.0 3.0 33.3%

Additional contribution from Serbia as an Associate Member State2c 1.0 1.0

EU contributions 18.8 20.9 2.1 11.2%

Additional contributions 3.4 6.5 3.1 92.0%

for LINAC4, HIE-ISOLDE, ELENA, CLIC, IdeaLab, R&D neutrinos, FAIR 3.4 6.5 3.1 92.0%

Personnel paid on team accounts 12.6 13.3 0.7 5.4%

Personnel on detachment 1.1 1.3 0.2 17.6%

Internal taxation 28.5 29.0 0.5 1.9%

Knowledge transfer 1.1 1.8 0.7 65.0%

Other revenues 22.5 30.6 8.1 35.8%

Sales and miscellaneous 9.6 15.3 5.7 59.3%

OpenLab revenues 2.0 2.5 0.5 24.3%

Financial revenues 0.2 2.3 2.1 1034.9%

In-kind 3 4.7 5.3 0.6 12.1%

Housing fund 6.0 5.2 -0.8 -12.9%

1The 2014 amount comprises the remaining in-kind contributions from France based on

the expected LINAC4 in-kind contributions.

3Theoretical interest at market rate for FIPOI 1, 2 and 3 loans at 0% plus advantage from

free use of land.


Budget

2cSerbia became an Associate Member State on 15 March 2012. As defined in Council

Resolution CERN/2999/RA, Serbia will pay the statutory minimum contribution of 1 MCHF

until 2015 and either 50% of its theoretical Member State contribution or the statutory

minimum contribution of 1 MCHF in 2016. It is assumed that Serbia will become a Member

State in 2017 and will pay 100% of its contribution as of 2017.

2bIn line with Council Resolution CERN/3079/RA entitled "Amount and payment

modalities of the special contribution by Israel", Israel sent an amount of 9,033 kCHF

towards its special contribution as a Member State at the end of 2013, included in the

budget for 2014. Israel has paid a further 1,279 kCHF towards its special contribution in

2014. The remaining 1,732 kCHF of the special contribution will be paid over a period of

maximum 10 years, partly in cash and partly in kind.

2aRomania as a Candidate for Accession will pay 75% of its theoretical Member State

contribution until 2015 and 100% as of 2016, as defined in Council Resolution CERN/2829

and updated by the Agreement signed by CERN and Romania on 11 February 2010.


Figure 3: Total Expenses by Activity and Balance

Final 2014 Budget 2014 Out-Turn

(in MCHF, rounded off) CERN/FC/5781 CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices ) (2014 prices ) MCHF %

(a) (b) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

EXPENSES 1,251.3 1,139.5 -111.9 -8.9%

Running of scientific programmes and support 1,035.2 958.1 -77.0 -7.4%

Scientific programmes 536.3 508.2 -28.1 -5.2%

LHC (machine, detectors, computing, including spares and consolidation) 341.1 317.9 -23.2 -6.8%

Non-LHC physics and scientific support 53.6 54.2 0.6 1.1%

Accelerators and areas (including consolidation) 141.6 136.1 -5.5 -3.9%

Infrastructure and services 324.8 277.3 -47.5 -14.6%

General infrastructure and services (including administration, outreach) 261.0 247.7 -13.3 -5.1%

Infrastructure consolidation, buildings and renovation 63.8 29.7 -34.2 -53.5%

Centralised expenses 174.0 172.5 -1.4 -0.8%

Centralised personnel expenses 35.7 35.6 -0.1 -0.4%

Internal taxation 28.5 29.0 0.5 1.9%

Personnel int. mobility, on detachment, not available, paid on team accounts 14.3 16.7 2.4 16.7%

Budget amortisation of staff benefits accruals 17.3 17.3 0.0 0.2%

Energy and water, insurances and postal charges, miscellaneous 60.5 55.2 -5.3 -8.7%

Interest, bank and financial expenses, in-kind 1 17.8 18.8 1.0 5.6%

Projects and studies 216.2 181.3 -34.8 -16.1%

LHC upgrades 123.1 95.6 -27.6 -22.4%

LINAC4 20.3 19.4 -0.9 -4.5%

LHC injectors upgrade 38.3 24.8 -13.4 -35.1%

HL-LHC construction 36.5 28.4 -8.1 -22.1%

LHC detectors upgrade (Phase 1) and consolidation 17.6 16.5 -1.1 -6.3%

HL-LHC detectors, including R&D (Phase 2) 10.5 6.4 -4.0 -38.7%

Energy frontier 33.4 35.7 2.4 7.2%

Linear collider studies (CLIC, ILC, detector R&D) 31.9 32.1 0.2 0.8%

Future Circular Colliders study 1.5 3.6 2.1 142.9%

Diversity activities 59.7 50.0 -9.7 -16.2%

ELENA 10.4 7.7 -2.7 -26.0%

HIE-ISOLDE 20.6 20.2 -0.4 -2.0%

CERN neutrino platform 6.2 1.9 -4.3 -69.8%

R&D (incl. EU support) for accelerators, detectors, medical applications 22.5 20.3 -2.2 -9.8%

BALANCE

Annual balance -45.8 86.0 131.8

Capital repayment allocated to the budget (Fortis, FIPOI 1, 2 and 3, SIG) -26.2 -26.2 0.0

Recapitalisation pension fund -60.0 -60.0

Annual balance allocated to budget deficit 2 -132.0 -0.2 131.8

-Cumulative Balance ³- - 86.1 -218.1 -86.3 131.8


Budget

¹ Including theoretical interest of the FIPOI loan and advantage from free use of land (compensated by a corresponding heading in the revenues).

² The difference in the annual balance allocated to the budget deficit of 131.8 MCHF is due to a) the re-profiling and anticipated carry-forward as already included in the Final 2015

Budget with the 2014 Probable Revenues and Expenses CERN/FC/5873; b) the carry-forward in line with CERN's financial rules as shown in Section V.4; c) savings that reduce the

deficit as shown in Section V.4 of 6.6 MCHF, notably due to less costs under centralised expenses heading (energy and insurances).

³ The cumulative balance of -86.1 MCHF is the accumulated budget deficit as stated in the Financial Statements for 2013 (CERN/FC/5818, page 13).


2. Expenses by Scientific and Non-Scientific Programmes

Figure 4: Expenses breakdown by activity (Personnel, Materials and Interest & financial costs)

¹Theoretical interest of the FIPOI loan and advantage from free use of land.

LHC machine and

injectors

10.7%

LHC machine and areas

reliability and

consolidation

6.2%

LHC experiments (incl.

consolidation)

7.0%

LHC computing

3.9%

Other scientific

programmes

16.7%

Infrastructure and

services

24.5%

Expenses allocated to

other headings*

11.4%

Internal taxation

2.5%

Interest, bank and

financial expenses

1.2%

Projects (incl. R&D)

15.9%

* Including: Centralised personnel expenses, personnel int. mobility, on detachment, paid but not available (3.4%),

Personnel paid on team accounts (1.2%),

Budget amortisation of staff benefits accruals (1.5%),

Energy and water (3.9%),

Insurances, postal charges, miscellaneous (1%),

In-kind¹ (0.4%)


2.1. Experiments (CERN’s contribution to the collaborations and experiments on site) and Accelerators

Figure 5: Scientific Programme

Out-Turn

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Open Com.

FTE FTE FTE kCHF % kCHF

Personnel Personnel Materials Total Personnel Personnel Materials Total Personnel Personnel Materials Total Total Total Materials

947.4 173,635 167,465 341,100 LHC programme (incl. projects) 978.4 171,128 146,798 317,926 103% 99% 88% 93% -23,174 -7% 16,481

317.0 55,805 67,260 123,065 1 LHC machine and injectors 319.0 56,100 66,162 122,262 101% 101% 98% 99% -803 -1% 4,456

315.3 55,640 58,695 114,335 LHC machine and experimental areas 319.0 56,100 59,966 116,066 101% 101% 102% 102% 1,731 2% 3,682

1.7 165 8,565 8,730 Spares 6,196 6,196 72% 71% -2,534 -29% 774

186.3 29,525 57,170 86,695 1 LHC machine and areas reliability and consolidation 191.2 26,434 44,016 70,450 103% 90% 77% 81% -16,245 -19% 3,997

340.7 66,425 14,465 80,890 LHC experiments 354.5 65,971 12,952 78,923 104% 99% 90% 98% -1,967 -2% 345

87.8 17,680 3,415 21,095 2 ATLAS detector 93.7 17,672 3,173 20,845 107% 100% 93% 99% -250 -1% 125

113.6 22,130 3,495 25,625 3 CMS detector 120.1 23,024 3,674 26,698 106% 104% 105% 104% 1,073 4% 39

53.1 10,495 1,870 12,365 4 ALICE detector 53.2 9,858 1,933 11,791 100% 94% 103% 95% -574 -5% 2

49.1 10,175 1,625 11,800 5 LHCb detector 53.6 9,821 1,458 11,280 109% 97% 90% 96% -520 -4% 8

37.0 5,945 4,060 10,005 6 Common items, other experiments (incl. Totem, LHCf) 33.9 5,595 2,669 8,264 92% 94% 66% 83% -1,741 -17% 173

Detectors re-scoping 45 45 45

2,480 2,480 7 LHC detectors consolidation 1,356 1,356 55% 55% -1,124 -45% 202

103.5 21,880 26,090 47,970 8 LHC computing 113.7 22,622 22,312 44,935 110% 103% 86% 94% -3,035 -6% 7,481

608.4 109,240 86,005 195,245 Other programmes (LHC support and non-LHC programmes) 620.4 114,761 75,550 190,311 102% 105% 88% 97% -4,934 -3% 9,046

29.9 5,730 4,245 9,975 9 Non-LHC physics (fixed-target programme) 36.3 6,335 5,745 12,079 121% 111% 135% 121% 2,104 21% 956

59.3 10,060 2,145 12,205 10 Theory 61.3 9,510 2,280 11,790 103% 95% 106% 97% -415 -3% 33

180 180 11 LHC physics centre at CERN (LPCC) 82 82 46% 46% -98 -54% 10

126.9 21,660 9,595 31,255 12 Scientific support (computing and technical support) 126.3 22,999 7,246 30,245 100% 106% 76% 97% -1,010 -3% 1,343

35.6 6,290 4,800 11,090 13 Low- and medium-energy accelerators 35.4 6,718 5,791 12,510 99% 107% 121% 113% 1,420 13% 448

185.1 33,060 21,575 54,635 13 PS and SPS complexes 178.4 36,143 20,617 56,759 96% 109% 96% 104% 2,124 4% 1,835

100.6 21,725 11,930 33,655 13 Accelerator technical services 116.1 22,830 12,407 35,237 115% 105% 104% 105% 1,582 5% 945

60.9 9,305 23,980 33,285 13 Accelerator consolidation 58.3 9,110 16,168 25,278 96% 98% 67% 76% -8,007 -24% 2,434

10.1 1,410 7,555 8,965 13 Experimental areas consolidation 8.2 1,116 5,214 6,331 82% 79% 69% 71% -2,634 -29% 1,041

1,555.8 282,875 253,470 536,345 Grand Total 1,598.8 285,889 222,349 508,237 103% 101% 88% 95% -28,108 -5% 25,527

23.47% 21.03% 44.49% % of total revenues 23.33% 18.14% 41.47%

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(b)-(a)

(a) (b)

Budget usage Variation

(2014 prices ) (2014 prices ) (b)/(a) in %

Final 2014 Budget - CERN/FC/5781

Activity

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The materials budget for the LHC machine and experimental areas was fully

used, linked to the many activities that were done on the machine during LS1.

