Conveners
Electronics and On-Detector Processing - Oral session
- Giovanna Lehmann (CERN)
- Chiara Guazzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
TThe development of large-area MCP-based particle detectors with time resolutions
of ≤5 ps [1] would allow substantive advances in particle identification at particle colliders.
We describe a preliminary design for a 7+1-channel 40 GS/sec waveform sampling ASIC in
the TSMC 65 nm process with the goal of achieving 1 ps resolution at 20 mW power per
channel. Each channel consists of four...
Calorimeters have recently evolved to provide much more granularity in order to better identify particles inside showers and improve the energy resolution, in particular for jets. “Imaging calorimetry” has been studied in detail by the CALICE collaboration since the mid-2000s and more recently chosen by the CMS experiment to equip its endcap calorimeter. Imaging calorimetry increases by one...
The nEXO project spearheads scientific exploration with a primary focus on unraveling the mysteries of neutrinoless double-beta (0vββ) decay, offering profound insights into fundamental particle physics. At its core, the nEXO experiment employs a single-phase liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC), housing ~5000 kg of xenon enriched to 90% in the isotope 136. This...
We present a mixed-signal ASIC, called ALCOR (A Low-power Chip for Optical sensor Readout), designed for the readout and digitization of signals from Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) in the framework of the dual-radiator RICH (dRICH) detector of the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).
ALCOR features 32 channels arranged in an 8x4 matrix. The amplifier input stage is a low...
The High Luminosity phase of LHC will require a huge improvement on the ATLAS detector in terms of performance, being the entire apparatus operated in much harsher conditions. The BI project is one of the ATLAS Phase-2 approved upgrades, ensuring the demands coming from the physics for the next 20 years. In this framework, a novel dedicated Front-End electronics has been developed, which...
The design of the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) for the PANDA experiment is optimized for the detection of secondary vertices and maximum acceptance close to the interaction point. The MVD consists of a 4-layer barrel section, placed around the interaction point, and a 6-disks forward section, located in the forward position. The outermost layers of the MVD will be equipped with double sided...
ASTRA-64 (Adaptable Silicon sTrip Read-out ASIC) is a 64-channel mixed-signal ASIC designed for reading out micro-strip silicon detectors. Its initial application is on serving as the read-out for the Silicon Charge Detector of the HERD experiment, slated for installation aboard the Chinese space station in 2027 to facilitate tracking and supplementary charge measurement. Designed using 110 nm...
In order to maintain its outstanding performance under the challenging conditions brought by the high-luminosity LHC, the CMS collaboration is preparing the production of a new outer tracker detector. The upgraded detector modules will feature two silicon sensors and the ability of reading out correlated clusters, or stubs, compatible with high transverse momentum particles at the full 40 MHz...
The slowdown of Moore’s law and the growing requirements of future HEP experiments with ever-increasing data rates pose important computational challenges for data reconstruction and trigger systems, encouraging the exploration of new computing methodologies.
In this talk we discuss a FPGA-based tracking system, based on a massively parallel pattern recognition approach, inspired by the...
The Quantum Technologies for Neutrino Mass (QTNM) project aims to measure the neutrino mass through a precise measurement of the electron kinetic energy spectrum of atomic tritium beta decay. The aim is to use the newly developed Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) technique to make frequency measurements of radiation emitted by electrons undergoing cyclotron motion in a strong...
