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Abidi, S. H. et al, Platero Montagut, V., Solaz, C., Soldevila, U., & Torres Reoyo, E. (2026). Cracking under pressure – investigating mitigation approaches for silicon fractures on ATLAS strip tracker petals at cold temperatures. J. Instrum., 21(7), P07026–36pp.
Abstract: For the High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS experiment will replace its current Inner Detector with an all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk), consisting of pixel and strip detectors. The strip detector will consist of a central region or “barrel” assembled with staves and forward regions or “end-caps” assembled with petals. The ITk will nominally operate with liquid CO2 cooling at-35 degrees C; however, in the event of cooling system failures, it is possible that sensors will experience temperatures below-35 degrees C. At these low temperatures, it has been observed that the silicon sensors within modules – the fundamental readout units of the detector – can physically crack, rendering the modules inoperable. Understanding and resolving the issue of sensor cracking was one of the most important and urgent issues for the ITk project. This paper presents part of the mitigation strategies developed for petals. These mitigation strategies are based on modifications to the choice of adhesive and its deposition pattern for module assembly and petal loading. The most promising mitigation strategy presented here prevents cracking to temperatures as low as-45 degrees C, which can be expected in case of cooling system problems, with a small percentage of cracks observed after being cycled to-55 degrees C, which can be expected in case of catastrophic cooling system failures.
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KM3NeT Collaboration(Aiello, S. et al), Alves Garre, S., Calvo, D., Carretero, V., Colomer, M., Corredoira, I., et al. (2020). Deep-sea deployment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope detection units by self-unrolling. J. Instrum., 15(11), P11027–18pp.
Abstract: KM3NeT is a research infrastructure being installed in the deep Mediterranean Sea. It will house a neutrino telescope comprising hundreds of networked moorings – detection units or strings – equipped with optical instrumentation to detect the Cherenkov radiation generated by charged particles from neutrino-induced collisions in its vicinity. In comparison to moorings typically used for oceanography, several key features of the KM3NeT string are different: the instrumentation is contained in transparent and thus unprotected glass spheres; two thin Dyneema (R) ropes are used as strength members; and a thin delicate backbone tube with fibre-optics and copper wires for data and power transmission, respectively, runs along the full length of the mooring. Also, compared to other neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea and GVD in Lake Baikal, the KM3NeT strings are more slender to minimise the amount of material used for support of the optical sensors. Moreover, the rate of deploying a large number of strings in a period of a few years is unprecedented. For all these reasons, for the installation of the KM3NeT strings, a custom-made, fast deployment method was designed. Despite the length of several hundreds of metres, the slim design of the string allows it to be compacted into a small, re-usable spherical launching vehicle instead of deploying the mooring weight down from a surface vessel. After being lowered to the seafloor, the string unfurls to its full length with the buoyant launching vehicle rolling along the two ropes. The design of the vehicle, the loading with a string, and its underwater self-unrolling are detailed in this paper.
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