Due to the focus on finishing LS1, some of the activities on spares and on

consolidation items not linked to the shutdown, have experienced delays, with

some 14 MCHF re-profiled to 2015, as already announced in the Final 2015

Budget. At the end of the year open commitments amounted to 4 MCHF.

The slight increase in the number of FTEs working on consolidation is due to

M to P for fellows and technical trainees (notably for collimation and R2E

activities).

The consolidation of the splices finished well within schedule, resulting in

savings of some 2.5 MCHF, which will be allocated for the repair of the

superconducting magnets between the shutdowns.

The difference in FTE for the LHC experiments is mainly due to the allocation

of more fellows to this activity. The supply of cryogenic fluids and support for

vacuum and cryogenics, which are part of the “Common items” heading, were

significant during this phase of LS1, but stayed well within their budget,

leading to some savings as was already shown in the 2014 Probable expenses.

The consolidation of the detectors continues, with some open commitments at

the end of the year, with a re-profiling of 1.6 MCHF from 2014 to 2015 as

indicated in the Final 2015 budget. In particular, consolidation work during

LS1 concentrated on the underground facilities, and work on surface facilities

that will remain accessible during the next run was postponed. Some additional

consolidation needs were identified and will be funded from savings made on

the Common Items.

The materials expenses under the Non-LHC physics heading are closely linked

to the advancement of the NA62 project, which had higher expenses than in

the Final 2014 budget, coming from commitments carried over from 2013

(covered by carry-forward) and some early deliveries for which some of the

budget from 2015 was re-profiled to 2014. Also 0.5 MCHF of operational

savings were reallocated to the project to cover for some additional items

(gigatracker, gas system) and additional costs on an existing contract. The

difference in personnel expenses comes from some fellows that were allocated

to “Non-LHC physics”.

The differences in personnel expenses for Theory are linked to more fellows

working on EU projects, and slightly less staff allocated to Theory activities.

Under “Scientific support” there was some reallocation of personnel to

activities linked to the shutdown. Open commitments on this heading

amounted to 1.3 MCHF at the end of the year. This heading also contains a

provision for investments in electronics and in the electronics workshop

(machines), which was re-profiled to 2015 and 2016 as announced in the Final

2015 Budget.

The higher expenses on materials for “Low- and medium-energy accelerators”

are linked to two projects under this heading: the n_TOF-upgrade (n_TOF-

EAR2) and ISOLDE robots. Part of the expenses were covered by carry-

forward of budget from 2013, and for n_TOF the expenses are covered by

savings in 2015-2017.

Some personnel and material resources were reallocated from the “PS and SPS

complexes” heading to the “Accelerator technical services” heading for LS1

activities.

Due to manpower shortage, where priority was given to completing LS1, the

budget for consolidation of the PS and SPS, as well as the consolidation of

AD, the East and North Area, was not fully used and activities were delayed

form items not linked to the shutdown. As a consequence, indicated in the

Final 2015 Budget, the budget is re-profiled to until after 2015.


2.2. Non-scientific Programme (Infrastructure and Supporting Services)

Figure 6: Infrastructure and Services

Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

Open Com.



913.4 241,005 257,800 498,805 Infrastructure and services 984.1 241,654 208,231 449,885 108% 100% 81% 90% -48,920 -10% 27,054

60.5 10,575 2,985 13,560 14 Manufacturing facilities (workshops, etc.) 61.1 10,099 1,273 11,372 101% 95% 43% 84% -2,188 -16% -4,947

155.9 27,615 44,370 71,985 15 General facilities & logistics (site maintenance, transport) 168.5 28,941 33,722 62,662 108% 105% 76% 87% -9,323 -13% 795

175.9 31,565 18,485 50,050 16 Informatics 167.9 28,817 20,089 48,906 95% 91% 109% 98% -1,144 -2% 2,429

148.3 22,475 19,805 42,280 17 Safety, health and environment 151.5 23,558 16,237 39,796 102% 105% 82% 94% -2,484 -6% 2,261

206.1 38,745 11,290 50,035 18 Administration 229.4 37,968 11,543 49,511 111% 98% 102% 99% -524 -1% 986

60.7 11,675 21,400 33,075 19 Outreach, scientific exchanges (students, associates) and KT 67.1 11,257 24,167 35,424 110% 96% 113% 107% 2,349 7% 768

15.8 2,630 61,215 63,845 20 Infrastructure consolidation, buildings and renovation 16.1 2,488 27,181 29,669 102% 95% 44% 46% -34,176 -54% 23,260

90.2 95,725 78,250 173,975 21 Centralised expenses 122.6 98,527 74,019 172,546 136% 103% 95% 99% -1,429 -1% 1,503

35,680 35,680 Centralised personnel expenses 35,550 35,550 100% 100% -130 0% 0

28,480 28,480 Internal taxation 29,028 29,028 102% 102% 548 2%

3.6 1,690 1,690 Personnel internal mobility and on detachment 4.0 1,203 33 1,236 112% 71% 73% -454 -27%

Paid but not available 25.4 2,163 2,163 2,163

86.7 12,575 12,575 Personnel paid on team accounts 93.3 13,254 13,254 108% 105% 105% 679 5%

17,300 17,300 Budget amortisation of staff benefits accruals 17,328 17,328 100% 100% 28 0%

53,300 53,300 Energy and water 43,261 43,261 81% 81% -10,039 -19% 1,014

7,165 7,165 Insurances, postal charges, miscellaneous 11,940 11,940 167% 167% 4,775 67% 471

13,050 13,050 Interest, bank and financial expenses 13,872 13,872 106% 106% 822 6% 18

4,735 4,735 In-kind 4,913 4,913 104% 104% 178 4%

913.4 241,005 257,800 498,805 Grand Total 984.1 241,654 208,231 449,885 108% 100% 81% 90% -48,920 -10% 27,054





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(a) (b)

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The manufacturing facilities (workshop, design office) show lower expenses,

the work being charged directly to the projects (LIU, CLIC, HL-LHC).

Expenses for general facilities and logistics were lower than in the Final

Budget 2014, as already shown in the 2014 probable expenses

(CERN/FC/5873). First of all a negative carry-forward was applied of some

3.5 MCHF to cover the advanced purchase of cables for LS1 in 2013.

Secondly, 2 MCHF reserved for the renovation of the hostel was re-profiled to

2015 following changes in the planning, and some 1.7 MCHF was re-profiled

to 2015 for Place des Particules that have some delays.

The materials expenses for “Informatics” include some 0.5 MCHF in-kind

contributions for OpenLab. The expenses under this heading also include those

linked to the SCOAP3 consortium, with corresponding revenues under “Sales

and miscellaneous”.

The lower materials expenses under the “Safety, health and environment”

heading are linked to some late deliveries in RAMSES project, the Radio

Infrastructure upgrade for firefighters and the SC dismantling and museum

(0.2 MCHF).

The expenses for Outreach and KT were higher than budgeted, this is partly

linked to expenses for the travelling exhibition that was added to the

celebration of CERN 60th anniversary, the CERN S’Cool LAB project (for

which sponsoring was obtained from the Loterie romande), and an increased

contribution to the KT fund to foster new projects.

The “Infrastructure consolidation, buildings and renovation” heading used only

44% of the materials budget. This large difference, already visible in the 2014

probable expenses, results first of all from delay in the delivery of Building

107 (surface treatment, -19 MCHF), which was foreseen to be finished end of

2014, and which will now partially be re-tendered, leading to important delays.

Of the 5 MCHF allocated for the renovation of the Globe, almost all is re-

profiled to 2015 for late start of the project, the same applies for the magnetic

measurements building (building 311) for which studies were started but not

the works itself, resulting in re-profiling 4 MCHF reserved for 2014 to 2015 to

account for the delayed start. The Prevessin Main building (building 774) is

reaching its completion, with some 2.5 MCHF of open commitments at the end

of the year. Open commitments amounted to 8 MCHF at the end of the year

(without Building 107), of which half is reserved for general consolidation of

the site (roofs, facades, windows, etc.).

Under the centralised expenses:

The internal taxation increase is linked to the staff complement and to

the respective salary positions as well as to the applicable taxation

rates. These expenses are offset by revenues;

More personnel were on detachment (expenses being offset by

identical revenues);

The variation for staff on saved leave is shown under “Paid but not

available”, which amounts to some 25 FTEs;

The consumption of electricity was lower than foreseen, this heading

was already adjusted downwards during the MTP 2014, linked to LS1

schedule and a more detailed planning of the needed MWh;

The expenses for insurances were lower than foreseen and will be

adjusted for future years.

The miscellaneous heading contains 5.7 MCHF of litigation

settlement and advance payment for building 107.


2.3. Projects (Construction, R&D)

Figure 7: Projects

Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

Open Com.



