Research on Radiation Tolerant LSIs for High-Intensity Accelerator Experiments
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13640310
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
素粒子・核・宇宙線
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| Research Institution | The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAI Yasuo High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, Research Associate, 素粒子原子核研究所, 助手 (90167990)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
EMURA Tsuneo Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (40015053)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | Radiation Tolerance / Integrated Circuit / Time Measurement / Single Event Effect / LSI / TDC |
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| Research Abstract |
High radiation levels in future high-energy physics experiments such as in LHC or J-PARC accelerators are one of key issues, and this is also true in space science. On the other hand, LSI technology is a mandatory in these experiments for dealing with large number of readout channels and local processing. Unfortunately commercial LSIs are not always radiation tolerant, so we need to study the radiation effects of the LSI.
In this research program, we study radiation effects to the LSIs, andaimed to search methods to improve radiation tolerance without using special silicon process which is far expensive to use in scientific purpose.
We have measured radiation tolerance of AMT (Atlas Muon TDC) chip which we developed for muon detector of ATLAS experiment. We have done radiation test with gamma-rays from Co^<60> and proton beam from cyclotron. The AMT chip was fabricated in CMOS 0.3um process, and has time resolution of around 300 ps and can measure timing of input pulses without deadtime.
We certified the radiation tolerance of the AMT under LHC condition, and the chip are being installed into giant ATLAS detector. with this achievements, the AMT chip is also a candidate for use in a scientific instruments in BepiColumbo Mercury observation mission which will be launched in 2012 from ESA (European Space Agent).
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