Light-weight and highly thermally conductive support structures for future tracking detectors

TL;DR

This paper discusses innovative lightweight, thermally conductive support structures for future particle tracking detectors, emphasizing design techniques to reduce mass and improve thermal management for advanced collider experiments.

Contribution

It introduces engineering methods for designing and manufacturing support structures with high thermal conductivity and low mass, tailored for next-generation collider detectors.

Findings

Demonstrates engineering techniques for lightweight, thermally conductive supports.

Provides examples from Purdue University for CMS detector upgrades.

Highlights potential applications for future colliders like FCC and muon colliders.

Abstract

Detector mechanics can play a significant role in a detector's performance, improvements typically require in-depth study of total mass, novel ways to reduce the total mass, as well as more integrated design concepts to save on material budgets and optimize performance. Particle detectors at future colliders rely on ever more precise charged particle tracking devices, which are supported by structures manufactured from composite materials. This article lays out engineering techniques able to solve challenges related to the design and manufacturing of future support structures. Examples of current efforts at Purdue University related to the high-luminosity upgrade of the CMS detector are provided to demonstrate the prospects of suggested approaches for detectors at new colliders: a future circular collider or a muon collider. Detectors at electron-positron machines have significantly smaller material budgets and require targeted concepts.