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Review of the French ILC Detector R&D
The French ILC community held a SOCLE meeting (Seminar Oriented towards a Contribution to an Electron Linear Collider) in Lyon on 12-13 January 2006. More than 70 participants attended a review of the...
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The ILC Vertex Detector: Tagging Transient Particles
Possible geometry for the ILC vertex detector. At the heart of the massive ILC detector system, the vertex detector, a compact tracking device about the size of a wine bottle, surrounds the...
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TPC: a digital breakthrough
Digitisation – a key word that could lead to smaller and simpler detectors. Two weeks ago, at Saclay, France, the CEA Time Projection Chamber group of Paul Colas proved it could build a digital TPC for...
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SiLC R&D collaboration in Turin
The sixth meeting of the Silicon tracking for the Linear Collider R&D Collaboration (SiLC) took place at the University degli Studi in Turin from 18 to 20 December 2007. The three-day meeting was...
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A different kind of Terascale
Have you ever used a map to find an electron? Not possible, you say? Think again. Spell it slightly differently – MAPS – put it into an electromagnetic calorimeter, and you may well be able to track an...
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SOI technology for next-generation sensors
What do you visualise when you are asked about a sensor? There are many sensors around us. For example, CCDs (Charge Coupled Device), which is the basis of today’s digital camera, and the technology...
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The impact of ILC detector R&D
Isometric view of one half of the vertex detector for the BELLE-II experiment, based on the DEPFET technology. Image: DESY Although the actual construction date of the ILC accelerator and its detectors...
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Light as a feather
Possible geometries for the ILC International Large Detector. Shown on the left is a design based on five single-sided layers; on the right, a design based on three double-sided layers. Image: ILD A...
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