ATLAS Upgrade 2014-16
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Refer to ATLAS-UK upgrade proposal to PPRP: "UPGRADING THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT FOR THE LUMINOSITY FRONTIER AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER" PPRP meeting, September 2012
Planned Impact
Refer to ATLAS-UK upgrade proposal to PPRP: "UPGRADING THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT FOR THE LUMINOSITY FRONTIER AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER" PPRP meeting, September 2012
Organisations
- University of Liverpool (Lead Research Organisation)
- Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) (Collaboration)
- University of Tsukuba (Collaboration)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Penn State University (Collaboration)
- Heidelberg University (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Geneva (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Bern (Collaboration)
- IFIC Barcelona (Collaboration)
- Stevenage Circuits (Collaboration)
- Yale University (Collaboration)
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Collaboration)
- University of Toronto (Collaboration)
- Micron Semiconductor (Collaboration)
Publications
Affolder A
(2016)
Charge collection studies in irradiated HV-CMOS particle detectors
in Journal of Instrumentation
Allport P
(2014)
Development of planar pixel modules for the ATLAS high luminosity LHC tracker upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Allport P
(2017)
Recent results and experience with the Birmingham MC40 irradiation facility
in Journal of Instrumentation
Anders J
(2018)
Charge collection characterisation with the Transient Current Technique of the ams H35DEMO CMOS detector after proton irradiation
in Journal of Instrumentation
Argos C
(2019)
Assembly and electrical tests of the first full-size forward module for the ATLAS ITk Strip detector
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Benoit M
(2016)
Results of the 2015 testbeam of a 180 nm AMS High-Voltage CMOS sensor prototype
in Journal of Instrumentation
Benoit M
(2018)
Test beam measurement of ams H35 HV-CMOS capacitively coupled pixel sensor prototypes with high-resistivity substrate
in Journal of Instrumentation
Benítez V
(2016)
Sensors for the End-cap prototype of the Inner Tracker in the ATLAS Detector Upgrade
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Bernabeu J
(2016)
ALIBAVA Silicon Microstrip Readout System for Educational Purposes
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Blanco R
(2017)
HVCMOS Monolithic Sensors for the High Luminosity Upgrade of ATLAS Experiment
in Journal of Instrumentation
| Description | The Large Hadron Collider has made a great scientific and social impact. The Higgs boson discovery has opened a new window into our understanding of the university and has captured people's imagination. The potential for even further discoveries at the LHC is high. To remain on the forefront of discovery, the LHC and its experiments need a series of upgrades to manage the harsh environment. This grant is one in a series of grants to support the Phase II upgrade of the silicon tracker of the ATLAS experiment, which is expected to install in 2024-2025. The tracker will take "pictures" of the trajectories of charged particles created by the collisions of protons every 25 ns. |
| Exploitation Route | The ATLAS upgrade project is now proceeding to the production phase. The technical design reports for the pixel and strip detectors have been published. The development of radiation hard sensors will be useful for medical physics (proton therapy, amongst others) and nuclear material monitoring, as well as future nuclear and particle physics experiments. The developments needed for light, carbon-fibre structures for the upgrade have been used in other departments in the University. In particular, the mechanical engineering formula student program has made a number of components using our techniques. |
| Sectors | Education,Environment,Healthcare,Other |
| Description | Through the development of hybrid circuits and pixel sensors with UK industry, we have enabled them to bid for a contracts worth in excess of a million pounds. |
| Sector | Electronics,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | CERN RD50 funding request |
| Amount | SFr. 15,000 (CHF) |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 11/2017 |
| Description | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Construction, maintenance and operation of SCT tracking system, Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger, High Level Trigger and Computing & Software. Analysis of physics data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Construction, maintenance and operation of ATLAS experiment. Analysis of physics data. |
| Impact | 812 peer reviewed journals articles (as of January 2019) on results of analysis of ATLAS data, including the discovery of the Higgs boson. Capability and skills development: Around 40PhD students per year many of whom move into industry, commerce and the public sector after graduating. ATLAS PhD students typically acquire very high levels of expertise in areas such as detector development, electronics, software design and big data analytics, and these skills, together with the experience of working in a large international collaboration, make our students highly sought-after by employers in the wider economy as well as within academia. STFC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in Data Intensive Science (DIS), in which ATLAS-UK physicists have been playing a leading role over the past two years. Our training of students and PDRAs, through these Centres, directly supports the first two pillars of the government's Industrial Strategy, as well as one of the Eight Great Technologies identified by the government, by helping to prepare the UK workforce for opportunities in the rapidly growing data science driven market sectors. The bespoke training programmes offered by these CDTs has been designed with input from industry partners and these partners are actively involved in the delivery of training. Public engagement: The hugely-positive publicity surrounding the LHC and particularly the discovery of the Higgs boson by ATLAS and CMS in 2012 have demonstrated the general public's great interest in this area. The importance of experiments with the scale and vision of ATLAS in inspiring a scientifically and technologically literate culture seems indisputable. Dissemination is a routine activity for ATLAS-UK physicists. Examples include frequent talks to students at schools across the UK and at events such as the Cheltenham Science Festival, interviews for local, national and international media, social media posts, podcasts, and exhibits at events, such as the Royal Society Summer Exhibition. ATLAS-UK Physicists have been playing a leading role in many Particle Physics Masterclasses organized annually across the UK, including the largest one at RAL with over 700 students per year. A key activity in these Masterclasses is the search for the Higgs boson in ATLAS data, which uses a simplified version of the ATLAS Event Display software developed by ATLAS-UK physicists, and which is used globally. Several episodes of Horizon (BBC2) have focused on ATLAS and featured ATLAS-UK physicists. The resources employed in the outreach activities include the time and enthusiasm of all those involved in the project, be they students, PDRAs, engineers or academics. In addition, we have close relations with the CERN press office and have worked well with STFC staff on this too. There have been many recent visits to CERN by MPs, MSPs and Government Ministers. |
| Description | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, including R&D toward upgrades of the CERN LHC Facility |
| Collaborator Contribution | International laboratory hosting an experiment |
| Impact | These include the discovery of the Higgs boson, many publications and preliminary results, machine learning technology integrated into teaching resources for undergraduate and graduate students. |
