Call for Papers



The third in this series of workshops on 'Electronics for LHC Experiments', will be organised for the CERN LHCC Electronics Board by Imperial College London and the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The theme of the third workshop will be 'Electronics Systems Design' and it will be held in the Blackett Laboratory of Imperial College London from Monday September 22 until Friday September 26 1997. The proposed programme will consist of both plenary talks and parallel working groups. The parallel working groups will focus on the system design issues involved in the electronics for:

  • Tracking detector systems
  • Calorimeter systems
  • Muon detector systems
  • Trigger and data acquisition systems.

The Plenary talks will summarise the present state of understanding of these systems and will review the status of a number of relevant generic technologies, which will include:

  • Radiation Hard Technology
  • Radiation Tolerant Technology
  • Quality Assurance systems
  • Testing Methodology, Design and Risk Analysis
  • Maintenance Issues, Reliability and Obsolescence
  • Opto-electronics links
  • Interconnection Technology
  • Packaging and Bus Systems
  • Pixel Systems

The facilities available at Imperial College and the proposed programme will encourage extensive discussion between participants and will provide an environment in which it is possible to acquire a thorough understanding on the relative merits of the systems proposed by each of the LHC experiments. Every attempt will be made to encourage the involvement of Industry in the workshop and there will be an extensive Industrial Exhibition within the facilities used by the workshop.

Authors are invited to submit papers applicable to LHC experiments describing developments in the fields of system design, switching fabrics, data acquisition standards, triggering, signal processing and radiation hard electronics, electronics for pixel detectors, micro-strip gaseous detectors and muon detectors, trigger and event building electronics for the Atlas, CMS, ALICE and LHC-B experiments.

Industrial companies are encouraged to submit abstracts, particularly in the areas of new, state of the art, products and new technology in manufacturing and test.

Programme Committee:

F Corsi, Bari

Corsi@bari.infn.it

H Dijkstra, CERN

Hans.Dijkstra@cern.ch

P Farthouat, CERN

Phillipe.Farthouat@cern.ch

F Formenti, CERN

Fabio.Formenti@cern.ch

G Hall, Imperial

g.hall@ic.ac.uk

M Letheren, CERN

Mike.Letheren@cern.ch

E Petrolo, Rome

petrolo@romal.infn.it

S Quinton, RAL

S.Quinton@rl.ac.uk

V Radeka, Brookhaven

radeka@bnl.gov

P Sharp, RAL

P.Sharp@rl.ac.uk

W Smith, Wisconsin

wsmith@wishep.physics.wisc.edu

G Stefanini, CERN

Giorgio.Stefanini@cern.ch

U Straumann, Heidelberg

Strauman@physi.uni-heidleberg.de

M Turala, CERN

Michal.Turala@cern.ch

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