Resources for Students

Some good books

Detectors

• W. R. Leo; Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments: A How-to Approach
• C. Grupen, B. Shwartz; Particle Detectors

Semiconductor detectors

• G. Lutz; Semiconductor Radiation Detectors
• H. Spieler; Semiconductor Detector Systems

Semiconductor physics, technology, devices

• S. M. Sze, K. M. Lee; Semiconductor Devices Physics and technology

Microelectronics and chip design (for physicists )

• A. Rivetti; CMOS: Front-End Electronics for Radiation Sensors
• B. Razavi; Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits

ATLAS ITk Upgrade

• ATLAS ITk strips Technical Design Report http://cds.cern.ch/record/2257755; and here you find all the TDR figures https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/UPGRADE/CERN-LHCC-2017-005/

Effects of radiation on silicon detectors and associated electronics

• M. Moll; Radiation Damage in Silicon Particle Detectors; https://mmoll.web.cern.ch/mmoll/thesis/
• L. Gonella; TID Tolerance of commercial 130nm CMOS Technologies for HEP experiments; http://cds.cern.ch/record/2252791?ln=en
• F. Faccio, G. Cervelli; Radiation-induced edge effects in deep submicron CMOS transistors; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1589217/
• L. Gonella, F. Faccio, et al.; Total Ionizing Dose effects in 130-nm commercial CMOS technologies for HEP experiments; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900207015501
• F. Faccio; Radiation hardness issues; https://indico.cern.ch/event/468486/contributions/1144364/
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Some useful thesis on detector development

• S. Wonsak; Characterisation of Irradiated Planar Silicon Strip Sensors for HL-LHC Applications; Chapter 2 gives a fine introduction to Si detectors (including rad damage), Chap 3 describes ALiBaVa? ; http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~swonsak/Thesis/Wonsak-Thesis_27-02-2017.pdf
• M. Backhaus; High bandwidth pixel detector modules for the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer; Chapter 3 is a concise yet clear and complete introduction to particle tracking with pixel detectors; http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2014/3507/3507.pdf
• T. Price; Digital Calorimetry For Future e+e− Linear Colliders and Their Impact On The Precision Measurement of the Top Higgs Yukawa Coupling; Nice introduction to Calorimetry and MAPS based calorimeters; http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/4515/1/Price13Phd1.pdf
• N. Lehman; Tracking with self-seeded Trigger for High Luminosity LHC; Very good description of ABC130 chip and testing procedures; https://documents.epfl.ch/users/n/nl/nlehmann/www/SelfSeededTrigger_MasterThesis/SelfSeededTrigger_NiklausLehmann_Thesis.pdf
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-- LauraGonella - 02 Aug 2017