DEPARTMENT - irfu.cea.fr

SEDI DEPARTMENT

Irfu AERES visit – Jan. 2014 - Michel MUR

DETECTORS, ELECTRONICS & COMPUTING DEPARTMENT SERVICE D’ELECTRONIQUE, DES DÉTECTEURS, D’INFORMATIQUE

SEDI DEPARTMENT

Irfu AERES visit - Jan. 2014 - Sedi division - Michel MUR 2

SPhN Nuclear Physics

Head: H. Goutte Dep. Head:

F. Auger-Magny

SPP Particle Physics

Head: U. Bassler Dep. Head: G. Vasseur

SACM Accelerators,

Cryogenics and Magnetism

Head: A. Daël Dep. Head: Ph. Chesny

SIS Mechanical Design

and System Engineering

Head: F. Ardellier Dep. Head: F. Molinié

Irfu

DIRECTION Head of Institute: Ph.Chomaz Deputy Heads: N. Alamanos P. Rebourgeard

Irfu Scientific Council Human Ressources: Ch. Tiquet Budget: N. Judas Communication: S. Kerhoas-Cavata Project Follow Up: P. Bourgeois Quality: E. Bougamont Industrial Partnerships: Ch. Porcheray European Relations: S. Leray

Assistants

Scientific and Technical Information: A. Séné Professional training: E. Bougamont Evaluation and programmation: P. Debu PhD Students: J. Rodriguez Security: A. Le Saux Computing facilities: J-P. Meyer

Delegates

SEDI Detectors, Electronics

and Computing

Head: M. Mur Dep. Head: A. Delbart

SAP-AIM Astrophysics and

Space Technologies

Head: P-O. Lagage Dep. Heads: M. Talvard I. Grenier (Paris Diderot)

P-A. Duc (Insu)

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SEDI STAFF


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Nuclear physics

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R&D, operation

Accelerators

CEA technology

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Administration 7,0

PhD students 3,7 Postdocs

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SEDI ORGANISATION


INNOVATIVE DETECTORS,

MICROELECTRONICS

Detector physics

ASICs

Frontend electronics

DETECTORS & INTEGRATION

Detector mechanics & integration

Integration of

accelerator elements

ELECTRONIC & OPTO-

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Electronics CAD

Optical instrum. & metrology

Purchase support

REAL TIME ACQUISITION &

PROCESSING

Digital electronics

& FPGAs

Embedded processors

Real time systems

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Application software for

physics

Software engineering

COSMOLOGY & STATISTICS

Signal & image

processing for

astrophysics

COMPUTING

Computer infrastructure

Computer system

operation & administration

CERN ON-SITE SUPPORT

On-site support for

Irfu experiments

8 teams

DETECTORS


Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors

DETECTOR R&D

Irfu AERES visit - Jan. 2014 - Sedi division - Michel MUR

Gaseous detectors

Massive bolometers Hres Si Detectors for nuclear physics

X-ray Microcalorimeters CdTe Spectro-imaging R&D for space instruments with astrophysics division

CESAR

AIDA InterDigit Lumineu Musett

Micromegas

Beam tracking secondary emission detectors Applications at Ganil

Accelerator diagnostics IFMIF beam profiler :

Vacuum tube residual gas ionisation

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DETECTORS FOR RARE EVENT DETECTION

• FID400 & FID800 interleaved electrodes massive ultracryogenic Ge bolometers Edelweiss

•Cern Axion Search Telescope •Pixellised, micro-TPC mode micro-bulk Micromegas • Low radioactivity, ultra-low background

Cast

•Very low energy threshold •Neutron detection & spectrum, fast neutron detection capability •Radiopure Cu sphere (PHD thesis) •Potential for dark matter search

Spherical detector

Radial TPC, single channel spherical proportional counter

E=A/R2

Fe-55+Ar-37 spectrum

Fe-55 5,9 keV

2.6 keV

260 eV

Cf-252 spectrum

Thermal neutrons

Fast neutrons


MICROELECTRONICS


MICROELECTRONICS ROADMAP

Past Present Prospect

Low noise frontends for

capacitive detectors

Analog Memories

Monolithic pixel sensors (MAPS)

Long term R&D, demonstrators

ATHED (SPIRAL)

IdefX 2E (ECLAIRs)

IdefX BD (Solar Orbiter, Cinema)

IdefX HD (Solar Orbiter, MACSI)

Caterpylar

New ASIC technologies for space apps

CTA

ALICE MFT LHC upgrade

New generation ASICs for gaseous detectors

Ultracryogenic ASICs, Athena+

3D Microelectronics

Picosecond Timing

AFTER (T2K) DREAM (CLAS12)

AGET (Spiral2)

HAMAC (ATLAS)

MIMOSA8 MIMOSA26

(EUDET)

NECTAR (CTA)

SAM (HESS-2)

