Conveners
Parallel - detectors: Wednesday Holyrood
- Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
Parallel - detectors: Thursday Duddingston
- Alice Hamer
Parallel - detectors: Friday Holyrood
- Emma Ellingwood (University of Edinburgh)
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Giorgia Cacciola (University of Liverpool (GB))08/04/2026, 15:45Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
There has been a long-standing discrepancy between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements in the evaluation of the muon anomalous magnetic moment a_μ. The leading order hadronic contribution to a_μ, a_μ^HLO , represents the dominant source of uncertainty in the Standard Model evaluation. The MUonE experiment aims to determine a_μ^HLO with high precision using a novel...
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Henry James Linton (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 16:00Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
High performance particle identification has traditionally employed Cerenkov detectors due to their accuracy and elegance.
All current Cerenkov detectors in use today at LHC experiments rely on fluorocarbons as their radiating material.
However, the environmental impacts of fluorocarbon gasses prompts a search for a replacement.This talk presents a novel glass radiator for use in high...
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Jakub Andrzej Gajownik (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))08/04/2026, 16:15Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The High-Luminosity LHC (2030+) will operate at unprecedented intensities and radiation levels, with up to 200 overlapping proton-proton collisions per LHC bunch crossing, requiring significant upgrades to the CMS detector to maintain its physics performance. As part of the Phase-2 upgrade of CMS, the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) readout electronics will be upgraded, providing a 160 MHz...
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Alice Hamer08/04/2026, 16:30Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The Boulby UnderGround Screening (BUGS) facility is a world-class materials screening lab based at the Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. The facility has been, and continues to be, used for screening a wide variety of parts and materials prior to their use in low background experiments in the UK and worldwide. The BUGS facility is continuously improving and currently houses a...
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Callum James White (University of Cambridge (GB))08/04/2026, 16:45Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors of the LHCb experiment provide charged-particle identification by reconstructing characteristic Cherenkov rings of photons produced when particles traversing gaseous radiators ($C_{4}F_{10}$, $CF_{4}$) exceed the phase velocity of light. These photons are detected by planes of multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMTs), where precise timing is...
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Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 17:00Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will operate with up to 200 simultaneous proton–proton interactions per bunch crossing, requiring upgraded detector readout, triggering, and data acquisition systems. The Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker introduces new detector modules and a trigger architecture designed to contribute to online trigger decisions within 12.5 $\mu$s. Demonstrating the performance and...
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Athavan Ramalingam08/04/2026, 17:15Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The Electron-Ion Collider is a future facility that will provide unprecedented insight into the structure of matter by colliding polarised electrons with polarised protons/light ions and unpolarised heavy ions. The project detector, ePIC, is being developed to enable precision measurements of the internal dynamics of quarks and gluons.
The tracking detector is the innermost subdetector of...
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George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 10:45Parallel talk
The FastRICH is a novel ASIC central to the implementation of a time resolved readout chain for the two ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors in LHCb. The upgraded electronics will be installed during Long Shutdown Three (LS3) to retain RICH's excellent particle identification (PID) performance after transition to the high multiplicity environment provided by the High Luminosity LHC...
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Difei Xu (UCL)09/04/2026, 11:00Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
Detection for extremely rare events such as 0nbb requires great background modelling. In this research, I work with Boulby Underground Laboratory and apply pulse shape analysis methods developed by LEGEND experiment to improve their material screening efficiency.
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Daniel Foulds-Holt (University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 11:15Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
As the LHCb experiment transitions to the conditions imposed by the High-Luminosity LHC, the performance requirements for it's detectors will increase significantly. To meet these demands, all detectors in LHCb will undergo an upgrade during long shutdown 4 in 2035, collectively called Upgrade II. One of the most significant design changes will be applied to the SciFi tracking detector which...
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Isobel Sargeant (Science and Technology Facilities Council)09/04/2026, 11:30Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
DarkSide-20k is a direct dark matter detection experiment employing a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) to search for rare dark matter interactions. DarkSide-20k is instrumented with silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array photon detectors, termed Photo-Detector Units (PDUs). This talk focuses on installation metrology and QA/QC, inheriting from methods developed during the...
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Karol Hennessy (University of Liverpool (GB))09/04/2026, 11:45Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
RadPix is a High-Voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) pixel sensor developed collaboratively by the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment, and the DRD3 collaboration for Solid State Detector R&D. It represents the first monolithic pixel sensor capable of operating in the high radiation environment of the High Luminosity LHC. Building on the RD50-MPW chip series (led by Liverpool/UK) — established...
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Mr Bilal Ganie (University of Manchester)10/04/2026, 11:00Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will undergo a major
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high-luminosity upgrade during Long Shutdown 4, targeting instantaneous luminosities
up to 1.5×1034 cm−2 s−1, representing a tenfold increase over previous
operations. This will lead to a significant rise in recorded data, from 50 fb−1 to
300 fb−1, and poses challenges for the current tracking system due to... -
Alessandro Sturniolo (University of Liverpool (GB))10/04/2026, 11:15Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
During the LHC Long Shutdown 3 (2026-2030), the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) upgrade to ITS3 will see the replacement of the innermost 3 layers (also referred to as Inner Barrel, or IB) of the current ITS2 with 6 large-area (26 cm long), flexible, stitched 65 nm CMOS sensors. The ITS3 sensors will be air cooled, with integrated power and signal transmission, and for the first time in a...
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Mr Yuri Venturini (CAEN S.p.A.)10/04/2026, 11:30Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
The CAEN x2740/x2745, x2730, and x2751 digitizers belong to the Digitizer 2.0 family and are designed to meet the high data rate requirements of modern nuclear and particle physics experiments, medical imaging systems, and large-scale detector readouts. These platforms support both triggered acquisition and continuous streaming readout, integrating high-speed Flash ADCs, FPGA-based real-time...
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William Bishop (University of Warwick/RAL)10/04/2026, 11:45Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
Muon colliders are one of the next-generation accelerators being proposed for the future of particle physics but their development faces limitations throughout the system, with new innovations required to achieve the desired performance. The focus here is on the target system which needs to withstand multi-MW pulsed proton beams in order to produce the muons through pion decay. Because of...
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Albanik Gashi (Queen Mary University of London)10/04/2026, 12:00Detectors and InstrumentationParallel talk
Nuclear decommissioning requires a thorough understanding of the radiological hazards present, typically achieved through a combination of in-situ detection and complementary radiochemical analysis. A major
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challenge with in-situ detection arises from the diverse functions at nuclear installations, which impose constraints on detector geometry, precision, and the chemical and environmental...