SLAC Detector R

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The SLAC Detector RD Program Overview and
Budget

• David MacFarlane
• For the Detector RD group

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Outline

• Introduction and overall strategic direction
• Present and future HEP program at SLAC
• Context and ambitions for SLAC Detector RD
  program
• Overview of current detector RD activities
• Capabilities and activities of core staff
  sensor, detector systems, DAQ and online software
  RD and plans
• Directions, connections, and criteria for
  engaging in RD
• Budget overview and next talks
• Personnel and FY09 support

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Near-term and ongoing HEP programs

• Play a significant role in ATLAS LHC
  accelerator
• Commissioning, initial science analyses,
  computing
• Facilitate optimal exploitation of the BABAR
  dataset
• Scientific payoff for decade of B Factory
  operations
• Operate the LAT for Fermi GST
• Continue to scientific discoveries with this
  unique observatory
• Maintain a world-class accelerator-science
  program
• Play enabling role in technology development for
  the ILC and leading high-gradient X-band research
  in the US
• Maintain world-leading theoretical programs in
  particle physics and particle astrophysics and
  cosmology

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Future HEP programs

• Expand ATLAS program to include a major role in
  the upgrade of the ATLAS detector and the LHC
  machine
• ATLAS upgrades Tracking and Trigger/DAQ systems
• Enhance ATLAS computing for physics exploitation
  of the LHC data
• Extend LHC machine contributions to include
  upgrade collimators, development of PS2 design,
  LLRF feedback improvements
• Exploit synergies between detector and
  accelerator communities
• Construct and operate FACET for accelerator
  research
• Enable forefront experiments in beam-driven
  plasma wakefield acceleration
• Construct and operate LSST for cosmology and dark
  energy studies
• Participate in JDEM and its exploitation for
  cosmology

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Future HEP programs

• Develop and construct a ton-scale version of EXO
• Part of initial suite of mid-scale experiments at
  DUSEL
• Facilitate a significant US role in SuperB in
  Italy and participate in Project-X rf power
  systems RD
• Perform state of the art experiments in laser
  dielectric acceleration and develop high power
  X-band rf sources
• Initiate and maintain RD efforts to enable
  longer-range future programs such as SiD, SuperB,
  GeODM, and AGIS
• Identify and pursue enabling generic detector RD
  to create new science opportunities through
  significant enhancements in performance and/or
  cost

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Overview of detector RD program

• KA15 detector RD program includes
• Core engineering and generic detector RD
  capabilities
• Sensor development RD
• Electronics and DAQ development RD
• Detector systems RD
• MDI studies, detector simulation toolkit, PFA
  studies related hardware RD, supported by test
  beams and facilities
• Selection criteria for projects
• Connection to future physics opportunities
• Potential impact on performance, physics reach
  and/or cost
• Match between core capability or its evolution,
  and the RD effort
• Connections and synergy among projects

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Core capabilities

• Expertise at the frontiers of detector technology
• Leveraging connection to Stanford and Silicon
  Valley
• End-to-end electronics system architecture and
  design
• High-reliability systems including space
  applications
• Mechanical, thermal, electrical integration
  electronics packaging
• High-performance DAQ system architecture and
  design
• Next generation state-of-the-art hardware and
  software platforms
• Innovative mechanical design and integrated
  detector concept development including
  machine-detector interface
• Developing expertise in underground
  low-radioactivity experiments
• Support from KA15 detector RD is critical
• Key engineers at 50 level reflecting role as
  drivers for innovation
• Small number of support personnel enhance
  functionality of core

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Who is directly funded FY09 budget plan
Key engineering and physicist manpower
Support staff
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Activities and plans for sensor RD