| Description | ATLAS upgrade strip hybrids circuits |
| Organisation | Stevenage Circuits |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Design and definition of hybrid circuit specifications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and design of production process. Production of circuits |
| Impact | Stevenage circuits has produced all hybrid circuits for ATLAS barrel upgrade so far. It is in a fabulous position to bid for the ~£2M production order. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Design of planar pixel detectors for the ATLAS upgrade at the HL-LHC |
| Organisation | Micron Semiconductor |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The design of pixel sensors for the High Luminosity upgrade of the ATLAS experiment. Designs of new pixel geometries, implants and guard ring structure for slim and active edge designs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Signing off the design and input for the design of test structures on the wafers |
| Impact | CERN Pixel wafer designs 1-9 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | Design of planar pixel detectors for the ATLAS upgrade at the HL-LHC |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The design of pixel sensors for the High Luminosity upgrade of the ATLAS experiment. Designs of new pixel geometries, implants and guard ring structure for slim and active edge designs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Signing off the design and input for the design of test structures on the wafers |
| Impact | CERN Pixel wafer designs 1-9 |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | Heidelberg University |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | IFIC Barcelona |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Bern |
| Department | Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Geneva |
| Department | Physics Section |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HV-CMOS collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Tsukuba |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, cost sharing for submissions and evaluation of prototype HV-CMOS devices |
| Impact | First prototype pixel sensors in AMS 350 nm HV-CMOS technology |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | UK-US power boards for ATLAS upgrade strip barrel modules |
| Organisation | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Department | Physics Department |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research and development of small form factor powerboard |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of coils and future asic controller. |
| Impact | This work enables the US to take this ASIC as a deliverable for the ATLAS upgrade project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UK-US power boards for ATLAS upgrade strip barrel modules |
| Organisation | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Department | Physics Division |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research and development of small form factor powerboard |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of coils and future asic controller. |
| Impact | This work enables the US to take this ASIC as a deliverable for the ATLAS upgrade project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UK-US power boards for ATLAS upgrade strip barrel modules |
| Organisation | Penn State University |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research and development of small form factor powerboard |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of coils and future asic controller. |
| Impact | This work enables the US to take this ASIC as a deliverable for the ATLAS upgrade project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | UK-US power boards for ATLAS upgrade strip barrel modules |
| Organisation | Yale University |
| Department | Department of Chemistry |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research and development of small form factor powerboard |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of coils and future asic controller. |
| Impact | This work enables the US to take this ASIC as a deliverable for the ATLAS upgrade project. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | development of a multiple hybrid panel crate based DAQ system |
| Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of hardware for testing of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of firmware for testing and analysis of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Impact | Results presented at ATLAS collaboration meetings. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | development of a multiple hybrid panel crate based DAQ system |
| Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of hardware for testing of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of firmware for testing and analysis of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Impact | Results presented at ATLAS collaboration meetings. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | development of a multiple hybrid panel crate based DAQ system |
| Organisation | University of Toronto |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of hardware for testing of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of firmware for testing and analysis of data transimissions, for data rates upto 640Mbit/s. |
| Impact | Results presented at ATLAS collaboration meetings. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | development of assembly tooling and method for strip hybrids |
| Organisation | Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of design of assembly tooling and electrical circuit boards. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of design of assembly tooling for alternative method. |
| Impact | Final tools have been designed for the production strip barrel modules. Endcaps will follow the same concept. Tooling design has been shared with the international collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | Design and development of a dosimetry device using ATLAS pixel detectors |
| Description | Design and build of a device comprising a silicon pixel detector developed for ATLAS IBL submersed in a water tank for accelerator beam QA and dosimetry measurements in hadron therapy. The detector is moved using a precision linear stage allowing spatial and dose profiles of the beam to be made |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Collaboration with FBK Trento Collaboration with the Rutherford Cancer Centres and Proton Partners International Patent filed |
| Title | Engineering run submission to AMS in H18 CMOS process |
| Description | Co-design of submission including ATLAS pixel devices and MuPix8 Matrix. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Device not yet back from manufacturer. Evaluation still to come. |
| Title | H35DEMO: Engineering run submission to AMS in h35 process |
| Description | Prototype pixel sensors with both hybrid and fully monolithic pixel arrays in AMS 350nm High Voltage CMOS technology node |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | Testing of the novel devices and further development of the technology will take place in 2016. |
| Title | Lfoundry MPW submission in their 150 nm HV-CMOS process. |
| Description | Co-design of MPW submission including ATLAS and mu3e test devices |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Evaluation is ongoing. |
| Title | Lfoundry MPW submission of small pixel prototype |
| Description | Prototype to demonstrate 50x50 micorn pixel matrix with high level of in-pixel electronics. |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Device will be received back from manufacturer in early 2017. Evalulation still to come. |
| Title | MPW run submission to AMS in H18 CMOS process through Europractice |
| Description | Co-design of submission including ATLAS pixel devices |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Device not yet back from manufacturer. Evaluation still to come. |