Conveners
Semiconductor Detectors
- Stefania Beole (CERN)
- Marko Mikuz (CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors: Overview Session
- Paula Collins (CERN)
- Petra Riedler (CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Anna Macchiolo (MPG)
- Petra Riedler (CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Massimiliano Fiorini (CERN)
- Laci Andricek (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Markus Keil (CERN)
- Ulrich Parzefall (CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)
- Anthony Affolder (University of Liverpool)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Simon Kwan (Fermilab)
- Paula Collins (CERN)
Semiconductor Detectors
- Paula Collins (CERN)
- Petra Riedler (CERN)
Dr
Philippe Grenier
(SLAC)
09/06/2011, 14:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
New pixel sensors are currently under development for ATLAS Upgrades. The first upgrade stage will consist in the construction of a new pixel layer that will be installed in the detector during the 2013 LHC shutdown. The new layer (Insertable-B-Layer, IBL) will be inserted between the inner most layer of the current pixel detector and the beam pipe at a radius of 3.2cm. The expected high...
Dr
Selcuk Cihangir
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
09/06/2011, 14:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
FNAL is participating in a CMS Tracker silicon sensor R&D project for the second phase of the planned LHC upgrade (HL-LHC). We present results from the tests conducted at Fermilab to determine the characteristics of thin, single-sided silicon sensors acquired from HPK in order to establish optimal material and strip/pixel features for the upgrade of the CMS Tracker. In addition to increased...
Dr
Anthony Affolder
(University of Liverpool)
09/06/2011, 14:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is continuing to deliver an ever-increasing luminosity to the experiments, plans for an upgraded machine called Super-LHC (sLHC) are progressing. The upgrade is foreseen to increase the LHC design luminosity by a factor ten. The ATLAS experiment will need to build a new tracker for sLHC operation, which needs to be suited to the harsh sLHC...
Dr
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
09/06/2011, 15:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
We present the results of the characterization of novel n-in-p planar pixel detectors, designed for the future upgrades of the ATLAS pixel system. N-in-p silicon devices are a promising candidate to replace the n-in-n sensors thanks to their radiation hardness and cost effectiveness, that could allow for an increased pixel instrumented area at larger radius.
The n-in-p modules presented...
David Christian
(Fermilab)
09/06/2011, 16:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
Semiconductor detectors have been part of the HEP detector builder's "kit" for decades. Nonetheless, just as the semiconductor industry has continued for decades to deliver exponential improvements in device capabilities, the development of new sensor capabilities has and is continuing at a rapid pace. This talk will present a brief history of the use of semiconductor detectors in HEP...
Ulrich Parzefall
(Freiburg University)
09/06/2011, 16:35
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
In order to harvest the maximum physics potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is foreseen to significantly increase the LHC luminosity by upgrading the LHC towards the HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC). Especially the final upgrade (Phase-II Upgrade) foreseen for 2021 will mean unprecedented radiation levels, exceeding the LHC fluences by roughly an order of magnitude. Due to the...
Mr
Walter Sondheim
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10/06/2011, 14:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
An ambitious physics program now seems possible with the addition of two new vertex detectors to the PHENIX experiment at the RHIC
accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The VTX barrel
detector consists of two inner layers of AC-coupled pixel detectors surrounding the Beryllium beam-pipe, followed by two layers of DC-coupled single sided strip-pixel detectors, the VTX detector is...
Dr
Massimiliano Fiorini
(CERN)
10/06/2011, 14:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The Gigatracker (GTK) is a hybrid silicon pixel detector developed for NA62, the experiment studying ultra-rare kaon decays at the CERN SPS. Three GTK stations will provide precise momentum and angular measurements on every track of the high intensity NA62 hadron beam with a time-tagging resolution of 150 ps. Multiple scattering and hadronic interactions of beam particles in the GTK has to be...
Daniel Hynds
(University of Glasgow-Unknown-Unknown)
10/06/2011, 14:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
With the start-up of the LHC the LHCb experiment has successfully launched its programme towards its goals of discovery and precision measurements in the flavour physics sector. Nominal luminosity running for LHCb was already reached at the end of 2010, and the first phase of this programme is expected to be completed within 5 years of data taking. After this there is an opportunity for LHCb...
Dr
Jelena Ninkovic
(Max PlanckInstitute for Physics)
10/06/2011, 15:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
With a world-record integrated luminosity of 1/ab the Belle detector has impressively verified the CP violation in the B-meson system as formulated within the Standard Model (SM). On the other hand, Belle has also found some tantalizing hints, although statistically not yet significant, of new physics beyond the SM. In order to further explore this exciting field, an upgrade of the...
Markus Keil
(2nd Institute Of Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / CERN)
11/06/2011, 08:30
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, providing high-resolution measurements of charged particle tracks in the high radiation environment close to the collision region. This capability is vital for the identification and measurement of proper decay times of long-lived particles such as b-hadrons, and thus vital for the...
