8th EIROforum School on Instrumentation

Session

System integration and instrument design

14 May 2024, 09:00

ESO, Garching (Germany)

51. Design and verification basics for space instrumentation

Thibaut Prod’homme (ESA)

14/05/2024, 09:00

In this short lecture, ESA experts are introducing the basic steps to developing instrumentation for space from the early design phase to later assembly, integration and verification phase.

50. ESRF Double Crystal Monochromator - How mechatronic can enhance the performance of X-Ray optical system

Ludovic Ducotte (ESRF)

14/05/2024, 09:30

The ESRF has designed and developed a Double Crystal Monochromator (ESRF-DCM) to enable several spectroscopy beamlines to exploit the full potential of the ESRF-EBS, in particular the capability to perform fast and accurate energy scanning. To reach concomitant beam positioning accuracy and stability, particular attention has been paid to mechanical and thermal stability, which has imposed the...

52. ESO Cryogenics

Gerd Jakob (ESO)

14/05/2024, 10:00

To reduce the thermal background or the noise in the detectors, scientific instruments frequently need to be operated at cryogenic conditions at or below 80 K. The combination of low temperature and vacuum creates an environment, which is very different from the typically lab environment and thus mandates a different approach in the design of the mechanics, optics and mechanisms. This talk...

56. Integration challenges in collider detectors for particle physics: the examples of the CMS experiment Tracker and High-Granularity Calorimeter for High-Luminosity LHC operation

Karol Rapacz (CERN)

14/05/2024, 11:00

Detectors for particle-physics experiments should, ideally, cover the full solid angle around the collision point and have zero superfluous material or gaps in coverage. Of course, the real world is far from this perfection. We present some of the challenges of designing and building particle detectors to try to come close to this ideal, using two ongoing detector developments for the Compact...

57. Experimental stations for synchrotron radiation beamlines

François Villar (ESRF)

14/05/2024, 11:30

I will give an overview of the design of experiment stations used at ESRF. I will explain how instruments combining mechanical, metrology, control and optical systems can be build to examine samples submitted to X-rays beam. I will focus on the mechanical design principles, the metrology system used to control the sample position and the correction of guiding errors of stages. Examples from...

71. Vitrifying biological samples for cryo-imaging experiments

Gergely Papp (EMBL)

14/05/2024, 12:00

Preparing biological samples for cryo-imaging applications requires fine control of cooling rate and sample thickness. I will present our latest instrumentation developments aimed at vitrifying purified protein solutions and cells for subsequent cryo-imaging experiments. Our automated machine comprises a plasma generation module to render the sample support hydrophilic, picoliter drop...