RA4: Technology Development

RA4 pursues technology development for RAs 1-3 and for future experiments. It covers R&D for detector hardware and readout electronics, but also for high-performance and high-throughput computing and analysis methods.

Potential doctoral thesis topics in RA4:

• Studies on the performance and radiation hardness of monolithic CMOS-based silicon tracking detectors for future colliders and the LHCb Mighty Tracker.
• R&D on measuring the fast-timing performance of 3D silicon detectors.
• Development and performance evaluation of a cooling and support structure for LHCb Mighty Pixel detector modules.
• Design and optimisation of the low-background TPC field-cage of XLZD.
• Reconstructing particle tracks with the SHiP Surround Background Tagger.
• Development of an automated gain calibration system for the SiPM detectors of the SHiP SBT.
• Development of algorithms and tools for efficient and sustainable data analysis on federated computing resources.
• Development of a simulation framework for sustainable usage of heterogeneous and distributed high-performance computing.

PIs active in RA4: Karl Jakobs, Marco Gersabeck, Ulrich Parzefall, Marc Schumann, Markus Schumacher