Detector Development Infrastructure
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen Mary University of London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
QMUL has, and is currently, making signicant investments in infrastructure to support the
Particle Physics Research Centre (PPRC) at QMUL. Prior to the last consolidated grant round
an estimated investment of £170K had been made in order to modernise the workshop, equip-
ping it with two modern CNC machines to directly support detector prototyping and future
experiment builds. College is continuing to invest in our activities, and has just completed a
new class 10,000 clean room for silicon detector R&D, and a dedicated laboratory for testing
silicon detector and mechanical support structures. This new lab includes facilities for ATLAS
tracker upgrade stave QA. The total cost of this facility including VAT is £560K. QMUL will
be investing in additional laboratory facilities in the near future to support generic R&D and
neutrino detector development work. Our projects team are currently finalising the tendering
process for that work. Given this significant direct contribution to provide infrastructure for STFC
science, totalling £730K so far, combined with the fact that we are seeking funds for generic
detector development infrastructure, we ask for 100% contributions from STFC for an Optical
coordinate measuring machine for silicon detector QA and development programmes and a
Scalable Readout System (SRS) for testing pixel sensors as a part of our generic R&D programme.
We believe that this infrastructure request represents excellent value for money from the perspective
of STFC as we have already leveraged over five times the requested amount of money for
our group infrastructure. QMUL will cover the cost of software for the CMM and training of staff
to use it, which as can be seen from the quote supplied, amounts to £11,358+VAT.
The equipment requested will strengthen collaborative ties between QMUL, STFC laboratories and CERN,
as well as allowing the UK community to build on its silicon expertise by taking into account previously
ignored effects in silicon detector construction. If fully successful that knowledge could make the
difference between UK technology, with a proven track record of impact potential, being selected for
new international projects over competitors. This is especially true in the realm of future linear collider
detectors where resolutions of less than 3um are desired targets that have yet to be achieved in
demonstrator chips. An understanding of these effects could also be relevant for other industrial
or scientific imaging applications involving large scale image sensors. Hence this could lead to impact
from ATLAS data analysis to underpinning IP for STFC developed technology, and may even have benefits
further afield in terms of image processing in CMOS applications.
Particle Physics Research Centre (PPRC) at QMUL. Prior to the last consolidated grant round
an estimated investment of £170K had been made in order to modernise the workshop, equip-
ping it with two modern CNC machines to directly support detector prototyping and future
experiment builds. College is continuing to invest in our activities, and has just completed a
new class 10,000 clean room for silicon detector R&D, and a dedicated laboratory for testing
silicon detector and mechanical support structures. This new lab includes facilities for ATLAS
tracker upgrade stave QA. The total cost of this facility including VAT is £560K. QMUL will
be investing in additional laboratory facilities in the near future to support generic R&D and
neutrino detector development work. Our projects team are currently finalising the tendering
process for that work. Given this significant direct contribution to provide infrastructure for STFC
science, totalling £730K so far, combined with the fact that we are seeking funds for generic
detector development infrastructure, we ask for 100% contributions from STFC for an Optical
coordinate measuring machine for silicon detector QA and development programmes and a
Scalable Readout System (SRS) for testing pixel sensors as a part of our generic R&D programme.
We believe that this infrastructure request represents excellent value for money from the perspective
of STFC as we have already leveraged over five times the requested amount of money for
our group infrastructure. QMUL will cover the cost of software for the CMM and training of staff
to use it, which as can be seen from the quote supplied, amounts to £11,358+VAT.
The equipment requested will strengthen collaborative ties between QMUL, STFC laboratories and CERN,
as well as allowing the UK community to build on its silicon expertise by taking into account previously
ignored effects in silicon detector construction. If fully successful that knowledge could make the
difference between UK technology, with a proven track record of impact potential, being selected for
new international projects over competitors. This is especially true in the realm of future linear collider
detectors where resolutions of less than 3um are desired targets that have yet to be achieved in
demonstrator chips. An understanding of these effects could also be relevant for other industrial
or scientific imaging applications involving large scale image sensors. Hence this could lead to impact
from ATLAS data analysis to underpinning IP for STFC developed technology, and may even have benefits
further afield in terms of image processing in CMOS applications.
