The AITANA group is very active in the fields of accelerator technologies and detector instrumentation. For this latter field, we specialise in R&D of silicon-based detectors and, in particular, we are concentrated on detector concepts for future lepton colliders, with special emphasis on FCC-ee and the Linear Collider Facility (LCF).

These projects will feature detectors that will be optimized to use Particle Flow (PF) techniques. These techniques require maximizing the information provided in each collision in order to fully reconstruct and separate all particles generated. This implies the construction of detectors with high granularity and featuring minimum dead material.

In the AITANA group we work in the design, construction and test of novel proposals for the forward tracking systems and electromagnetic highly granular calorimeters for detector concepts at future lepton colliders, including FCC-ee and LCF.

Moreover, the highly granular calorimeter concepts investigated by the AITANA group are being considered and adapted for other applications and experiments seeking direct or indirect discovery of new particles (Lohengrin, LUXE-NPOD) or the scrutiny of the uncharted territory of the strong-field QED regime (LUXE experiment).