Research
Quantum Sensors and Low mass Dark Matter detection________________________________________________________________________________________________
* DOE quantum sensors award in progress [pr]
* DOE phonon control in superconducting devices award in progress [website]
* Looking for new concepts for DM detection at low mass, eg [28, 29]
* Establishment of low background cryogenic lab at Kamioka for low mass DM searches [QUP]
Development or spectrally resolved single photon imager_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Funded Nano-CMOS award in progress [PR video]
Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for high rate and radiation. RD53 collaboration and beyond. Topics include:______________________
* General chip architecture and functionality [1].
* Understanding data rates and potential for data compression [2], [3], [4].
* Maximizing high speed data transmission on low mass cables by implementing advanced equalization techniques not previously used in HEP, such as a receiver with Decision Feedback Equalization [5]
* Development and testing of FE65-P2 prototype [6],[20]
* RD53A chip [21], RD53B chip, RD53C chip...
* Real time threshold equalization [22]
* Development of 4th gen . chips in 28nm for 4D tracking
Hybrid pixel detector systems________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
* Characterization of laser accelerator generated muon beams DARPA award in progress
* Modules and serial powered chains [7]
* Carbon composite mechanics [8]
* Review article co-authored with N. Wermes [27]
* Long barrel layer proposal for ATLAS Phase 2 upgrade [9]
* Luminosity measurement with pixel clusters in ATLAS Run 2 [10] [23]
* Machine learning recognition of cluster shapes [11]
* Binary readout resolution from cluster chapes [24]
* Low energy electron tracking for gamma ray detection [25]
Other uses of hybrid pixels or hybrid pixels____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
* Gas TPC readout with GEM + pixel chip [13], [14], [27]
* Pixel readout for LAr TPC [15]
* Application of HEP track reconstuction methods to GAIA data
Some past instrumentation development_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
* High Voltage and Plain CMOS complex logic, rad hard MAPS [16], [17]
* SBIR award with Sensor Creations, Inc. [18]
* Particle physics algorithms on neuromorphic IBM True North Chip [19]
* CMB detectors [26]