Morris Swartz
(Johns Hopkins University-Unknown-Unknown)
11/06/2011, 08:50
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
This contribution discusses the performance of the CMS Pixel Detector at the LHC. It describes the status of the detector components and their behavior throughout the first two years of operation. The contribution will give an overview of the performance in term of efficiency, resolution and alignment as well as a description of the calibration process. Finally it will also cover the overall...
Dr
Stefania Beole
(University of Torino and INFN)
11/06/2011, 09:10
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The two intermediate layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) are instrumented with Silicon Drift Detectors.
The detector calibration and monitoring procedures as well as their performance over almost two years of data taking, both with pp
and PbPb collisions, will be presented.
In particular, the techniques for measuring the drift velocity and its stability over time will be...
Dr
Thomas Latham
(University of Warwick)
11/06/2011, 09:30
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
LHCb is a dedicated experiment to study new physics in the decays of beauty and charm hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The beauty and charm hadrons are identified through their flight distance in the Vertex Locator (VELO), and
hence the detector is essential for both the trigger performance and offline physics analyses. The VELO is the highest resolution vertex detector at...
Dr
Igor Rubinskiy
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown)
11/06/2011, 09:50
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
A high resolution (\sigma <3um) beam telescope based on monolithic active pixel sensors was developed within the EUDET collaboration. EUDET was a coordinated detector R&D programme for the future International Linear Collider providing test beam infrastructure to detector R&D groups.The telescope consists of six sensor planes with a pixel pitch of either 18.4 um or 10 um and can be operated...
Marco Bomben
(LPNHE)
11/06/2011, 11:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
To extend the physics reach of the LHC, upgrades to the accelerator are planned which will allow to boost the integrated luminosity delivered to the experiments from about 700/fb to 3000/fb. To achieve this, the peak luminosity will have to rise by a factor 5 to 10 which leads to increased occupancy and radiation damage of the tracking detectors.
To cope with the elevated occupancy, the...
Prof.
Marko Mikuz
(University Ljubljana/J. Stefan Institute)
11/06/2011, 11:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
Progress in experimental particle physics in the coming decade depends
crucially upon the ability to carry out experiments at high energies and
high luminosities. These two conditions imply that future experiments
will take place in very high radiation areas. In order to perform these
complex and perhaps expensive experiments new radiation hard
technologies will have to be developed. ...
Dr
Aaron Mac Raighne
(Glasgow University)
11/06/2011, 11:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The Large Hadron collider (LHC) will under go a luminosity upgrade to the High-Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC). This will result in an order of magnitude increase in radiation levels experienced by the silicon sensors of the experiments’ tracking and vertex detector systems. The development of ultra-radiation hard silicon sensors, capable of withstanding particle fluences beyond 10E16 1 MeV...
Mrs
Francisca Munoz Sanchez
(IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria-Consejo Sup. de Investig)
11/06/2011, 12:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
We present a novel semiconductor 2D position-sensitive detector based on planar technology of single-sided microstrips. The device is a microstrip sensor with implants covered by a resistive material. Position information along the strip direction is obtained by means of the resistive charge division method. A SPICE model of the detectors was developed and prototype sensors were produced. They...
Harry Van Der Graaf
(NIKHEF)
11/06/2011, 12:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
When a minimum ionizing particle crosses an aluminium foil, at least one low energy electron is emitted, at the crossing point, in about 6 percent of the cases. With low work function materials (ceramics, or CsI, diamond), this probability may be much higher. Since only the skin of the foil participates, the efficiency to emitat least one electron can be increased by surface enlargement...
Dr
Sergio Diez-Cornell
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))
11/06/2011, 14:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The inner tracker of the present ATLAS detector has been designed and developed to function in the environment of the present Large Hadron Collider (LHC). At the next-generation tracking detector proposed for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the so-called ATLAS Upgrade, the particle densities and radiation levels will be higher by as much as a factor of ten. The new detectors must be faster,...
Dr
Shin'ichiro Takeda
(RIKEN and ISAS/JAXA)
11/06/2011, 14:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
A Compton camera is a gamma-ray imager which works in sub-MeV/MeV energy band. Up to the present, all-sky monitor COMPTEL onboard NASA's CGRO satellite has been only successful Compton camera for practical use. It consists of an upper array of liquid scintillation detectors and a lower array of NaI scintillation detectors with separation by a distance of 1.5 meter. The COMPTEL was a great...
Mr
Ayaki Takeda
(SOKENDAI)
11/06/2011, 14:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
A monolithic pixel detector with a 0.2 um fully-depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology, called SOIPIX, is now being developed. These are utilizing thick handle wafer of SOI structure as a radiation sensor to detect charged particles and X-ray. Therefore, SOIPIX can be applied to the high-energy experiments, astrophysics, medical imaging and so on.
One of the detectors, called...
Manfred Valentan
(Institute for High Energy Physics Vienna (HEPHY) - OeAW)
11/06/2011, 15:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
Precision machines like electron-positron-colliders and b-factories demand for low material budget and high resolution when it comes to particle tracking. A low material budget can be achieved by using thin double sided silicon detectors (DSSDs) and lightweight construction. Since thin sensors only give low signals, one has to be very careful to achieve high charge collection efficiency, which...
