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This session will be on display on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning
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High luminosity upgrades to particle colliders imposes challenges to vertex detectors in terms of both radiation damage and event pile-up. For future tracking detectors, such as LHCb Upgrade II VErtex LOcator (VELO) detector, requirements are: a <50 ps timing resolution; spatial resolution on the order of 10 um; and radiation hardness up to $6 \times 10^{16}~n_{eq}~cm^{-2}$. The TimeSPOT...
This work describes the implementation of a 64-channel ASIC developed in a commercial 65 nm CMOS technology to readout the signals collected by a camera plane made of Silicon Photo-Multipliers. The aim of the application is the identification of Extensive Air Showers by detecting optical Cherenkov light generated by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos from sub-orbital and...
We present the development of a configurable data acquisition system for detectors using either the Timepix4 or Medipix4 ASIC as an integrated front-end.
The Timepix4 and Medipix4, developed by the CERN Medipix Collaboration, are $65~\mathrm{nm}$ CMOS ASIC designed for hybrid pixel detectors for medical and particle physics applications.
We will describe fully customizable system based on...
A new concept design of an analog card for reading out multi-channel photosensors is presented. The basic idea is to build a versatile, high bandwidth device that can be used for collecting, for amplifying and for summing individual photo-detector channels in a full configurable way. Key point is to make programmable analog sums of any analog channel sub-sample. This allows for selection of...
This contribution would like to present the architecture of a new Real-time Control System (RCS), intended to serve as the foundation for next generation large scale interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves. In particular, the initial phase of Einstein Telescope (ET) detector is the target for this development.
The RCS coordinates complex closed-loop systems, managing data...
This work is concerned with the design of an analog front-end processor for the readout of pixel detectors in future high energy physics experiments. The front-end circuit is being developed, in a 28 nm CMOS technology, in the framework of the INFN Falaphel project, whose ultimate goal is the integration of silicon photonic devices with rad-hard electronics in the 28 nm node, and which targets...
Monolithic active pixel sensors are considered for vertex or tracking detectors
of a large variety of particle physics experiments. Consequently, the design of
pixel matrices faces a wide range of specifications. That impacts in particular
the matrix read-out strategy, which is highly constrained in terms of power
consumption, layout area, time-stramping ability, and hit rate....
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) have gained popularity in particle physics due to their inherent advantages in terms of compactness, low power consumption, and high photon detection efficiency. Moreover, we have to deal with signals ranging from a few photoelectrons (PE), where we need to reconstruct the exact shape, up to thousands of PEs in short time intervals.
In this design, when we need...
We introduce a new Acquisition and Control Module (ACM), designed for the DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment. This novel technique to search for dark matter uses thick CCDs, almost one mm, which can detect signals as low as a few electrons. One Acquisition and Control Module incorporates all power, bias and clock generators required to control four CCDs, as well as four 18-Bit,...
Charge resolution in cosmic-ray based experiments for the identification of individual elemental species with high energies (above hundreds of GeV) suffers from the presence of backscattered radiation originating from the calorimeter. A means to efficiently reject backscattered radiation consists in developing particle detectors with sub-ns time resolution capabilities to perform...
The ATLAS Level-0 muon trigger system aims to quickly and efficiently identify events containing muons, facilitating the selection of interesting physics events and reducing the data rate for further processing.
In the barrel region of the detector, three concentric layers of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) are currently used for selecting muon candidates with predetermined transverse...
A new front-end ASIC named "PIST" (pico-second timing) has been successfully developed using 55 nm CMOS technology for the silicon photomulplier (SiPM) readout with a single channel with a major aim of fast timing. We performed extensive tests to evaluate the timing performance of a dedicated test stand equipped with a PIST chip. The results show that the system timing resolution can sub 10 ps...
This work reports the experimental results from the characterization of a semiconductor detector module, that is the basic unit of the tracker for the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon mission. In the austral summer of 2024, GAPS will search for an indirect signature of dark matter through the detection of low-energy (< 0.25 GeV/n) cosmic-ray antiprotons, antideuterons, and...
The CMS detector will undergo a significant upgrade to cope with the HL-LHC instantaneous luminosity and average number of proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing. The Phase-2 CMS detector will be equipped with a new Level-1 (L1) trigger system that will have access to an unprecedented level of information. Advanced reconstruction algorithms will be deployed directly on the L1 FPGA-based...
This paper presents a front-end module simulator for SemiconducTor Array detectoR with Large dynamIc ranGe and cHarge inTegrating readout(STARLIGHT). STARLIGHT is a universal, hybrid silicon pixel detector with a high frame rate (≥10kHz) and is the first charge-integrating surface detector of XFEL in China.The detector will operate in a vacuum environment, and the thermal power per unit area...
In 2029 the High-Luminosity LHC will start to be operational. It will allow to collect ten times more data than what have been achieved by the LHC.
This will be effectively done by increasing the number of collisions by bunch crossing, leading to higher radiation doses and busier events. To cope with those harsher data taking conditions, the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter more advanced data...
We report on the design, implementation and initial tests of XPOL-III, a cutting-edge, 180nm CMOS VLSI ASIC integrating over 100K pixels at 50 um pitch (over a hexagonal grid) with an active area of 15 x 15 mm squared. Based on the readout chip successfully operating in the Gas Pixel Detectors onboard the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) since December, 2021, XPOL-III is designed to...
The Mu2e experiment plans to search for neutrinoless muon to electron
conversion in the field of a nucleus. Such a process violates lepton
flavor conservation. To perform this search, a muon beam is focused on
an aluminum target, the muons are stopped in the field of the aluminum
nucleus, and electrons emitted from subsequent muon decays in orbit
are measured. The endpoint energy for this...
