Publications associées à SU-8 as a Material for Microfabricated Particle Physics Detectors

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Search for Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons with Muons at the CMS Experiment and Characterisation of Scintillating Fibre Trackers

This PhD thesis presents a search for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) using data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). HNLs are hypothetical new particles proposed in several theoretical extensions of the Standard Model (SM) ...

EPFL2025

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, 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

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

Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Sylvain Dunand

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

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, Simone Scarfì, Alessandro Caratelli

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

Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Panagiotis Sioulas, Eleni Zapridou

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

Demonstration of particle tracking with scintillating fibres read out by a SPAD array sensor and application as a neutrino active target

Kodai Kaneyasu, Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres with a few hund ...

Springer2024

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

Yusuf Leblebici, Simone Scarfì, Alessandro Caratelli

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

Helium identification with LHCb

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Lesya Shchutska, Elena Graverini, Sebastian Schulte, Donal Patrick Hill, Marie Theres Christin Bachmayer, Serhii Cholak, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Ettore Zaffaroni, Surapat Ek-In, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Sara Celani, Renato Quagliani, Yunxuan Song, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Federico Ronchetti, Radoslav Marchevski, Anni Matilda Kauniskangas, Dimitrios Kaminaris, Raphaël van Laak, Pierre Paul Louis Mayencourt, Maria Carolina Feliciano Faria, Louis André Marie Jean Henry

The identification of helium nuclei at LHCb is achieved using a method based on measurements of ionisation losses in the silicon sensors and timing measurements in the Outer Tracker drift tubes. The background from photon conversions is reduced using the R ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Device and method for producing a combinatorial microcompartment within a carrier phase

Christoph Merten

The present disclosure provides a method and a microfluidic device for producing one or more combinatorial microcompartment comprising at least two sample species within a carrier phase, the microfluidic device comprising a target channel, a first sample s ...

2024

REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

Maroussia Schaffner Portillo, Juan Diego Gomez Valencia, Olivier Schneider, Christophe Bauer, Greig Alan Cowan, Julien Lesgourgues, Varun Sharma, Riddhiman Sarkar, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Kai Oliver Arras, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler, Maria Rosaria Antonelli

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

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

Instrument intercomparison in the pulsed neutron fieldsat the CERN HiRadMat facility

Nikolaos Charitonidis

An intercomparison of the performances of active neutron detectors was carried out in pulsed neutron fields in the new HiRadMat facility at CERN. Five detectors were employed: four of them (two ionization chambers and two rem counters) are routinely employ ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group

Olivier Schneider, Varun Sharma, Pierre Vogel, Christophe Bauer, Greig Alan Cowan

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,283 new measurements from 899 Japers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, lepton ...

Chinese Physical Soc2014

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

Philippe Renaud, Alessandro Mapelli, 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

A portable γ spectroscopy detector for didactic applications

Federico Ronchetti

A γ spectroscopy standard system is normally based on inorganic scintillators or on HPGe detectors. The electronic chain consists of a set of NIM modules necessary for the acquisition and processing of the analog signal. The structural characteristics and ...

2023

A search for heavy long-lived staus in the LHCb detector at √s = 7 and 8 TeV

Thi Viet Nga La

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been producing pp collisions at 7 and 8 TeV since 2010 and promises a new era of discoveries in particle physics. One of its experiments, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, was constructed to study CP vi ...

EPFL2013

Method for manufacturing an active structure for a radiation detector and polymeric mold for the method

Arnaud Bertsch, Fabrizio Carbone, Alessandro Mapelli, Veronica Leccese, Michele Caldara

A method for manufacturing a scintillation detector structure including the steps of forming a plurality of first structures into a surface of a substrate to form a patterned substrate, filling the plurality of first structures and covering the surface of ...

2023