Category: News
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European roadmap for detector R&D
European roadmap for detector R&D This article is a edited version of AIDAinnova’s deliverable D1.1 available here. By Felix Sefkow (DESY). The European Strategy for Particle Physics stressed the importance of a strong focus on instrumentation, and the 2020 Update mandated the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) to develop a roadmap for detector R&D…
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Wireless Data Transfer for High-Energy Physics Applications
By Antoine Le Gall (CERN), with support of Dragos Dancila (UU), project spokesperson. Financed under AIDAinnova’s Blue-Sky programme, the WADAPT project will explore the use of wireless readout to transfer data in detectors. To propagate the data following a collision, detectors use long cables going along the beam direction. Unfortunately, the material of the cables…
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Publication committee set up to give visibility to young detectors scientists
By Antoine Le Gall (CERN) Composed of a mix of senior and young detector scientists, the project’s publication committee will ensure a well-structured peer-review process and publishing of AIDAinnova documents. In order to maintain European leadership in the field of particle physics, the High-Energy Physics community will need more young researchers to master detector instrumentation.…
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Innovation and integration in particle detectors highlighted at ICHEP 2022
Held in Bologna, Italy, the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics was attended by several members of the AIDAinnova consortium. By Antoine Le Gall (CERN) At the first large physics conference to set up in presence, members of the AIDAinnova project played a leading role. Between 6 and 13 July 2022, the 41st International…
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The Silicon Electron Multiplier, a new approach to charge multiplication in solid state detectors
By Victor Coco (CERN), project spokesperson. Edited by Rickard Stroem (DESY). The inner trackers in the next generation of hadron colliders experiments will be facing extremely high particle occupancies and radiation levels. To achieve good tracking performances in those conditions, their sensors will have to exhibit a single hit spatial resolution well below 10 μm…
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Thin Silicon Sensors for Extreme Fluences
By Valentina Sola (TO-INFN), project spokesperson. Edited by Rickard Stroem (DESY). Today’s silicon detectors are able to operate efficiently in environments with fluences up to 1016 particles per square centimetre. AIDAinnova’s recently awarded Blue Sky project “Thin Silicon Sensors for Extreme Fluences” aims to overcome this limit by the design of a novel doping layer…
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Let’s meet… WP5 and innovation in DMAPS
Let’s meet… WP5 and innovation in DMAPS By Norbert Wermes (U. Bonn) Under the coordination of WP5, the development of DMAPS will allow for more cost-effective and radiation-resistant pixel detectors. The large hadron collider experiments ATLAS and CMS will run at highest luminosity and require upgrades of their most exposed silicon pixel detectors. AIDAinnova develops…
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Paving the way for a new generation of fine-sampling calorimeters using nanocomposite scintillating materials
By Matthew Moulson (LNF-INFN), project spokesperson. Edited by Rickard Stroem (DESY) High-performance electromagnetic calorimeters often make use of inorganic crystal scintillators. Their high density makes them well suited for the construction of large homogeneous detectors where the scintillating material simultaneously serves as both absorber and active detector medium. An appropriate choice of inorganic crystal can…
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Innovation trends call for European technological excellence in particle detectors
By Antoine Le Gall (CERN) An analysis of market-innovation trends of particle detectors stresses the decline in innovation growth of Europe in comparison to China. The quest for discoveries in particle physics continuously drives available or emerging technologies beyond their limits, and the almost industrial scale at which this happens is one of the roots…
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Upcoming hackathon for the advancement of software for future detectors!
The Software for Future Detectors work package (WP12) has invited all of its AIDAinnova developers to a hackathon at CERN, June 21-23. “We want to work on improving the integration of all of our tasks into the Key4hep stack, which allows our software to be made available in an off-the-shelf format,” says Graeme Stewart, coordinator…