DESY and the Helmholtz Association

B56 Project Studium

Sommersemester 2023
Patrick Fuhrmann, Michael Schuh, Tim Wetzel

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Why this introduction to HGF ?

We got permission to spend part of our normal working hours teaching, because
Helmholtz/DESY management believes that
• Science need to be brought to more people in different fields.
• We have the obligation to interest young people in science
• We need science affine computer scientists to help handle our compute
requirements.

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 Were are we located in the German Science Landscape

Gauss
Alliance

Source : “The German Research Landscape“ by www.research-in-germany.org

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The Helmholtz Association Cheat Sheet

• Germany’s largest research organization

• Named after Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
• one of the last great scientific generalists (Polymath)
• Annual budget of ~ € 4,5 billion
• ~ 39,000 employees
• 18 independent research centres
• all over Germany
• 400 new patents are filed every year
Source: wikipedia

• Approx. 20 new high-tech spin-offs per year

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Helmholtz Fields of research
The Helmholtz Association’s fields of research focus on the
major societal challenges of our time.
• Matter (High Energy Physics, Astro Particle Physics, Photon Science)
• Digital revolution
• Climate change
• Energy transition
• Transport in the future
• The battle against severe and widespread diseases
• Big advantage: Allows for interdisciplinary work

Image: Petra IV, Press, TDR

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HGF Locations
• Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
(AWI)
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
• German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
• Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research (HZI)
• Helmholtz Center for Information Security – CISPA
• Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
(HZG)
• Helmholtz-Center München - German Research Center for Environmental
Health (HMGU)
• Helmholtz-Center Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
(MDC)

Image: Helmholtz Press

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You might have seen .....
70°38′42″S 8°15′51″W

Ekström Ice Shelf

Queen Maud Land

89.99 -63.453056
Amundsen–Scott
South Pole Statio

Courtesy: ICECube

Polarstern:
An entire year trapped in the Arctic ice

Astrophyiscs
Courtesy: AWI Mosaic

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And so much more ...

Courtesy: Juelich

Courtesy: DESY/Petra III/ P03

Courtesy: UFZ/Erde und Umwelt

Courtesy: GFZ/Erde und Umwelt

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DESY Science

Image: Helmut Dosch

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DESY: Two locations; one Institute
Hamburg Zeuthen

Image: press@desy.de

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Science focus @ DESY
Photon Science
Creating super bright and super short light pulses as tool for other sciences.
European X-FEL
FLASH
Petra III -> Petra IV Particle Physics
CFEL
Understanding the building blocks of the known universe.
CSSB, Structural Biology
EMBL, European Molecular Bio “Why is there not nothing?”
CERN: Large Hadron Collider
Japan: Belle , Belle II
In preparation: ILC
Astronomy
Multi Messenger Physics (Light, Neutrino, Gravitational Waves)
Gamma Ray Astronomy: CTA
Neutrino Physics: Ice Cube (South Pole, Amundson-Scott Station

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Photon Science Example

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 Petra III -> Petra IV
Photon Synchrotrons
Battery

Transportation

Cultural Heritage
Efficient Supercomputer

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The EU XFEL
European X-Ray Free Electron Laser

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One of the most brilliant light sources

Images: Courtesy press@xfel.eu

Electron – Photon Converter

EU-XFEL

Data Acquisition
Photon Beams
Electron Accelerator

1.7 Km 27,000 Light Pulses/sec

Energy = 17.5 GeV Almost speed of light! a femto (10-15) seconds 0.8 nm
https://www.xfel.eu/facility/overview/how_it_works/index_eng.html

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Multi Messenger Astrophysics
Photons (Light) Gravitational Waves

Particles (Neutrinos)

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The South Pole Ice Cube Neutrino Experiment

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Cherenkov Telescope Array

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The European Open Science Cloud, EOSC
„Ursula Von der Leyen“ at the WEF 2020

We are creating an
„European Open Science Cloud“ now!

We will create a pool of interlinked

information, a ‘web of research data‘.
Every researcher will be able to better
use not only their own data, but also
those of others!

Assumption: The result is more valuable than the sum of it’s pieces.

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Involvement
• European Level
• The European Open Science Cloud, EOSC
• Projects and Governance initiatives to foster Open Science in Europe.

• GAIA-X
• …. handelt es sich um einen Standard für eine Cloud-Infrastruktur. (Industrie)

• German Level
• HIFIS (Helmholtz IT Infrastructure)
• Nationale Forschungs Daten Infrastruktur, NFDI
• Photon Science: Daphne
• Astro Particle: PUNCH 4 NFDI:
• DESY (headquarters) and HTW Berlin involved with Prof. Hermann Hessling

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www.htw-berlin.de
Mendelejew und Meyer 1869

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 But it is only almost compete:

• How does gravity work ?

• What is dark matter?
• What is dark energy?
• Is g-2 real ?

And more:

• Why is there more matter than anti matter?

• Where are all the magnetic monopoles:
• Why is the univers so homogenious?

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Interdisciplinary Research Platform

Image: Helmut Dosch

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