528.1 93,135 123,040 216,175 Projects 512.7 89,175 92,165 181,340 97% 96% 75% 84% -34,835 -16% 18,901

291.9 54,420 68,720 123,140 LHC upgrades 282.8 50,277 45,295 95,572 97% 92% 66% 78% -27,568 -22% 8,543

58.0 10,410 9,860 20,270 22 LINAC4 56.0 8,549 10,815 19,363 97% 82% 110% 96% -907 -4% 2,074

82.5 14,630 23,635 38,265 23 LHC injectors upgrade 87.8 14,322 10,518 24,840 106% 98% 44% 65% -13,425 -35% 1,082

85.3 15,340 21,170 36,510 24 HL-LHC construction 80.4 14,370 14,067 28,437 94% 94% 66% 78% -8,073 -22% 4,222

41.4 9,680 7,960 17,640 25 LHC detectors upgrade (phase 1) and consolidation 40.9 9,566 6,957 16,523 99% 99% 87% 94% -1,117 -6% 559

24.8 4,360 6,095 10,455 25 HL-LHC detectors, including R&D (phase 2) 17.8 3,470 2,938 6,408 72% 80% 48% 61% -4,047 -39% 606

85.0 15,360 17,995 33,355 Energy frontier 93.6 17,631 18,117 35,748 110% 115% 101% 107% 2,393 7% 2,480

85.0 15,360 16,495 31,855 26,27 Linear collider studies (CLIC, ILC, detector R&D) 83.6 14,332 17,773 32,105 98% 93% 108% 101% 250 1% 2,455

1,500 1,500 28 Future circular colliders study 10.0 3,298 345 3,643 23% 243% 2,143 143% 25

151.3 23,355 36,325 59,680 Diversity activities 136.3 21,267 28,753 50,020 90% 91% 79% 84% -9,660 -16% 7,877

21.5 3,810 6,545 10,355 29 ELENA 25.5 4,634 3,030 7,664 119% 122% 46% 74% -2,691 -26% 1,386

40.8 6,290 14,335 20,625 30 HIE-ISOLDE 46.8 6,713 13,496 20,209 115% 107% 94% 98% -416 -2% 2,600

6,215 6,215 31 CERN neutrino platform 1.0 136 1,739 1,875 28% 30% -4,340 -70% 191

6.2 1,010 910 1,920 32 Proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration 3.4 651 1,301 1,951 54% 64% 143% 102% 31 2% 174

3.7 655 2,285 2,940 33 Superconducting RF studies 6.6 993 2,321 3,314 180% 152% 102% 113% 374 13% 565

6.0 1,000 2,650 3,650 35 R&D for medical applications 4.4 1,013 1,991 3,004 73% 101% 75% 82% -646 -18% 1,334

73.1 10,590 3,385 13,975 36 Other R&D (FAIR, ITER, EU, detectors, etc.) 48.6 7,127 4,875 12,002 66% 67% 144% 86% -1,973 -14% 1,628

528.1 93,135 123,040 216,175 Grand Total 512.7 89,175 92,165 181,340 97% 96% 75% 84% -34,835 -16% 18,901





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The expenses on LINAC4 are higher than budgeted, this is linked to the

delivery of some main components in 2014 (covered by a carry-forward from

2013). Some RF components will be delivered in 2015 (open commitments at

the end of 2015). Only slightly less FTEs were assigned to the project, the

difference in expenses on personnel comes from the impact of the variation of

paid leave on this particular heading (-1 MCHF). This is related to the fact that

end 2013 20 FTEs more were working on LINAC4 that end 2014 (which is

linked to ending of the project).

The work on LIU has progressed well during 2014, the work being of labour-

intensive nature as installation of prototypes during LS1, doing studies and

simulations. The budget for materials has been re-profiled to future years, to be

in line with delivery dates.

As for LIU, the work for HL-LHC was concentrated around prototypes,

testing, and design, which were quite labour intensive. As already indicated in

the Final 2015 Budget, re-profiling to future years was done for 2014 and 2015

to be more in line with the expected delivery schedule of the material.

The activities for the LHC detectors upgrade and consolidation as well as for

the HL-LHC detectors advanced well, although with some delays due to the

focus on work taking place during the shutdown. There were open

commitments of 600 kCHF at the end of the year, and a re-profiling of

2.5 MCHF from 2014 to 2016. The underspending of 900 kCHF on personnel

for Phase 2 upgrades was due to personnel re-allocation to LS1 activities.

The Linear Collider Studies fully used its budget for 2014, with some expenses

covered by a carry-forward from 2013 for late deliveries. The lower out-turn

for the personnel in terms of expense, but not in FTE, is explained by a

combination of more fellows and less staff working on this activity.

In the Final 2014 Budget, some budget for studying options for the Future

Circular Collider was allocated. Part of the materials budget (0.5 MCHF) was

converted into personnel budget for fellows for the period 2014-2016.

The expenses for ELENA were lower than expected. Building 393 and its

infrastructure were completed, but the construction phase of the machine itself

has some delays. Based on the progress of the project and the overall planning

which was reviewed in November 2014, some 1.7 MCHF were re-profiled

from 2014 to 2015-2017, as shown in the Final 2015 Budget.

For HIE-ISOLDE, the materials expense is in line with what was presented in

the Final 2014 Budget. The MTP 2014 showed a higher budget for 2014,

which was due to the re-profiling of CERN funds to cover part of the shortfall

for phase 1. Due to delays in the design, manufacturing and procurement of the

SC Linac and HEBT, these funds were re-profiled to 2015 as announced in the

Final 2015 Budget. Some more fellows and staff were allocated to the project.

Of the 2014 expenses for HIE-ISOLDE, 1.9 MCHF were covered by external

funding.

Studies for the CERN neutrino platform were started and preparations were

made for the extension of EHN1, and WA104 and WA 105 activities were

started. As announced already in the Final 2015 Budget, the budget for

materials has been re-profiled to future years, to be in line with delivery dates.

The AWAKE project has spent more than budgeted, operational savings in

2014 were allocated to this project to cover additional costs for civil

engineering.

More fellows and staff were allocated to the Superconducting RF studies than

budget. The materials budget was fully used.

The “Medical applications” heading includes the MEDICIS project. Some

items related to this project were committed but will have delivery in 2015,

therefore 0.5 MCHF was re-profiled from 2014 to 2015 as already announced

in the Final 2015 Budget.

In the Final 2014 Budget the heading “Other R&D” contained 22 FTE fellows

linked to the EU COFUND 3 and COFUND 4 programmes. During 2014, as

these fellows started at CERN, the budget moved to the activities the fellows

were assigned to.


Figure 8 (1/2): Expenses for Fixed Assets Projects (non-recurrent activities and approved projects without EU funds)3

3 There are several reasons for the difference between the Figure 8 in this document and the table PPE in progress of the Financial Statements (page 28):

In this document ONLY the lines marked with the asterisk “*” should be taken into account. The sum amounts to 321,811 kCHF. Then the difference of 13,416 kCHF

between this document and the amount in the Financial Statements for PPE in progress is due to:

270 kCHF for the sculpture for GLOBE accounted under operation and not a project, and as such not mentioned in APR table

13,146 kCHF for LHC spares heading – in APR this heading refers only to the production of the spares. However, during LS1 some magnets were replaced by

the spares. The replaced magnets were put back in the stock of spares waiting to be repaired and reused during the next shutdowns. The value of these

magnets is a net amortized value and amounts to 13,146 kCHF.

(in kCHF, rounded off)

(d) = (b)-(a) (e) = (d)/(a)

Personnel Materials Total Personnel Materials Total Personnel Materials Total kCHF %

30 465 89 000 119 465 Sub-total LHC programme 28 160 68 860 97 020 92% 77% 81% -22 445 -19%

190 7 875 8 065 LHC machine and injectors 28 5 205 5 233 15% 66% 65% -2 832 -35%

165 7 030 7 195 * LHC spares 4 800 4 800 68% 67% -2 395 -33%

460 460 * Rebuilding spares stock after 3-4 incident 127 127 28% 28% -333 -72%

25 385 410 LHC injectors 28 278 307 113% 72% 75% -103 -25%

29 390 56 895 86 285 * LHC machine and areas reliability and consolidation 26 333 43 698 70 031 90% 77% 81% -16 254 -19%

3 615 4 370 7 985 Collimation system enhancements 2 799 5 835 8 634 77% 134% 108% 649 8%

5 020 5 020 Electrical network 2025 195 3 227 3 422 64% 68% -1 598 -32%

1 400 580 1 980 Experimental areas consolidation 1 228 323 1 551 88% 56% 78% -429 -22%

115 115 Induced consolidation following 3-4 incident -115

14 780 20 710 35 490 LHC consolidation 16 559 15 617 32 176 112% 75% 91% -3 314 -9%

3 585 11 980 15 565 Radiation to electronics (R2E) 3 451 8 605 12 056 96% 72% 77% -3 509 -23%

5 825 13 275 19 100 Splice consolidation and repair 2 029 9 772 11 801 35% 74% 62% -7 299 -38%

70 960 1 030 Quench Heater Supervision Upgrade 73 318 391 104% 33% 38% -639 -62%

45 275 320 * CERN control centre consolidation 11 318 329 25% 115% 103% 9 3%

2 480 2 480 * LHC detectors consolidation 1 356 1 356 55% 55% -1 124 -45%

840 21 475 22 315 * LHC Computing Grid 1 787 18 284 20 071 213% 85% 90% -2 244 -10%

13 355 37 340 50 695 Sub-total Other programmes 12 543 29 249 41 792 94% 78% 82% -8 903 -18%

400 400 * B115 works 391 391 98% 98% -9

330 55 385 * AEgIS 274 19 293 83% 35% 76% -92 -24%

1 530 2 150 3 680 * NA62 1 793 3 470 5 263 117% 161% 143% 1 583 43%

80 960 1 040 * ISOLDE robots2 1 451 1 451 151% 140% 411 40%

1 250 1 250 * n_TOF-EAR2 1 532 1 532 123% 123% 282 23%

105 990 1 095 * Magnet Infrastructure Upgrade 210 435 645 200% 44% 59% -450 -41%

* SM18 infrastructure upgrade 77 77 77

595 595 * Helium infrastructure and distribution -595 -100%

* TE Infrastructure Consolidation 41 491 532 532

600 1 190 1 790 * AD consolidation 403 808 1 211 67% 68% 68% -579 -32%

2 245 2 245 * East area consolidation 1 527 1 527 68% 68% -718 -32%

345 4 120 4 465 * North area consolidation 713 2 880 3 593 207% 70% 80% -872 -20%

1 625 1 625 * 66/18 kV loop PS consolidation 102 848 950 52% 58% -675 -42%

650 2 545 3 195 * 18 kV loop + substations SPS consolidation 1 526 1 275 2 800 235% 50% 88% -395 -12%

9 120 19 810 28 930 * Accelerator consolidation 7 483 13 151 20 633 82% 66% 71% -8 297 -29%

* PS and SPS spares 894 894 8941 Excluding EU projects. 2 Including the Radioactive waste management activities of the project.

Budget usage

in %

(c) = (b)/(a)

Variations of Out-Turn with

respect to Budget

LHC programme

Included in Figure 5

Other programmes


Final 2014 Budget 1

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)

(a)

ProgrammeFixed

assetProject

2014 Out-Turn 1

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)

(b)


Figure 8 (2/2): Expenses for Fixed Assets Projects (non-recurrent activities and approved projects without EU funds)


Figure 8 details the budgeted and actual amounts for 2014 of non-recurrent expenses for multi-annual projects and fixed assets (such as research facilities,

consolidation, upgrades and buildings, etc.) in line with the current fixed assets policy (CERN/FC/5210).


