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Dr. Alexander Kluge Doctorate (Ph.D) in Electronic Engineering (Applied Electronics), Honours, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Currently working at CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Electronics Design Group, Geneva, Switzerland |
Biography of Speaker
Dr. Alexander Kluge studied Electronics Engineering at the Technical University Vienna, Austria. After his graduation in 1993 he specialized in electronics systems for large scale high energy physics experiments. He worked with the high energy physics institute, Vienna and received his Ph.D. in 1998.
Since 1998 Alexander Kluge is working at European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. He has designed a pipelined digital processor measuring the momentum of muons, arriving each 25ns within a latency of 900ns. He was also responsible for the implementation of a 10 million pixel silicon detector electronics system in one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN.
At present Dr. Alexander Kluge is coordinating the technical implementation of a pixel detector capable of measuring the particle arrival time with a time binning of lower than 100ps.
Keynote Address on
"Implementation of Electronics and Detector Systems at CERN"
Abstract:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collides particles more than 40 million times per second. Only a tiny fraction of these collisions create the phenomena to be studied. Detectors with several tens of million of pixels take 40 million images per second. Hardware processors perform real time data selection and reduce the data stream to be read-out of the detectors. The presentation illustrates the challenges of large electronic systems using the example of high energy physics experiments. It explains how the data is evaluated in real time to select only interesting samples to be read-out from the detector electronics. As an example for this data selection process an LHC muon trigger track finder processor is presented. For the description of the detection and read-out process an LHC Silicon Pixel Detector is described.
