Abstract At the end of 2012 the proton irradiation facility at the CERN PS [1] will shut down for two years. With this in mind, we have been developing a new ATLAS scanning facility at the University of Birmingham Medical Physics cyclotron. With proton beams of energy a...

This work was performed in the framework of the CERN-RD50 collaboration under the project RD50-2015-03. The project has received funding from the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures project AIDA, grant agreement no. 262025. This project has been p...

A detailed study of hadronic interactions is presented using data recorded with the highly granular CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter. Approximately 350,000 selected negatively charged pion events at energies between 2 and 10 GeV have been studied. The...

Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Elsevier for publication in Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Research A

The Birmingham Irradiation Facility was developed in 2013 at the University of Birmingham using the Medical Physics MC40 cyclotron. It can achieve High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) fluences of 10¹⁵ (1 MeV neutron equivalent (n<inf>eq</inf>)) cm^-2 in 80 ...

The foreseen luminosity upgrade for the LHC (a factor of 5-10 more in peak luminosity by 2021) poses serious constraints on the technology for the ATLAS tracker in this High Luminosity era (HL-LHC). In fact, such luminosity increase leads to increased occupancy and radi...

Abstract Precision machines like electron-positron-colliders and b-factories demand for low material budget and high position resolution when it comes to particle tracking. A low material budget can be achieved by using thin double-sided silicon detectors (DSSDs) and li...

Abstract A common DAQ system is being developed within the CALICE collaboration. It provides a flexible and scalable architecture based on giga-ethernet and 8b/10b serial links in order to transmit either slow control data, fast signals or read out data. A detector inte...

Abstract The performance of prototype active-edge VTT sensors bump-bonded to the Timepix ASIC is presented. Non-irradiated sensors of thicknesses 100–200 μm and pixel-to-edge distances of 50 μm and 100 μm were probed with a beam of charged hadrons with sub-pixel precisi...

Abstract Si-strips are the baseline for the Forward Tracker Detector (FTD) of the International Linear Detector (ILD). The main element of the front-end electronics is a multi-channel ASIC for self-triggered detection and processing of low level charge signals. The arch...