scholarly journals Sensor Design Optimization of Innovative Low-Power, Large Area FD-MAPS for HEP and Applied Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coralie Neubüser ◽  
T. Corradino ◽  
G-F. Dalla Betta ◽  
L. De Cilladi ◽  
L. Pancheri
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Fully Depleted ◽  
Damage Models ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Pixel Sensors ◽  
Aided Design

Fully depleted monolithic active pixel sensors (FD-MAPSs) represent a state-of-the-art detector technology and profit from a low material budget and cost for high-energy physics experiments and other fields of research like medical imaging and astro-particle physics. Compared to the MAPS currently in use, fully depleted pixel sensors have the advantage of charge collection by drift, which enables a fast and uniform response overall to the pixel matrix. The functionality of these devices has been shown in previous proof-of-concept productions. In this article, we describe the optimization of the test pixel designs that will be implemented in the first engineering run of the demonstrator chip of the ARCADIA project. These optimization procedures include radiation damage models that have been employed in Technology Computer Aided Design simulations to predict the sensors’ behavior in different working environments.

scholarly journals Simulation of FDSOI-ISFET with Tunable Sensitivity by Temperature and Dual-Gate Structure

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1585
Author(s):  
Hanbin Wang ◽  
Jinshun Bi ◽  
Mengxin Liu ◽  
Tingting Han
Keyword(s):  
Gate Voltage ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Silicon On Insulator ◽  
Fully Depleted ◽  
Gate Structure ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Dual Gate ◽  
Sensitivity Changes ◽  
Increasing Temperature ◽  
Aided Design

This work investigates the different sensitivities of an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) based on fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI). Using computer-aided design (TCAD) tools, the sensitivity of a single-gate FDSOI based ISFET (FDSOI-ISFET) at different temperatures and the effects of the planar dual-gate structure on the sensitivity are determined. It is found that the sensitivity increases linearly with increasing temperature, reaching 890 mV/pH at 75 °C. By using a dual-gate structure and adjusting the control gate voltage, the sensitivity can be reduced from 750 mV/pH at 0 V control gate voltage to 540 mV/pH at 1 V control gate voltage. The above sensitivity changes are produced because the Nernst limit changes with temperature or the electric field generated by different control gate voltages causes changes in the carrier movement. It is proved that a single FDSOI-ISFET can have adjustable sensitivity by adjusting the operating temperature or the control gate voltage of the dual-gate device.

scholarly journals The Impact of Microelectronics on High Energy Physics Innovation: The Role of 65 nm CMOS Technology on New Generation Particle Detectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Demaria
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Cmos Technology ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Noise Power ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Energy Physics

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN will constitute a new frontier for the particle physics after the year 2027. Experiments will undertake a major upgrade in order to stand this challenge: the use of innovative sensors and electronics will have a main role in this. This paper describes the recent developments in 65 nm CMOS technology for readout ASIC chips in future High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. These allow unprecedented performance in terms of speed, noise, power consumption and granularity of the tracking detectors.

scholarly journals Impact of detector simulation in particle physics collider experiments - highlights

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 02019
Author(s):  
V. Daniel Elvira
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Design And Optimization ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Detector Simulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Journal Submission ◽  
Energy Physics

Detector simulation has become fundamental to the success of modern high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. For example, the Geant4-based simulation applications developed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments played a major role for them to produce physics measurements of unprecedented quality and precision with faster turnaround, from data taking to journal submission, than any previous hadron collider experiment. The material presented here contains highlights of a recent review on the impact of detector simulation in particle physics collider experiments published in Ref. [1]. It includes examples of applications to detector design and optimization, software development and testing of computing infrastructure, and modeling of physics objects and their kinematics. The cost and economic impact of simulation in the CMS experiment is also presented. A discussion on future detector simulation needs, challenges and potential solutions to address them is included at the end.

scholarly journals Design and Performance Evaluation of Multi-Gb/s Silicon Photonics Transmitters for High Energy Physics

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3569
Author(s):  
Simone Cammarata ◽  
Gabriele Ciarpi ◽  
Stefano Faralli ◽  
Philippe Velha ◽  
Guido Magazzù ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Photonics ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Current Mode ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Silicon On Insulator ◽  
Output Stage ◽  
Optical Links ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Energy Physics

