William Trischuk
(University of Toronto (CA))
01/09/2014, 09:00
Silvia Miglioranzi
(Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))
01/09/2014, 09:10
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experi-
ment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, providing high-resolution mea-
surements of charged particle tracks in the high radiation environment close
to the collision region.
The operation and performance of the Pixel Detector during the first years of LHC running are described. More than 96% of the detector modules...
Frank Meier
(University of Nebraska (US))
01/09/2014, 09:40
This talk presents the results of searches for various physics channels in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV delivered by the LHC and collected with the CMS detector. Many obtained results crucially depend on the performance of the CMS pixel detector. Among others b- and tau-tagging as well as primary and secondary vertex reconstruction algorithms are discussed. Application...
Janos Karancsi
(University of Debrecen (HU))
01/09/2014, 10:10
Since the beginning of its operation the CMS Silicon Pixel detector performed very well. The operational challenges included the maximization of data taking efficiency, dealing with beam gas interactions and single event upsets, and the recovery of lost modules. The data acquisition techniques also had to adapt to the rapidly changing LHC beam conditions. In order to maximise the physics...
Costanza Cavicchioli
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
01/09/2014, 11:00
The ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) constitutes the two innermost layers of the ALICE experiment, which is the LHC experiment dedicated to the investigation of strongly interacting matter in heavy-ion collisions.
The SPD consists of ~10 million silicon pixels organized in two layers at radii of 39 mm and 76 mm that cover a pseudorapidity range of |η|<2 and |η|<1.4, respectively.
It...
Igor Gorelov
(University of New Mexico (US))
01/09/2014, 11:30
With the increasing radiation dose accumulated by the ATLAS Pixel Detector at the
LHC, effects of radiation damage become more and more visible due to the creation of silicon crystal defects. The monitoring of the detector reveals an increase in the leakage current, which is proportional to the rising radiation dose. Measurements of the effective depletion voltage show a general trend of...
Viktor Veszpremi
(Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))
01/09/2014, 12:00
The CMS pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracker occupying the region around the center of CMS, where the LHC beams are crossed, between 4.3 cm and 30 cm in radius and 46.5 cm along the beam axis. They are operated in a high-occupancy and high-radiation environment created by particle collisions in the LHC. Studies of radiation damage effects to the sensors were performed...
Vito Manzari
(INFN - Bari)
01/09/2014, 12:30
The detailed characterization of quark gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions is the main goal of the ALICE experiment at CERN LHC. The analysis of heavy quarks via the decays of their short-lived hadrons is among the prominent measure to address the in-medium properties of QGP. To efficiently reconstruct these decays ALICE comprises a precise Inner Tracking System (ITS) made out...
Leo greiner
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
01/09/2014, 14:00
ORAL
A new silicon based vertex detector called the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) was installed at the STAR experiment for the RHIC 2014 heavy ion run to improve the vertex resolution and extend the measurement capabilities of STAR in the heavy flavor domain. The HFT consists of 4 concentric cylinders around the STAR interaction point composed of three different silicon detector technologies based on...
Ping Yang
(Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))
01/09/2014, 14:30
ORAL
The Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology offers the possibility to build pixel detectors with very high spatial resolution and low material budget; at the same time they can be produced in commercial CMOS processes. They are therefore very interesting for the innermost tracking layers of particle physics experiments. Significant progress has been made in the field of MAPS in the...
Laci Andricek
(MPG Semiconductor Lab)
01/09/2014, 15:00
ORAL
The DEPFET Collaboration develops highly granular, ultra-thin active pixel detectors for high-performance vertex reconstruction at future collider experiments. A fully engineered vertex detector design, including all the necessary supports and services and a novel ladder design with excellent thermo-mechanical properties, is being developed for the Belle II experiment. The self-supporting...
