1.3 How chips pave the Road to the Higgs particle and the attoworld beyond

Author

Heijne, Erik H. M.

Author_Institution

PH Dept., CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2014

fDate

9-13 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

28

Abstract

Scientific knowledge is the basis for new technology, but in return, new technology enables progress in science. One example has been the introduction of semiconductor imagers in astronomy. Telescopes now can go into space, taking stunning pictures and opening up new wavelength windows. Another example will be described in this paper. In the field of elementary particle physics, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN use custom-designed CMOS chips as key components for the analog signal processing and digital information extraction, and these chips enabled significant discoveries to be made, that of the Higgs particle in particular, after only a few years of operation.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; Higgs bosons; nuclear electronics; silicon radiation detectors; CERN; Higgs particle; Large Hadron Collider; analog signal processing; astronomy; custom-designed CMOS chips; digital information extraction; elementary particle physics; semiconductor imagers; silicon sensors; CMOS integrated circuits; Detectors; Instruments; Large Hadron Collider; Physics; Protons; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0918-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2014.6757325

Filename

6757325