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Successful commissioning of the new PH-DT safety and control system for the refurbished COMPASS Solenoid.
From left to right, L.Deront, S.Ravat and A.Kehrli in front of the Safety and Control system racks developed and manufactured in PH-DT for the COMPASS solenoid. The PH-DT Instrumentation and Controls team has being developing a new safety system…
Read moreThe run 2015 for the PH-DT Irradiation Facilities has begun!
The PH-DT irradiation facilities team operates the Proton Irradiation Facility (IRRAD) at the PS East Area and the Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) located at the SPS North Area. Moreover, the team provides support in planning irradiation…
Read moreRadiation Monitors Tested on Orion Space mission
On Friday 5 December, NASA's new Orion spaceship, a capsule built to take humans further into space than ever before, made its first test flight. The flight marked the first time, since Apollo 17 was launched to the moon in 1972, that a spacecraft…
Read moreA successful year for the PH-DT group
In 2014 DT has been engaged in an extensive programme, supporting and finalizing the consolidation and maintenance work for various experiments at CERN, as well as for the users community. This year was equally difficult and successful. LS1…
Read moreFirst beams for the new East Area Irradiation Facility
On Friday October 10th 2014 at 21:13, for the first time, the primary 24 GeV/c proton beam slow-extracted from the PS went trough the new East Area Irradiation Facility (EA-IRRAD) reaching the beam dump located downstream the T8 beam line. This…
Read morePixel-detector tests for CLIC with the AIDA beam telescope
The PH Linear Collider Detector group (PH-LCD) was the first user of the new AIDA beam telescope in August, taking data with silicon pixel-detector prototypes under development for a future vertex detector at the CLIC high-energy linear electron-…
Read moreMirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
The mirror system is an important part of the NA62 RICH detector* covering the full acceptance range of 7m2 surface. It is composed of 18 hexagonal (Ø≈70cm, thickness 2.5cm) and 2 semi-hexagonal mirrors which are sustained by a lightweight support…
Read morePH-DT presents its 2013 annual report
The PH/DT group has published its Annual Report where key activities throughout 2013 are described as well as a wider description of how the group is organized and interacts with the experimental community. The PH Detector Technology (DT) group is…
Read moreRD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation.
In June 2013 the LHCC has endorsed the establishment of a new R&D collaboration, RD53, to address the challenges of making readout integrated circuits for the phase 2 pixel detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, as well as long term developments of…
Read moreTowards radiation tolerant silicon sensors – News from RD50
The RD50 collaboration “Radiation hard semiconductor devices for high luminosity colliders” is working on the development of radiation tolerant silicon sensors for the detectors of the HL-LHC (High Luminosity-LHC) experiments. An introduction to the…
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