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0 The Group

LCFI related talks and notes

0 Tim's  talk at the Birkenhead PPRP meeting.

0 Steve's  talk at the Birkenhead meeting.

0 Konstantin Stefanov's LCWS2002 talk.

0 Tim Greenshaw's PSD6 talk.

0 Phil Burrow's Santa Cruz talk, June 2002.

0 LCFI proposal to PPRP, April 2002.

0 Progress report for the PPRP, November 2001.

0 Progress report for the PPRP, September 2001.

0 PPESP proposal, March 2001, addendum to the proposal and parts one and two of the presentation.

0 Konstantin Stefanov's Ph.D. thesis on Radiation Damage Effects in CCDs for Tracking in HEP.

0 Chris's note on a CCD-based TESLA VXD.

0 Chris's report Vertex Detectors: the State of the Art and Future Prospects.

0 Stefania's note on flavour tagging performance.

0 LCFI talk at LCWS2000. Contribution to proceedings.

0 LCFI talk at Lyon, supplementary transparencies 1, 2 and 3. Contribution to proceedings.

0 LCFI talk at Vertex2000. Contribution to proceedings.

0 LCFI talk at Bad Honnef Si detector workshop.

0 LCFI talk at Berkeley.

0 QCD summary talk at Sitges.

0 LCFI talk at Sitges.

0 CCD VXD talk at Vertex99.

0 TESLA detector talk at EPS99.

0 Flavour tagging results and plots.

0 Liverpool HEP seminar on CCDs, 17/12/98.

Public Documents

0 LCFI Proposal for the PPESP, 2001

0 LCFI Statement of Interest for PPESP, submitted 6/9/99.

0 LC Statement of Interest for PPESP, submitted 13/9/99.

0 LCFI Proposal for PPESP, 1998 part 1, part 2 (part 2 doesn't ghostview but does print!) and part 3.

Agendas and Transparencies for LCFI Meetings

0 22/05/03: Agenda.

0 24/04/03: Agenda.

0 27/03/03: Agenda, Dave's transparency of LCFI spend.

0 20/02/03: Agenda.

0 23/01/03: Agenda.

0 19/12/02: Agenda, Stephanie's transparencies.

0 21/11/02: Agenda, Konstantin's slide of radiation damage effects in CCD58, Stephanie's transparencies.

0 24/10/02: Agenda, Konstantin's picture of the module layout, Stephanie's transparencies.

0 26/09/02: Agenda, Stephanie's transparencies, LCFI spend so far this year.

0 22/08/02: Agenda.

0 25/07/02: Agenda. Glenn's photo of CCD32 lapped to 50 mm; Andy Harris' page on nitride etching experiments; Tony's overview of thin ladder R&D.

0 13/06/02: Agenda. Erik's comparison of Ansys and Algor results.

0 23/05/02: Agenda. LCFI spend in FY01. Erik's sections along centre of cooled ladder; glass/stainless ladder, free one end, force applied of 1.1 N1.15 N, 1.2 N, 1.25 N, 1.3 N, 1.35 N, 1.4 N, 1.45 N, 1.5 N; glass/stainless steel ladder, one end free to move in z, force applied of 1.7 N, 1.8 N, 1.9 N, 2.0 N, 2.2 N, 2.3 N, 2.4 N, 2.5 N; slides of Si/Be/Si ladder 1, Si/Be/Si ladder 2, Si/Be/Si ladder 3, Si/Stainless/Si ladder.

0 25/04/02: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on FEA simulations. Liverpool simulations of MIP traversing CCD

0 28/03/02: Agenda. Oxford transparencies showing WhiPM profile of unsupported silicon ladder, FEA model of semi-supported ladder. Liverpool transparencies. LCFI spend so far this year.

0 21/02/02: Agenda. Glenn's transparencies on CCD thinning experiment at Mtech

0 24/01/02: Agenda. LCFI spend so far this year.

0 20/12/01: Agenda. Glenn's transparencies on CCD thinning experiment at Mtech.

0 22/11/01: Agenda. LCFI spend so far this year.

0 25/10/01: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on mechanical stability studies. LCFI spend so far this year.

0 20/9/01: Agenda. LCFI spend so far this year.

0 23/8/01: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on mechanical stability studies.

0 26/7/01: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on FEA studies of mechanical stability. Rutherford transparencies on new ladder studies; physics studies reported at Snowmass. LCFI spend for this year.

0 21/6/01: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on FEA studies of mechanical stability. Rutherford transparencies on progress with flavour tagging.

0 22/5/01 at Liverpool: Agenda. Oxford transparencies on FEA studies of mechanical stability. LCFI spend for FY00/01.

0 26/4/01 at RAL (note change of date and location!): Agenda.

0 21/3/01: Agenda. LCFI spend so far this FY.

0 21/3/01: Agenda. Transparencies for PPESP talks by Stefania and Tim (as gzipped ps file, as powerpoint file). LCFI spend so far this FY.

0 22/2/01: Agenda.

0 25/1/01: Agenda.

0 21/12/00: Agenda. Liverpool transparency of self-supporting Si test rig.

0 23/11/00: Agenda. Oxford transparencies, described here, and available from the bottom of this page.

0 2/11/00: Agenda. Rutherford transparencies of: Sagitta as function of tension pdf file, ps file. Results of fit to distribution of sagitta ps file. Stefania's transparencies from LCWS2000 ps file.

