Dr
Zdenek Dolezal
(Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)
30/07/2009, 14:00
Detector Technology and R&D
The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has started taking data last autumn with the inauguration of the LHC. The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) is the key precision tracking device in ATLAS, made up from silicon micro-strip detectors.
The completed SCT has been installed inside the ATLAS experimental hall. Since then the detector was operated for many months under realistic...
Mr
Anton Kapliy
(University of Chicago)
30/07/2009, 14:25
Detector Technology and R&D
As the LHC luminosity is ramped up to the design level of 10^34 cm−2 s−1 and beyond,
the high rates, multiplicities, and energies of particles seen by the detectors will pose a
unique challenge. Only a tiny fraction of the produced collisions can be stored on tape and
immense real-time data reduction is needed. An effective trigger system must maintain high
trigger efficiencies for the...
Igor Gorelov
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of New Mexico, USA)
30/07/2009, 14:50
Detector Technology and R&D
We will describe the principles of radiation damage monitoring using
the current measurements of the pixel sensors to be provided by the
circuits of ATLAS Pixel Detector HVPP4 System. The dependence of the
leakage current with respect to an integrated luminosity at several
temperature scenarios will be presented. Based on the analysis we
have evaluated the sensitivity...
Warren James Clarida
(Physics and Astronomy Department - University of Iowa)
30/07/2009, 15:15
Detector Technology and R&D
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is in the planning phase of a major upgrade in preparation for the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the Super-LHC (SLHC). The SLHC will feature a significant increase in the instantaneous luminosity, leading to up to 200 collisions per interaction. In addition, the sustained radiation from the initial phase of LHC operations will...
Prof.
K.K. Gan
(The Ohio State University)
30/07/2009, 16:15
Detector Technology and R&D
We have designed several ASICs for the optical link upgrades of the new silicon trackers of the ATLAS experiment at the planned upgrades of the LHC, CERN. The ASICs include a high-speed driver for VCSELs, a receiver/decoder for the signal received at the PIN diode, and a clock multiplier to produce a higher frequency clock to serialize the data for transmission. These chips were designed using...
Waruna Fernando
(The Ohio State University)
30/07/2009, 16:40
Detector Technology and R&D
We investigate the feasibility of using VCSEL and PIN for the optical links at the silicon trackers of the ATLAS experiment at the planned upgrades of the LHC, CERN. We irradiated VCSEL and PIN with 24 GeV/c protons at CERN up to the equivalent SLHC fluence of 2.6 x 10^15 p/cm2, including a 50% safety factor. The GaAs VCSEL arrays were fabricated by Optowell and Advanced Optical Component...
Dr
Mitchell Soderberg
(Yale University)
30/07/2009, 17:05
Detector Technology and R&D
Liquid Argon Time Pro jection Chamber (LAr TPC) detectors are
ideally suited for studying neutrino interactions and probing the pa-
rameters that characterize neutrino oscillations. The ability to drift
ionization particles over long distances in purified argon and to trigger
on abundant scintillation light allows for excellent particle identifica-
tion and triggering capability. In...
Dmitriy Beznosko
(NN Group SUNYSB)
30/07/2009, 17:30
Detector Technology and R&D
T2K is Tokai to Kamioka long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment (Japan). The goal of the experiment is to measure theta13 neutrino oscillation parameter by nu-e appearance from nu-mu beam. The near off-axis detector, ND280, consists of several sub-detectors in 0.2T magnetic field, with photon readout scheme. This necessitates usage of the efficient, high performance photon detector that...