Conveners
RDC 4 Readout & ASICs
- Paul Keener (University of Pennsylvania (US))
- Lorenzo Rota (SLAC National Laboratory)
RDC 4 Readout & ASICs
- Lorenzo Rota (SLAC National Laboratory)
- Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))
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Adrian Nikolica (University of Pennsylvania (US))22/10/2026, 14:001RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Waveform digitization remains the baseline method for reading out large scale neutrino detectors consisting of thousands of channels of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Because events in these detectors happen relatively infrequently, this method results in high cost, high power, and extremely high data volumes to extract a relatively small amount of key data. The problems are compounded when...
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Jongho Lee (University of Illinois Chicago)22/10/2026, 14:20RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
The High Luminosity era of the LHC will present significant challenges for event reconstruction due to up to 200 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing. To address these intense pileup effects, the CMS experiment is undergoing an extensive upgrade, which includes the integration of a new timing layer: the MIP Timing Detector (MTD). The MTD is designed to enable 4D vertexing by providing a...
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Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Vikas Kumar (University of Hawaii at Manoa/ECE)22/10/2026, 14:40RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Waveform digitizers with a Wilkinson ADC are widely used in particle physics, but they are designed in proprietary processes: design files cannot be shared without non-disclosure agreements, and every iteration is costly. We are building a waveform digitizer ASIC with the IRSX architecture as its model, using only an open process design kit (GF180MCU) and open-source design tools. The entire...
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Shirsendu Nanda (LBNL, Berkeley)22/10/2026, 15:00RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
The ePIC Silicon Vertex and Tracking (SVT) detector will be constructed with large-area Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), called EIC-LAS. Serial powering will be used for the two outermost barrel layers and the disks (in both hadron and electron directions), utilising Shunt Low-Dropout (SLDO) regulators. This powering scheme achieves a minimized material budget; combining shunting of...
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Zeeshan Ahmed22/10/2026, 15:20RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
The SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) electronics is a warm readout platform deployed at scale in cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments, where it drives ~2000-channel microwave SQUID multiplexed (µMUX) transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays and now reads out roughly 100,000 TES bolometers on the Simons Observatory. Building on this foundation, the platform is being extended to a broader...
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Qibin Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)22/10/2026, 15:40RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Future high-energy physics detectors must process increasingly complex signals under stringent constraints on bandwidth, latency, power, and hardware resources. We present a hardware-aware machine-learning approach for general real-time waveform processing in detector readout systems, with applications to drift-chamber cluster counting and scintillation/Cherenkov waveform decomposition in...
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Prashansa Mukim (Brookhaven National Laboratory)22/10/2026, 16:30RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Brookhaven National Laboratory is developing CHARMS, a family of cryogenic front-end ASICs in 65-nm CMOS for low-noise readout of charge and light signals in noble-liquid detectors. Building on experience with the LArASIC chip, developed for liquid-argon time projection chambers and being deployed for the DUNE Phase-I far detectors, CHARMS moves to a more advanced CMOS technology and...
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Bahrudin Trbalic (Stanford University)22/10/2026, 16:501RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
GAMPix (Grid-Activated Multi-scale Pixel readout) is a low-power charge-readout system for time projection chambers (TPCs) that pairs coarse induction wire grids with fine pixel planes. The wire signal triggers the pixels of a rapidly power-cycled ASIC, which then integrate the deposited charge, enabling sub-millimeter track imaging with full energy reconstruction while cutting readout power...
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Peng Miao (University of Texas at Arlington)22/10/2026, 17:101RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Resolving the microscopic charge distribution of ionization tracks in liquid noble gases can reveal local energy deposition and interaction topology beyond a measurement of total energy. This information offers opportunities for improved reconstruction of X-ray and gamma-ray interactions, particle identification, and background rejection in rare-event searches. Sensitivity to small charge...
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Daniel Andrew Dwyer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))22/10/2026, 17:30RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
Future neutrino and rare event searches require exceptionally large detectors with high spatial-granularity readout technologies. Efforts in scalable readout systems for noble liquid detectors will be discussed, starting with LArPix. This custom integrated circuit (64-channel SOC, integrating CSA, 10-bit SAR ADC, now in 130nm CMOS) and associated scalable readout system architecture was...
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Dr Rebecca Carney (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))22/10/2026, 17:501RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
As particle physics sensor arrays expand in size and complexity, single-point failures pose a significant obstacle to achieving the next generation detectors at scale. Failures can originate from manufacturing defects or be induced by radiation damage or cryogenic temperatures during operation.
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Artificial Intelligence paradigms in dynamic mesh communication, both on-chip and in multi-chip... -
Roger Guo Huang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))22/10/2026, 18:10RDC 4 Readout & ASICsPresentation
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an upcoming long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that will feature a near detector complex and new neutrino beam at Fermilab and a far detector complex 1300 km away at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. While the designs of the first and second DUNE far detector modules have been finalized as liquid argon time projection...
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