Conveners
Testing and evaluation: I
- Vidya Sagar Vobbilisetti (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
Testing and evaluation: II
- Anastasiia Velyka (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Testing and evaluation: III
- Jan-Hendrik Arling (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
Testing and evaluation: IV
- Tamar Zakareishvili (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))
Testing and evaluation: V
- Anastasiia Velyka (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Testing and evaluation: VI
- Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Testing and evaluation: VII
- Lennart Huth (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Testing and evaluation: VIII
- Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC))
The upcoming HL-LHC will pose significant challenges to particle detectors which will have to cope with many quasi simultaneous collisions. To disentangle different collisions and to restore the efficiency of reconstruction algorithms, theย next-generation of silicon pixel detectors must provide a per hit time measurement with a resolution on the order of 50 ps enabling 4D tracking.ย 3D silicon...
The dual-radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dRICH) detector is a crucial component of the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), designed for charged hadron identification in the forward region across a momentum range of ~3 to ~50 GeV/c. It will utilize aerogel and gas (CโFโ) radiators to produce Cherenkov light, detected by a total of ~3 m2 of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with...
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver proton-proton collisions at 5 to 7.5 times the nominal LHC luminosity, with an expected number of 140 to 200 pp-interactions per bunch crossing. To maintain the performance of muon triggering and reconstruction under high background, the forward part of the muon spectrometer of the CMS experiment will be upgraded with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM)...
The Phase II upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aims to significantly increase the accelerator's instantaneous luminosity. To meet the trigger requirements and withstand the higher radiation levels and ageing of electronics, a new readout system for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is being developed. The performance of the new TileCal electronics has been evaluated in multiple...
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are particle detectors extensively used in several domains of Physics. In High Energy Physics, they are typically operated in avalanche mode with a high-performance gas mixture based on tetrafluoroethane (C2H2F4), a fluorinated high Global Warming Potential greenhouse gas.
The RPC EcoGas@GIF++ Collaboration has pursued an intensive R&D activity to search for...
The CMS experiment will be upgrading its detectors in lieu of higher luminosities and collision rates during the High-Luminosity era of the LHC (HL-LHC). One key upgrade of the CMS detector will be its end-cap calorimeters, which will be fitted with the new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL). The Hadronic calorimeter is split into two sections using different technologies owing to the amount...
The expected luminosity increase at the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC), with instantaneous luminosities up $7.5 \times 10^{34}~\mathrm{cm}^{โ2}\mathrm{s}^{โ1}$, will be a challenge to the
performance of the ATLAS detector. The pile-up is expected to increase to up to 200 interactions per bunch crossing, resulting in degraded performance of the currently used reconstruction and...
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) fabricated using advanced CMOS imaging processes represent the ideal candidate for vertex detectors and trackers in future lepton colliders, offering high circuit densities, low material and power budgets.
The OCTOPUS project, developed within the DRD3 collaboration, aims to simulate, develop, and evaluate fine-pixel monolithic sensors based on the 65...
For the upcoming high-luminosity LHC, the endcap calorimeters of the CMS experiment will be replaced by the high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL). HGCAL is a sampling calorimeter using both silicon and scintillator as active materials in different regions depending on the radiation dose. The scintillator-based front-end of HGCAL has been tested in Summer 2024 in a test beam campaign at CERN's...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was installed on the
International Space Station in 2011. This particle physics experiment
is designed to measure the composition of cosmic rays in low Earth
orbit, with the primary goal of distinguishing between antimatter and
matter. AMS is equipped with a permanent magnet and multiple detectors,
allowing it to analyze incoming cosmic rays with...
Muon Spin Rotation (ฮผSR) is a well-established technique in material science for probing magnetic properties at the atomic scale. Traditional scintillator-based ฮผSR detectors are fundamentally limited in spatial resolution and event rate, restricting measurement precision. The utilization of ultra-thin silicon pixel sensors enables precise particle tracking, potentially revolutionizing ฮผSR...
The DRD-on-calorimeter collaboration has attracted the ongoing developments of future experiment calorimeters. Several activities are ongoing in building and testing new prototypes capable of demonstrating the feasibility of different techniques. In this respect, already many results have been produced by the different projects in the community. Moreover, the collaboration is working on...
Beam Tests for the Belle II VTX upgrade at High Temperatures with a Peltier-based heating and cooling device
The Belle II experiment currently records data at the SuperKEKB e+eโ collider, which holds the world luminosity record of $5.1\times10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ and plans to push up to $6\times10^{35}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. In such a luminosity range for e$^+$e$^-$โ collisions, the inner detection...
