Nikhef in MCpad Els Koffeman Nikhef University of

Nikhef in MC-pad Els Koffeman Nikhef & University of Amsterdam

Nikhef – National institute for subatomic physics • Nikhef lab is located in Amsterdam • Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Nijmegen • 75 physicists (staf + postdoc) • 75 Ph. Ds and guests • 75 engineers & technicians • Research programs: Atlas, LHCb, Alice, Theory, Antares, KM 3 net, Auger January 2009 Els Koffeman - MC PAD Kick off 2

R&D highlights • Medipix collaboration • Gridpix & RD 51 Development of integrated grid on a chip • C 02 cooling • Chip design Gossipo Timepix FEI-4 (Atlas) January 2009 Els Koffeman - MC PAD Kick off 3

MC PAD interest • P 5 TPC with MPGD readout: Large volume tracking for ILC and PANDA at FAIR based on MPGD and pixel readout. CERN, DESY, GSI, NIKHEF, UHH ESR: 3 × 3 yrs Milestone: Solving the sparkproblem…. . • P 9 Front-end Electronics for Hybrid Pixel Detectors: New readout architectures for the frond electronics of the upgrades of ATLAS and CMS pixel detectors NIKHEF, PSI ESR: 3 yrs, ER: 2 yrs) Milestone: Expect ATLAS pixelchip submit by end 2009 January 2009 Els Koffeman - MC PAD Kick off 4

Persons • Jan Timmermans currently at DESY working on TPC in EUDET framework • Harry van der Graaf in RD 51 working on gridpix • Ruud Kluit (senior) VLSI designer coordinating work on FEI-4 and Gossipo-3. • Els Koffeman ATLAS silicon strips. Professor at University of Amsterdam and therefore happy to have Ph. D canidates from the network finishing a Ph. D thesis (+ one year extra payment !!) January 2009 Els Koffeman - MC PAD Kick off 5