Title:
Keynote – Electronics for Future High Energy Particle Colliders
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Description:
Particle physics begins at the turn of the 20th Century with the discovery of radiation and atomic structure. Numerous discoveries over the course of the last 125 years were enabled by increasingly powerful and sophisticated instruments to measure the tracks and energy of particles created at accelerators, colliders, and in astrophysical sources. Today the energy frontier is at CERN, the European Center for Particle Physics, near Geneva, Switzerland, where experiments rely upon sensors and electronics functioning within intense radiation fields and requiring fast, low noise, mixed signal ASICs, to measure, process, and transmit data at, or near, real time. An international effort is now underway to both upgrade existing facilities at CERN, for higher data rates, and plan for a next generation of colliders to operate beginning in the 2040’s decade. Technology cycles require several decades of R&D.
This keynote will start with a discussion of the history of instrumentation for particle physics, present the current state-of-the-art, and then describe the electronics and sensor needs for future, and upgraded colliders. These requirements have been reviewed in a number of recent national and international commissioned studies, which will be referred to in the presentation for further reference.
Type:
Keynote