Charged hadron particle identification (PID) is essential for a successful flavour physics experiment. The Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system in LHCb has provided excellent performance to date, and maintaining this level of PID performance is central to the Upgrade II physics programme. The key challenge posed by the high-luminosity LHC is an increase in pile-up at LHCb to ~40 due to an...
In high-energy physics, there is a need to investigate silicon sensor concepts that offer large-area coverage and cost-efficiency for particle tracking detectors. Sensors based on CMOS imaging technology present a promising alternative silicon sensor concept.
As this technology follows a standardised industry process, it can provide lower sensor production costs and enable fast and...
A novel hybrid photodetector has been developed and produced as part of the 4DPHOTON ERC-funded project. This device is based on a vacuum tube containing a transmission photocathode, a microchannel plate, and a Timepix4 ASIC used as pixelated anode. It is designed to image single-photon at rates of up to 1 billion photons per second over an area of approximately $7 cm^{2}$, achieving excellent...
The Tile Calorimeter, the central hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, is in the process of being upgraded for the upcoming High Luminosity โ Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The Tile Calorimeter test beam set-up in the North Experiment Area at CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is used to test electronics and software for the HL-LHC upgrade of the calorimeter. This study aims to show,...
During the LHC Long Shutdown 3, the ALICE experiment will replace the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System with three truly-cylindrical, ultra-light layers constituted by bent wafer-scale Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) realized in 65 nm CMOS technology through stitching technique.
The first ITS3 sensor prototypes were produced in the Engineering Run 1 in 2023....
Detectors operated within high radiation environments such as at the HL-LHC will face unprecedented challenges in particle rates and radiation induced damage. Thus, a deep understanding of radiation induced damage in the detector is crucial to ensure the performance requirements are met over the lifetime of the detector. In semiconductor based detectors the radiation induced damage can be...
The High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will reach an approximate pile-up of 200 collisions per bunch crossing, three times more than the current Large Hadron Collider. Beginning operation at the end of the decade, it will accumulate up to 4000 fb^-1, increasing the chances of observing new processes and allowing measurement of rare processes with higher precision. Moreover, the...
The installations of detector upgrades for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will begin in late 2026. The luminosity is expected to increase by a factor of 7.5, reaching a total integrated luminosity of 4000 fb$^{-1}$. The number of collisions per Bunch Crossing (BX) will be between 140 and 200 with 1.5 vertex/mm. This poses important challenges for the tracking performance in...
In the LHC Run 5, the instantaneous luminosity of LHCb will increase by more than a factor of 5. This necessitates an upgrade of the main tracking systems to cope with the increased occupancy and radiation damage. As a part of the proposed Upgrade II, the current scintillating fibre (SciFi) tracker will be replaced by the so-called Mighty Tracker, featuring a scintillating fibre part in the...
High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS) offer $\mathcal{O}$(ns) timing in combination with a low material budget making them ideal for tracking detectors in high energy physics. With future experiments aiming for higher luminosities, the HV-MAPS technology has to satisfy strict requirements on time resolution and radiation tolerance. One of such experiments is the proposed LHCb...
The high energy physics community recently gained access to a 65 nm CMOS
imaging process, which enables a higher density of in-pixel logic in monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS). To explore this novel technology, the H2M (Hybrid-to-Monolithic) test chip has been designed and manufactured. The design followed a digital-on-top design workflow and ports a hybrid pixel-detector architecture,...
The IDEA apparatus, a proposed experiment for the future FCC-ee accelerator, recently incorporated a novel electromagnetic calorimeter into its baseline design. This calorimeter aims to improve the energy reconstruction for neutral particles to 3 $\%$ at 1 GeV, while simultaneously enabling particle-flow algorithms through fine segmentation.
Designed to fit inside the magnet coil, the...
During the $3^{rd}$ LHC Long Shutdown (LS3) that will take place in the years 2026-2030 the three innermost layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) will be replaced by a truly cylindrical tracker (ITS3) consisting of Monolithic Active Pixel Silicon (MAPS) sensors in a 65 nm technology.
A thickness reduction to 50 ยตm will allow the bending of silicon sensors to realize a...
The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN will require silicon pixel detectors that can withstand extreme radiation levels. To face these challenges, the ATLAS experiment will carry out its Phase II Upgrade. This includes replacing the current tracking system with the all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk), whose innermost layer will feature radiation-hard 3D sensors....
