4th DRD6 Collaboration Meeting in Ancona, September 2025
The roadmap published by the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) in 2021 focuses on nine technological key areas to be further developed in international collaborations based at CERN. One of these areas is the Calorimetry department (DRD6), which aims to develop radiation-hard calorimeters with improved electromagnetic energy and timing resolution in the coming years.
In the medium to long term, the focus will shift towards fine-grained calorimeters that enable complex energy reconstruction methods, such as the Particle Flow approach. Another key aspect is the design of calorimeters capable of operating in environments with extreme radiation exposure and novel high particle rates. Achieving this will require new methods and architectures to improve the temporal and spatial separation of individual hits.
DRD6 is pursuing various approaches to enhance calorimetric detectors at both the component and system levels. This includes integrating and embedding electronics into sandwich calorimeters with $4\pi$ solid angle coverage, as well as developing highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters with optical solid-state or gas-based readout. Additionally, the development of liquid noble gas calorimeters and scintillator-based sampling and homogeneous calorimeters are also key focus areas.
Another significant research focus is improving readout electronics, aiming to make data readout systems more efficient, highly integrated, and flexible. To this end, the development of a family of application-specific readout chips (ASICs) is planned, which will be compatible with as many existing readout and backend systems as possible.
Our group is involved in the development of front-end electronics for sensor readout, particularly in the context of calorimetric detectors, due to our existing expertise and infrastructure in chip design.
