Photoimageable thick-film microwave structures up to 18 GHz

The increasing interest in new wireless applications is creating demand for low cost, high performance microwave hybrid circuits. Offering the inherent advantages of thick-film technology such as low manufacturing costs and feasibility for mass production, recent improvements in thick film materials and processing techniques broadens the frequency range where ceramic thick-film circuits can be used and allow current thick-film technology to reach beyond its previous limitations and enter the domain reserved in the past for thin film technology. This paper discusses the advanced thick-film technique called photoimageable thick-film technology that uses photosensitive conductor and dielectric pastes and photoimaging as a method of patterning for manufacturing microwave hybrids operating in the frequency range up to 18 GHz

ATLAS “Baby-DEMO”

Evaporative CO 2 has been selected as the main detector cooling technology for the Phase II upgrade of the LHC silicon detectors at CERN. In order to provide input to the ATLAS Pixel TDR about the minimum attainable cooling temperature by the end of 2017, ATLAS, with a contribution of CMS, has launched a dedicated detector cooling R&D; study nick-named Baby-DEMO. The Baby-DEMO is the demonstration of a typical 2PACL CO 2 cooling plant operating at the lowest temperature ever achieved. A real size ATLAS mock-up is used to hold realistic manifolding as its critical path might have strong impact on the cooling performance. Additionally, the “Baby-DEMO” program addresses the study of high power flexible vacuum insulated coaxial transfer lines and warm nose boiling enhancement as possible solutions for the Phase II upgrade. This paper describes the system design including CO 2 plant, primary chiller and typical distribution. Challenges and solutions used to achieve the lowest possible evaporation temperatures are reported. The result of this study, even if at the preliminary stage, are of great interest for the design of the cooling systems that ATLAS and CMS will use in the Phase II era

LHC forward physics

The goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report starts presenting a selection of the Monte Carlo simulation tools currently available, chapter 2, then enters the rich phenomenology of QCD at low, chapter 3, and high, chapter 4, momentum transfer, while the unique scattering conditions of central exclusive production are analyzed in chapter 5. The last two experimental topics, Cosmic Ray and Heavy Ion physics are presented in the chapter 6 and 7 respectively. Chapter 8 is dedicated to the BFKL dynamics, multiparton interactions, and saturation. The report ends with an overview of the forward detectors at LHC. Each chapter is correlated with a comprehensive bibliography, attempting to provide to the interested reader with a wide opportunity for further studies

LHC Forward Physics

éditeurs : N. Cartiglia et C. RoyonThe goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report starts presenting a selection of the Monte Carlo simulation tools currently available, chapter 2, then enters the rich phenomenology of QCD at low, chapter 3, and high, chapter 4, momentum transfer, while the unique scattering conditions of central exclusive production are analyzed in chapter 5. The last two experimental topics, Cosmic Ray and Heavy Ion physics are presented in the chapter 6 and 7 respectively. Chapter 8 is dedicated to the BFKL dynamics, multiparton interactions, and saturation. The report ends with an overview of the forward detectors at LHC. Each chapter is correlated with a comprehensive bibliography, attempting to provide to the interested reader with a wide opportunity for further studies

LHCb particle identification upgrade technical design report

The LHCb upgrade will take place in the second long shutdown of the LHC, currently scheduled to begin in 2018. The upgrade will enable the experiment to run at luminosities of 2 x 10^33cm^-2s^-1 and will read out data at a rate of 40MHz into a flexible software-based trigger. All sub-detectors of LHCb will be re-designed to comply with these new operating conditions. This Technical Design Report presents the upgrade plans of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system, the calorimeter system and the muon system, which together provide the particle identification capabilities of the experiment

LHCb tracker upgrade technical design report

The upgrade of the LHCb detector will extend the physics reach of the experiment by allowing it to run at higher luminosity, Linst = 2 x 1033 cm\uf02d2 s\uf02d1, with increased trigger e_ciency for a wide range of decay channels. This is facilitated by the implementation of new front-end electronics, designed such that complete events can be read out and sent to the LHCb data acquisition farm for selection by a full software trigger, every 25 ns. The upgraded LHCb detector is conceived to take physics data for an integrated luminosity of at least 50 fb bc0 c001. This Technical Design Report describes in detail the upgrade of the two tracking subsystems, located just before and just after the LHCb dipole magnet. The tracking detector before the magnet (the Upstream Tracker) will be composed of new, high-granularity silicon micro-strip planes with an improved coverage of the LHCb acceptance. Behind the magnet, a Scintillating Fibre Tracker will be built, which is composed of 2.5m long _bres read out by silicon photomultipliers at the edge of the acceptance. The performance of the two tracking detectors and of the LHCb tracking software are presented, as well as the cost, schedule and task sharing

LHCb VELO upgrade technical design report

The upgraded LHCb VELO silicon vertex detector is a lightweight hybrid pixel detector capable of 40 MHz readout at a luminosity of 2 x 10^33 cm^-2 s^-1. The track reconstruction speed and precision is enhanced relative to the current VELO detector even at the high occupancy conditions of the upgrade, due to the pixel geometry and a closest distance of approach to the LHC beams of just 5.1 mm for the first sensitive pixel. Cooling is provided by evaporative CO2 circulating in microchannel cooling substrates. The detector contains 41 million 55 um x 55 um pixels, read out by the custom developed VeloPix front end ASIC. The detector will start operation together with the rest of the upgraded LHCb experiment after the LHC LS2 shutdown, currently scheduled to end in 2019. This Technical Design Report describes the upgraded VELO system, planned construction and installation, and gives an overview of the expected detector performance