Developments in silicon sensors for particle detection and their impact on the research in experimental physics.

by Giovanni Calderini (Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Haute Énergie (LPNHE), Paris)

Monday 8 Mar 2021, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

Seminario per chiamata diretta.

Since decades, silicon devices for detection played a major role in experimental physics and in many fields of science. Traditional applications in high energy physics have been in the field of particle tracking and photon detection, but their use has deeply evolved with time and has been always far from reaching a point of final consolidation. The increasing complexity of experimental conditions has driven a major development of technology along the years. Having worked for a large part of my career on silicon trackers I will give a few examples of this process, and I will discuss the added performance and new potentials of recent and future devices under development, in terms of extended reconstruction capability, for instance adding timing information in complex environments. I will also present some examples of how the strong handshaking between research groups and foundries producing the devices allows to improve existing technologies to optimize them to the needs of experimental physicists.