Publications de Alessandro Caratelli

Evaluation of HPK n plus -p planar pixel sensors for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade

Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Martin Fuchs, Stefano Michelis, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Xin Chen, Jing Li

To cope with the challenging environment of the planned high luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), scheduled to start operation in 2029, CMS will replace its entire tracking system. The requirements for the tracker are largely determine ...

Elsevier2023

Test beam performance of a CBC3-based mini-module for the Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker before and after neutron irradiation

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Martin Fuchs, Stefano Michelis, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will undergo major upgrades to increase the instantaneous luminosity up to 5-7.5 x 1034 cm-2s-1. This High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver a total of 3000-4000 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at ...

2023

Beam test performance of a prototype module with Short Strip ASICs for the CMS HL-LHC tracker upgrade

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Chun Xia, Tian Cheng, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, Ashish Sharma, David Vannerom, David Parker, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Muhammad Ahmad, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The Short Strip ASIC (SSA) is one of the four front-end chips designed for the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity LHC. Together with the Macro-Pixel ASIC (MPA) it will instrument modules containing a strip and a macro-pixel sensor sta ...

2022

The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

François Bianchi, Rakesh Chawla, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Tian Cheng, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Jessica Prisciandaro, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Ajay Kumar, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen, Jing Li

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical stop of the LHC ...

2021

Beam test performance of prototype silicon detectors for the Outer Tracker for the Phase-2 Upgrade of CMS

François Bianchi, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Quentin Python, Tian Cheng, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen

A new CMS tracker detector will be installed for operation at the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This detector comprises modules with two closely spaced parallel sensor plates and front-end ASICs capable of transmitting tracking information to the CMS Level ...

2020

OT-μDTC, a test bench for testing CMS Outer Tracker Phase-2 module prototypes

Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment plans to replace its strip tracker system with a completely new Outer Tracker system to cope with the higher luminosity, compared to Run 2 operation, provided by the HL-LHC. This CMS Phase-2 Outer Tracker will be ...

Proceedings Of Science2020

The DAQ and control system for the CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade

François Bianchi, Albert Perez, François Robert, Andrea Rizzi, Stefano Michelis, Quentin Python, Tian Cheng, Meng Xiao, Qian Wang, Varun Sharma, Davide Ceresa, Francesco Fiori, David Vannerom, Chia-Chun Chen, Abhisek Datta, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì, Thomas Muller, Yong Yang, Matthias Weber, Kai Yi, Andromachi Tsirou, Georgios Anagnostou, Konstantin Androsov, Werner Lustermann, Ali Harb, Giorgia Rauco, Davide Di Croce, Hui Wang, Xin Chen

In 2017 a new pixel detector was installed in the CMS detector. This so-called Phase-1 pixel detector features four barrel layers in the central region and three disks per end in the forward regions. The upgraded pixel detector requires an upgraded data ac ...

2019

MPA-SSA, design and test of a 65 nm ASIC-based system for particle tracking at HL-LHC featuring on-chip particle discrimination

Yusuf Leblebici, Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì

Particle tracking detectors for High Energy Physics need a new readout technique to cope with the increase of the collision rate foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade. In particular, the selection of interesting physics events at the first trigger s ...

IEEE2019

Research and development of an intelligent particle tracker detector electronic system

Alessandro Caratelli

In high energy physics, silicon particles detectors are widely used in tracking applications. They feature high-resolution measurements of the traversing particle positioning and frequently its energy. With the new possibilities introduced by technology sc ...

EPFL2019

System Level simulation framework for the ASICs development of a novel particle physics detector

Yusuf Leblebici, Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli, Simone Scarfì

The simulation of the passage of particles through matter using Monte Carlo methods is broadly used in the development of particle detectors for high energy physics experiments. To develop the readout electronics for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experim ...

IEEE2018

A 65nm pixel readout ASIC with quick transverse momentum discrimination capabilities for the CMS Tracker at HL-LHC

Davide Ceresa, Alessandro Caratelli

A readout ASIC for the hybrid pixel detector with the capability of performing quick recognition of particles with high transverse momentum has been designed for the requirements of the CMS Outer Tracker at the High Luminosity LHC. The particle momentum di ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016