Quality Assurance and Reliability Testing for Silicon Trackers

• Alan Honma (Brown University (US))

The lecture will review the main concepts of quality assurance and reliability testing in HEP with some real-life examples of QA problems and reliability issues and consequences. An overview of the main tools for testing will be presented as well.

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The Quality Assurance and Reliability Testing laboratory of the EP/DT group at CERN

• Alessandro La Rosa (CERN)

The Quality Assurance and Reliability Testing lab is a service maintained by the EP-DT group at CERN. The lab provides services to the CERN community supporting projects focused primarily on novel silicon detector technology, and is equipped with dedicated instrumentation for quality assurance, control and reliability testing. The facility and some use-cases of the lab will be presented.

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Testing materials for their radiation hardness: the experience at CERN for the HL-LHC experiment upgrades

• Nicola Pacifico (CERN)

The Detector Technology group of the CERN Experimental Physics Department has initiated a campaign aimed at identifying radiation hard materials for their use in HL-LHC experiment upgrades. The irradiation is performed mainly with gamma photons from a 60Co source, at different facilities. In this lecture an overview of the characterization efforts so far, describing the irradiation facilities, with their specific advantages and drawbacks, the employed testing standards and the testing infrastructures will be given. An overview of good practices required in the selection and testing of materials for harsh radiation environments will be provided.

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