Sir David King, the UK’s chief government scientist, opened the Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre on September 11, 2003. The facility consists of cleanroom and workshop facilities. The centre will first be used to build sensitive detector components for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at the CERN particle physics research centre in Switzerland.

Sir David King, the UK's chief government scientist, opened the Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre on September 11, 2003. The facility consists of cleanroom and workshop facilities. The centre will first be used to build sensitive detector components for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at the CERN particle physics research centre in Switzerland.

UK research groups are contributing to the semiconductor detectors on two experiments, ATLAS and LHC-B. For the ATLAS experiment, the Liverpool group will be wire-bonding, assembling and testing 300 forward detector modules. The work will involve a total of about 1.5mn wire bonds.

Professor Phil Allport, director of the new centre, reports: "The Semiconductor Detector Centre is equipped with state of the art microelectronics assembly equipment. It makes possible the construction and testing of detector systems of areas of many square metres, built from hundreds of individual sensors, measuring with a spatial resolution of typically a few thousandths of a millimetre."

He adds: "Although initial applications will support science in particle physics and astronomy, along with research in nuclear physics, such sensor systems are certain to have wide applications in other areas."

Physicists at the University of Liverpool and astrophysicists at John Moores University, Liverpool won the GBP3.1mn grant to establish the centre from the UK government's Joint Infrastructure Fund.

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