Nikhef in MC-pad

Els Koffeman

Nikhef &

University of Amsterdam

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Nikhef – National institute for subatomic physics • Nikhef lab is located in

Amsterdam • Universities of Amsterdam,

Utrecht and Nijmegen• 75 physicists (staf +

postdoc)• 75 PhDs and guests• 75 engineers & technicians

• Research programs:Atlas, LHCb, Alice,

Theory, Antares, KM3net, Auger

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R&D highlights

• Medipix collaboration

• Gridpix & RD51Development of integrated grid on a chip

• C02 cooling

• Chip design Gossipo

Timepix

FEI-4 (Atlas)

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MC PAD interest

• P5 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 yrsMilestone: Solving the sparkproblem…..

• P9 Front-end Electronics for Hybrid Pixel Detectors: New readout architectures for the frond end 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

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Persons

• Jan Timmermans currently at DESY working on TPC in EUDET framework

• Harry van der Graaf in RD51 working on gridpix

• Ruud Kluit(senior) VLSI designer coordinating work on FEI-4 and Gossipo-3.

• Els KoffemanATLAS silicon strips. Professor at University of Amsterdam and

therefore happy to have PhD canidates from the network finishing a PhD thesis (+ one year extra payment !!)