(d) = (b)-(a) (e) = (d)/(a)

Personnel Materials Total Personnel Materials Total Personnel Materials Total kCHF %

3 600 80 470 84 070 Sub-total Infrastructure and services 3 588 44 878 48 466 100% 56% 58% -35 604 -42%

Manufacturing facilities 322 322 322

* Investment in new mechanical technologies 322 322 322

2 080 2 080 General facilities & logistics (site maintenance, transport) 769 769 37% 37% -1 311 -63%

2 080 2 080 * Globe car park and "Esplanade des Particules" 769 769 37% 37% -1 311 -63%

1 715 1 715 Informatics 3 874 3 874 226% 226% 2 159 126%

1 715 1 715 Computing network consolidation 34 34 2% 2% -1 681 -98%

SCOAP3 3 841 3 841 3 841

980 13 095 14 075 Safety, health and environment 1 111 10 037 11 149 77% 79% -2 926 -21%

20 905 925 * Radio infrastructure upgrade for firefighters 18 491 509 92% 54% 55% -416 -45%

15 2 600 2 615 * Consolidation of calibration hall 18 2 907 2 925 122% 112% 112% 310 12%

2 755 2 755 * Ramses II l ight 41 2 060 2 101 75% 76% -654 -24%

2 000 2 000 * Emergency 94 307 401 15% 20% -1 599 -80%

885 3 765 4 650 Radioactive waste management 875 3 736 4 610 99% 99% 99% -40 -1%

60 1 070 1 130 * SC dismantling and museum 65 537 602 108% 50% 53% -528 -47%

2 190 2 190 Outreach and KT 2 806 2 806 128% 128% 616 28%

1 880 1 880 * IdeaLab building4 2 050 2 050 109% 109% 170 9%

310 310 * Visitpoint 289 289 93% 93% -21 -7%

S'Cool LAB 466 466 466

2 620 61 390 64 010 General and technical infrastructure consolidation 2 477 27 069 29 545 95% 44% 46% -34 465 -54%

365 365 * AD control rooms 1 1 0% 0% -364 -100%

* Building 38 (hotel renovation) 193 193 193

260 23 525 23 785 * Building 107 (surface treatment) 315 4 076 4 392 121% 17% 18% -19 393 -82%

4 000 4 000 * Building 311 (magnetic measurements) -4 000 -100%

55 10 460 10 515 * Building 774 (Prévessin main building) 8 305 8 305 79% 79% -2 210 -21%

1 000 1 000 * CMS site consolidation 1 041 1 041 104% 104% 41 4%

5 000 5 000 * Renovation Globe of Science and Innovation 48 159 207 3% 4% -4 793 -96%

3 750 3 750 * LHCb building 1 464 1 464 39% 39% -2 286 -61%

2 305 13 290 15 595 * Surface and technical infrastructure consolidation (roofs, facades, heating, etc.)3 2 113 11 830 13 943 92% 89% 89% -1 652 -11%

74 665 113 460 188 125 Sub-total Projects 71 916 81 287 153 203 96% 72% 81% -34 922 -19%

11 450 15 870 27 320 * CLIC 10 218 17 246 27 464 89% 109% 101% 144 1%

3 275 405 3 680 Linear collider detector R&D 3 572 305 3 878 109% 75% 105% 198 5%

5 060 14 315 19 375 * HIE-ISOLDE 5 672 13 495 19 167 112% 94% 99% -208 -1%

3 765 6 545 10 310 * ELENA 4 585 3 030 7 615 122% 46% 74% -2 695 -26%

55 55 * High radiation material test facility2 3 3 6% 6% -52 -94%

1 010 910 1 920 * Proton Plasma wakefield acceleration (AWAKE) 651 1 301 1 951 64% 143% 102% 31 2%

1 650 1 650 * MEDICIS 169 1 581 1 750 96% 106% 100 6%

6 215 6 215 * CERN Neutrino Platform 136 1 739 1 875 28% 30% -4 340 -70%

10 360 9 860 20 220 * LINAC4 8 503 9 238 17 740 82% 94% 88% -2 480 -12%

14 495 23 635 38 130 * LHC Injectors Upgrade 14 125 10 518 24 643 97% 44% 65% -13 487 -35%

11 610 20 485 32 095 * LHC luminosity upgrade project (HL-LHC) 11 662 13 711 25 373 100% 67% 79% -6 722 -21%

9 600 7 570 17 170 * LHC detectors upgrade 9 566 6 642 16 208 100% 88% 94% -962 -6%

4 040 5 945 9 985 R&D for HL-LHC detectors 3 058 2 477 5 535 76% 42% 55% -4 450 -45%

122 085 320 270 442 355 Grand Total 116 208 224 274 340 481 95% 70% 77% -101 874 -23%1 Excluding EU projects. 2 Including the Radioactive waste management activities of the project. 3 Including some building renovation. 4 This project was under LHC programme in the Final 2014 Budget.

Final 2014 Budget 1

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)

(a)

ProgrammeFixed

assetProject

2014 Out-Turn 1

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)

(b)

Budget usage

in %

(c) = (b)/(a)

Variations of Out-Turn with

respect to Budget

Projects


Infrastructure and

services



3. Summary of Expenses by Nature

Figure 9: Materials Expenses by Nature (including Interest and Financial costs)


The difference of 121 MCHF under “Goods, consumables and supplies” is

mainly due to the re-scheduling of multi-annual projects and consolidation;

81 MCHF of difference was already announced in the 2014 Probable Expenses

in December 2014.

The increase for “Associated Members of Personnel” (MPA) was also

presented in the 2014 Probable Expenses and is linked to the need for the

additional manpower to maintain the schedule for the LS1 activities.

The miscellaneous heading (also increased significantly in the 2014 Probable

Expenses) includes the expenses for the SCOAP3 projects that were not

planned in the Final 2014 Budget (3.8 MCHF). In addition this heading

contains transport expenses that were also higher than planned by 1.2 MCHF

as a result of LS1 and 5.7 MCHF for litigation settlement plus advance

payment for building 107.

As of 1st January 2013, CERN adopted the new IPSAS standards relating to

Financial Instruments. As a result, the “Other financial expenses” heading

includes gains and losses resulting from changes in the fair value of the

financial assets held by CERN during the year. These are not foreseen in the

Final Budget.

More explanations on the breakdown of expenses by nature are given in the

Financial Statements for 2014.


kCHF %

(a) (b) (b)/(a) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

Materials expenses 619,405 506,967 81.8% -112,438 -18.2%

Goods, consumables and supplies 349,805 228,776 65.4% -121,029 -34.6%

Electricity, heating gas and water 53,550 42,234 78.9% -11,316 -21.1%

Industrial services 132,275 132,992 100.5% 717 0.5%

Service contracts 81,315 86,498 106.4% 5,183 6.4%

Repair and maintenance 48,135 42,008 87.3% -6,127 -12.7%

Temporary labour 2,825 4,486 158.8% 1,661 58.8%

Associated Members of Personnel 38,000 42,281 111.3% 4,281 11.3%

Other overheads 45,775 60,684 132.6% 14,909 32.6%

Consultancy 8,000 9,311 116.4% 1,311 16.4%

Contributions to Collaborations 7,075 8,300 117.3% 1,225 17.3%

Miscellaneous 130,700 43,073 140.3% 12,373 40.3%

Interest and financial costs 14,905 15,778 105.9% 873 5.9%

Fortis bank 11,435 11,434 100.0% -1 0.0%

In-kind (FIPOI interest 0%)2 2,105 1,983 94.2% -122 -5.8%

SIG debt interest 1,365 1,331 97.5% -34 -2.5%

Short-term interest 9 9

Other financial expenses 1,022 1,022

634,310 522,745 82.4% -111,565 -17.6%

2Theoretical interest at market rate for

FIPOI 1, 2 and 3 loans at 0%. This heading

is compensated by the corresponding

revenue line "Other revenues / In-kind".


Budget

2014 Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)

Budget usage in %

1Including insurances and postal charges,

handling and transport, bank charges,

depreciation of current assets.

TOTAL MATERIALS

Nature

Final 2014 Budget

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)


Figure 10: Breakdown of Materials Expenses by Nature

Materials expenses: 97%

Interest and financial costs: 3%

* Total of industrial services: 16.5% + 8% + 0.9% = 25.4%.

** Including insurances and postal charges, consultancy, CERN contributions to

collaborations, handling and transport, bank charges, depreciation of current assets.

Goods, consumables and

supplies

43.8%

Electricity, heating gas and

water

8.1%

Service contracts*

16.5%

Repair and maintenance*

8.0%

Temporary labour*

0.9%

Associated Members of

Personnel

8.1%

Other overheads**

11.6%

Interest and financial costs

3.0%


Figure 11: Personnel Expenses by Nature


kCHF %

(a) (b) (b)/(a) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

Staff members 1 476,390 472,343 99.2% -4,047 -0.8%

Basic salaries (incl. Saved Leave) 303,145 300,826 99.2% -2,319 -0.8%

308,375 306,111 99.3% -2,264 -0.7%

-5,230 -5,286 101.1% -56 1.1%

Annual variation - paid leave -578 -578

Allowances 65,180 64,646 99.2% -534 -0.8%

Non-resident allowances / International indemnities 20,745 19,968 96.3% -777 -3.7%

Family and child allowances 24,795 24,323 98.1% -472 -1.9%

Special allowances 2,535 2,294 90.5% -241 -9.5%

Overtime 2,620 2,438 93.0% -182 -7.0%

Various allowances 14,485 15,623 107.9% 1,138 7.9%

Social contributions 108,065 107,449 99.4% -615 -0.6%

Pension Fund 85,360 84,175 98.6% -1,185 -1.4%

Health Insurance 22,705 23,274 102.5% 570 2.5%

Fellows 2 58,740 62,028 105.6% 3,288 5.6%

Apprentices 425 433 101.9% 8 1.9%

Centralised personnel budget 3 64,160 64,586 100.7% 426 0.7%

Centralised personnel expenses 35,680 35,558 99.7% -122 -0.3%Installation, recruitment and termination of contracts 6,380 5,693 89.2% -687 -10.8%

Installation and removal costs 1,550 1,361 87.8% -189 -12.2%

Termination allowances 4,830 4,332 89.7% -498 -10.3%

Additional periods of membership in the Pension Fund for shift work 1,500 1,146 76.4% -354 -23.6%

Contribution to Health Insurance for pensioners incl. longterm care 27,800 28,719 103.3% 919 3.3%

Contribution to Health Insurance for pensioners 24,950 25,920 103.9% 970 3.9%

Contribution to Long Term Care for pensioners 2,850 2,798 98.2% -52 -1.8%

Internal taxation 28,480 29,028 101.9% 548 1.9%

TOTAL PERSONNEL 599,715 599,389 99.9% -325 -0.1%

Budget Amortisation of staff benefit accruals 17,300 17,328 100.2% 28 0.2%

TOTAL PERSONNEL incl. bud. amort. of staff benefit accruals 617,015 616,717 -297

1 Including staff paid on team accounts (9.69 MCHF).

2 Including fellows paid on team accounts (3.56 MCHF).

3 Including centralised expenses for staff and fellows paid on team accounts (0.01 MCHF).

Budget usage

in %

Variations of Out-Turn

with respect to Budget

Final 2014 Budget

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)

2014 Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)Nature

Basic salaries

Contribution to Saved Leave schemes



The total CERN staff complement in 2014 was 2,477.1 FTEs, of which

59.9 FTEs were charged to team accounts and 2,417.2 FTEs to CERN

accounts (2,398.1 FTEs under CERN’s core budget, 10 FTEs under EU

funding, 2.1 FTEs under OpenLab, and 7 FTEs under other external revenues).

