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UK CALICE plans

CALICE collaboration seeks funding of £2.5M over 3 years for 5 work packages in the areas of test beam program, data acquisition, MAPS technology, thermal/mechanical design, and simulation/physics studies.

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UK CALICE plans

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  1. UK CALICE plans Birmingham, Cambridge, Imperial, Manchester,RAL,RHUL,UCL

  2. Bid to funding agency • Went to the funding agency in February • Asked for £2.5M over the next 3 years for 5 workpackages • Iterations between committees • Emerge with cut-down and delayed scheme costing £2.7M over the next 4 years • EuroDet makes up a lot of the shortfall CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  3. Workpackage 1: Complete the testbeam program • All institutes, with David Ward in charge • Analysis of test beam data from DESY, CERN and FNAL • Comparison with simulations (WP5) • Firmware and online software upgrades and maintenance • Contributions to data taking, running shifts, etc CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  4. Workpackage 2: DAQ • UCL, Cambridge, Imperial, Manchester and RHUL with Matthew Wing in charge • New RAs at UCL and RHUL • On-board dataflow (Cambridge) • Networking dataflow (UCL/Manchester) • VFE ASIC readout studies (Imperial) • PCI optical receiver cards for off-detector (also part or EuroDET) CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  5. Workpackage 3: MAPS • Birmingham, Imperial and RAL with Paul Dauncey in charge • Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors have detector and (binary) readout on same wafer • Standard CMOS fabrication – halve (?) silicon cost • Much higher granularity – 1 MIP/pixel. Pattern recognition being studied • Less/more material? Less/more heat? • Two rounds of sensor fabrication. First in 2006 • Aim for Beam test with MAPS layer(s) 2008 • New RAs (Birmingham and Imperial) CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  6. Workpackage 4: Thermal+Mechanical • Manchester with Roger Barlow in charge • Work with École Polytechnique (and Lyon?) • Glue studies (literature + ageing). Radiation? • Thermal simulations – need information on design details • Thermal measurements to validate simulations + cooling design • Assembly robot: pattern recognition and placing for 24,000,000 pads CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  7. Workpackage 5: Simulation and Physics • Birmingham, Cambridge, Imperial, RHUL and UCL with Nigel Watson in charge • New posts at RHUL, Birmingham, Cambridge and UCL • Energy flow algorithms • Optimising global detector design • Support of other workpackages • Physics studies: benchmark analyses CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

  8. Conclusions • Lots going on over the next few years (and beyond) • Many new posts (split between WPs)– tell your students CALICE collaboration Meeting, DESY

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