MRI: Infrastructure for Semiconductor Detector Design and Readout

该提案要求支持用于高能粒子物理实验的半导体传感器的设计、读出和测试的基础设施。 所需的设备包括探针台、焊线机、几何测量仪、逻辑分析仪、等离子体清洁器、电压源和定位台。 这些设备将使合作小组能够扩大他们对实验的贡献范围，他们已经在这些实验中发挥了领导作用（ATLAS，CLEO，CDF和D0）。 该提案的主要重点是使用该设备开发和构建ATLAS像素探测器。 ATLAS是一个大型的国际合作项目，美国贡献了20%以上的努力，目前正在为瑞士日内瓦的CERN实验室的大型强子对撞机（LHC）建造探测器。 许多NSF支持的团体都参与了ATLAS。 此外，同时还在为费米实验室Tevatron对撞机运行IIb的CDF探测器开发硅升级。 许多NSF支持的团体正在合作进行CDF实验。 新墨西哥州大学提议领导基于ATLAS设计的像素传感器的设计和测试。 还介绍了该项目在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.