0 21/9/00: Agenda. Rutherford transparencies of: Unsupported Si ladder. Unsupported Si frame birdseye view. Unsupported Si frame end. Sagitta test results as pdf file, ps file.

0 24/8/00: Agenda.

0 20/7/00: Agenda. Rutherford transparencies of: LCFI spend in FY 1999;

0 22/6/00: Agenda.

0 30/5/00: Agenda.

To get to the meeting, first find Liverpool, then the University, and finally the Oliver Lodge Laboratory, which is building 48 on the Campus Map. Tim Greenshaw's office is on the third floor, room 332 (13:00 for lunch), the meeting will take place in room 214 on the second floor, start 14:00.

0 Agendas/transparencies for earlier meetings are available here.

Minutes of LCFI Meetings/Telephone Conferences

0 Minutes are available on request from green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk

RAL LCFI pages

0 RAL test set-up.

Technical drawings

0 CCD58 cables ps file, Stephen Burge, 15/8/00.

0 CCD58 motherboard circuitry eps file, ps file, Stephen Burge, 1/10/99.

0 CCD58 motherboard + flexi, mechanics eps file, ps file, Stephen Burge, 1/10/99.

0 Liverpool cryostat in section and 3D, Tim Greenshaw, 1/4/99.

0 Omega beam ladder substrate, Andy Nichols, 25/2/99.

0 V beam ladder substrate, Andy Nichols, 25/2/99.

0 Liverpool gas heater unit, Tim Greenshaw, 25/2/99.

0 Coax/stripline cables to motherboard, Steve Burge, 25/2/99.

0 RAL cryostat with CCD, Andy Nichols, 11/12/98.

0 RAL cryostat with ladder, Andy Nichols, 11/12/98.

0 LC vertex detector (black & white), Chris Damerell, 19/11/98

0 LC vertex detector (colour), Chris Damerell, 19/11/98.

Technical documentation

0 SPICE simulation of column parallel readout, part 3, Justin Theed, 22/9/00.

0 SPICE simulation of column parallel readout, part 2, Justin Theed, 7/9/00.

0 SPICE simulation of column parallel readout, part 1, Justin Theed, 31/8/00.

0 Column-Parallel CCD Vertex Detextor for TESLA: Driver Issues, Chris Damerell, 13/1/00.

0 Optical survey cryostat specification, Andy Nichols, 26/5/99.

0 Software requirements, Chris Damerell, 8/3/99.

0 Proposed readout system, Tony Gillman, 25/2/99.

Various pictures

General CCD figures

0 Charge collection in buried-channel CCD structure

0 Corner of CCD: principal structures

0 Gate structure of 3-phase CCD register

0 Operating principles of extended row filter

0 Noise spectra of various CCD output FETs

SLD figures

0 CCD architecture

0 2-CCD ladder

0 Ladder support block

0 Ladder exploded view

0 CCD corner (sketch)

0 CCD corner (detailed design)

0 Detector cross-section (end view)

0 Detector cross-section (side view)

0 On-CCD output circuit

0 Hit-rate vs I address (in columns with major traps)

0 CCD shapes on ladder

0 Noise hit rate vs threshold (with/without ERF)

0 Electronics layout

0 Processing chain for one channel

0 Min-I cluster charge distn

Future LC figures

0 Block diagram of Column Parallel readout

0 Circuit for SPICE simulations

0 b and c tagging performance on Z pole

0 b-tagging performance as function of energy

0 c-tagging performance as function of energy

0 Self-supporting CCD ladder end

0 2-CCD ladder layout

0 VXD end view (old)

0 VXD side view (later version available below)

0 VXD isometric view (later version available below)

0 Electronics physical arrangement

0 Proposed ladder production sequence

0 Charm effic/purity based on mass tag (Snowmass 96)

0 Column-parallel architecture: single column

0 Column-parallel architecture: end of CCD

0 Column-parallel architecture: CCD attachment to readout IC

0 Column-parallel architecture: layout at end of ladder

0 VXD side view, Sept 2000 (black and white)

0 VXD side view, Sept 2000 (colour)

0 VXD isometric view, Sept 2000 (colour)

Planning

0 LCFI cost centre codes.

Links to Linear Collider Information

0 Worldwide Study of the Physics and Detectors for Future Linear Colliders

0 DESY FLC web pages

0 EUDet web

0 Snowmass 2001

0 Links to all known Linear Collider related work (under development).

0 Fermilab Linear Collider Physics Study Group.

0 Worldwide Linear Collider Physics/Detector Studies.

0 Japanese Linear Collider.

0 Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre.

0 SLD Experiment.

0 ECFA/DESY LC Event Generator Studies.

0 ECFA/DESY LC Detector Simulation.

0 ECFA/DESY LC Simulation News Page (mail green@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk for ID and password).

0 Second ECFA/DESY Study on LC Physics and Detectors.

0 TESLA Conceptual Design Report.

0 LC Notes.

0 ICFA Home Page.

0 UK Linear Collider Consortium.

0 Chris Damerell's home page.

0 Chris's LCFI page.

Links to information on CCDs

0 E2V Technologies web pages.

0 E2V Technologies CCD pages.

0 CCD World.

0 RGO CCD Development Work.

0 CCD University.

0 SKY Online (Sky and Telescope, CCD Astronomy...).

0 ESA X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission.