How Chips Pave the Road to the Higgs Particle and the Attoworld Beyond Erik H. M. Heijne

📋 论文概要

本文介绍了定制CMOS芯片在大型强子对撞机（LHC）实验中的关键作用，这些芯片用于模拟信号处理和数字信息提取，从而助力希格斯粒子的发现。同时展望了芯片技术在未来更小尺度（attoworld）探索中的应用前景。

💡 主要创新点

• 将定制CMOS芯片应用于高能物理实验的模拟信号处理与数字信息提取，实现了对粒子碰撞事件的精确测量。
• 通过芯片技术的进步，使得LHC实验能够达到发现希格斯粒子所需的灵敏度和数据处理能力。
• 提出了芯片技术向attoworld尺度延伸的愿景，为未来更小尺度物理探索提供技术基础。

🏷 关键词

📄 原文摘要

1.0 Introduction 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. The LHC accelerates counter-circulating beams of protons to 7 TeV/c2 energy-mass within a 27 km long, circular tunnel, ~90m underground. By way of reference, the heaviest known elementary constituent prior to LHC

👥 作者与机构

Instrumentation Physicist, CERN PH Department, Geneva, Switzerland

also with IEAP Czech Technical University Prague & Nikhef Amsterdam