Dr
Yusuf Zakari
(DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in strong Materials and School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand. Private Bag 3, PO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa)
11/06/2011, 15:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The exceptional and unique physical properties of diamond have made the mineral a choice material in radiation measurement. Diamond detectors are currently used extensively in high-energy physics. The tissue equivalence of diamond allows for accurate radiation dose determination without large corrections for different attenuation values in biological tissue. The low Z value limits this...
Dr
Benedetto Di Ruzza
(Fermilab)
11/06/2011, 16:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) pursues a broad physics program at Fermilab's Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. Since its commissioning in early 2001 the CDF Run II detector delivered about 10 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity of data. CDF has installed 8 layers of silicon microstrip detectors. In this talk will be described the operational challenge encountered over the past 10...
Dr
Zhenyu Ye
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab)
11/06/2011, 16:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
A Silicon Microstrip Tracker (SMT) has been operating at the D0 Run II experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider since 2001. The silicon sensor leakage currents, full depletion voltages as well as signal to noise ratio are monitored for radiation damage. During this monitoring process a bulk carrier-type reversal was observed in the inner layers of silicon sensors. The lifetime of the SMT...
Victoria Moeller
(Dept. of Physics, Cavendish Lab.-University of Cambridge-Unknown)
11/06/2011, 16:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT), comprising of silicon micro-strip detectors is one of the key precision tracking devices in the ATLAS Inner Detector. ATLAS is one of the experiments at CERN LHC.
The completed SCT is in very good shapes with 99.3% of the SCT’s 4088 modules (a total of 6.3 million strips) are operational. The noise occupancy and hit efficiency exceed the design...
Johan Luisier
(EPFL Lausanne)
11/06/2011, 17:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The LHCb experiment is designed to perform
high-precision measurements of CP violation and search for New Physics
using the enormous flux of beauty and charmed hadrons produced at the LHC.
The LHCb detector is a single-arm spectrometer with excellent tracking
and particle identification capabilities. The Silicon Tracker is part of the tracking system and
measures very precisely the...
Dr
Jean-Laurent Agram
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)
11/06/2011, 17:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The CMS Silicon Strip Tracker (SST), comprising 9.6 million readout channels from 15 148 modules covering an area of 198m2, needs to be precisely calibrated in order to correctly interpret and reconstruct the events recorded from the detector, ensuring that the SST performance fully meets the physics research program of the CMS experiment. Calibration constants may be derived within several...
Mr
Tony Price
(University of Birmingham, SPiDeR)
13/06/2011, 14:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
Future high energy detectors will require unprecedented energy and position resolutions. Two CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), TPAC and FORTIS, have been designed to study the issues involved in achieving these.
One application is to use MAPS as the active layer of a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter, allowing high granularity calorimeter systems which can utilise particle...
Dr
Toshinobu Miyoshi
(KEK)
13/06/2011, 14:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
We are developing monolithic pixel detectors with a 0.2 um silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. The substrate layer is high-resistivity silicon, and works as a radiation sensor having p-n junctions. The SOI layer is 40 nm silicon, where readout electronics is implemented. There is a buried oxide layer between these silicon layers. This structure is ideal for a monolithic pixel detector....
Ladislav Andricek
(MPI Halbleiterlabor)
13/06/2011, 14:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
The prototyping of the latest generation of DEPFET active pixel sensors designed for the vertex detector at the Belle-II experiment at KEK, Japan, and experiments at a future linear collider, has recently been finalized. For the first time the thinning technology based on SOI wafers finds now its application in a high energy physics experiment. The DEPFET (DEpleted P-channel FET) is a field...
Dr
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
13/06/2011, 15:00
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
A new pixel module concept is presented, where thin sensors and a novel vertical integration technique are combined. This R&D activity is carried out in view of the future ATLAS pixel detector upgrades.
A first set of n-in-p pixel sensors with active thicknesses of 75 and 150 microns has been produced from standard thickness wafers using a thinning process developed at the...
Lorenzo Uplegger
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))
13/06/2011, 15:20
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
At the SLHC, after 2500 pb-1 of data, the expected maximum fluence for the pixel region (<20 cm) will be 2.5E16 cm-2. To cope with this unprecedented radiation environment, there has been a worldwide effort to find possible solutions for vertex and tracking detectors at the SLHC. A variety of solutions have been pursued. These include diamond sensors, 3D sensors, MCZ planar silicon detectors...
Dr
Juha Kalliopuska
(VTT)
13/06/2011, 15:40
Semiconductor Detectors
Oral Presentation
During the past five years VTT has actively developed fabrication process for the state-of-the-art edgeless strip and pixel detectors with a negligible dead region at the edges (below 1 um). In total four prototype process runs have been completed and characterization results have been published actively. The presentation gives and overview on the properties of the edgeless detectors...
