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TE/MPE/EM/PMT Collaborations

Rui de Oliveira on behalf of PCB workshop team

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outline• RD51• Patents• Scientific Publications• Trainings• Technical student • FP7 and AIDA

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RD 51 Collaboration NewsLeszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay)

10th RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Stony Brook, USA, October 1-4, 2012

80 RD51 Member Institutes; ~ 450 Participants

Consolidation around common projects: large area MPGD R&D, CERN/MPGDproduction facility, common electronics developments, software tools, beam tests

RD51

Large area (MM, GEM, THGEM) Design optimization (e.g. THGEM, Resistive MM)

“RD51 Common Projects”(Generic R&D)

Software and Simulation

MPGD SRS Electronics

CERN MPGD Workshop& Industrialization

RD51 CommonTest Beam Facility

WG5:

WG4:

WG1:

WG2:

WG7: WG6:

• RD51 Report in the LHCC Open Session on June 13, 2012http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=194183

LHCC Committee, Draft Minutes

(CERN/LHCC-2012/008)

The continuation of the access to the CERN MPGD Workshop with associate manpower in support of technical maintenance and further development of MPGD technologies

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PMT participation in RD51 • WG1 :R&D on new structures, PMT have introduce:

– Bulk Micromega ( with Saclay collaboration)– Resistive protections (with Atlas Collaboration)– Large GEM (with CERN GDD/CMS/INFN Frascati/TUM Munich …)– GEM embedded stretching system (PMT)

• WG5: electronics– Layout (design office Betty)– Prototype production– Subcontracting advice and companies visits (fine pitch and Chip on board)

• WG6 :Industrialisation– Companies visits (more than 10)– TT transfer with selected companies– Institutes trainings– 2 Conveners (Fabio and Rui)

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CERN/ PMT Patents • Large size GEM

• Chemical micro-vias

• Resistive protections

• Special capacitive couplings to reduce electronic channel count in gas detectors

• Piggy Back Micromegas

• Micro BULK Micromegas

• PG and TPG thermal management devices (sold to Queen Mary college)

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Scientific Publications

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• More than 40 publications as co/Authors on the following subjects:– First Bulk Micromegas – CMS High Eta– Piggy back– Micro Bulk– Resistive protections– Rare event detectors, Low background– Neutron detectors– Large area GEM– Spherical GEM– Cylindrical GEM detectors– Cast experiment– Compass experiment– Thermal management devices– Low Mass thermal management device– Chemical micro-vias– 2D read-outs for gas detectors– FGLD detectors– UV to Visible Wave length shifter (ArDM) (in construction)– Flex Embedded silicon (in construction)

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Formal Trainings

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• GEM production training:– Techtra 2 weeks (Polish institute)– Xiaomei Li (CIAE Beijing) 1 week next February

• Micromegas production training:– CEA Saclay (BULK and resistive protection) many iterations @CERN – CEA Saclay : BULK facility review @ Saclay– CIREA and ELTOS (BULK and resistive) 2 Days @ CERN + 2 days @ ELTOS– INFN Frascati (Large Micromegas detector) 2 months @CERN

• THGEM production– VECC KolKata (polyurethane protection) 1 day @CERN– Weissmann institute Israel (test and Cleaning) 2 days @CERN

• Spray solder mask deposition– Cirly one day @CERN

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Technical students projects

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• Embedded active silicon devices (Kim-Eigard Hines)– Low mass detectors

• MHSP detectors (Mafalda Macatrao)– Low Ion Feed Back detectors

• Chemical Microvias (Victor Da Silva)– General High density circuits

• Self stretching Triple GEM detectors (Christian Waltz)– CMS High Eta Muon Chamber upgrade

• Spark study (Cosimo Cantini)– Improve THGEM immunity to sparks– ATLAS Muon Chamber upgrade

• Optimisation of resistive layers in MM detectors (Silvia Franchino)– For Higher rate detector applications

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Projects FP7 , AIDA• PMT was involved in an FP7 project in collaboration with

7 institutes , for the development of large size GEMs– Part of the R&D on large size GEM have been financed by this program

• PMT is involved now in the AIDA program for consolidation of Detector infrastructures– Aida contribution consist in financing the salary of one fellow during 2

years– The task is to set up all machines needed for prototyping large size

detector– 9 machines have been bought , 6 are running (total budget 785 KCHF)– The installation of the 3 last ones needs a 1 week stop of the whole

activity (we are now looking for the best opportunity). The R&D on large detectors will not be stopped.

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Thank you

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