Planned Impact
This grant will enable us to develop better detectors for particle physics and to exploit data derived image correction algorithms for non-uniform sensors in a wider context. The requested equipment will allow us to make the transition from academic (reverse engineering of the effect) to practical (direct measurement and correction of the effect). This builds on current work we are doing for the LHC with model-based corrections and would allow a more versatile approach to be taken in a number of commercial and other scientific applications. Using corrections based on actual sensor shape maps, rather than model-derived maps, is a logical follow on from our ATLAS tracking/alignment work. Here impact is in terms of CMOS imaging devices, which could benefit UK industry (for example EEV is moving from specialised CCD into a mix of CCD and CMOS manufacture), and as CMOS technology is replacing CCD technology world wide the requested infrastructure could enable the group to develop techniques to improve image processing for scientific and commercial applications. Outside the world of imaging, one can also explore the effectiveness of such a correction algorithm on hadron therapy dosimetry and monitoring systems. The infrastructure funded through this grant will open new funding possibilities via QMUL innovations, interdisciplinary and venture capital programmes in the longer term. In particular there is significant funding available for life sciences based on new initiatives in College. This will also enable follow on funding from research councils other than STFC. This work affects several areas of STFC science - hence goes beyond particle physics and could conceivably allow us to work with UK SMEs and large-scale companies to improve image processing. We have a number of direct contacts in this area, such as EEV and Micron Semiconductors Ltd., and indirectly have access to RAL-TD partners who already use sensors developed with funding from STFC (for example ultra-fast imaging for tracking systems), that work in areas that could benefit from the algorithms we could develop from our HEP driven goals. We also have direct links to hadron therapy facilities at PSI, in Italy, and indirect links to those under development and in existence in the UK. Given our past collaboration with STFC's CMOS design team at the Rutherford Campus as well as our network of direct and secondary contacts, combined with our service obligations on the LHC we believe these to be realistic aspirations that can lead to multiple opportunities for economic impact.
Organisations
- Queen Mary University of London (Lead Research Organisation)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) (Collaboration)
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- Micron Semiconductor (Collaboration)
Publications
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of exclusive ? ? ? l + l - production in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a Charged Higgs Boson Produced in the Vector-Boson Fusion Mode with Decay H(±)?W(±)Z using pp Collisions at vs=8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections for Higgs boson production in the diphoton decay channel at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for supersymmetry in events with four or more leptons in s = 8 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2016)
Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson using vector-boson fusion in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of charged-particle spectra in Pb+Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Summary of the ATLAS experiment's sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 - interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Centrality and rapidity dependence of inclusive jet production in s NN = 5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new phenomena in photon + jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Observation of an excited Bc(±) meson state with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $$b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$$ b b ¯ b b ¯ final state from pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 8$$ s = 8 TeVwith the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the low-mass Drell-Yan differential cross section at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Analysis of events with b-jets and a pair of leptons of the same charge in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Searches for Higgs boson pair production in the h h ? b b t t , ? ? W W * , ? ? b b , b b b b channels with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for top quark decays t ? qH with H ? ?? using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Determination of the Ratio of b-Quark Fragmentation Fractions f(s)/f(d) in pp Collisions at vs=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in the dijet mass distribution using p p collision data at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of colour flow with the jet pull angle in t t ¯ events using the ATLAS detector at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of differential J / ? production cross sections and forward-backward ratios in p + Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Aad G
(2015)
Search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Searches for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to a a in the µ µ t t final state in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the production of neighbouring jets in lead-lead collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for scalar diphoton resonances in the mass range 65-600 GeV with the ATLAS detector in pp collision data at vs=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Search for new phenomena in events with three or more charged leptons in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=8 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Two-particle Bose-Einstein correlations in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] 0.9 and 7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the production cross-section of ?(2S) ? J/?(?µ + µ - )p + p - in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV at ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurements of the top quark branching ratios into channels with leptons and quarks with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct top-squark pair production in final states with two leptons in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 8 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new resonances in W? and Z? final states in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for the b b ¯ $$ b\overline{b} $$ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated (W/Z)H production with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Description | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
Description | ATLAS ITK |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Chair of the Institute Board with 100 international members |
Collaborator Contribution | International programme on Tracker Upgrade with 100 institutes from 22 countries working towards the 120MCHF (equipment costs only does not include salaries) main upgrade programme of ATLAS for the HL-LHC |
Impact | Particle Physics |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | ATLAS Upgrade |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | 2011-2015 ATLAS Upgrade Coordinator 2011-2015 Member ATLAS Executive Board |
Collaborator Contribution | ATLAS consists of 3000 physicists from 177 institutes in 35 countries |
Impact | CERN-LHCC-2011-012, CERN-LHCC-2012-022, CERN-LHCC-2013-006, CERN-LHCC-2013-007, CERN-LHCC-2013-017, CERN-LHCC-2013-018, CERN-LHCC-2015-009, ECFA-15-289 and ECFA-13-284. |
Start Year | 2011 |
Description | AWE Ltd |
Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
Department | National Nuclear Security Programme |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Working on the development of a novel neutron detector. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners have funded the development of device readout and simulation. This underpins technology refinements that have accelerated technology development. |
Impact | Outputs are being finalised in terms of publications and IP protection. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | GridPP |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Department | GRIDPP3 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Middleware, hardware, operations; ATLAS Member of the PMB, formerly Applications Co-ordinator, Deputy Chair of Users Board. Provide Deployment Team member. |
Collaborator Contribution | Middleware, operations, co-ordination |
Impact | some papers, enabled many physics papers. |
Description | MSL thin silicon development work |
Organisation | Micron Semiconductor |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Worked with MSL to obtain thin silicon detectors for generic R&D as a follow on/parallel line to the ATLAS detector development work. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners worked on modifying their production process to adapt a product line for our requiremetns for a new R&D line in thin devices. This required an in-kind contribution from the partner company. |
Impact | work is ongoing. |
Start Year | 2017 |