PHIL photoinjector test line

LAL is now equiped with its own platform for photoinjectors tests and Research and Developement, named PHIL (PHotoInjectors at LAL). This facility has two main purposes: push the limits of the photoinjectors performances working on both the design and the associated technology and provide a low energy (MeV) short pulses (ps) electron beam for the interested users. Another very important goal of this machine will be to provide an opportunity to form accelerator physics students, working in a high technology environment. To achieve this goal a test line was realised equipped with an RF source, magnets and beam diagnostics. In this article we will desrcibe the PHIL beamline and its characteristics together with the description of the first two photoinjector realised in LAL and tested: the ALPHAX and the PHIN RF Guns

DMILL, a mixed analog-digital radiation-hard BICMOS technology for high energy physics electronics

High Energy Physics experiments under preparation at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) with the future LHC (Large Hadron collider) require a fast, low noise, very rad-hard, mixed analog-digital microelectronics VLSI technology. Readout electronics designed using such a technology for the central parts of the LHC particle detectors must withstand more than 10 Mrad (SiO2) and 1014 neutrons/cm2 over 10 years of operation. We present here recent results obtained with a new rad-hard analog-digital technology called DMILL, which monolithically integrates NPN bipolar, CMOS and P-JFET transistors, and which has been specifically developed to fulfill the severe constraints of LHC detector readout circuit