MRI: Infrastructure for Semiconductor Detector Design and Readout

该提案要求为用于高能粒子物理实验的半导体传感器的设计、读出和测试提供基础设施支持。所需设备包括探针台、焊线机、几何测量仪、逻辑分析仪、等离子清洗机、电压源和定位平台。这些设备将允许合作小组扩大他们对实验的贡献范围，在这些实验中，他们已经扮演了领导角色(ATLAS、CLEO、CDF和D0)。这项提议的主要重点是利用该设备开发和建造ATLAS像素探测器。阿特拉斯是一项大型国际合作，美国贡献了超过20%的努力，该探测器目前正在瑞士日内瓦的欧洲核子研究中心实验室为大型强子对撞机(LHC)建造。许多NSF支持的团体都参与了ATLAS。此外，费米实验室Tevatron对撞机上用于Run IIb的CDF探测器的硅升级工作也在进行中。许多NSF支持的团体正在CDF实验上进行合作。新墨西哥大学提议领导像素传感器的设计和测试，这将基于ATLAS的设计。还描述了该项目为合作大学提供的教育机会。

This proposal requests support for infrastructure for the design, readout, and testing of semiconductor sensors for use in high energy particle physics experiments. The equipment requested includes a probe station, wire bonders, geometry gauge, logic analyzer, plasma cleaner, voltage sources, and positioning stages. The equipment will allow the collaborating groups to broaden the range of their contributions to experiments in which they already have leadership roles (ATLAS, CLEO, CDF, and D0). The main focus of this proposal is to use this equipment to develop and construct the ATLAS pixel detector. ATLAS is a large international collaboration to which the US contributes over 20% of the effort, and which detector is currently under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. Many NSF-supported groups participate in ATLAS. In addition, there is concurrent activity in the development of a silicon upgrade for the CDF detector for Run IIb at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Many NSF-supported groups are collaborating on the CDF experiment. The University of New Mexico proposes to lead the design and testing of the pixel sensors, which would be based on the ATLAS designs. The opportunities presented for education by this project at the collaborating universities are also described.