The Beam Losses Monitor (BLM) system measures the radiation levels around the LHC in order to protect its components and prevent the quenching...
Projects
PROJECTS
The ESE group is involved in several electronics projects for specific CERN experiments, common projects across experiments and generic R&D activities.
Common Projects
ClicTD
A monolithic HR-CMOS sensor chip for the CLIC silicon tracker The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixelated sensor chip produced...
CWDM Optical Links for Beam Instrumentation
Various Beam Instrumentation (BI) equipment requires the use of high-speed serial optical data transmission in locations subjected to high...
ELMB2
The ELMB2 ESE has designed, tested and produced the Embedded Local Monitor Board 2 (ELMB2). This is a general purpose plug-on I/O module for the...
FastIC
FastIC is a multi-channel discriminator readout ASIC in 65nm CMOS technology, designed to read out fast timing detectors like Silicon...
GBT and Versatile Link
EP-ESE has developed a radiation-tolerant bi-directional optical link for use in the LHC programmes for the transport of data, timing and...
High Precision Timing
The High Precision Timing Distribution (HPTD) project is dedicated to increasing the stability and precision of of timing distribution networks...
lpGBT and Versatile Link+
EP-ESE is designing the next generation of electronic and opto-electronic components to provide a low-power 10 Gbps radiation-tolerant link for...
Medipix
Medipix aims at the development of X-ray pixel imaging chips and systems. Contact: Michael Campbell
Monolithic pixels
Under the banner of the current CERN EP R&D programme on technologies for future experiments, ESE is participating in the research and...
R&D on future high speed links
Radiation-hard high-speed data links play an ever-increasing role in modern HEP experiments. The state-of-the-art is the lpGBT and Versatile...
R&D on future IC technologies
Under the banner of the current CERN EP R&D programme on technologies for future experiments, ESE is leading research into the use of more...
Radiation and magnetic tolerant DC-DC converters
The aim of this activity is to deliver DC-DC converters able to work in the hostile environment of the LHC experiments (very high radiation...
RD53
RD53 is a project aiming at providing readout electronics for the pixel detectors of ATLAS and CMS, targetting the upgrades for HL-LHC. Contact...
SoC
The System-on-Chip (SoC) interest group aims at bringing together people from different projects in the experimental and beam groups, in order...
TTC-PON
The TTC-PON is a proposed upgrade of the TTC system allowing bidirectional and faster transmission (10/2.5 Gbps) of timing, control and...
ALICE Projects
ALICE electronics coordination
EP-ESE is responsible for the electronics coordination in the ALICE experiment at CERN. More information on ALICE can be found here.
ATLAS Projects
ATLAS ABCStar
The ABCStar (ATLAS Binary Chip Star) is part of the ATLAS' Inner Tracker (ITk) upgrade. The ITk chipset is comprised of the ABCStar, HCCStar and...
ATLAS ALTI
The ATLAS Local Trigger Interface (ALTI) is a replacement of the Timing, Trigger-, and Control (TTC) modules for Phase-1 of the experiment. The...
ATLAS ITKpix
ESE is supporting the electronics infrastructure of the ATLAS Inner Tracker Pixel System. We are concentrating on dense, high-speed, electrical...
ATLAS MUCTPI Upgrade
EP-ESE is currently building a replacement of the ATLAS Muon-to-CTP-Interface (MUCTPI) for the Phase-2 upgrade of the experiment. The existing...
CMS Projects
CMS BRIL
EP-ESE participates in the design and construction of the readout electronics of the CMS Beam Radiation, Instrumentation and Luminosity (BRIL)...
CMS electronics coordination
EP-ESE is responsible for the electronics coordination in the CMS experiment at CERN. More information on CMS can be found here.
CMS HGCAL
The CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL). A major upgrade in the CMS detector is to replace the current end cap calorimeters (ECAL and HCAL)...
LHCb Projects
LHCb electronics coordination
EP-ESE is responsible for the electronics coordination in the LHCb experiment at CERN. More information on LHCb can be found here. The...
LHCb FastRICH
The FastRICH is a readout chip that is being designed by EP-ESE and collaborators in the framework of the upgrade of the LHCb RICH detector to...
LHCb infrastructure
EP-ESE supports the low-voltage-power-supply infrastructure of the LHCb experiment. This includes maintenance of the systems installed in the...
NA62 Projects
NA62 GTK
EP-ESE has the responsibility for constructing, testing, installing and maintaining the modules of the NA62 GigaTracker. These modules are...
NA62 LKr
EP-ESE designed and produced the Calorimeter Readout Module (CREAM) of the NA62 Liquid Krypton Calorimeter, in collaboration with partner...