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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Silicon Strip"”.
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Study of Radiation Damage in Silicon Strip Detector for ATLAS ITk
… ovlivňují detekční vlastnosti křemíkových stripových detektorů. Hlavním cílem této bakalářské práce je studovat, jaký vliv má radiační poškození na detekční vlastnosti křemíkových stripových detektorů za pomoci měření jejich elektrických charakteristik. Testované křemíkové stripové senzory …
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Development, Optimisation and Characterisation of a Radiation Hard Mixed-Signal Readout Chip for LHCb
… hard, 128 channel pipelined readout chip for silicon strip detectors. The front-end consists of a charge-sensitive preamplifier followed by a CR-RC pulse shaper. The analogue pipeline memory is implemented as a switched capacitor array with a maximum latency of 4us. The 128 analogue channels …
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Magneto-optical oxide thin films and integrated nonreciprocal photonic devices
… highly desired by the fast development of silicon photonics, monolithically integrating such devices on a semiconductor platform has been challenging for decades both due to material incompatibility and device designs. In this thesis, we focus on developing material and device candidates …
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Development of a CO2 Cooling Test Facility from the Vertex Locator Thermal Control System
… evaporative CO2 cooling system developed for silicon strip detectors in the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Physics (CERN). This type of cooling has become increasingly common in high-energy physics experiments, making their design and …
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Study of ¹⁸NE using the array for Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure with exotic nuclei
… solid angle coverage through an array of 40 silicon-strip detectors backed with CsI(Tl) scintillators, covering an area of roughly 1300 cm2. ANASEN includes an active gas target/detector using a position-sensitive annular gas proportional counter that allows direct measurement of (α,p) …
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Characterisation of silicon photonics devices
Silicon based integrated circuits has been dominating the electronics technology industry in the last few decades. As the telecommunications and the computing industry slowly converges together, the need for a material to build photonics integrated circuits (PIC) that can be cost-effective and be …
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Development and Characterisation of a Radiation Hard Readout Chip for the LHCb-Experiment
… ASIC is a 128 channel pipelined readout chip for silicon strip detectors. The front-end consists of a charge-sensitive preamplifier and a CR-RC pulse shaper. It features an equivalent noise charge of ENC = 497 e + 48.3 e/pF Cin. The analogue memory is a switched capacitor array, which provides a …
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Exclusive Photodisintegration of 3He
… energy loss. Charged particles were detected in silicon strip detectors with angular acceptance constrained by a collimator system. Neutrons were detected in arrays of liquid organic scintillator cells. Data for neutron-proton (np) coincidences were acquired in configurations which selectively …
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Device integration for silicon microphotonic platforms
Silicon ULSI compatible, high index contrast waveguides and devices provide high density integration for optical networking and on-chip optical interconnects. Four such waveguide systems were fabricated and analyzed: crystalline silicon-on-insulator (SOI) strip, polycrystalline silicon (polySi) …
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Spin Dependence in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at RHIC
… (<em> pp</em>) elastic scattering process. Silicon strip detectors, installed inside the Roman Pots, measure tracks of protons scattered diffractively at very small angles. In a dedicated run with special beam optics during the 2009 RHIC run, the collaboration collected about 20 million …
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Sub-nanosecond Cherenkov photon detection for LHCb particle identification in high-occupancy conditions and semiconductor tracking for muon scattering tomography
… tomography is presented. The tracker uses silicon strip sensors from the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) with an 80μm pitch. A novel electronic readout system for the sensors is designed, based on a scalable, inexpensive, flexible, FPGA-based solution. A high-precision mechanical …
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High-Speed and Power Efficient Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators
… integration at a low cost. The standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform and the more recently developed lithium niobate-oninsulator (LNOI) platform are the foundations of photonic integrated circuits (PIC), which have emerged as a promising technology to meet the needs of the optical …
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Development of Low Gain Avalanche Detectors for Astroparticle Physics Experiments in Space
… sensor is O(1 mm2) for HEP experiments whereas, silicon strip sensors in space applications have 50-60 cm long channels with 100 μm pitch, resulting in a channel area of about 1 cm2. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the use of LGADs for timing in space. In view of this, the channel size of …
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Investigation of performance and the influence of environmental conditions on strip detectors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade
… Inner Detector will be replaced with the new all-silicon ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) to maintain tracking performance in this high-occupancy environment and to cope with the increase of approximately a factor of ten in the integrated radiation dose. The outer four layers in the barrel and six disks …
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ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION IN SMALL PLANT RADIOTRACER STUDIES
<p>The main objective of this dissertation research is to develop measurement and data-analysis tools for improving the quantitative accuracy of radiotracer studies of small plants, e.g., grasses in their early growth stages and tree seedlings. Improved accuracy is needed due to the thin nature of …
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Applications of High Speed Configurable Logic Devices in Modern Particle Physics Experiments
… of Geneva (CH). The collaboration prepared a silicon strip telescope and a DAQ system (hardware and software) for data acquisition and control of the telescope that allowed to store about 90 million events in 7 equivalent days of live-time of the beam. My activities concerned basically the …
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Amplitude analyses of the D+, D+s̳[right arrow] K-K+[pi]+ and D0[right arrow] K0s̳K+K- final states
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