The next generation of RICH detectors in high energy physics experiments may use SiPMs as photon sensing elements. This upgrade is necessary to achieve greater detector granularity and speed. Thanks to their small dimensions and performance, SiPMs have also been identified as best candidates for photon sensing in neutrino studies based on liquid Argon time projection chambers (TPC). However,...
In this contribution are presented the results on the test activity on the Ignite-0
ASIC.
The IGNITE project (INFN Ground-up INITiative-on micro-Electronics de-
velopments) aims to develop integrated micro-systems suitable for particle track-
ing in the next generation of high-luminosity experiment at the LHC. This ob-
jective involves the following system level requirements: a pixel...
A beam telescope based on the Timepix4 ASIC was built in order to perform tests of synchronous multiple-detector readout and track reconstruction with fast timing capability.
The telescope consists of eight planes with n-on-p silicon sensors, each bump bonded to a Timepix4 ASIC. Four of these planes are instrumented with 300 µm thick planar sensors, and they are tilted with respect to the be...
The CMS Readout Chip (CROC) is a 65 nm CMOS hybrid pixel readout chip for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade of the CMS Inner Tracker. The new detector will be instrumented with approximately $1.3 \times 10^{4}$ of these readout chips, covering an area of about 5.2 m$^{2}$.
The chip has been developed by the CERN/RD53 Collaboration in order to withstand very high radiation doses (500 Mrad) and...
The upgrade of most synchrotrons to diffraction-limited storage rings (DLSR), presents various challenges for detectors, above all the significantly increased photon flux exceeding the count rate capabilities of existing single photon-counting detectors. In response to this challenge and targeting the upgrade of the Swiss Light Source, the PSD detector group at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI,...
The CMS ECAL barrel is set to undergo a substantial upgrade to meet the new and more challenging requirements of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) accelerator. This upgrade involves a comprehensive redesign of the on-detector readout electronics, introducing new faster ASICs.
The upgraded readout architecture will consist of a fast trans-impedance amplifier, called CATIA, and a two-channels...
Experiments like ATLAS at the HL-LHC or detectors at future hadron colliders need muon detectors with excellent momentum resolution at the percent level up to the TeV scale both at the trigger and the offline reconstruction level. This requires muon tracking chambers with high spatial resolution even at the highest background fluxes. Drift-tube chambers are the most cost effective technology...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo a major upgrade for the high-luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC), which is expected to start in 2029. In addition to improving the detector rate capabilities and performance at increased higher luminosities, precision timing measurements are added to mitigate pile-up effects. The timing detector...
The High Intensity Kaon Experiment (HIKE) is a proposed experimental setup to be installed at the ECN3 beamline in CERN after the 2026-2029 shutdown period. It initially aims at further probing the $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\overline{\nu}$ to a precision of 5%, complemented by a diverse array of other rare $K^+$ decays. Following this phase, HIKE will focus on a neutral $K_L$ beamline for the remainder...
The power over fiber (PoF) technology delivers electrical power by sending laser light through an optical fiber to a photovoltaic power converter, in order to power sensors or electrical devices.
This solution offers several advantages: removal of noise induced by power lines, robustness in a hostile environment, spark free operation when electric fields are present and no interference with...
ULTRASAT (ULtra-violet TRansient Astronomy SATellite) is a wide-angle space telescope that will perform a deep time-resolved all-sky survey in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectrum. The science objectives are the detection of counterparts to short-lived transient astronomical events such as gravitational wave sources and supernovae. The mission is led by the Weizmann Institute of Science and is...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavour violating conversion of negative muons into electrons in the coulomb field of an Al nucleus, planning to reach a single event sensitivity of about 3x10−17, four orders of magnitude beyond the current best limit. The conversion electron has a monoenergetic signature at 105 MeV and will be identified by a...
To cope with the increase of the LHC instantaneous luminosity, new trigger readout electronics were installed on the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters.
On the detector, 124 new electronic boards digitise at high speed 10 times more signals than the legacy system. Downstream, large FPGAs are processing up to 20 Tbps of data to compute the deposited energies. Moreover, a new control and...
Sub-100ps time information is a powerful tool to maintain the excellent particle ID performance of the LHCb RICH detectors during the high-multiplicity events at the HL-LHC Run 5. A cornerstone of the detector upgrade programme is the introduction of a novel opto-electronic readout chain with single-photon hit time information. The phased improvement, with new readout electronics during Long...
The Terzina instrument has the scientific goal of detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) surpassing 100 PeV and producing atmospheric showers (EAS). For that purpose, the instrument will be installed onboard a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) sun-synchronous orbit satellite in a space mission called NUSES, developed by a collaboration between universities, research institutes and private...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavour violating conversion of negative muons into electrons in the coulomb field of an Al nucleus, planning to reach four orders of magnitude beyond the current best limit. The conversion electron will be identified by a high-resolution Straw tracker and an ElectroMagnetic Calorimeter.
The calorimeter system is composed of...
The ATLAS New Small Wheel (NSW) Muon spectrometer upgrade was completed in 2022 and constituted the largest detector upgrade in Phase I among the LHC experiments. The main purpose of NSW is to provide triggering capabilities in the endcap region 1.3 <|η|<2.4 for conMirming muons coming from the interaction point and reject the large fake contribution from the endcap region. It provides also...
Silicon photonics (SiPh) technologies have started to be evaluated to assist the evolution of the electro-optical transceivers (TRXs) deployed inside data readout links in high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. Preliminary results indicate that SiPh circuits can effectively operate in environments with high levels of both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation [1,2]. In the recent years, focused...