Peter Kodys
(Charles University (CZ))
01/09/2014, 15:30
ORAL
A pixel detector built with the DEPFET technology will be used for the two innermost layers of the Belle~II experiment at the $e^+e^-$ SuperKEKB collider at KEK. The physics goals of the experiment impose challenging requirements to the design of the pixel detector in terms of performance, material budget and power consumption. The DEPFET technology has proven to be a suitable solution for the...
Luigi Li Gioi
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
01/09/2014, 16:20
ORAL
SuperKEKB, the massive upgrade of the asymmetric electron positron collider KEKB in Tsukuba, Japan, aims at an integrated luminosity in excess of 50 ab$^{-1}$. It will deliver an instantaneous luminosity of $8⋅10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, which is 40 times higher than the world record set by KEKB.
At this high luminosity, a large increase of the background relative to the previous KEKB...
Dominik Dannheim
(CERN)
01/09/2014, 16:50
ORAL
The precision physics needs at TeV-scale linear e+e- colliders (ILC and CLIC) require a vertex-detector system with excellent flavour tagging capabilities through a measurement of displaced vertices. This is essential for example for an explicit measurement of the Higgs decays to pairs of b-quarks, c-quarks and gluons. Efficient identification of top quarks in the decay t—>Wb will give access...
Miho Yamada
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
01/09/2014, 17:20
ORAL
We are developing monolithic pixel detectors based on 0.2 um fully-depleted Silicon-on-Insulator technology fabricated Lapis Semiconductor Co Ltd. for high energy physics experiments, X-ray applications and so on.
To employ SOI devices on such radiation environments, we have to solve effects of total ionization damage for the transistors which are enclosed in the oxide layers.
The holes...
Harris Kagan
(Ohio State University (US))
02/09/2014, 09:00
Ivan Peric
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
02/09/2014, 09:10
HV-CMOS sensors are presently considered for the use in Mu3e experiment, ATLAS and CLIC. These sensors can be implemented in commercial HV-CMOS processes. HV-CMOS sensors feature fast charge collection by drift and high radiation tolerance. The sensor element is an n-well diode in a p-type substrate. This talk will give the overview of the detector- and readout architectures, such as...
Branislav Ristic
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
02/09/2014, 09:40
Deep-submicron HV-CMOS processes feature moderate bulk resistivity and HV capability and are therefore good candidates for drift-based radiation-hard monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS). It is possible to apply 60-100V of bias voltage leading to a depletion depth of ~10-20 µm. Thanks to the high electric field, charge collection is fast and nearly insensitive to radiation-induced trapping....
Fabian Huegging
(University of Bonn)
02/09/2014, 10:10
With the first three years of the LHC running complete, ATLAS and CMS are planning to upgrade their innermost tracking layers with more radiation hard technologies. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond is one such technology. CVD diamond has been used extensively in beam condition monitors as the innermost detectors in the highest radiation areas of BaBar, Belle, CDF and all LHC...
Rainer Wallny
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
02/09/2014, 11:00
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. Chemical...
Nanni Darbo
(Universita e INFN (IT))
02/09/2014, 11:30
To extend the physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), upgrades to the accelerator are planned which will increase the peak luminosity by a factor 5-10. To cope with the increased occupancy and radiation damage, the ATLAS experiment plans to introduce an all-silicon inner tracker with the high luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC). The detector proximity to the interaction point will require...
Joern Lange
(IFAE Barcelona)
02/09/2014, 12:00
Pixel detectors with cylindrical electrodes that penetrate the silicon substrate (so called 3D detectors) offer advantages over standard planar sensors in terms of radiation hardness, since the electrode distance is decoupled from the bulk thickness. In the framework of the ATLAS Forward Physics (AFP) program, work has been carried out to study the suitability of 3D pixel devices for forward...
Yoshinobu Unno
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
02/09/2014, 14:00
We have been developing a planar-process pixel sensor in p-type 6-in. silicon wafer for an application in ATLAS detector for the luminosity upgrade of the large hadron collider (HL-LHC). Our motivation is to develop highly radiation-tolerant and cost-effective sensors for covering large area of the pixel detector. After irradiations and beamtests, inefficient regions in detecting...
