Detector Development Infrastructure

QMUL已经并且目前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）。在最后一次合并拨款之前，为了使车间现代化，估计投资了17万英镑，为其配备了两台现代数控机床，以直接支持探测器原型设计和未来的实验构建。学院继续在我们的活动上投资，刚刚建成了新的10000级硅探测器研发无尘室，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用于ATLAStracker升级的QA设备。这个设施的总成本包括增值税是£560K。QMUL将在不久的将来投资额外的实验室设施，以支持通用研发和中微子探测器的开发工作。我们的项目团队目前正在完成这项工作的招标过程。鉴于为STFCscience提供基础设施的重大直接贡献，到目前为止总计730K英镑，结合我们正在为通用探测器开发基础设施寻求资金的事实，我们要求STFC提供100%的捐款，用于硅探测器QA和开发计划的光学坐标测量机以及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，这一基础设施要求代表了物有所值，因为我们已经为集团基础设施筹集了超过要求金额五倍的资金。QMUL将承担CMM软件和员工使用培训的费用，从所提供的报价中可以看出，总计11,358英镑+增值税。所要求的设备将加强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建立其硅专业知识。如果完全成功，这些知识可能会使英国技术（具有已被证明的影响潜力的记录）在新的国际项目中脱颖而出，而不是竞争对手。在未来的线性对撞机探测器领域尤其如此，其中小于3um的分辨率是尚未在演示芯片中实现的理想目标。对这些影响的理解也可能与涉及大型图像传感器的其他工业或科学成像应用相关。因此，这可能会导致从ATLAS数据分析到STFC开发技术的基础IP的影响，甚至可能在CMOS应用中的图像处理方面有进一步的好处。

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.