“Paid but Not Available personnel” account for 25.4 FTEs, which means a

total of 2372.7 active FTEs on CERN’s core budget. The total fellows

complement was 598.3 FTEs, comprising 34.1 FTEs charged to team accounts

and 564.2 FTEs charged to CERN accounts (433.8 FTEs under CERN’s core

budget, 109.8 FTEs under EU funding, 12.4 FTEs under OpenLab, 1.6 FTE

under TT and 6.6 FTEs under other external revenues). The total apprentices

complement was 20.9 FTEs, all paid on CERN accounts.

The expenses for basic salaries are lower than expected, whilst the budgeted

FTEs are almost the same as the Out-Turn (2,479 FTEs with respect to

2,477.1). It can be noted that the basic salary per FTE is still increasing

slightly, but at lower pace: the replacement of staff going on retirement is

partially offsetting the effects of the yearly advancement exercise.

The annual variation of paid leave is slightly negative. This is the net result of

an increase of leave days in the new Long-term Saved leave Scheme

introduced in 2012 on the one hand, and of staff members taking leave from

leave accumulated in the past on the other hand.

The special allowances were lower than anticipated due to fewer extraordinary

services awards and responsibility awards and fewer staff than expected

joining the Progressive Retirement Programme (PRP). The expenses for

“overtime” are lower than anticipated and in fact lower than in the two

previous years, which can be attributed to good planning of the LS1 activities.

The expenses for various allowances were significantly higher than budgeted.

The Final Budget already anticipated an increase in reimbursements of costs

related to education due to an increase in the number of beneficiaries, as well

as to an increase of the average cost of school fees themselves and of the

related meals, travel and accommodation costs. Also, in increase in the

payment of termination indemnities was anticipated, but the staff rotation

policy applied by the Organization (and therefore the award of less indefinite

contracts) had a higher impact in 2014 than expected leading to payment of

more termination indemnities (almost 2.2 MCHF expenses with respect to

0.8 MCHF in 2013).

The contributions to the Pension Fund were lower than budgeted, which is

related to the salary mass and the lower contributions to the pension scheme

for new Staff members. The health insurance figure is affected by the annual

percentage increase decided by the Council in the last Five-Yearly review.

In general, the staff expenses are slightly lower than anticipated, whereas the

fellowship programme increased with respect to the budget. This is mainly due

to transfers from materials for the GET fellowships and the Technical Trainee

Programme.

The travel and removal costs and the installation indemnity on taking up

appointment and the end-of-contract travel and removal costs are included

under the “Installation and removal costs” heading. The termination

allowances under the centralised personnel expenses mainly consist of

reinstallation indemnities and unemployment benefits. The unemployment

benefits are paid to a maximum of 60 weeks after termination of the

employment with the Organization (after deduction of the termination

indemnities). The Out-Turn for this heading (2.4 MCHF versus 1.6 MCHF in

2013) is a combination of staff leaving the Organization in 2013 and 2014, and

the probability of finding another employment elsewhere.

The contribution to health insurance for pensioners is growing, not only due to

the annual percentage increase as is the case for staff members, but also due to

a higher number of pensioners.


Figure 12: Breakdown of Personnel Expenses by Nature

Staff members: 78.8%

Fellows and apprentices: 10.4%

Centralised personnel budget: 10.8%

Basic salaries (incl.

Saved Leave and paid

leave variation), 50.1%

Allowances, 10.8%

Social contributions,

17.9%

Fellows and apprentices,

10.4%

Centralised personnel

expenses, 5.9% Internal taxation, 4.9%


Figure 13: Energy and Water


The Budget for electricity was revised in the spring of 2014, with a more accurate view on the electricity consumption of the injector complex during the shutdown and

for the start-up phase end of 2014. With respect to the revised budget of 46.7 MCHF (CERN/FC/5826), less energy was consumed due to some small adjustments in

the planning notably in the period October – December for SPS testing and start-up of the LHC power convertors, which lead to significant savings due to the higher

tariff for MWh in the winter season. In addition, the revised budget was based on a EUR-CHF exchange rate of 1.24, while the actual exchange rate was close to 1.20

for the last months of the year.

Furthermore, a relatively warm winter has also reduced the use of heating oil and gas. The Energy and Water expense shown in this document refers to all possible

materials charges occurred during the year on the activity. It contains the energy and water themselves (42.1 MCHF) plus goods (1.1 MCHF) plus industrial services

(0.014 MCHF), whereas the Financial Statements and the Materials Breakdown (Figure 9) refer only to the expenses without goods or industrial services.

(in MCHF, rounded off)

MCHF %

(a) (b) (b)/(a) (c)=(b)-(a) (c)/(a)

Energy and water (baseload) 18.8 13.1 69.5% -5.7 -30.5%

Electricity 10.2 6.3 61.6% -3.9 -38.4%

Heating oil and gas 5.2 3.6 68.9% -1.6 -31.1%

Water and waste water 3.4 3.2 94.5% -0.2 -5.5%

Energy for basic programmes 34.5 30.2 87.4% -4.4 -12.6%

Experimental areas1 7.8 7.3 93.1% -0.5 -6.9%

Data handling 2.1 1.8 86.0% -0.3 -14.0%

Accelerators: 13.3 10.3 77.8% -2.9 -22.2%

AD 0.5 0.5 94.5% 0.0 -5.5%

PS 3.2 2.8 86.6% -0.4 -13.4%

SPS (incl. CNGS) 9.5 7.0 73.9% -2.5 -26.1%

LHC 11.4 10.8 95.0% -0.6 -5.0%

53.3 43.3 81.1% -10.1 -18.9%

1 This includes particle physics (PS and SPS fixed target), ISOLDE, LHC experiments and LHC test beam into East, West and North Area.

Budget usage in %


Budget Nature

TOTAL ENERGY

2014 Out-Turn

CERN/FC/5891

(2014 prices)

Final 2014 Budget

CERN/FC/5781

(2014 prices)


4. Carry-forward

Figure 14: Carry-forward


The carry-forward is established on the basis of Article 9 of the Financial

Rules which states: “The budget amounts shall be compared with the amounts

of the final budget Out-Turn. The positive balance of that part of the budget

which is allocated to multi-annual projects shall be carried-forward to the

following year within the Cost-to-Completion. The unused part of the budget

allocated to operation shall be carried-forward to the following financial year,

provided that it relates to commitments open when the accounts for the

financial year concerned are closed. Any excess budget expenses shall be

carried forward to the next financial year.”

The carry-forward shown in Figure 14 is established by comparing the

adjusted budget amounts for 2014 (Probable Revenues and Expenses) as

published in the Final 2015 Budget (CERN/FC/5873) and the 2014 Out-Turn.

A carry-forward for projects was already anticipated under “2014 Probable

Revenues and Expenses” in the Final 2015 Budget (CERN/FC/5873-

CERN/3150). This entailed a reduction in allocations to project expenses

(mainly a delay in some building projects) in the 2014 Budget of 108.1 MCHF,

of which 20.8 MCHF were carried-forward to 2015 and some 87 MCHF to

later years.

Any positive balance between the budget versus expenses plus open

commitments under “Operation” is used to further reduce the deficit. The

reduction of deficit on the heading “Infrastructure and services” is mainly due

to lower expenses in energy (-3.4 MCHF) and in insurances (-1.1 MCHF).

The figures under the “Operation” heading do not include the impact of

advanced payments for licences, subscriptions, etc.

Operation 6.1 6.6

LHC programme 2.2 0.0

Other programmes 2.8 0.4

Infrastructure and services (incl. centralised expenses) 0.0 5.7

R&D studies and projects 1.1 0.5

Project* 27.5

LHC programme 5.5

Other programmes 5.4

Infrastructure and services 8.1

R&D studies and projects 8.5

* Including all consolidation projects, excl. EU and TT projects.

(in MCHF, rounded off) Deficit reductionCarry-forward to 2015


5. EU-supported Projects

Figure 15: EU Projects

kEUR kEUR kCHF kCHF kCHF

Project name Project title

Total EC

contribution

kEUR

EC

contribution

to CERN

kEUR

2014

Out-Turn

kCHF

2014 EU

resources

kCHF

2014

additional

resources (1)

kCHF

Cessamag CERN-EC Support for SESAME Magnets 5,000 5,000 2,689 2,689 -

Hilumi FP7 High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Design Study 4,900 1,241 2,240 325 1,915

Aida Advanced European Infrastructures For Detectors At Accelerators 8,000 1,828 1,122 388 734

Eucard2 Enhanced European Coordination For Accelerator Research And Development 8,000 1,910 885 390 495

Crisp Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics 11,999 1,499 876 647 229

Lhctheory Theoretical predictions and analyses of LHC physics: advancing the precision frontier 2,050 1,718 464 464 -

Tical 4D total absorption imaging calorimeter 2,258 2,258 419 419 -

Laguna-LBNO Design of a Pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus Studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations 4,900 1,656 412 357 55

Endotofpet Novel Multimodal Endoscopic Probes For Simultaneous Pet/Ultrasound Imaging For Image-Guided Interventions 5,516 1,000 323 263 60

Torch A Large-Aera Detector For Precision Time-of-Flight Measurements 2,696 1,395 315 315 -

Bsmoxford Physics Beyond The Standard Model At The Lhc And With Atom Interferometers 2,200 1,177 289 289 -

Ensar European Nuclear Science And Applications Research 8,000 784 270 210 60

Masstev Mass Hierarchy And Particle Physics At The Tev Scale 2,000 1,226 228 228 -

Chanda solving CHAllenges in Nuclear Data 5,400 117 223 127 96

Pop Science Pop Science (researchers' night) 210 90 212 70 142

Superfields Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity And Gauge Fields 1,700 689 170 170 -

Helix Nebula Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud 1,800 409 162 135 27

Odin ORCID and DATACITE Interoperability Network 760 254 155 155 -

Ulice Union Of Light-Ion Centres In Europe 8,400 824 147 143 4

Envision European Novel Imaging Systems For Ion Therapy 5,996 955 144 144 -

Aparsen Alliance Permanent Access To The Records Of Science In Europe Network 6,840 330 127 127 -

Citizen Cyberlab Technology Enhanced Creative Learning in the filed of Citizen Cyberscience 3,400 309 118 118 -

Terauniverse Exploring The Terauniverse With The Lhc, Astrophysics And Cosmology 1,929 433 117 117 -

Imarine Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources 5,000 503 108 108 -

Go-lab Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School 9,697 168 107 107 -

Egi-Inspire European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure For Researchers In Europe 25,000 2,254 105 57 48

Eudat EUropean DATa 9,300 284 101 29 72

Openaire+ 2nd-Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 4,200 280 61 61 -

Picse Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe 500 187 41 41 -

Eucard European Coordination For Accelerator Research And Development 10,000 2,269 39 39 -

Hotlhc Hot and dense QCD in the LHC era 1,379 151 34 34 -

Sr2S Space Radiation Superconductive Shield 1,996 233 24 24 -

Hiccup High Impact Cross-section Calculations for Unprecedented Precision 1,515 1,273 14 14 -

Citymobil2 Cities Demonstrating Cybernetic Mobility 9,500 27 12 12 -

Euhit European High-Performance Infrastructures in Turbulence 7,000 173 3 3 -

Best Paths Beyond State-of-the-art technologies for power AC corridors and multi-terminal HVDC systems 35,500 804 1 1 -

Erinda European Research Infrastructures For Nuclear Data Applications 1,000 100 - - -

Tiara Test Infrastructure And Accelerator Research Area 3,900 714 93- 72- 21- (1) Costs incurred by CERN and declared to the European Commission as additional contribution: does not take into consideration other direct support and central administrative costs Other (2) 96 96 - (2) EU projects administrative support in IT department; costs for obtaining audit certificates TOTAL 12,760 8,844 3,916


Explanations on Figure 15:4

Figure 15 shows all EU projects other than Marie Curie projects still active in

2014. The 2014 figures are split into EU-funded expenses and additional

expenses funded by CERN’s core budget in line with the specific contracts

signed separately for each project. Most of the EU-supported projects concern

R&D for accelerators and detectors (Cessamag, EuCARD-2, Aida, HiLumi,

which is only a small fraction of the HL-LHC project).

The EU contribution for projects other than Marie Curie projects has increased

by 0.6%.

13 new EU projects have been selected for funding in the framework of a total

European Commission (EC) contribution of 7.3 M€ (over a period of 5 years).

The newly selected projects are funded under the following programmes:

Marie Curie (FP7): 3 projects ( EC funding for CERN of 0.6 M€),

Marie Curie (Horizon 2020: 5 project (EC funding for CERN of

1.7 M€),

Research Infrastructures: 1 project (EC funding for CERN of 0.5 M€),

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support: 1 project (EC funding for

CERN of 0.2 M€),

European Research Council: 2 projects (EC funding for CERN of

3.5 M€),

Energy: 1 project (EC funding for CERN of 0.8 M€).

Of these 13 projects, 6 are coordinated by CERN and 4 are mono-sites (CERN

is the only beneficiary of the grant). Of a total number of 103 FP7 projects

funded since 2007, 28 are or have been coordinated by CERN and 24 are or

have been mono-sites, which is a significant increase compared to the former

Framework Programme (14 projects coordinated by CERN and/or mono-sites

of a total of 39 under FP6). Out of 7 projects selected under the new

framework programmes Horizon 2020, 5 are coordinated by CERN.

4 This document presents the actual spending of EU projects during the year

that will be covered by an EU contribution. The Financial Statements show the

same values and in addition the accounting entries (typically the balance when

we close a project).

EC audits:

No EC audits occurred in 2014.


Figure 16: Marie Curie Projects


Figure 16 shows all EU Marie Curie Projects at CERN still active in 2014. The

2014 figures are split into EU-funded expenses and additional expenses funded

by CERN’s core budget in line with the specific contract signed separately for

each project.

In 2014, Marie Curie Projects represented 56.1% of CERN’s total EU funding.

This is mostly due to the 4-year Initial Training Networks and

COFUND projects, which aim at co-funding the CERN fellowship

programme.

The EU funding for Marie Curie projects increased by 32.3% in 2014,

confirming CERN’s success in obtaining training-oriented projects.

kEUR kEUR kCHF kCHF kCHF

Project name Project title

Total EC

contribution

kEUR

EC

contribution

to CERN

kEUR

2014

Out-Turn

kCHF

2014 EU

resources

kCHF

2014

additional

resources (1)

kCHF

Ardent Advanced Radiation Dosimetry European Network Training initiative 3,988 1,115 485 485 -

Bootstrap Conformal Bootstrap Methods and their applications 208 208 41 41 -

Bsmafterlhc8 Directions for BSM Physics after the First Run of the LHC 208 208 29 29 -

Cathi Cryogenics, Accelerators And Targets At Hie-Isolde 4,784 4,784 1,911 1,911 -

Cloud-Train Cloud Initial Training Network 2 3,772 689 279 279 -

Cofund-2 Cofunding Of The Cern Fellowship Programme 2 4,999 4,999 1,367 1,367 -

Cofund-3 Cofunding Of The Cern Fellowship Programme 3 10,000 10,000 2,213 2,213 -

Cofund-4 Cofunding Of The Cern Fellowship Programme 4 8,000 8,000 330 330 -

Edusafe Education in Advance VR/AR Safety Systems for Maintenance in Extreme Environments 3,121 658 129 129 -

Entervision Research Training In 3D Digital Imaging For Cancer Radiation Therapy 3,818 736 335 335 -

E-Planet European Particle Physics Latin American Network 3,245 2,298 402 51 351

Ftk Fast Tracker for Hadron Collider Experiments 1,595 187 19 19 -

Higgsselfcoupling Precision Higgs Boson Self-Coupling Measurements 199 199 20 20 -

Ice-Dip Intel-Cern European Doctorate Industrial Program 1,249 1,249 485 485 -

Inflation-Pheno The Phenomenology Of Inflation 185 185 82 82 -

La3Net Lasers for Applications at Accelerators 4,581 739 308 308 -

Mcnet-Itn Training Network for Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC Physics 3,947 497 133 133 -

Mechanics Marie Curie Linking Industry To Cern 1,026 597 79 79 -

Opac Optimization for Particle Accelerators 5,940 1,240 475 475 -

Pacman A Study on Particle Accelerator Components’ Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometre scale 2,671 2,671 843 843 -

Picosec Pico-Second Silicon Photomultiplier - Electronics and Crystal Research 5,700 1,075 571 571 -

Puresafe Preventing Human Intervention For Increased Safety Infrastructures Emitting Ionizing Radiation 3,905 765 248 248 -

Susyflavour Flavour Violation in Supersymmetric Extensions of the Standard Model 185 185 121 121 -

Talent Training for cAreer deveLopment in high-radiation ENvironment Technologies 4,567 842 379 379 - (1) Costs incurred by CERN as additional support to the projects: does not take into consideration other direct support and central administrative costs Other (2) 383 383 - (2) HR-RPM and DG-RPC expenses for Marie Curie projects administration and financial management TOTAL 11,667 11,316 351


Figure 17: EU Projects financial status – Projects completed in 2014


Figure 17 shows the use of EU contributions at CERN for the whole project

duration of finished projects with a financial activity in 2014.

The utilisation rate of the EU financial contribution was 98% on average.

Lower use of contributions was either due to the difference between flat rates

used by the EC to compute the financial contribution and the real costs

incurred by the Organization (Marie Curie projects) or to the over-estimation

of the overall effort in the initial budget.

Project name Start date End date

EC contribution

to CERN

(kEUR)

% completion

(time)

% contribution

used

Aparsen 01-Jan-11 31-Dec-14 330 100% 100%

BSMOxford 01-Apr-11 30-Apr-14 1,177 100% 92%

CATHI 01-Nov-10 31-Oct-14 4,784 100% 100%

CRISP 01-Oct-11 30-Sep-14 1,499 100% 100%

EGI-INSPIRE 01-May-10 31-Dec-14 2,254 100% 100%

ENSAR 01-Sep-10 31-Dec-14 784 100% 100%

Envision 01-Feb-10 31-Jul-14 955 100% 100%

Helix Nebula 01-Jun-12 31-May-14 409 100% 100%

iMarine 01-Nov-11 30-Sep-14 503 100% 100%

Inflation-Pheno 01-Sep-12 31-Aug-14 185 100% 100%

LAGUNA-LBNO 01-Sep-11 31-Aug-14 1,656 100% 84%

MassTeV 01-Dec-08 31-Aug-14 1,226 100% 100%

Mechanics 01-Sep-10 31-Aug-14 597 100% 95%

ODIN 01-Sep-12 30-Sep-14 254 100% 100%

OpenAire+ 01-Dec-11 31-Dec-14 280 100% 100%

Superfields 01-Jun-09 31-Dec-14 689 100% 100%

TIARA 01-Jan-11 31-Dec-14 714 100% 88%

Ulice 01-Sep-09 31-Aug-14 824 100% 100%

Average 98%


Figure 18: EU Projects financial status – On-going projects


Figure 18 shows the amount of time spent on each EU project compared to the

overall completion time and the percentage of the EU contribution used as at

31 December 2014. Apart from projects for which expenses are not linear

(mostly Marie Curie projects where the researchers are recruited during the

first year), the table generally shows a strong correlation between time and the

contribution used.

