Looking at a larger image, you can see three different detector types, distinguished here by their patterns of contacts. One is for the CMS upgrade, another is for a lepton collider, and the third is for X-ray correlation spectroscopy.
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Each of the integrated circuits you see here is about 6 millimeters on a side and projects one one-thousandth of an inch above the surface of the larger sensor wafer on which it sits, together forming a functional detector.
The Grid Computing Center houses small files for a number of experiments at Fermilab. Photo: Reidar Hahn Experts in the Scientific Computing Division have developed a more efficient method to store data to better cater to the needs of Intensity Frontier experiments. Last year, SCD developers created a method to efficiently store and access small-sized data files. The method is useful for several neutrino experiments, which normally store many small, sparse files that range from hundreds of kilobytes to hundreds…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has earned ISO 20000 certification for excellence in information technology service management. Fermilab is the first of the Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories to earn this certification.
Every day researchers add another sea of data to an ocean of knowledge on the world around us — billions on top of billions of measurements, images and observations of the tiniest subatomic particles up to the movement of planets and stars.
Computational power from facilities at three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories is aiding Japanese physicists in their quest to understand the interactions that lie at the heart of matter.
The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator.
The six experiments at the Large Hadron Collider will produce 15 million gigabytes of data every year, enough information to create a 13-mile-high stack of CDs.
High-Performance Computing and Communications Organizations Pool Capabilities to Support Vast Bandwidth Needs for Particle Physics and Other Applications