From ladders to cassettes: Silicon detector activities at TIFR

Science and instrumentation are intimately connected. Quite often, fundamental breakthroughs in the field of particle physics have been achieved through cutting edge instrumentation, mostly led by silicon-based detectors. Taking this legacy forward, the silicon-strip vertex detector (SVD) of the Belle II experiment at KEK and the high-granularity calorimeter (HGCal) of the CMS experiment at CERN are expected to shed light on the unresolved mysteries of Nature. This colloquium will provide a glimpse of the SVD and HGCal related activities pursued at TIFR, with a focus on how we have successfully faced various engineering challenges during design, prototyping, and construction of these advanced detectors.