• Push the performance boundaries of detector
  sensor attributes
• Timing resolution fast focusing DIRC and MCP-PMT
  TOF
• Energy resolution PolyChrome imager, spherical
  silicon geometries, and high-yield Germanium
  sensors
• Radiation tolerance 3D architecture silicon
  diodes and diamond sensors, gray-tone diffusions
• High-occupancy dual readout
• Integration and system cost double-metal strip
  detectors
• Builds on the extensive existing micro and
  nano-fabrication infrastructure on the Stanford
  campus
• Location within Silicon Valley facilitates the
  use of services from a wide range of companies
  specializing in microtechnology
• Envision significant growth in the sensor
  development effort over the coming three years

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Activities and plans for electronics/DAQ RD

• Builds on established end-to-end electronics
  system design capability
• SLD, BABAR, Fermi GST, EXO-200 and many other
  experiments
• Future emphasis of electronics effort
• System-on-a-chip approach to high-rate low-mass
  front-ends
• ASIC design effort to complement sensor
  development work
• Radioactive-free front-end modules for
  low-background experiments
• Possible 3d multi-layer ASIC assemblies
• Multi-gigabit data transmission integrated inside
  detector system
• Development of a generic high-speed high-volume
  DAQ systems
• Composed of modular building blocks to interface
  to the detector front-ends and provide low-cost
  high-bandwidth I/O with real-time DAQ software
• High-reliability systems for inaccessible
  ground-based, e.g., linear collider, or
  space-based, e.g., JDEM, applications

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Activities and plans for detector systems RD

• Developing and supporting a versatile simulation
  and reconstruction toolkit for detector system
  design and performance evaluation
• Emphasis on applications to understanding and
  optimizing the Particle Flow Algorithm capability
• Optimize jet energy resolution of precision
  experiments for the linear collider
• Development of hardware systems designed to meet
  PFA requirements
• Concepts for high-density highly-segmented
  electromagnetic calorimetry, digital hadronic
  calorimetry, and low-mass silicon tracking
• Efforts tie tightly to the sensor development
  with electronics and electronics system design
  capabilities
• Engaged in understanding machine-detector
  interface and detector integration issues
• Critical for understanding the feasibility of
  future high-luminosity linear collider experiments

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Linkages to program RD effort
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Connections to future physics SiD plans

• ILCSC put in place a Research Director (Sakue
  Yamada), with an International Detector Advisory
  Group (IDAG)
• Manage the development of technical designs for
  optimized detectors to be included in overall ILC
  project in 2012
• Oversee validation of Letters of Intent and
  corresponding RD plans
• Letters of Intent submitted March 31, 2009
• Presently being validated by IDAG for
  performance, feasibility, and capability of
  proposing group to conduct detailed technical
  studies
• Expect validation report at upcoming ALCPG
  meeting in Sept
• Expect key technical issues will be identified
  and pursued through 2012 as focus for
  international RD effort
• SiD is a strong US-led contender based around PFA
  concept, with all silicon tracker,
  tungsten-silicon EMC, compact segmented hadronic
  calorimeter

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Connection to future physics SuperB plans

• Played leading role in developing Conceptual
  Design Report for SuperB Factory in spring 2008
  for INFN
• Physics case and overall direction from CDR
  strongly endorsed by a blue-ribbon international
  panel in fall 2008
• Machine Advisory Committee has also strongly
  endorsed low-emittance accelerator concept, based
  in part on crab waist studies at Frascatti
• INFN working towards approval by Italian
  government of a regional project located near or
  at Frascatti
• Relies on availability of PEP-II components
  valued at 130M Euros
• Working towards a Technical Design Report for
  machine and detector to be completed by end of
  calendar 2010
• Expect decision by Italian government within
  calendar 2009
• KEK now also developing an upgrade design for
  KEKB based on the same low-emittance concept as
  SuperB

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FY09 budget plan
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Detector RD talks

• Overview and budget David MacFarlane
• Sensor RD Chris Kenney
• Electronics and DAQ development Gunther Haller
• Photosensor development for PID applications
  Jerry Vavra
• Detector systems development John Jaros
• MDI, PFA research, detector simulation toolkit,
  test beams
• Future plans and summary David MacFarlane