Electronics for bolometer matrixes

AIDA

PHD Thesis

PHD Thesis

CESAR

P2IO


4 cm

4 cm

~ 5 million channels/plane

σdig=7 µm εdet > 99,0 %

Prototypes 2004-2006

Prototypes 2008

EUDET sensor 2009

σdig=4 µm εdet > 99,8 %

σdig=3,5 µm εdet > 99,8 %

78 336 pixels 663 552 pixels

1 cm

1 cm

3,2

mm

0,8 mm

AIDA (2010-2015)

Future

2D assembly

3D-IT assembly

Added fonctionnality, improved signal processing Better performances: detection, readout speed, radiation hardness

4096 pixels

EUDET (2006-2010) ALICE Microvertex Forward Tracker

LHC upgrade

MONOLITHIC ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS (MAPS)


REAL TIME


Analysis of Ecal activity @L1 rate •80000 channels @100 Hz •500 GB/s aggregate communication traffic

Massively parallel image convolution • Few µs response time

Advanced technologies •High performance FPGAs •Multi-Gb/s serial optics communication

CMS: ECAL SELECTIVE READOUT PROCESSOR (SRP)


REAL TIME SYSTEMS: SVOM-ECLAIRS

Eclairs spatialized processor board

Eclairs scientific payload • 6400-pixel mask-coded CdTe gamma-camera • IdefX Asic developped at Irfu

Scientific processing unit • Embedded processing: Coded mask

deconvolution for GRB localisation • CPU processing board (compliant with

ITAR/EAR export regulations) • Embedded real-time software

Scientific ground segment • Alert distribution • Scientific processing • Data Center

Gamma-Ray Burst

Alert to ground

FPGA

SDRAM

Leon2 CPU EEPROM

Boot PROM


SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT


SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT

LILAS

Acquisition frameworks

COAST visualisation

COAST Algorithms

SVOM ground segment

Antares km3Net

T2K Get

Minos

Data bases Atlas

COAST


COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS (COAST)

Supernova remnants ( RAMSES simul. ) Formation of a spiral galaxy (RAMSES simul.)

• Visualisation software (75000 lines of code) • Parallelism, adaptive mesh, real time in-situ visualisation (PHD thesis) • New axes: WebGL, 3D display for Web browsers

Sdvision Software

Petadisk (S. Fromang), STARS2 (A. S. Brun) SN2NS (T. Foglizzo), ANEMOS (E. Audit)


COAST (CONT’D)

• Visualisation of galaxy catalogs : XMM-LSS, CFHTLS, COSMOS, EDD/v8k, Cosmography of the local universe (2013)

• Visualisation of IFMIF-EVEDA beam (Nghiem Phi, SACM) • Nuclear physics simulation (Cédric Simenel, SPhN)

New domains

ITER plasma from Gysela simulation Data V. Grandgirard - IRFM

Density field in a collision of actinides Data C. Simenel - SPhN

IFMIF-EVEDA beam Data P. Nghiem - SACM


COSMOSTAT IMAGE & SIGNAL PROCESSING

CosmoStat

MR-Poisson Package

SparseAstro

Natimage, AstroNet,

MultId

CS-Orion, Sagem

Planck Herschel

Euclid Fermi


SYSTEM APPROACH


Embedded processor board

Immerged Control Module

Front-End Asic (Analogue Ring Sampler)

ANTARES/KM3NET UNDERWATER NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY


System on chip Offshore Software

FPGA electronics

KM3Net Digital Optical Module (2013)

Antares Observatory

T2K TPC (TOKAI, JPN, 2009+)


Large surface ~9m2

72 Micromegas modules

Dedicated Asic, 124000 electronic channels

Remote acquisition

Re-used in a number of other applications

Forward Detectors 6k channels, 6 disks 1 m² detection area

Barrel detectors 20k channels, 6 layers, 3 m2 detection area

MICROMEGAS VERTEX TRACKER

Innovative central detector • Cylindrical tracker • Low matter budget • Work under magnetic field • Compact and fast electronics: DREAM Asic • Strong mechanical/thermal constraints

Barrel elementary tile: carbon self-sustained structure (SIS, patent) 512-ch front-end board


Instrument: 2010-2013 • H2 liquid target (SACM) • Micromegas TPC • Electronics • Acquisition

LH2 target + TPC + cylindrical trigger + Si beam monitor

TPC field cage elements

Frontend and readout electronics


First tracks at Himax (Japan), dec 2013

TECHNICAL PLATFORMS


Integration halls, clean rooms

Microelectronics lab

+ Bonding machine, wafer/chip pinhead test machine (P2IO)

Advanced computer room

Micromegas Bulk workshop

QUALITY ASSURANCE/ QUALITY CONTROL & RISK ASSESSMENT


Detector projects • CMS: electronic boards • T2K TPC: 72 micromegas modules • Double Chooz: integration • KM3Net: reliability studies • Clas12: 18 detectors, 6 distinct types • Atlas NSW: 32 modules (3 m2 ea), 640 PCBs • CTA: ~30 NectarCam • …

Workflow & processes • Computer purchase procedure

• Electronic boards design & production

• Micromegas workshop • Radioactive source procurement & usage • …

Irfu radioactive source procurement procedure

PROSPECTS


INVOLVEMENT IN LHC DETECTORS


First level trigger electronics Optoelectronic system to monitor calorimeter crystal transparency Dimuon arm tracking chambers

