WP4: Upgrade of Irradiation and Characterisation Facilities

Objectives

Task 4.1 Coordination and Communication
• Management and coordination of the Work Package, including monitoring of work progress, budget spending and
reporting to the project management.
• Organisation of WP meetings as well as meetings with other WPs and coordinating presentation of results within
AIDAinnova and to the detector community.


Task 4.2 Micro-beam upgrade at RBI accelerator facility
• Upgrade the RBI Accelerator Facility (RBI-AF) infrastructure for detector characterisation and radiation hardness
studies at micron-scales, including the upgrade of the motorised precision device positioning, cooling and data
acquisition systems


Task 4.3 Common tools for irradiation facilities quality control: data management, traceability, dosimetry and activation
measurements
• Generalise the IRRAD facility Data Manager (IDM) system to include new facilities (e.g., CERN GIF++, ENEA-
FNG) and improve the sharing of irradiation experiment results and operational data
• Produce a common dosimetry calibration set for cross-comparison of irradiation facilities
• Design and develop the prototype for an integrated system to manage induced activation (gamma spectrometry) and
traceability data for irradiated objects


Task 4.4 Design & development of a new sensor characterisation system based on the TPA-TCT technique
• Complete the development from the proof-of-concept installation towards a customisable user friendly Two-Photon
Absorption (TPA) Transient Current Technique (TCT) system with data acquisition and data analysis tools
• Support the evaluation of newly developed sensors (Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors and depleted CMOS devices)
developed in WP5 and WP6
• Offer support towards the implementation of similar systems in other European institutions


Task 4.5 Design & development of new electronics characterisation system for EMC control
• Design and develop an Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test bench to measure the noise transfer function (TF)
curves of physics detectors
• Design and develop a portable test bench to perform in-situ EMC emission measurements of power supply unit in
irradiation facilities

Tasks

Task # Task name Task Leader
4.1 Coordination and Communication  
4.2 Micro-beam upgrade at RBI accelerator facility  
4.3 Common tools for irradiation facilities quality control: data management, traceability, dosimetry and activation
measurements
 
4.4 Design & development of a new sensor characterisation system based on the TPA-TCT technique  
4.5  Design & development of new electronics characterisation system for EMC control  

Milestones

MS # Milestone name Lead beneficiary Due Date (in months) Means verification
MS12 Upgrade the RBI-AF infrastructure for detector characterisation, SEE, micro hardness testing 4 - RBI  23 Accelerator runs and
comparisons with test samples
(Task 4.2)
MS13 Define requirements, global architecture and design the extended data management
system for ENEA-FNG and CERN-GIF++
1 - CERN  18 Report (Task 4.3)
MS14 Extend IDM for ENEA- FNG, CERN-GIF++ and data communication with CAEN
DigiWaste and CANBERRA Apex-Gamma Lab Platforms
1 - CERN  36 Perform gamma
measurements on tagged
laboratory samples (Task 4.3)
MS15

 Test RFID tagging for irradiation facilities 

21 - INFN  42 Report, including
measurements in different
facilities (Task 4.3)
MS16

Commission a complete TPA-TCT system 

 31 - FYLA  23 TCT system 31 - FYLA 23 
MS17

 Apply TF test bench to FEE prototypes 

33 - ITAINNOVA  23 Report (Task 4.5)

Deliverables

D # Deliverable name Lead beneficiary Type Due Date (in months)
D4.1 Integrate the data acquisition and control system at RBI-AF 4 - RBI  Report  40
D4.2 Evaluate Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) of irradiation facilities with dedicated dosimeter structures 1 - CERN  Report  42
D4.3 Deploy full prototype for irradiation facilities data management including sample tagging and spectrometry features 18 - CAEN  Report  45
D4.4 Offer support towards the implementation of TPA-TCT systems and contribute to the evaluation of newly developed sensors technologies 1 - CERN Report  46
D4.5

Develop a conductive noise test bench for irradiation facilities

 33 - ITAINNOVA  Demonstrator  44