Micro-channel cooling for high-energy physics particle detectors and electronics

Author

Mapelli, A. ; Petagna, P. ; Renaud, P.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

fYear

2012

fDate

May 30 2012-June 1 2012

Firstpage

677

Lastpage

683

Abstract

Micro-channel cooling is gaining considerable attention as an alternative technique for cooling of High-Energy Physics (HEP) detectors and Front-End (FE) electronics. This technology is being evaluated for future tracking devices, where material budget limitations are a major concern. It has been approved as the baseline for the local thermal management of the NA62 GigaTracKer (GTK) silicon pixel detector, where a micro-fabricated silicon cooling plate would stand directly in the beam. Other possible applications are also being studied in the context of detectors upgrades for the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this paper, the current status of this R&D at CERN is presented.

Keywords

cooling; elemental semiconductors; microfabrication; particle detectors; research and development; semiconductor counters; silicon; thermal management (packaging); CERN large hadron collider; FE electronics; GTK silicon pixel detector; HEP detectors; LHC; NA62 GigaTracKer; R&D; Si; front-end electronics; high-energy physics particle detectors; local thermal management; material budget limitations; microchannel cooling; microfabricated silicon cooling plate; tracking devices; Detectors; Heat sinks; Microfluidics; Silicon; Temperature sensors; Cooling; Front-End Electronics; High-Energy Physics; Micro-fabrication; Micro-fluidics; Particle Detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 2012 13th IEEE Intersociety Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1087-9870

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9533-7

Electronic_ISBN

1087-9870

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITHERM.2012.6231493

Filename

6231493