TIMESPOT (TIME and SPace real-time Operating Tracker)
Research area: Detectors and Electronics
Principal Investigator: Adriano Lai – INFN Cagliari
Partecipating Research Units: INFN Sezioni di Bologna, Cagliari, Genova, Ferrara, Firenze, Milano, Padova, Perugia, Torino, TIFPA
The TIMESPOT project aims at the development and implementation of a complete integrated system for tracking having very high precision both in space (below 100 μm) and in time (below 100ps) for every detection channel. The main use and scope of the system applies to high-energy physics experiments at high luminosity colliders, where high density tracking, both in space and time, will be a critical issue. Radiation hardness is an additional mandatory requirement. The envisaged system consists of a 3D geometry silicon and diamond pixelated solid-state sensor, read out by a dedicated integrated fast front-end and followed by a pre-processing circuit. A processor capable of reconstructing tracks in real time is also crucial in future high-luminosity experiments, in order to limit the amount of data to be stored for subsequent analysis and ease the track and vertex finding procedures performed by the high-level software trigger.