Craig Buttar
(University of Glasgow (GB))
02/09/2014, 14:30
To meet the challenges of tracking at the luminosities delivered by the HL-LHC requires replacing and upgrading the tracking systems. To be able to perform pattern recognition and vertexing in events with pile-up of up to 200 requires a larger area pixel system within the tracker. The increase in area requires the development of large area planar detectors for pixel layers at large radii and...
Clara Nellist
(LAL-Orsay (FR))
02/09/2014, 15:00
In 2022, the LHC accelerator complex will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity-LHC to substantially increase statistics for the various physics analyses. These modifications will result in an increase in occupancy and of radiation damage to the ATLAS Inner Detector (ID). In order to operate under these challenging new conditions, and maintain excellent performance in track reconstruction and...
Koji Nakamura
(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
02/09/2014, 16:20
In the ATLAS detector upgrade for the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), a n-in-p planar pixel sensor-module is being developed with HPK. The modules were irradiated at the cyclotron radioisotope center (CYRIC) using 70 MeV protons. For the irradiation, we have designed a novel irradiation box that carries 16 movable slots to irradiate the samples slot-by-slot independently, to reduce the time for...
Mayur Bubna
(Purdue University (US))
02/09/2014, 16:50
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade of CMS pixel detector will
require the development of novel pixel sensors which can withstand
the increase in instantaneous luminosity to $5\times 10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$
and collect ~3000 fb$^{-1}$ of data. The innermost
layer of the pixel detector will be exposed to doses of about $1 \times 10^{16}neq/cm^{2}$.
Hence, new pixel sensors with improved...
Maria Elena Stramaglia
(Universitaet Bern (CH))
02/09/2014, 17:30
POSTER
ATLAS is one of the four big LHC experiments and currently its Pixel-Detector is being upgraded with a new innermost 4th layer, the Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The upgrade will result in better tracking efficiency and compensate radiation damages of the Pixel-Detector. Newly developed front-end electronics and the higher than originally planned LHC luminosity will require a complete re-design of...
Pradeep Sarin
(Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN))
02/09/2014, 17:31
POSTER
We present the design and initial prototype results of a pixellized proton beam profile monitor
for the COMET experiment at J-PARC. The active element of the detector is single crystal diamond grown
by chemical vapor deposition (sc-cvd). The goal of the COMET experiment is to look for charged lepton flavor
violation by direct $\mu$ to e conversion at a sensitivity of $10^{-18}$. In the...
Matteo Centis Vignali
(Hamburg University (DE))
02/09/2014, 17:32
POSTER
The high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) foreseen for 2022 will allow the experiments at the collider to collect data at a luminosity of $5~\times~10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, enhancing the discovery potential for new physics.
The precise determination of vertices in the high radiation environment close to the HL-LHC interaction points demands the development of solid...
Giulio Pellegrini
(Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC) (ES))
02/09/2014, 17:33
POSTER
This work presents new avalanche pad detectors with low gain (LGAD) fabricated with a technology based on APD but with a modified doping profile, in order to have detectors suitable to be used for tracking in high energy physics experiments (such as colliders) and resistant to the high radiation fluencies expected in the future LHC upgrade at CERN. If a significant improvement of the...
Kazuki Motohashi
(Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))
02/09/2014, 17:34
POSTER
The first upgrade of the ATLAS Pixel Detector is the Insertable B-Layer (IBL), just installed in May 2014 in the core of ATLAS. Two different silicon sensor technologies, planara n-in-n and 3D, were used, connected with the new generation 13o0nm IBM CMOS FE-I4 readout chip via solder bump-bonds.
Production quality control tests were set up to verify and rate the performance of the...
