Category: Activities
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ALICE Operation and Detector Upgrade
ALICE Operation and Detector Upgrade ATLAS Operation ATLAS Detector Upgrade Projects
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Solid State Detector Lab
Solid State Detector Lab Contact person: This service is offering the characterization and testing of silicon sensors to CERN and external groups, respectively gives external groups access to laboratory equipment. A list of available equipment is given below and ranges from CV, IV measurements to Charge Collection Efficiency measurements on strip sensors using LHC speed electronics. Title Description
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B-field mapping & Magnet support
B-field mapping & Magnet support Contact person: Nicola Pacifico This B-field mapping and magnet support service is open to CERN users. It provides precise magnetic field measurements using custom-made mechanical setups for precise B-field measurements of large magnets in the experiments. The team develops high precision 3D magnetic sensors and related DAQ systems. Magnetic field
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Controls & DAQ
Controls & DAQ Contact person: Xavier Pons The Instrumentation and Controls team develops and supports large and medium scale control systems based on industry-standard equipment, configured around CERN-defined frameworks, for the infrastructure of CERN experiments and laboratory control systems.The service includes preventive and corrective maintenance, and 24/7 on-call service for control/safety systems developed for and
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Microsystems Engineering
Microsystems Engineering Contact person: Andrea Catinaccio Micro-technologies are being investigated within the Engineering Office. This effort aims at microScint – Recently, a new type of scintillation detector based on microfluidics has been demonstrated. It is being considered as potential candidate for particle tracking and beam monitoring devices in High Energy Physics and medical applications. microCool
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Thin Film and Glass R&Ds
Thin Film and Glass R&Ds The mandate of the TFG lab in PH-DT is to give support to the different CERN experiments in terms of thin film coating as well as glass and ceramic machining. The activity in the Thin Film Lab covers the large field of Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) based coatings. Metals, dielectrics
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Detector Cooling R&D
Detector Cooling R&D Contact person: Paolo Petagna The “EP-DT Cooling Project” was launched in 2009 with the ambition of creating in EP a pole of competences in all matters of innovative thermal management of detectors. The focus is mainly on highly demanding applications, where the level of engineering optimization needed to achieve the required physics
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Gaseous Detectors R&D
Gaseous Detectors R&D Contact person: Eraldo Oliveri The EP-DT Gaseous Detectors R&D team plays a major role in the coordination and consolidation of the DRD1 Collaboration. DRD1 focuses on the promotion and development of the Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) technologies. MPGD offer unprecedented spatial resolution, high rate capability, large sensitive area, operational stability and radiation
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Irradiation Facilities
Irradiation Facilities Contact person: Federico Ravotti New Homepage : ps-irrad.web.cern.ch A Few Words from our Team Irradiation The irradiation team within the EP-DT-DD section operates and maintains the proton Irradiation facility at the PS East Area and the Gamma Irradiation Facility located at the former SPS West Area. Moreover, the team provides support to the