3:30–4:45 pm MCP 201
By the end of 2028, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be upgraded to provide a higher instantaneous luminosity, which means that the ATLAS and CMS experiments will accumulate interesting proton-proton collisions at a faster rate. However, many of the particle detectors currently used will not be able to withstand the new high-radiation environment at the High-Luminosity LHC, and are also being upgraded. In this seminar I will discuss the upgrade of the endcap calorimeter of the CMS experiment, also known as the High Granularity Calorimeter. I will discuss the motivation for the upgrade, the detector technologies used, as well as new physics that will be enabled. I will also give a flavor of the technical challenges in the construction of this novel detector, by focusing on the on-detector (frontend) electronics chain, for which production will start this summer.