Alessandro Gabrielli
(Universita e INFN (IT))
02/09/2014, 17:35
POSTER
The ATLAS Experiment is reworking and upgrading systems during the current LHC shut down. In particular, the Pixel detector is inserting an additional inner layer called Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The Readout-Driver card (ROD), the Back-of-Crate card (BOC), and the S-Link together form the essential frontend data path of the IBL’s off-detector DAQ system. The strategy for IBLROD firmware...
Andreas Kornmayer
(KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
02/09/2014, 17:36
POSTER
The CMS collaboration will upgrade the CMS pixel detector in 2016/2017. For this upgrade the readout chip (ROC) had to be modified. An improved readout logic, larger data buffers and the digital readout scheme promise a significant increase in hit detection efficiency at the high particle flux expected in the LHC environment of a luminosity of $2\times 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. To test the...
Shunji Kishimoto
(KEK)
02/09/2014, 17:37
POSTER
We have been developing an X-ray detector system using a 64-pixel silicon avalanche- photodiode (Si-APD) linear array (pixel size: 100 μm × 200 μm) and pulse counting electronics for multichannel scaling (MCS). The Si-APD linear array consists of 64 pixels 100 × 200 μm^2, with a pixel pitch of 150 μm and a depletion depth of 10 μm. The fast response of Si-APD and the MCS system are used for...
Wolfgang Treberer-Treberspurg
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
02/09/2014, 17:38
POSTER
Silicon based sensors have become the dominant technology for the tracking systems of most modern particle physics experiments. The demand for these sensors is increasing and the existing production capabilities might not be sufficient to fulfill the demands of the future upgrades of the LHC experiments.
To establish a new supplier for the production of silicon strip and pixel sensors a...
Jens Weingarten
(Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))
02/09/2014, 17:39
POSTER
In the Phase-II Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the instantaneous
luminosity will be increased up to about 5*1034 cm-2s-1, which creates many
challenges for future detectors. This necessitates a fundamental redesign of the
ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) to cope with increased radiation damage and increased occupancy in the sub-detectors.
Several...
Several...
Marton Bartok
(University of Debrecen (HU))
02/09/2014, 17:40
POSTER
The Pixel Detector is the innermost part of the CMS Tracker. Therefore it has to prevail in the hardest environment in terms of particle fluence and radiation. Also it is one of the most important detectors of CMS: it gives essential information for vertex reconstruction which is crucial for every analysis.
The efficiency of the Pixel Detector can decrease throughout a run by several...
Mercedes Minano Moya
(National Taiwan University (TW))
02/09/2014, 17:41
POSTER
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being increased in several steps over the next 10 years to maximize its discovery potential for new physics. However, at a luminosity of twice the design luminosity of the LHC of $1 \times 10^{34}$ cm$^{−2}$s$^{−1}$, the performance of the current CMS pixel detector is degraded by substantial deadtime incured by the readout...
Wendy Taylor
(York University (CA))
03/09/2014, 09:00
Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
03/09/2014, 09:10
This talk will introduce the RD-53 collaboration and focus on on-going work in defining the next generation pixel readout chi for the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Will focus on particular on the issue on high data hit rate with MHz trigger rate readout. Will cover issues and possible solutions for internal data flow within the chip, which impacts layout, and options for data compression.
Dmitry Hits
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
03/09/2014, 09:40
The present CMS pixel Read Out Chip (ROC) has been designed for operation at 25 ns and to be efficient up to the nominal instantaneous luminosity of $10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. Based on the excellent LHC performance to date, and the upgrade plans for the accelerators, it is anticipated that the instantaneous luminosity could reach $2\times 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ before Long Shutdown (LS)...
Tuomas Poikela
(University of Turku (FI))
03/09/2014, 10:10
The LHCb Vertex Detector (VELO) will be upgraded in 2018 along with the other subsystems of LHCb in order to enable full readout at 40 MHz, with the data fed directly to the software triggering algorithms. The upgraded VELO is a lightweight hybrid pixel detector operating in vacuum in close proximity to the LHC beams.
The readout will be provided by a dedicated front end ASIC, dubbed...
