STFC PPRP Capital Equipment Call 2018

粒子物理学，在最基本的层面上对物质、力和质量产生的探索，永远不会远离新闻，特别是欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）的大型强子对撞机（LHC）和它发现的希格斯玻色子。我们的小组有一个平衡的计划，充分利用大型强子对撞机在能量和精度方面的全部优势（ATLAS, LHCb），以及欧洲核子研究中心加速器综合体（NA62）的其他方面的独特能力。这项提议的一部分是更新我们的计算能力，以便继续对这些实验产生的大量数据进行最高质量的分析，因为它们将继续作为世界上首屈一指的能源前沿设施运行20年。它也将使我们很好地参与新实验的大规模数据分析。伯明翰大学最近投入巨资建立了一套新的无尘室，伯明翰粒子物理与应用仪器实验室（BILPA），这改变了我们集团在精密硅跟踪探测器领域大规模建设和研发的能力。BILPA的一个主要项目是为ATLAS探测器的大规模升级做出重大贡献，这是应对前所未有的事件率和辐射环境所必需的。在对最内层带电粒子跟踪探测器的升级中，我们将构建复杂的“硅带”探测器模块，每天需要大约8000个超声波线键。BILPA还在探测器技术方面有一个广泛的研发计划，既用于未来的实验，也用于技术转让，例如用于医学物理学。在后一种情况下，我们在质子放射治疗中心建造实时成像探测器。该提案包括对三种基本设备的要求，这些设备是BILPA为了高效、高标准地开展所有这些活动所需要的。

Particle physics, the quest to understand matter, forces and mass generation at the most fundamental level, is never far from the news, particularly the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its discovery of the Higgs boson. Our group has a balanced programme, exploiting the full reach of the LHC in energy and precision (ATLAS, LHCb), as well as other aspects of the unique capabilities of the CERN accelerator complex (NA62). One part of this proposal is to renew our computing capabilities in order to continue to enable the highest quality of analysis of the large volumes of data that these experiments produce, as they continue to operate for a further two decades as the world's premier energy frontier facility. It will also place us well to become involved in large scale data analysis of new experiments. Birmingham University has recently invested heavily in setting up a new suite of clean rooms, the Birmingham Instrumentation Laboratory for Particle Physics and Applications (BILPA), which has transformed our group's capability for large-scale construction and R&D in the area of precision silicon tracking detectors. One major project for the BILPA is to make major contributions to the very large-scale upgrades to the ATLAS detector that are required in order to cope with the unprecedented event rates and radiation environments. In an upgrade to the innermost charged particle tracking detector, we will be constructing intricate `silicon strip' detector modules, requiring around 8000 ultrasonic wire bonds per day. The BILPA also has an extensive R&D programme into detector technologies, both for future experiments and for technology transfer, for example into Medical Physics. In the latter context, we our building detectors for real-time imaging at proton radiotherapy centres. This proposal includes a request for three essential items of equipment that the BILPA requires in order to carry out all of these activities efficiently and to a high standard.