LC Infrastructure

An advanced infrastructure to enable detector R&D for high energy physics experiments is under development within the AIDA project.

The development focuses on the detector types used in modern collider experiments: precise vertex detectors, gaseous tracking devices, silicon tracking devices and calorimetry.

Precision pixel detector infrastructure will comprise:
- an infrastructure that allows to evaluate the thermo-mechanical performance of fully integrated detector prototypes under a realistic power load;

Gaseous tracking devices infrastructure will comprose:
- an upgrade of the Large Prototype at DESY, that was developed as a proof-of-principle set-up for a large TPC comprising:
    - update of the current superconducting solenoid to be served by a helium liquifier
    - integration of the endplate and module systems
    - development of a read-out system for the TPC infrastructure based on the S-ALTRO chip.
- infrastructure for the production of large area MPGDs; the existing facilities will be upgraded with equipment for the construction of detectors with dimensions of up to 1.5m, more than doubling the present limit.
- common readout systems for gaseous detectors.

Silicon tracking infrastructure will comprise:
- infrastructure for silicon tracking comprising several layers of Silicon micro-strip detectors to provide a precise entry point over a large area and placed in front of the calorimeter infrastructure.

Granular calorimeter studies infrastructure will comprise:
- an integrated infrastructure allowing for testing in beam a complete calorimeter set-up with different options for radiators, sensors or electronics comprosing:
    - a mechanical structure to place and move the different elements;
    - a luminosity calorimeter structure with tungsten radiator and read-out electronics
    - an electromagnetic calorimeter model (prototype)
    -  a hadronic struncture with insertion of a tungsten radiator and all the services for operating the infrastructure