Piero Giubilato
(Universita e INFN (IT))
03/09/2014, 11:30
This contribution describes a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) specifically designed to improve current MAPS state of the art for particle tracking when very high speed, low power consumption and/or small pixels (down to micron size) are required. The low power target is especially important as one of the design goal is to provide a cheaper and easier to implement alternative to present...
Ayaki Takeda
(Kyoto University)
03/09/2014, 12:00
We have been developing monolithic active pixel detectors, "XRPIX", with the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for future X-ray astronomical satellite missions. XRPIX is wide-band (0.3 – 40 keV) fine imaging spectrometer and the advantage is low background. Our objective performance are high coincidence time resolution (∼ 1 ${\rm \mu}$s), superior hit-position readout time (∼ 10 ${\rm...
Massimo Manghisoni
(Università di Bergamo - Italy)
03/09/2014, 12:30
This work presents the design of a low-noise front-end implementing a novel active signal compression technique. This feature can be exploited in the design of analog readout channels for application to the next generation free electron laser (FEL) experiments. The readout architecture includes the low-noise charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) with dynamic signal compression, a time variant...
Hugh Philipp
(Cornell University)
03/09/2014, 14:30
Synchrotron light sources are capable of producing x-ray synchrotron radiation of extreme brilliance and coherence. These sources create opportunities to exploit experimental techniques in both time-resolved and coherent x-ray imaging experiments, assuming the availability of area detectors designed to capture and record the relevant and desired x-ray information. Capturing this information...
Giuliana Rizzo
(INFN & University - Pisa)
03/09/2014, 16:20
The PixFEL project aims to develop an advanced X-ray camera for imaging suited for the demanding requirements of next generation free electron laser (FEL) facilities. The deployment of new technologies and innovative solutions, already under study for future pixel detectors for tracking, can also boost the performance of imaging instrumentations.
In the first phase of the PixFEL project,...
Roberto Dinapoli
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
03/09/2014, 16:50
MÖNCH is a novel hybrid silicon pixel detector based on charge integration and analog readout, featuring a challengingly small pixel size of 25x25 μm2. It is a research project which aims to push the development of hybrid pixel detectors to its limits in terms of photon flux, position resolution, energy information and low energy detection.
MOENCH02 is a fully functional, small scale...
Ashish Kumar
(State University of New York (US))
04/09/2014, 09:30
The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system, providing high precision space point measurements of charged particle trajectories. The performance of the current pixel detector has been excellent during Run 1 of the LHC. However, the foreseen significant increases of the instantaneous and integrated luminosities at the LHC necessitate an upgrade of the pixel...
Paolo Morettini
(INFN Genova)
04/09/2014, 11:20
From 2024, the HL-LHC will provide unprecedented pp luminosities to ATLAS, resulting in an additional integrated luminosity of around 2500 fb-1 over ten years. This will present a unique opportunity to substantially extend the mass reach in searches for many signatures of new physics, in several cases well into the multi-TeV region, and to significantly extend the study of the properties of...
Mauro Dinardo
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
04/09/2014, 11:50
The high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) requires a major pixel detector R&D effort to develop both readout chip and sensor that are capable to withstand unprecedented extremely high radiation damage. The target integrated luminosity of 3000 fb-1, that the HL-LHC is expected to deliver over about 10 years of operation, translates into a hadron fluence of 2x10^16 1MeV eq....
Jennifer Jentzsch
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
04/09/2014, 12:20
In preparation of the ATLAS Pixel Insertable B-Layer integration, two detector components, so called staves, were mounted around the Beryllium ATLAS beam pipe and tested using production quality assurance measurements as well as dedicated data taking runs to validate a correct grounding and shielding schema. Each stave consists of 32 FE-I4 readout chips of ~ 2x2cm size which sums up to over...
Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
04/09/2014, 14:00
The LHCb Vertex Detector (VELO) will be upgraded in 2018 to a lightweight, pixel detector capable of 40 MHz readout and operation in very close proximity to the LHC beams. The thermal management of the system will be provided by evaporative CO2 circulating in micro channels embedded within thin silicon plates. This solution has been selected due to the excellent thermal efficiency, the...
Mohsine Menouni
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
04/09/2014, 14:30
This talk will review progress and status of testing of deep submicron CMOS technology for tolerance to radiation with total ionizing dose up to 1Grad, and also for tolerance to single event effects. Multiple prototypes have been fabricated and tested with x-rays, gamma rays, and protons. Devices tested range from single transistors to full circuits. A summary of results obtained so far will...
Marko Mikuz
(Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
04/09/2014, 15:00
Raising the electric field so as to provoke charge multiplication of electrons has enabled silicon to provide measurable signals from sensors irradiated to unprecedented radiation levels up to 1.6x10^17 n_eq/cm^2, making it a contender also for HL-LHC very forward tracking and calorimneters. A simple scaling of collected charge vs. applied bias has been established experimentally for fluences...
Gianluigi Casse
(University of Liverpool (GB))
04/09/2014, 15:30
The CERN/RD50 collaboration is dedicated to the radiation hardening of semiconductor sensors for future super-collider needs. It is therefore natural that the findings of our collaboration in this field are relevant to the pixel devices for the LHC experiment upgrades. A summary of the consistent amount of results on radiation tolerance enhancement of silicon sensors from RD50 will be...
Makoto Motoyoshi
(Tohoku-MincroTec Co., Ltd (T-Micro))
04/09/2014, 16:20
Abstract
A 3D IC is an effective solution for reducing the manufacturing costs of advanced 2D LSI while ensuring equivalent device performance and functionalities. This technology allows a new device architecture of stacked detectors/sensor devices with a small dead sensor area and facilitates hyper-parallel data processing. In pixel detectors or image sensor devices, many transistors are...
Robert Patti
(Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp.)
04/09/2014, 16:50
The term 3D integrated circuit covers a wide swath of technologies today. It can mean anything from chip stacking to interposers or “2.5D integration”, to TSV’d wafer stacking or even the latest bleeding edge technology push into monolithic 3D devices. No matter which type, with scaling’s advantages rapidly eroding, 3D integrated circuits appear to be gaining traction in the market.
Most...
Aliaksandr Pranko
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
04/09/2014, 17:20
Extensive discussions are underway to refine the physics goals and scope of detector upgrades for the future LHC runs, following the Higgs boson discovery. New opportunities for improving performance of the ATLAS and CMS tracking detectors in the very forward region are of particular interest to future Higgs and other measurements, which are central to the ATLAS and CMS physics programs. We...
William Trischuk
(University of Toronto (CA))
05/09/2014, 09:00
Paul O'Connor
(Department of Physics)
05/09/2014, 09:10
Over the next 5 years, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collaboration will construct a new 8m-class ground-based telescope and 3 Gpixel camera to perform an all-sky survey in the optical and near IR. Science themes of LSST include fundamental cosmology (testing the lambda-CDM paradigm and search for new physics), galactic astronomy (assembly history of the Milky Way), Solar System astronomy...
Oliver Grimm
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
05/09/2014, 09:40
The Spectrometer/Telescope Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a remote sensing instrument developed to perform X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of solar flares. The imaging is realized by a Fourier-imaging technique using tungsten grid collimators in front of CdTe pixel detectors.
The detectors are used for an X-ray spectrometer unit based on the IDeF-X HD ASIC front-end to perform high resolution...
Javier Tiffenberg
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
05/09/2014, 10:10
The DAMIC experiment uses high resistivity, fully depleted CCD's as
detectors to search for dark matter particles. The low electronic
readout noise (RMS ~2 electrons) of the CCD's make possible to reach a
detection threshold below 50 eV of deposited energy by nuclear recoils
in the silicon target. Owing to these characteristics, DAMIC has an
unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses...
