Wednesday 11 April 2012 

Speaker: Gianluigi Casse (Liverpool University)

Title: "Radiation hard silicon detectors for future Super-Colliders"

Abstract:

The upgrade of the LHC is coming closer with its extreme requirements
for the performance of vertex and tracker detectors. These detectors
will be on-line in a decade. The complexity and size of the project
(>200 m2 of silicon in both the General Purpose Detectors - GDPs) will
imply early start of construction, therefore freezing the technological 
choices in a few years time.  I will report on the status of the R&D on
the silicon sensors for the GDPs and of readiness of the detector technology
to face the tenfold higher radiation doses with respect to the present LHC devices.