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Otilia Militaru

Position

Former member
Current position: GDF SUEZ Tractebel Engineering

Projects

Research directions:

Detector commissioning, operation and data processing
Particle Physics
Research and development of new detectors

Experiments and collaborations:

CMS
RD39
RD50

Active projects

Device simulation of semiconductors sensors

Eduardo Cortina Gil

Development of simulation tools at device level for semiconductor sensors. We are interested both in the simulation of static characteristics as for instance coupling capacitances, electric fields, etc, but also dynamic characteristics as signal developed in different sensors when particles are passing through.

Tools used to made this simulations are based in comercial software as TCAD or Silvaco and programs developed by ourselves. This work profits from the close collaboration with DICE (FSA/UCL).

External collaborators: Denis Flandre (UCLouvain - EPL).

Neutron irradiations with UCL cyclotron

Eduardo Cortina Gil

Metrology and instrumentation of CYCLONE-110 T2 irradiation line to test semiconductor sensors and electronics under neutron fluences (max $Formula: 0$ neq/cm2).

External collaborators: Michael Moll (CERN).

The CMS silicon strip tracker upgrade

[link]

Anna Benecke, Agni Bethani, Laurent Bruniaux, Jérôme de Favereau, Christophe Delaere, Noemie Deplechin, Majid Hussain, Paul Malek, Nicolas Szilasi, Semra Turkcapar

Development of the "phase II" upgrade for the CMS silicon strip stracker.

More precisely, we are involved in the development of the uTCA-based DAQ system and in the test/validation of the first prototype modules. We take active part to the various test-beam campaigns (CERN, DESY, ...)

This activity will potentially make use of the cyclotron of UCL, the probe stations and the SYCOC setup (SYstem de mesure de COllection de Charge) to test the response to laser light, radioactive sources and beams.

The final goal is to take a leading role in the construction of part of the CMS Phase-II tracker.

External collaborators: CRC and CMS collaboration.

Non-active projects

CMS Tracker commissioning at the Magnet Test Cosmic Challenge

Giacomo Bruno, Andrea Giammanco

The so called Magnet Test Cosmic Challenge (MTCC) was the first comprehensive operational and functional test of the CMS experiment. the MTCC took place in the first months of 2006 and was a slice test in which a small fraction of all the CMS detection equipment was operated in the 4 T solenoid of the experiment. Cosmic rays detected in the muon chambers were used to trigger the readout of all detectors in the global CMS data acquisition system. Prior to data taking, the detectors and their readout electronics were tuned and synchronized with dedicated software procedures. Local reconstruction was carried out online and offline in all sub-detectors for event selection and monitoring purposes. Global reconstruction, linking different sub-detectors, was performed mainly offline. A number of monitoring and visualization tools were also used for validation purposes and monitoring. One of the main goals of the MTCC was the validation of the hardware alignment system functionality.
At the MTCC, UCL had a leading role in the preparation, operation and offline data analysis related to the silicon strip tracker detector.

RD39

Cryogenic detectors development for very high radiation environment.

External collaborators: RD39 collaboration.

Silicon strip detectors telescope

Vincent Lemaitre

Construction of an multiple-plane of silicon strips modules (detectors and readout) as an instrument for particles tracks reconstruction and prototype modules testing.

SYCOC

Eduardo Cortina Gil

SYCOC stands for "SYstem de mesure de COllection de Charge". This system is intended to measure charge collection efficiency of semiconductor detectors with both a laser and radiactive sources. This installation is used in the characterization of semiconductor detectors in order to study its radiation hardness. This project is done in collaboration with RD50 team at CERN.

External collaborators: Michael Moll (CERN).

Publications in IRMP

All my publications on Inspire

Number of publications as IRMP member: 11
Last 5 publications

2010

CP3-10-40: CMS Tracking Performance Results from early LHC Operation

CMS collaboration

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial] [Full text]
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C70:1165-1192,2010.
Refereed paper. December 21.

2009

CP3-09-58: Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays

CMS Collaboration

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial] [Full text]
CMS PAPER CFT-09-003
Published in JINST
Refereed paper. December 26.

CP3-09-57: Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Pixel Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons

CMS Collaboration

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial] [Full text]
CMS-CFT-09-001.
Published in JINST
Refereed paper. December 26.

CP3-09-52: Alignment of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker during stand-alone Commissioning.

W. Adam et al.

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal] [Dial]
Published in JINST 4:T07001,2009
Refereed paper. December 21.

2008

CP3-08-76: The CMS Tracker Control System

A.Dierlamm, G.Dirkes, M.Fahrer, M.Frey, F.Hartmann, L.Masetti, O.Militaru, S.Youssaf Shah, R.Stringer, A.Tsirou

[Full text]
Journal of Physics 119 (2008) 022019
Contribution to proceedings. December 31.

More publications

2008

CP3-08-74: Petal Integration for the CMS Tracker End Caps

T. Bergauer, et al.

[Full text]
CMS NOTE-2008/028. Public CMS note (internally peer-reviewed) about the construction of the CMS forward tracker.
Public experimental note. December 22.

CP3-08-70: The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

The CMS Collaboration

[Journal] [Full text]
The CMS Collaboration, "The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC", 2008 JINST 3 S08004, 361pp doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004.
Refereed paper. December 10.

CP3-08-69: Silicon Strip Tracker Detector Performance with Cosmic Ray Data at the Tracker Integration Facility

J.-L. Bonnet, G. Bruno, B. De Callatay, B. Florins, A. Giammanco, G. Gregoire, Th. Keutgen, D. Kcira, V. Lemaitre, D. Michotte, O. Militaru, K. Piotrzkowski, L. Quertermont, V. Roberfroid, X. Rouby, D. Teyssier et al. (>100 authors)

[Full text]
W. Adam et al., "Silicon Strip Tracker Detector Performance with Cosmic Ray Data at the Tracker Integration Facility", CMS NOTE-2008/032.
Public experimental note. December 10.

CP3-08-68: The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge

S. Assouak, J.-L. Bonnet, G. Bruno, B. de Callatay, S. de Visscher, D. Favart, B. Florins, E. Forton5, A. Giammanco, G. Gregoire, S. Kalinin, D. Kcira, Th. Keutgen, V. Lemaitre, D. Michotte, O. Militaru, S. Ovyn, K. Piotrzkowski, X. Rouby, D. Teyssier, O. Van der Aa et al. (> 100 authors)

[Journal] [Full text]
W. Adam et al., “The CMS tracker operation and performance at the Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge”, 2008 JINST 3 P07006. doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07006.
G. Bruno co-editor
Refereed paper. December 10.

2006

CP3-06-17: Cryogenic detector modules and edgeless silicon sensors

X. Rouby, V. Eremin, S. Grohmann, J. Härkönen, Z. Li, P. Luukka, O. Militaru, T. Niinikoski, G.Nüssle, B. Perea Solano, K. Piotrzkowski, E. Tuovinen, E. Verbitskaya

[Journal] [Full text]
Proceedings of the RD05 Conference, October 2005. Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A570 (2007) 308-311
Contribution to proceedings. October 23.

2005

CP3-05-08: FP420: An R&D proposal to investigate the feasibility of installing proton tagging detectors in the 420-m region at LHC

M.G. Albrow et al.

Published in CERN-LHCC-2005-025
Public experimental note. June 2.