Project name Start date End date

EC contribution

to CERN

(kEUR)

% completion

(time)

% contribution

usedProject name Start date End date

EC contribution

to CERN

(kEUR)

% completion

(time)

% contribution

used

Aida 01-Feb-11 31-Jan-15 1,828 98% 100% Go-lab 01-Nov-12 31-Oct-16 168 54% 94%

Ardent 01-Feb-12 31-Jan-16 1,115 73% 100% Hiccup 01-Apr-14 30-Mar-19 1,273 15% 1%

Best Paths 01-Oct-14 30-Sep-18 804 6% 0% Higgsselfcoupling 01-Nov-14 31-Oct-16 199 8% 10%

Bootstrap 01-Sep-14 31-Aug-16 208 17% 20% Hilumi 01-Nov-11 31-Oct-15 1,241 79% 66%

Bsmafterlhc8 01-Oct-14 30-Sep-16 208 12% 14% Hotlhc 01-Jan-12 31-Dec-16 151 60% 53%

Cessamag 01-Nov-12 31-Oct-16 5,000 54% 61% Ice-Dip 01-Feb-13 31-Jan-17 1,249 48% 51%

Chanda 01-Dec-13 30-Nov-17 117 27% 100% La3Net 01-Oct-11 30-Sep-15 739 81% 99%

Citizen Cyberlab 01-Oct-12 30-Sep-15 309 75% 61% Lhctheory 01-Apr-12 31-Mar-17 1,718 55% 70%

Citymobil2 01-Sep-12 31-Aug-16 27 58% 91% Mcnet-Itn 01-Jan-13 31-Dec-16 497 50% 34%

Cloud-Train 01-Oct-12 30-Sep-16 689 56% 63% Opac 01-Dec-11 30-Nov-15 1,240 77% 85%

Cofund-2 01-Oct-11 30-Sep-15 4,999 81% 72% Pacman 01-Sep-13 31-Aug-17 2,671 33% 32%

Cofund-3 01-Oct-12 30-Sep-17 10,000 45% 29% Picosec 01-Dec-11 30-Nov-15 1,075 77% 100%

Cofund-4 01-Oct-13 30-Sep-18 8,000 25% 4% Picse 01-Oct-14 31-Mar-16 187 17% 22%

Edusafe 01-Sep-12 31-Aug-16 658 58% 41% Pop Science 01-May-14 31-Dec-15 90 40% 78%

Endotofpet 01-Jan-11 30-Jun-15 1,000 89% 100% Puresafe 01-Feb-11 31-Jan-15 765 98% 100%

Entervision 01-Feb-11 31-Jan-15 736 98% 100% Sr2S 01-Jan-13 31-Dec-15 233 67% 10%

E-Planet 01-Feb-11 31-Jan-16 2,298 78% 5% Susyflavour 01-Jan-14 31-Dec-15 185 50% 65%

Eucard2 01-May-13 30-Apr-17 1,910 42% 28% Talent 01-Jan-12 31-Dec-15 842 75% 100%

Eudat 01-Oct-11 31-Mar-15 284 93% 100% Terauniverse 01-Apr-11 31-Mar-16 433 75% 59%

Euhit 01-Apr-13 31-Mar-17 173 44% 2% Tical 01-Feb-14 31-Jan-18 2,258 23% 19%

Ftk 01-Feb-13 31-Jan-17 187 48% 19% Torch 01-Jun-12 31-May-16 1,395 65% 37%

Average 55% 55%


AIDA The project is coming to its end and was going very satisfactorily in 2014 with

a significant progress on all 9 Work Packages (WP) with the perspective to a

fully satisfactory completion when the project will finish by end February

2015. So far, almost all milestones were passed successfully and deliverables

were made available to the community in time and according specifications.

All in all, this entire programme is a success which calls for a continuation.

CERN’s contribution to the AIDA project was successful on many fronts, not

only on the technical aspects but also in the Project Management and

communication (WP1).

On a more technical side, there are quite some achievements in 2014 to which

CERN contributed in a significant manner. On the SW front (WP2), additional

new shapes and tests were added to the HEP geometry toolkit, new interfaces

to Geant4 and new visualization tools were elaborated and the PFA (Particle

Flow Algorithm) capabilities were thoroughly tested through their use for

detector optimisation studies with varying detector geometries and varying

readout granularities.

WP4 (Relation with industry) has completed its two deliverables and has

launched a Collaboration Spotting, offering new visualization methods for

large and complex datasets.

Concerning test facilities and infrastructure (WP8&WP9), a new proton

irradiation facility has been constructed in the CERN East Area, fully equipped

with user infrastructure and commissioned with beam in a recent irradiation

campaign. The CERN MPT (Micro pattern technologies) workshop produced a

large variety of large GEM and large Micromegas detectors during 2014. The

test beam environment was improved by addition of beam-defining telescopes

including the electronics. Quite some new detector prototypes were tested in

2014, in particular prototypes based on scintillator calorimetry using ad-hoc

precise supports. Finally a prototype of a CO2 cooling unit was fully

assembled and, after tests, be made available for test beams.

Worth noticing is also the large number of publications linked to the different

WPs and including CERN authors.

EuCARD-2

The EuCARD-2 Project promotes a coordinated R&D effort to develop the

next generation of particle accelerators. It gathers more than 300 participants

from 40 Universities, Research Laboratories and Industries on 12 advanced

Work packages covering key accelerator technologies and provides access to

three test facilities. After its start in May 2013, the project has steadily

progressed in 2014 completing 13 deliverables, producing 152 publications,

and organising or co-organising via its Networks 25 high-level scientific

workshops.

The three Networks aiming at developing new sustainable accelerator

technologies and transferring them to society have produced a large wealth of

data, including inventories of medical and industrial applications of

accelerators, of energy consumption and heat management in accelerator

laboratories, and of EuCARD-2 technologies with potential industrial

applications. After this initial analysis, the focus will be on production of

medical isotopes with accelerators and on the development of novel materials

for thermal management. The three Networks dedicated to pushing accelerator

designs and technologies organised several topical workshops and explored

novel ideas that eventually led to the start of the study of a Future Circular

Collider as post-LHC project in Europe and to the preparation of the proposal

of a first plasma based pilot accelerator facility.

The EuCARD-2 Joint Research Activities (JRA) progressed in the

development of future accelerator technologies. The focus is on High

Temperature Superconductor materials and designs for the future accelerator

magnets, where the “Roebel” type cable has been selected as the baseline for

the high-field dipole cable, on materials for collimation, on Radio-Frequency

technologies with the analysis of photocathode properties, of wakefield

monitors, and of new promising deposition techniques for superconducting

thin films on copper RF cavities. Finally, the JRA devoted to Novel

Acceleration Techniques has addressed the problem of synchronisation

between laser and electron beam pulses and the modelling of long plasma

devices as the one required by the recently approved AWAKE experiment at

CERN, intended to demonstrate proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration.


CESSAMAG

Over the last year, the FP7 CESSAMag project has focused on design studies,

production and assessment of prototypes. Some salient points are:

• A special effort has been made to split contracts so as to be able to buy

(Cyprus, Israel, Turkey) or collaborate (donation of sextupoles by Pakistan)

with SESAME members for appropriate equipment. In all cases, the

technology transfer has been successful beyond expectations. An

inexperienced Spanish company was selected for the quadrupole production,

with good results as well. The more sophisticated dipoles are produced in UK

by TESLA and some critical components in France, Austria, Italy and

Switzerland.

• There is a six month delay observed on the production of magnet

prototypes, but the overall schedule is maintained, thanks to good progress in

series production of parts, and minimal requirements of changes after

prototype tests.

• The dipole, quadrupole and sextupole prototypes are all within

specifications; small improvements will allow the production of magnets of a

quality superior to the light source standards. A large fraction of the power

supplies were received, the design of the controls finished, ready for tests.

• CERN has proposed a much improved magnet powering system and has

provided additional manpower to lead this WP (foreseen initially to be carried

out by SESAME as third party). This system was reviewed by light source

experts and unanimously recommended. TAEK, Turkey is helping by sending

a young power supply engineer to CERN for one year. Iran ILSF will do a

similar effort in 2015. In spite of this significant strategic change, the WP is on

track and within initial budget.

• The training aspect is essential, in such a way that the SESAME staff can

efficiently take over the system delivered by CERN, in the interest of both

parties. The collaboration between CERN and SESAME teams is excellent,

with daily phone discussions, video conferences every month, frequent visits

on either side, common visits to manufacturers. Prototypes have been fully

measured at CERN by a young SESAME engineer trained by CERN. Three

young SESAME engineers are contributing to design the magnet powering

scheme. The TAEK Turkish engineer provides a significant contribution.

Finally CERN and IAEA are in close contact to optimize the IAEA training

instruments in support to SESAME, by making them very flexible to follow

varying production schedules. This triggered the preparation of a cooperation

agreement between the two organizations.

The next one-year period will be dominated by the production and quality

control of the magnets and powering scheme, always including training as a

key dimension.


VI. Appendix: List of acronyms


Acronym Meaning Complementary information

A ACT ALICE Configuration Tool

AD Antiproton Decelerator

Decelerator in use since 2000, decelerating the antiproton beam from the Momentum of 3.57 GeV/c to

100 MeV/c.

AEgIS Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity,

Interferometry, Spectroscopy

ALARA As Low As Reasonably Achievable

Concept or philosophy which assumes that there is no "safe" dose of radiation. Under this assumption,

the probability for harmful biological effects increases with increased radiation dose, no matter how

small. Therefore, it is important to keep radiation doses to affected populations (for example, radiation

workers, minors, visitors, students, members of the general public, etc.) as low as is reasonably

achievable.

ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment Experiment at the LHC

ALPHA Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus

ALPHA-2 Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus-2 Successor to ALPHA

ARCON ARea CONtroller Radiation Monitoring system been developed at CERN for LEP and has been in use since 1988.

ASACUSA

Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow

Antiprotons

ATF Accelerator Test Facility

ATLAS A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS Experiment at the LHC

ATRAP Antihydrogen TRAP experiments Long Term Goal: Precise laser or microwave spectroscopy of trapped antihydrogen

AWAKE Advanced WAKefield Experiment

The AWAKE project has been proposed as an approach to accelerate an electron beam to the TeV

energy regime in a single plasma section.

B Beam size at the interaction point

BE BEams department



C CAD Computer-Aided Design

CAE Computer-Aided Engineering

CAST CERN Axion Solar Telescope A solar axion search using a decommissioned LHC test magnet.

CB Collaboration Board

CCC Cern Control Centre

CDR Conceptual Design Report

CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire European Organization for Particle physics.

CLIC Compact Linear Collider

CLICdp CLIC Detector and Physics study

CLOUD

PS 215 experiment or CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving

OUtdoor Droplets) A study of the link between cosmic rays and clouds with a cloud chamber at the CERN PS.

CMS Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at the LHC.

CNGS CERN Neutrino to Gran Sasso Experiment aimed at investigating the neutrino oscillations.

COMPASS

Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for

Structure and Spectroscopy (NA58 experiment) High-energy physics experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).

CP Charge and Parity

C-RRB (LHC) Computing Resources Review Board

C-RSG Computing Resources Scrutiny Group

CtC Cost-to-Completion

CTF3 CLIC Test Facility

D DAQ Data Acquisition System

DCal ALICE Di-jet Calorimeter

DCS Detector Control System

DG Director-General

DGU Director-General unit

DIRAC

DImeson Relativistic Atom Complex (DIRAC –

PS212)

The setup consists of a precise magnetic double arm spectrometer, installed in the high intensity proton

beam of the CERN Proton Synchrotron (SPS).