Atlas CMS Alice

LAr Calorimeter, Asic

History

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LHC UPGRADES

Alice Muon Forward Tracker • New pixel detector, CMOS MAPS technology • 2500 sensors, 230 400 binary pixels each • 6 planes, total active surface ~ 3600 cm2


Atlas Ecal trigger evolution • Electronics for level1 calorimeter trigger • Finer segmentation • New digital architecture

Atlas New Small Wheel muon detectors • 12 m « wheels », ~1200 m2 active surface

• Ageing: X, neutrons, gamma and alpha irradiations • Mechanical assembly & production • L1 Trigger studies

CERENKOV TELESCOPE ARRAY: CAMERA


NectarCam : proposal for MST cameras • Nectar ASIC • 7-PM module • System engineering & integration of modular

camera • Demonstration program 7/19 modules assembly

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CTA: MIRRORS


1.2 m composite mirrors • Medium Size Telescopes: ~4000 mirrors

• Design/assembly of composite compound • Metrology • Environmental tests

Industrial transfer • Kerdry company • 20 pre-series mirrors implemented

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VALORISATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TRANSVERSE ACTIVITIES


VALORISATION & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER


Micromegas • Bulk workshop production

• Clas12 Forward tagger • TPCs for Gbar free fall detection

• Cylindrical tracker for ASACUSA coll. (CERN) • Neutron detection for inertial fusion • Prospects for neutron detection: ESS, oil prospection

• Prospects for muon tomography: homeland security, geology & volcanology, oil prospection

• Technology transfer to Elvia french company

Mirrors • Technology transfer to Kerdry french company

Asacusa Micromegas Tracker

VALORISATION & TECHNLOGY TRANSFER (CONT’D)


ASICs

• IdefX: Cinema microsatellites • IdefX: Homeland security • AGET: Nuclear physics in

Japan/Korea/Italy

Prototype “Cabin Baggage Screening System”

Générateur X

Module CdZnTe Leti

Module CdZnTe Redlen

20 modulesde détection CdZnTe

ART: INSTRUMENTATION FOR PET TOMOGRAPHY

Analysis of the physiological parameters

of the Rodent under PET imaging • Measurement of the animal input function during the PET process,

aiming at the development of new radiotracers • Extraction/separation of a sequence of blood micro-samples • β+ detection, plasma separation by centrifugation • Biological validation starting in 2013 in hospital centers: SHFJ,

MIRCEN, CHU Grenoble, Sweden, Geneva • TechnoSanté label (transversal actions inside CEA) • 4 patents 2007/2010, industrial transfer ongoing


CALIPSO: AN INNOVATIVE DETECTOR FOR PET IMAGING

Calorimètre Liquide Ionisation, Position, Scintillation Organométallique

• Optimised for ~Mev photon calorimetry • Heavy organo-metallic sensitive liquid: Tri Méthyl Bismuth • High potential gain in efficiency and spatial resolution (~1 mm3) for PET • A candidate for positron spectrometry applications • Scintillation: trigger and timing (few 100 ps) • Ionisation: energy measurement and 3D position (electronics based on IdefX

Asic) • Patented design, demonstration program 2010/14


COMPUTING


• Shared between National Tier1/Tier2 center at Lyon and Regional Ile de France Tier2/Tier3 center

• Local Irfu infrastructure accounts for 40% of regional center (13/20 millions CPU hours provided in 2011/2012)

• Irfu contributes to ~25% of french effort, ~2.5 % of worldwide effort

LHC Grid computing

• Simulations run on very large parallel national (GENCI) and european (PRACE) High Performance Computers

• Local intermediate size IrfuCoast machine (96 12/16-core nodes, infiniband) allows for program preparation and validation before large submissions

HPC IrfuCoast parallel

machine

• Common environment for LHC Grid, IrfuCoast and interactive analysis machines

• Liquid coolant technology, 200 kW thermal, 15-30 kW racks • Free chilling thermal capability, energy efficient (factor 1.3) • Recently brought capability to 500 kW thermal

Local Infrastructure

COMPUTING SERVICES & INFRASTRUCTURE


LHC COMPUTING GRID: IRFU CONTRIBUTION

~40% IRFU (follows users ratio)

French LHC grid Regional Ile de France Grid

GRIF: 83% LHC

GRIF: Regional Tier2/Tier3

National Tier1/Tier2


Full signal processing chain

• Detector, ASIC, Electronics & HW/SW real time systems • Processing, visualisation & analysis software

Complex system architecture

• Design/simulation/integration of complete instruments • Capability to operate in integrated, multi-skilled teams

Detector

• Micromegas: High TRL, attractivity • Pixel trackers: Alice MFT opportunity

Prospects

• ASIC front-end families: Digital part increase • State of the art real time systems: Embedded SW at FPGA level • Software engineering, visualisation software: develop links with

University Paris Saclay Schools of Engineering

SUMMARY


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