Detector Development Infrastructure

QMUL已经并正在对基础设施进行重大投资，以支持QMUL的粒子物理研究中心(PPRC)。在上一轮综合赠款之前，为使车间现代化，为其配备了两台现代化的数控机床，以直接支持探测器原型制作和未来实验建造，估计已投资170K GB。学院正在继续投资于我们的活动，并刚刚完成了新的10,000级硅探测器研发洁净室，以及一个专门测试硅探测器和机械支撑结构的实验室。这个新的实验室包括ATLAStracker升级STAVE QA的设施。该设施包括增值税在内的总成本为GB 560K。QMUL将在不久的将来投资更多的实验室设施，以支持通用研发和中微子探测器的开发工作。我们的项目组目前正在敲定这项工作的招标程序。鉴于为STFC Science提供基础设施的重大直接贡献，迄今总计GB 730K，再加上我们正在为通用探测器开发基础设施寻求资金，我们要求STFC为硅探测器质量保证和开发计划提供100%的光学坐标测量机，并要求STFC提供用于测试像素传感器的可扩展读出系统(SRS)，作为我们通用研发计划的一部分。我们相信，从STFC的角度来看，这项基础设施请求代表着极高的性价比，因为我们已经为集团基础设施筹集了超过所需资金五倍的资金。QMUL将支付CMM软件和培训工作人员使用该软件的费用，从所提供的报价中可以看出，这笔费用总计为GB 11,358+VAT。所需设备将加强QMUL、STFC实验室和CERN之间的合作关系，并允许英国社区通过考虑以前在硅探测器建设中被忽视的影响来加强其硅专业知识。如果完全成功，这些知识可能会让英国的技术与竞争对手相比，在新的国际项目中脱颖而出。英国技术在影响潜力方面有着公认的记录。这在未来的线性对撞机领域尤其如此，在那里，分辨率低于3um的目标是演示芯片尚未实现的理想目标。对这些效应的理解也可能与涉及大规模图像传感器的其他工业或科学成像应用相关。因此，这可能导致从ATLAS数据分析到支撑STFC开发技术的IP的影响，甚至可能在更远的应用中在图像处理方面带来好处。

QMUL has, and is currently, making signicant investments in infrastructure to support theParticle Physics Research Centre (PPRC) at QMUL. Prior to the last consolidated grant roundan 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 futureexperiment builds. College is continuing to invest in our activities, and has just completed anew class 10,000 clean room for silicon detector R&D, and a dedicated laboratory for testingsilicon detector and mechanical support structures. This new lab includes facilities for ATLAStracker upgrade stave QA. The total cost of this facility including VAT is £560K. QMUL willbe investing in additional laboratory facilities in the near future to support generic R&D andneutrino detector development work. Our projects team are currently finalising the tendering process for that work. Given this significant direct contribution to provide infrastructure for STFCscience, 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 perspectiveof STFC as we have already leveraged over five times the requested amount of money forour group infrastructure. QMUL will cover the cost of software for the CMM and training of staffto 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 previouslyignored 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 colliderdetectors 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 impactfrom ATLAS data analysis to underpinning IP for STFC developed technology, and may even have benefitsfurther afield in terms of image processing in CMOS applications.