Tag: ESE
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Machine learning for new Detector Technologies
Machine learning for new Detector Technologies I have spent a considerable amount of my time as Master student in Physics in the late 70’s performing a fairly prosaic function that nevertheless required the presence of humans (physics professors, trained technicians and of course students): scanning thousands of BEBC pictures with (occasional) neutrino events, a task
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Silicon photonics for high-energy physics experiments
Silicon photonics for high-energy physics experiments Optical links have become ubiquitous in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments to transport data generated from the particle detectors and other control points along the accelerator to the processing electronics. So far, links based on both single-mode Edge Emitting Lasers (EELs) [1] and multi-mode Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
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Colour X-rays for Medicine: The 2019 specXray workshop
Colour X-rays for Medicine: The 2019 specXray workshop The fifth workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors (specXray) took place at CERN from 13 to 17th of May. Since its establishment in 2011, the workshop has brought together specialists from different but related fields focusing on how best to advance effort and understanding in
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Electronics experts come together at Antwerp
Electronics experts come together at Antwerp The “Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics” is the successor of the LEB and LECC Workshop series, which were initiated in 1994 by the LHC Electronics Board (LEB), an advisory board to the CERN LHC Experiments Committee. Since 2007, the workshop runs autonomously under the name “Topical Workshop
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Developing new electronics for the CMS tracking system
Developing new electronics for the CMS tracking system The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) entails a substantial upgrade of the CMS tracking system, to cope with much more demanding requirements and to implement additional functionalities. One of the main challenges for the experiments is the increased number of pile up events which for an
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VeloPix, a new hybrid pixel readout ASIC for the LHCb upgrade
VeloPix, a new hybrid pixel readout ASIC for the LHCb upgrade The LHCb-VELO group, which is composed of several institutes from the UK, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Brazil and CERN are constructing an upgraded version of the VErtex LOcator (VELO) to be installed and commissioned during the long shutdown LS2 in 2019/2020. Unlike the currently operating
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A bright future for microelectronics at CERN
A bright future for microelectronics at CERN During the 2018 FCC week in Amsterdam, Michael Campbell (EP-ESE) gave a presentation on the “Present and future of microelectronics”. Following an informative review of ASICs used in the LHC run one systems, he tried to distinguish recent trends in ASIC design for HEP experiments and discussed possibly
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Setting a roadmap for future experimental technologies
Setting a roadmap for future experimental technologies In elementary-particle physics as in most fields of science, advances in understanding are closely coupled to advances in technology. Machines of higher luminosity open opportunities for the observation of rare and unexpected processes while higher-energy accelerators are needed to cross thresholds for suspected new phenomena. Advances in accelerator
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Designing Utopia – An Ultralow Picoammeter
Designing Utopia – An Ultralow Picoammeter There are various applications where the output of a sensor is a low current. In some cases like in ionizing radiation measurements, device characterization, leakage current measurements and biosensing instrumentation, the current that has to be measured can be as low as few femtoamperes. However, designing a measuring digitizer
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RADECS 2017 meeting in Geneva
RADECS 2017 meeting in Geneva RADECS (RADiation Effects on Components and Systems) is the yearly European conference gathering world-class scientists in the field of radiation effects in electronics devices and systems. This year the conference has been organised by the partnership between CERN and CNES, the French Space Agency, and has taken place on October