Publications related to SU-8 as a Material for Microfabricated Particle Physics Detectors

Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Eleni Zapridou, Panagiotis Sioulas

Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

2024

First steps towards interlocking modular microfluidic cooling substrates (i-MμCS) for future silicon tracking detectors in High Energy Physics (HEP)

Philippe Renaud, Massimo Angeletti

In future High Energy Physics detectors, the coverage of large surfaces with silicon pixel chip sensors poses a challenge for the sensors positioning, for their cooling, assembly, and interconnection. The use of a cooling substrate on which the sensors are ...

2022

Humidity Sensors for High Energy Physics Applications: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Andromachi Tsirou, Amar Kapic

Modern silicon-based detectors for high-energy physics operate in an experimental environment with sub-zero temperatures. At those temperatures, even low traces of humidity will produce vapor condensation with damages to the detectors. Monitoring relative ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

MPA-SSA, design and test of a 65 nm ASIC-based system for particle tracking at HL-LHC featuring on-chip particle discrimination

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

Particle tracking detectors for High Energy Physics need a new readout technique to cope with the increase of the collision rate foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade. In particular, the selection of interesting physics events at the first trigger s ...

IEEE2019

System Level simulation framework for the ASICs development of a novel particle physics detector

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

The simulation of the passage of particles through matter using Monte Carlo methods is broadly used in the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments. To develop the readout electronics for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experim ...

IEEE2018

REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

Olivier Schneider, Varun Sharma, Christophe Bauer, Greig Alan Cowan, Julien Lesgourgues, Riddhiman Sarkar, Vladimir Petrov, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Frank Zimmermann, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2,873 new measurements from 758 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, lepton ...

American Physical Society2018

A Nine Decade Femtoampere Current to Frequency Converter

Evgenia Voulgari

Various applications require ultra-low current sensing. Some of these applications are related to ionizing radiation detection. Radiation monitoring is important in particle physics experiments, nuclear facilities, hadron therapy institutes and hospitals. ...

EPFL2017

Review of amorphous silicon based particle detectors: the quest for single particle detection

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is attractive for radiation detectors because of its radiation resistance and processability over large areas with mature Si microfabrication techniques. While the use of a-Si:H for medical imaging has been very succ ...

Institute of Physics2016

Development of interconnected silicon micro-evaporators for the on-detector electronics cooling of the future ITS detector in the ALICE experiment at LHC

John Richard Thome, Alessandro Mapelli, Andrea Francescon, Giulia Romagnoli

The thermal management of the on-detector electronics and the development of low mass integrated cooling systems have become a crucial task in the design of silicon tracking detectors for high energy physics applications. The use of microfabricated ultra-t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016