Conveners
RDC 3 Solid State Tracking
- Sally Seidel (University of New Mexico (US))
- Tony Affolder (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
RDC 3 Solid State Tracking
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The ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) project saw unexpected sensor fracturing when thermocycling strip modules during pre-production. This critical mechanical failure delayed production worldwide, motivating an innovative test-to-destruction study for diagnosis. Five pre-production modules are thermocycled at progressively wider temperatures, raising sensor bow by 146 ± 27 µm after cycling between...
The Beta-decay Paul Trap (BPT) at Argonne National Laboratory primarily studies the beta delayed-alpha decays of $^8$Li and $^8$B to measure the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient in these decays to search for a tensor contribution to the weak interaction. Additionally, the BPT is able to directly measure the $^8$B unoscillated neutrino spectrum, an important input for current and...
High spatial and temporal resolution detectors will be critical to operate in the conditions created by future colliders. Based on the input from the 4D Tracking detector workshop at SLAC in September 2024 we have derived a proposal for a 4D Pixel detector demonstrator project. The project aims to coalesce multiple current R&D efforts in the US, better understand high precision timing systems...
Muon colliders have emerged as an exciting option for enabling access to the 10 TeV energy scale in the post High Luminosity LHC era in a compact and power-efficient way compared to proton-proton alternatives. However, significant research and development is required to address the fundamental challenge that muons are unstable, and will decay continuously while moving through an accelerator...
The prospect of a muon collider has fueled remarkable research and development efforts across physics frontiers. As the high-energy physics community continues to make strides towards the feasibility of a 10 TeV-scale muon collider, both the International and US Muon Collider Collaborations (IMCC and USMCC) have achieved significant progress in detector R&D, producing two potential detector...
Thin Film particle detectors represent a new generation of particle detectors that can be made with scalable fabrication techniques with the aim of a printable design. These fabrication techniques also enable a wider variety of potential detector materials that can achieve high performance through better charge collection properties or faster electron mobilities for better timing. A set of InP...
The high speed and efficiency of the novel semiconductor InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) scintillator make it a promising alternative competitor to direct-ionization drift detectors for 3D tracking and other high-energy physics and medical applications. In this detector, self-assembled epitaxial QDs serve as artificial luminescent centers, converting the kinetic energy of incoming charged particles...
The escalating radiation environment at next-generation colliders demands revolutionary advances in detector materials — and Ga₂O₃ emerges as a game-changing candidate poised to redefine innermost solid-state tracking through unparalleled radiation tolerance and thermal resilience. Future high-energy physics experiments will expose tracking layers to particle fluences exceeding 10¹⁵–10¹⁶...
We report on the development and timing performance evaluation of 4H-SiC Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs), motivated by their potential for enhanced radiation hardness and fast signal response. The devices were fabricated on custom multi-layer epitaxial 4H-SiC wafers and feature etched termination and field plate designs to improve edge breakdown performance. Using UV-TCT, β-particle, and...
