FOCUS BUSINESS & RESEARCH NEWS
FOCUS BUSINESS &
RESEARCH NEWS
Silicon happy: CERN signs three deals with Hamamatsu
E
uropean particle physics laboratory CERN has signed three contracts with Hamamatsu for the supply of
silicon sensors for its ATLAS and CMS trackers.
In December 2018, CERN’s Large
Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world, switched off for a two-year technical stop. Its ATLAS and CMS detectors are currently undergoing significant maintenance and upgrades.
The CMS experiment is a 14,000-tonne
detector that aims to solve a wide range of questions about the mysteries around the Higgs boson and dark matter. ATLAS investigates a wide range of physics, from the search for the Higgs boson, to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the CMS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and a different magnet-system design. All the LHC experiments at CERN
want to exploit the full benefits of the accelerator’s upgrade, the High- Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), scheduled to
start in 2026. The HL-LHC will produce between five and 10 times more collisions than the LHC, allowing more precision measurements of rare phenomena, and maybe even the detection of new particles that have never been seen before. Hamamatsu Photonics has already supplied the LHC with silicon sensors and avalanche photodiode technologies. The ATLAS and CMS upgraded trackers require production of about 45,000 6-inch sensor wafers, close to twice what was needed for existing trackers. An 8-inch
silicon sensor production line has been implemented for the HGCAL, which will require close to 30,000 8-inch sensor wafers, corresponding to 600m2 of silicon sensors.
‘These contracts are essential to the next phase of CERN’s core research programme, namely the HL-LHC, as they will ensure the supply of high-quality silicon sensors that will contribute to important advancements for both experiments,’ said Anders Unnervik, head of procurement and industrial services at CERN.
Products In-Stock Thousands of products are available with PhotonSpeed™
Thousands of , so they are in-stock and include FREE 2-DAY Shipping + FREE Photon Food!
Outfitting your lab or research facility shouldn’t be a time-consuming process. At MKS, we get it. Buying quality products for your lab just got a whole lot easier and faster with PhotonSpeed!
Check us out today at
www.newport.com
* For more details and restrictions visit
www.newport.com/free2day Applies to orders placed and shipped in North America and Europe only
For more information about our Newport Brand visit
www.newport.com or call +49 6151 708-0.
Faster Selection Faster Delivery Faster Results A-121701 PhotonSpeed 1/3 page Electro
Optics.indd 1 3/11/19 3:19 PM
Faster SELECTION – find it fast with enhanced search and filtering Faster DELIVERY – FREE 2-day shipping* Faster RESULTS – Top quality products and suport Free PHOTON FOOD – energize your team – ships with most orders
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40
