Event calendar file
Starts Jan 27, 2025 11:00
Ends Jan 29, 2025 18:00
Asia/Kolkata
27-29 January 2025
Hotel Fariyas, Lonavala
Asia/Kolkata timezone
A workshop on quantum sensors for HEP applications
The goal of this workshop is to brainstorm the use of quantum sensors optimized for Nuclear and Particle physics applications. To keep the discussion focussed in this meeting we propose to limit ourselves to only two classes of quantum sensor namely Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPD) and Trantision Edge Sensors (TES). SNSPDs over the last two decades have demonstrated high (~98%) system detection efficiencies to single photons , extremely low (~6E-6 counts per second) dark count rates, a temporal resolution of better than 3 ps, very high (~ 1 Giga counts per second) event rates and fabricated into large sized (~ 500k pixels) arrays. While these best-in-class characteristics have been demonstrated for SNSPDs till date there is no device that has shown to have all these properties simultaneously, which makes it an open field of research. Even so SNSPDs hold the promise of being extremely beneficial to a wide variety of both collider and non-collider based high energy physics experiments.
For such an endeavour to succeed it is essential to plan together at an early stage with an interdisciplinary team of domain experts :
The goal of this workshop is to brainstorm the use of quantum sensors optimized for Nuclear and Particle physics applications. To keep the discussion focussed in this meeting we propose to limit ourselves to only two classes of quantum sensor namely Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPD) and Trantision Edge Sensors (TES). SNSPDs over the last two decades have demonstrated high (~98%) system detection efficiencies to single photons , extremely low (~6E-6 counts per second) dark count rates, a temporal resolution of better than 3 ps, very high (~ 1 Giga counts per second) event rates and fabricated into large sized (~ 500k pixels) arrays. While these best-in-class characteristics have been demonstrated for SNSPDs till date there is no device that has shown to have all these properties simultaneously, which makes it an open field of research. Even so SNSPDs hold the promise of being extremely beneficial to a wide variety of both collider and non-collider based high energy physics experiments.
For such an endeavour to succeed it is essential to plan together at an early stage with an interdisciplinary team of domain experts :
1. To understand how such devices are fabricated and their properties tuned.
2. How to package such devices into fieldable detectors and have expertise in designing the electronics readout chain,
3. To translate the needs of cutting edge in particle and nuclear physics into design criteria for the relevant quantum device (for example, to enhance the sensitivity of detection at different frequencies, as well as properties like photon polarization),
4. To take up the challenge to scale up these detectors to meet the needs of realistic particle physics experiments.
5. Facilities experts where an end-end particle physics experiment using SNSPDs as the main detection element can be hosted.
3. To translate the needs of cutting edge in particle and nuclear physics into design criteria for the relevant quantum device (for example, to enhance the sensitivity of detection at different frequencies, as well as properties like photon polarization),
4. To take up the challenge to scale up these detectors to meet the needs of realistic particle physics experiments.
5. Facilities experts where an end-end particle physics experiment using SNSPDs as the main detection element can be hosted.
Hotel Fariyas, Lonavala
Frichley Hills, Tungarli, Lonavla – 410 401, Maharashtra, India.
Participants can either reach the hotel directly. Alternately a bus will leave from TIFR, Colaba at 08:00 hrs for the venue on 27th January and bring the participants back from the venue at 16:30 hrs on 29th January to TIFR, Colaba
