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Scintillation detectors based on silicon microfluidic channels

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Pietro Maoddi

Microfluidic channels obtained by SU-8 photolithography and filled with liquid scintillators were recently demonstrated to be an interesting technology for the implementation of novel particle detectors. The main advantages of this approach are the intrins ...

Institute of Physics2014

SU-8 as a Material for Microfabricated Particle Physics Detectors

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Pietro Maoddi

Several recent detector technologies developed for particle physics applications are based on microfabricated structures. Detectors built with this approach generally exhibit the overall best performance in terms of spatial and time resolution. Many proper ...

MDPI2014

Application of micro-channel cooling to the local thermal management of detectors electronics for particle physics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Giulia Romagnoli, Andrea Francescon

Micro-channel cooling is gaining considerable attention as an alternative technique for cooling of high energy physics detectors. This is of particular interest for future trackers, where large silicon surfaces are involved and the amount of material cross ...

Elsevier2013

Micro-channel cooling for high-energy physics particle detectors and electronics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli

Micro-channel cooling is gaining considerable attention as an alternative technique for cooling of High-Energy Physics (HEP) detectors and Front-End (FE) electronics. This technology is being evaluated for future tracking devices, where material budget lim ...

IEEE2012

Development and Studies of Novel Microfabricated Radiation Hard Scintillation Detectors With High Spatial Resolution

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Noelia Vico Triviño

A new type of scintillation detector is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by coupling microfluidic channels filled with a liquid scintillator to photodetectors. Easy ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Scintillation Particle Detectors Based on Plastic Optical Fibres and Microfluidics

Alessandro Mapelli

This thesis presents the design, development, and experimental validation of two types of scintillation particle detectors with high spatial resolution. The first one is based on the well established scintillating fibre technology. It will complement the A ...

EPFL2011

Low material budget microfabricated cooling devices for particle detectors and front-end electronics

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Alessandro Mapelli

Novel cooling systems with very low material budget are being fabricated and studied. They consist of silicon wafers in which microchannels are etched and closed by bonding another wafer. This cooling option is being considered for future HEP detectors of ...

2011

The Gigatracker: An ultra-fast and low-mass silicon pixel detector for the NA62 experiment

Alessandro Mapelli

The Gigatracker is a hybrid silicon pixel detector developed to track the highly intense NA62 hadron beam with a time resolution of 150 ps (rms). The beam spectrometer of the experiment is composed of three Gigatracker stations installed in vacuum in order ...

2011

Novel radiation hard microfabricated scintillation detectors with high spatial resolution

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Noelia Vico Triviño

A novel liquid scintillation detector with high spatial resolution is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by filling microfluidic channels with an organic liquid scint ...

Elsevier2010

Scintillation particle detection based on microfluidics

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet, Noelia Vico Triviño

A novel type of particle detector based on scintillation, with precise spatial resolution and high radiation hardness, is being studied. It consists of a single microfluidic channel filled with a liquid scintillator and is designed to define an array of sc ...

Elsevier2010

Development and studies of a novel microfabricated radiation hard scintillation particle detector with high spatial resolution

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, Sébastien Jiguet

A novel scintillation detector is being developed with standard microfabrication techniques. It consists of a dense array of scintillating waveguides obtained by filling microfluidic channels with an organic liquid scintillator. Such a microfluidic device ...

2009

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