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UK funding (£32,800): Detector Development Infrastructure Ukri1 Apr 2014 UK Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
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Detector Development Infrastructure
| Abstract | QMUL has, and is currently, making signicant investments in infrastructure to support the Particle Physics Research Centre (PPRC) at QMUL. Prior to the last consolidated grant round an estimated investment of £170K had been made in order to modernise the workshop, equip- ping it with two modern CNC machines to directly support detector prototyping and future experiment builds. College is continuing to invest in our activities, and has just completed a new class 10,000 clean room for silicon detector R&D, and a dedicated laboratory for testing silicon detector and mechanical support structures. This new lab includes facilities for ATLAS tracker upgrade stave QA. The total cost of this facility including VAT is £560K. QMUL will be investing in additional laboratory facilities in the near future to support generic R&D and neutrino detector development work. Our projects team are currently finalising the tendering process for that work. Given this significant direct contribution to provide infrastructure for STFC science, totalling £730K so far, combined with the fact that we are seeking funds for generic detector development infrastructure, we ask for 100% contributions from STFC for an Optical coordinate measuring machine for silicon detector QA and development programmes and a Scalable Readout System (SRS) for testing pixel sensors as a part of our generic R&D programme. We believe that this infrastructure request represents excellent value for money from the perspective of STFC as we have already leveraged over five times the requested amount of money for our group infrastructure. QMUL will cover the cost of software for the CMM and training of staff to use it, which as can be seen from the quote supplied, amounts to £11,358+VAT. The equipment requested will strengthen collaborative ties between QMUL, STFC laboratories and CERN, as well as allowing the UK community to build on its silicon expertise by taking into account previously ignored effects in silicon detector construction. If fully successful that knowledge could make the difference between UK technology, with a proven track record of impact potential, being selected for new international projects over competitors. This is especially true in the realm of future linear collider detectors where resolutions of less than 3um are desired targets that have yet to be achieved in demonstrator chips. An understanding of these effects could also be relevant for other industrial or scientific imaging applications involving large scale image sensors. Hence this could lead to impact from ATLAS data analysis to underpinning IP for STFC developed technology, and may even have benefits further afield in terms of image processing in CMOS applications. |
| Category | Research Grant |
| Reference | ST/L003511/1 |
| Status | Closed |
| Funded period start | 01/04/2014 |
| Funded period end | 31/03/2015 |
| Funded value | £32,800.00 |
| Source | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FL003511%2F1 |
Participating Organisations
| Queen Mary University of London | |
| QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | |
| European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) | |
| Micron Semiconductor | |
| European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) | |
| Atomic Weapons Establishment |
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