Optical links are rapidly becoming pervasive in the readout chains of particle physics detector systems. Silicon photonics (SiPh) stands as an attractive candidate to sustain the radiation levels foreseen in the next-generation experiments, while guaranteeing, at the same time, multi-Gb/s and energy-efficient data transmission. Integrated electronic drivers are needed to enable SiPh modulators’ deployment in compact on-detector front-end modules. A current-mode logic-based driver harnessing a pseudo-differential output stage is proposed in this work to drive different types of SiPh devices by means of the same circuit topology. The proposed driver, realized in a 65 nm bulk technology and already tested to behave properly up to an 8 MGy total ionizing dose, is hybridly integrated in this work with a lumped-element Mach–Zehnder modulator (MZM) and a ring modulator (RM), both fabricated in a 130 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process. Bit-error-rate (BER) performances confirm the applicability of the selected architecture to either differential and single-ended loads. A 5 Gb/s data rate, in line with the current high energy physics requirements, is achieved in the RM case, while a packaging-related performance degradation is captured in the MZM-based system, confirming the importance of interconnection modeling.

scholarly journals Yifang Wang: high energy physics in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Wang ◽  
Mu-ming Poo
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Quantum Interference ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Daya Bay ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Neutrino Mixing ◽  
Energy Physics

Abstract On 8 March 2012, Yifang Wang, co-spokesperson of the Daya Bay Experiment and Director of Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced the discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillation with a surprisingly large mixing angle (θ13), signifying ‘a milestone in neutrino research’. Now his team is heading for a new goal—to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to precisely measure oscillation parameters using the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, which is due for completion in 2020. Neutrinos are fundamental particles that play important roles in both microscopic particle physics and macroscopic universe evolution. The studies on neutrinos, for example, may answer the question why our universe consists of much more matter than antimatter. But this is not an easy task. Though they are one of the most numerous particles in the universe and zip through our planet and bodies all the time, these tiny particles are like ‘ghost’, difficult to be captured. There are three flavors of neutrinos, known as electron neutrino (νe), muon neutrino (νμ), and tau neutrino (ντ), and their flavors could change as they travel through space via quantum interference. This phenomenon is known as neutrino oscillation or neutrino mixing. To determine the absolute mass of each type of neutrino and find out how they mix is very challenging. In a recent interview with NSR in Beijing, Yifang Wang explained how the Daya Bay Experiment on neutrino oscillation not only addressed the frontier problem in particle physics, but also harnessed the talents and existing technology in Chinese physics community. This achievement, Wang reckons, will not be an exception in Chinese high energy physics, when appropriate funding and organization for big science projects could be efficiently realized in the future.

scholarly journals Natural philosophy versus philosophy of naturalness

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (18) ◽  
pp. 2030006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Senjanović
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Hierarchy Problem ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Energy Physics

I reflect on some of the basic aspects of present day Beyond the Standard Model particle physics, focusing mostly on the issues of naturalness, in particular on the so-called hierarchy problem. To all of us, physics as natural science emerged with Galileo and Newton, and led to centuries of unparalleled success in explaining and often predicting new phenomena of nature. I argue here that the long-standing obsession with the hierarchy problem as a guiding principle for the future of our field has had the tragic consequence of deviating high energy physics from its origins as natural philosophy, and turning it into a philosophy of naturalness.

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF PARTICLE PHYSICS AS A NATURAL SCIENCE

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 863-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK WILCZEK
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Energy Physics ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Particle Interactions ◽  
Fundamental Particle ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Energy Physics

In the first part of the paper, I give a low-resolution overview of the current state of particle physics — the triumph of the Standard Model and its discontents. I review and re-endorse the remarkably direct and (to me) compelling argument that existing data, properly interpreted, point toward a unified theory of fundamental particle interactions and toward low-energy supersymmetry as the near-term future of high energy physics as a natural science. I then attempt, as requested, some more "visionary" — i.e. even lower resolution — comments about the farther future. In that spirit, I emphasize the continuing importance of condensed matter physics as a source of inspiration and potential application, in particular for expansion of symmetry concepts, and of cosmology as a source of problems, applications, and perhaps ultimately limitations.

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