DN200 Pressure relief valves Pressure relief valves in the cryostats which have a diameter of 200mm.



E EA East Area

EAR-2 Experimental ARea 2 New experimental area for n_TOF.

ECAL Electromagnetic CALorimeter Calorimeter part of CMS.

ECS Experiment Control System

ELENA Extra Low ENergy Antiprotons

ELENA is a compact ring for cooling and further deceleration of 5.3 MeV antiprotons delivered by the

CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD).

EN ENgineering department

EN (MEF)

ENgineering department, Machines &

Experimental Facilities group

ERL Energy Recovery Linac

ESS European Spallation Source

Project to realize a research centre in Lund (Sweden) for the study of materials using beams of slow

neutrons.

EU European Union EU is used in this document as short form for EU commission supported project.

EVM Earned Value Management

F fb-1 Inverse Femtobarn A measure of the integrated luminosity.

FCC Future Circular Colliders

FIPOI

Fondation des Immeubles Pour les Organisations

Internationales

Non-profit organization in Geneva to help International Organizations with office space via financing

solutions, renting and consulting.

FP

Finance, Procurement and knowledge transfer

department

FP7 Framework Program 7

FTA Active Full Time Equivalent This includes everybody who is not unavailable due to leave entitlements built up in the past.

FTE Full Time Equivalent

G GBAR Gravitational Behavior of Antihydrogen at Rest

Research program with the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) allowing to prepare a measurement of the

effect of gravity on antihydrogen atoms.

GDB Grid Deployment Board Dedicated board for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

GeV Giga electron Volt

GIF++ Gamma Irradiation Facility

New gamma irradiation facility, combined with a high-energy particle beam in the SPS H4 beam line in

hall EHN1.

GLIMOS Group Leader In Matters Of Safety

GS General infrastructure Services department

GS (SIS)

General infrastructure Services department

Scientific Information Service group



H HEP High-Energy Physics

ICHEP (International Conference on HEP), EPS-HEP (Europhysics conference on HEP),IHEP

(Institute for High Energy Physics).

HE-LHC Higher-Energy LHC Higher-energy proton collider.

HFM High Field Magnets

HIE-ISOLDE High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE

HiRadMat

High-Radiation to Materials (HiRadMat) Facility

of CERN/SPS

HL-LHC High Luminosity LHC

HMPID High Momentum Particle Identification Detector Part of the ALICE detector.

HP-SPL High-Power Superconducting Proton Linac

HR Human Resources department

HSE Health Safety and Environment

HSE

Occupational Health and Safety and

Environmental protection unit

I IBL Insertable B-Layer ATLAS upgrade sub-detector.

ICTP International Centre for Theoretical Physics

ILC International Linear Collider

ILD International Large Detector One of several detector concepts which are studied for the International Linear Collider.

INSPIRE

A new scientific information system for HEP (High-Energy Physics), successor of SPIRE (Spectral and

Photometric Imaging Receiver).

INTC

ISOLDE and Neutron Time-of-flight experiments

Committee

IP Intellectual Property

IP1, IP2, IP5, IP8 Collision points IP1: at ATLAS, IP2: at ALICE, IP5: at CMS, IP8: at LHCb.

IR Interaction Regions

ISGTW International Science Grid This Week

ISOLDE On-Line Isotope Mass Separator

Facility dedicated to the production of a large variety of radioactive ion beams for many different

experiments in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics, solid-state physics, materials science and life

sciences. The facility is located at the PS Booster (PSB).

IT Information Technology department

ITS Inner Tracking System

K KT Knowledge Transfer



L

LAGUNA-LBNO

Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification,

Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline

Neutrino Oscillations

Initiative for a giant underground observatory to search for rare events and study terrestrial and

astrophysical neutrinos.

LAr Calorimeter Liquid Argon Calorimeter

LC Linear Collider

LCG LHC Computing Grid Global collaboration linking grid infrastructures and computer centres worldwide.

LEIR Low Energy Ion Ring

LEIR turns low-intensity ion pulses injected from CERN’s LINAC3 into high-density bunches which

are accelerated from 4.2 MeV/u to 72 MeV/u.

LEP3 Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider 3

LEP3 is an idea for a future CERN project of a high luminosity e+e– collider in the LHC tunnel, to study

the Higgs boson.

LHC Large Hadron Collider http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

LHCb Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment Experiment at the LHC.

LHCC Large Hadron Collider Committee

LHCf Large Hadron Collider forward experiment

Verification of interaction model for very high energy cosmic ray at 1017 eV. The LHCf experiment

uses forward particles created inside the LHC as a source to simulate cosmic rays in laboratory

conditions.

LHe Liquid Helium

LHeC Large Hadron electron Collider

The LHeC is a proposed colliding beam facility at CERN for electron-proton and electron-ion

collisions.

LINAC2 LINear ACcelerator 2 50 MeV linear accelerator for protons in use since September 1978.

LINAC3 LINear ACcelerator 3 4.2 MeV/u Heavy Ion Linac in use since 1994.

LINAC4 LINear ACcelerator 4 160 MeV linear accelerator that is built to replace LINAC2 as injector to the PS Booster (PSB).

LIU LHC Injectors Upgrade project

LP-SPL Low Power Super Proton Linac

LS1 Long Shutdown 1 Shutdown of the accelerator complex in 2013-2014.



M M&O Maintenance and Operation

MB Management Board

MCHF Million Swiss Franc

Medicis Medical isotopes collected from ISOLDE

Recuperation of the dumped CERN protons for the production of medical isotopes in the ISOLDE class

A work sector.

MoEDAL Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC

Detector of the LHC which searches for the massive stable (or pseudo-stable) particles, such as

magnetic monopoles or dyons, produced at the LHC.

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html



MTP Medium-Term Plan

MW MegaWatt

mSv milli Sievert Measure of the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.

N NA58 North Area 58 experiment or COMPASS Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy.

NA61 North Area 61 experiment or SHINE Study of Hadron Production in Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS.

NA62 North Area 62 experiment Experiment to measure the very rare kaon decay K+-> π+ nu nubar.

n_TOF neutron Time-Of-Flight facility

n_TOF is a pulsed neutron source coupled to a 200 m flight path designed to study neutron-nucleus

interactions for neutron kinetic energies ranging from a few meV to several GeV.

O OB Overview Board Dedicated board for LHC computing.

OSQAR

Optical Search of QED vacuum magnetic

birefringence, Axion and photon Regeneration

P pA collisions Proton-nucleus collisions Collisions between one parton from the proton and the color fields of the nucleus.

P+M Personnel and Materials An expression to describe total expenses, i.e. combined expenses in personnel and materials costs.

Pb82 Lead ion

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PH (AGS, DT,

ESE, SFT, TH) PHysics department (also hosting the users)

Administration & General Services group, Detector Technologies group, Electronics System for

Experiments group, SoFTware design for experiments group, THeoretical physics unit.

PHOS PHOton Spectrometer Part of the ALICE detector.

PIC-LHC Performance-improving consolidation of the LHC

pp proton-proton

PS Proton Synchrotron

PS212 PS 212 experiment or DIRAC Lifetime Measurements of π+ π- and π+- K-+ Atoms to Test Low-Energy QCD Predictions.

PS215

PS 215 experiment or CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving

OUtdoor Droplets) A study of the link between cosmic rays and clouds with a cloud chamber at the CERN PS.

PSB Proton Synchrotron Booster

Q QGP Quark Gluon Plasma

QPS Quench Protection System



R

R2E Radiation to Electronics

The goal of the R2E Project is to study and propose mitigation actions (e.g. relocation or redesign of

equipment, shielding, etc.) with the aim of increasing the mean time between failures of the LHC

machine to one week for failures of controls electronics caused by radiation at ultimate beam

conditions.

R&D Research and Development

RAMSES

RAdiation Monitoring System for the

Environment and Safety

Radiation Monitoring system developed for LHC based on current industry standards and in use since

2007.

REX(-ISOLDE) Radioactive Beam Experiment

REX-ISOLDE is a post-accelerator for radioactive ions produced by ISOLDE to accelerate the 60 keV

ions from ISOLDE up to 0.8 - 2.2 MeV/u.

RF Radio Frequency

RFQ Radio Frequency Quadrupole

RP Radiation Protection

S SAPOCO Safety Policy Committee

Advisory body to the Director-General for defining Safety policy and for all other important matters

which may arise in this field at CERN.

SC Super Conducting

SHINE North Area 61 experiment or SHINE Study of Hadron Production in Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at the CERN SPS.

SPC Scientific Policy Committee

SPS Super Proton Synchrotron

SPSC Super Proton Synchrotron Committee

SRO Stakeholder relations office

Swing Space

Additional space allowing to temporary re-allocate services/staff/workshops to allow for consolidation

and refurbishment of the original space.

T TDR Technical Design Report

TE TEchnology department

TE (MPE) TEchnology department

Machine Protection and Electrical integrity group

TETRA

Digital radio communication used by the fire brigade as secured communication network.

TeV Tera electron Volt

TH THeory unit

Tier-0 First layer of the computing grid The first layer is the CERN Computing Centre

Tier-1 Second layer of the computing grid

These are large computer centres with sufficient storage capacity and with round-the-clock support for

the Grid. There are currently 11 of these centres.



Tier-2 Third layer of the computing grid

The Tier 2s are typically universities and other scientific institutes, which can store sufficient data and

provide adequate computing power for specific analysis tasks. There are currently 129 Tier 2 centres

globally.

TLEP

TLEP is an idea for a future CERN project of a high luminosity e+e– collider (80km tunne), to study

the Higgs boson.

TOTEM

TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and

diffraction dissociation Measurement at the LHC

Experiment at the LHC.

TPC Time Projection Chamber

TRD Transition Radiation Detector

TSR Test Storage Ring

U UNESCO

United Nations Educational Scientific and

Cultural Organization

UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply

UX85/3 Beampipe UX85/3 One of the sections of the beampipe of LHCb.

V VELO VErtex LOcator detector Part of the LHCb detector.

VHE-LHC Very High Energy LHC

W WLCG Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

Y YE4 Yoke End cap 4 4th shielding disk to be installed at CMS.

http://ph-dep.web.cern.ch/ph-dep/cgi-bin/ph-struct.pl?TOTEM

http://ph-dep.web.cern.ch/ph-dep/cgi-bin/ph-struct.pl?TOTEM

Documents

ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE POUR LA …...priority item of the 2013 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics of constructing the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). The LS1 consolidation