Abstract

Silicon sensors in collider experiments for Science and Health

The principles of operation of silicon sensors used in present LHC experiments will be introduced and the requirements to operate at the High-Luminosity LHC will be reviewed. Emphasis will be given to new silicon-sensor technologies, in particular to monolithic active pixel sensors and SiGe Bi-CMOS for sub-nanosecond time resolution.

Giuseppe Iacobucci

Giuseppe Iacobucci is professor of physics at the University of Geneva, where he is the director of the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics. His main research activity is the study of proton-ptoton collisions with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN, where his research group is involved in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model that manifests through high-mass di-boson resonances. He is also involved in the construction of the new ATLAS silicon pixel detector for the High-Luminosity LHC program.
His researches concentrate on the production of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors. He is also trying to exploit the time-resolution capability of silicon in medical physics applications.