LHCb Upgrade Bridging Funds Jan-Sept 2014

Lead Research Organisation: University of Bristol
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

See the application "LHCb Upgrade: Beyond the Energy Frontier", Council Reference ST/L002930/1

Planned Impact

See the application "LHCb Upgrade: Beyond the Energy Frontier", Council Reference ST/L002930/1

Publications

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Adinolfi, M (2016) LHCb Upgraded RICH 1 Engineering Design Review Report

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Akiba K (2018) Radiation Damage Effects and Operation of the LHCb Vertex Locator in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

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Alexander M (2018) Mapping the material in the LHCb vertex locator using secondary hadronic interactions in Journal of Instrumentation

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Balossino I (2017) The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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Folkestad Å (2017) Development of a silicon bulk radiation damage model for Sentaurus TCAD in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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Richards S (2015) The LHCb VELO upgrade

 
Description The funding was used to obtain a readout system TimePix chip set up including PC and sensor. So far, this setup has been used to develop the run control for the beam tests of the VELO-upgrade (LHCb-upgrade's Si pixel detector) sensor. The run control system is an essential component of the testbeam, and of course a testbeam is an essential element in the VELO-upgrade R&D. The TimePix setup in our lab will continue to be a crucial element in our VELO upgrade R&D.
Exploitation Route Our findings were one of the elements that made the latest VELO upgrade possible. The results of that testbeam are yet unknown. Whatever they will be, they will form a cornerstone of the future development of the VELO-upgrade sensors. In turn, these will be a key element of the upgraded LHCb detector, the next generation of high-statistics, high precision flavour physics at the LHC, with unrivalled sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. This detector technology is also expected to have a variety of other particle physics and commercial applications. The software developed in the course of this project is also being used by other researchers performing testbeam analyses on other LHCb detector elements.
Sectors Education,Electronics,Healthcare
 
Description PPRP
Amount £83,820 (GBP)
Funding ID ST/L003058/1 
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2014 
End 03/2020
 
Title LHCb testbeam software 
Description This is a software package (especially run control, and visualisation) for testbeams using the LHCb TimePix telescope. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2014 
Impact While the software was designed for the LHCb VELO upgrade Si pixel detector beam tests, but has since been used by several other groups using the same TimePix telescope, studying different devices. The flexible modular software design allowed other groups to adapt it to their needs with minimal modification. Combined with the user-friendly GUI interface, this resulted in the wide spread adoption of this software.