• Design and implementation of fast and sparsified readout for Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors 

      Torheim, Olav (Doctoral thesis, 2010-11-26)
      This thesis focuses on the development of smart pixel readout architectures that should ultimately be targeted for the Micro-Vertex Detector (MVD) of the CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) experiment. The technical challenge ...
    • Design and Simulation of Pixel Layout and Data Processing Algorithms for the DEEP Instrument 

      Andersen, Hogne (Master thesis, 2018-10-17)
      A team of researchers at Birkeland Centre for Space Science is developing an instrument that is able to measure particle precipitation into the atmosphere. The instrument consist of both electron and proton detectors, hence ...
    • Design of a 60 GHz Low Noise Amplifier in a 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS Process 

      Pallesen, Magnus (Master thesis, 2016-06-01)
      The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN outside Geneva in Switzerland is scheduled for an upgrade to improve the luminosity. This upgrade will require higher granularity for the triggering system, increasing the need for ...
    • Design of a 60 GHz Power Amplifier in a 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS Process 

      Schou, Hans (Master thesis, 2016-06-01)
      The wide bandwidth in the unlicensed 60 GHz band enable short range wireless data transfer in the order of tens of gigabit per second. This, combined with the relatively low-cost, very high performance SiGe fabrication ...
    • Design of a 60 GHz VCO Hybrid Microstrip Resonator in a 0.13-µm Sige process 

      Haslum, Are (Master thesis, 2017-06-29)
      Augmented reality, 4K television and video gaming. These are just some examples were the wireless products lacks performance in terms of multi-gigabit data transfers. A solution to this challenge is the 60 GHz band. The ...
    • Design of a high power OOK modulator and verification of circuits in 60GHz SiGe BiCMOS 

      Ersdal, Magnus Rentsch (Master thesis, 2017-06-29)
      In this thesis, components for the UiB 60 GHz system are verified numerically and an on-off-keying (OOK) modulator is designed. Presence of mass in particle detector systems decrease the accuracy measuring the particle ...
    • Design of an Embedded Readout System for the ALOFT Gamma-Ray Detector Instrument 

      Heigre, Mats Fredrik (Master thesis, 2018-10-24)
      Birkeland Center for Space Science has proposed a campaign known as the Airborne Lightning Observatory for FEGS & TGFs (ALOFT) to study Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs). TGFs are the most energetic natural phenomena ...
    • Design of custom ASIC for front-end electronics in a 130 nm CMOS process 

      Lindseth, Fredrik (Master thesis, 2018-06-21)
      Researchers at Birkeland center of space science at the University of Bergen is developing an instrument to be attached to a satellite, to measure energetic particles in the atmosphere and particle precipitation. This ...
    • Design of High-Speed Digital Readout System for Use in Proton Computed Tomography 

      Grøttvik, Ola Slettevoll (Master thesis, 2017-06-16)
      A team at the University of Bergen is developing a proton computed tomography (CT) scanner prototype. The proton CT (pCT) scanner will introduce fewer insecurities than conventional photon CT when analyzing the location ...
    • Design og studier av lydkilde for SOBER-prosjektet 

      Pedersen, Audun (Master thesis, 2002)
      An ultrasonic sound source was constructed for the University of Bergen’s participation in the Sonic Boom European Research project. A piezoceramic disc was chosen as the active element and some of its properties were ...
    • Design, implementation and testing of SRAM based neutron detectors 

      Velure, Arild (Master thesis, 2011-06-01)
      Neutrons of thermal and high energies can change the value of a bit stored in a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) memory chip. The effect is non destructive and linearly dependent on the amount of incoming particles, which ...
    • Design, Verification and Testing of a Digital Signal Processor for Particle Detectors 

      Velure, Arild (Doctoral thesis, 2019-08-14)
      The A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is upgrading two of its sub-detectors, the Time Projection Chamber and Muon Chambers, with new front-end electronics to handle the expected ...
    • Designing and Development of Readout and Configuration Program for the MXGS-Instrument 

      Sharma, Arun Kumar (Master thesis, 2011-10-14)
      The Atmosphere-Space Interactive Monitor (ASIM) is a project running under the guideline and financial support of the European Space Agency (ESA). The ASIM instrument consists of several high resolution, optical cameras ...
    • Detection of CO2 in N2 and H2O using photoacoustics 

      Holm, Vårin Renate Andvik (Master thesis, 2013-06-03)
      Photoacoustic spectroscopy is a technique where absorbed modulated light is released as heat, causing thermal expansion which can be detected using an acoustic transducer. It can be used to determine the absorption spectra ...
    • Detection of low energy antiproton annihilations in a segmented silicon detector 

      Aghion, Stefano; Gligorova, Angela; Huse, Torkjell; Pacifico, Nicola; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Zavatarelli, S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06)
      The goal of the AEḡIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to measure directly the Earth’s gravitational acceleration on antimatter by measuring the free fall of a pulsed, cold antihydrogen beam. The ...
    • Detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with the AGILE/MCAL 

      Ursi, Alessandro; Marisaldi, Martino; Tavani, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      AGILE is one of the satellites currently detecting terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). In particular, the AGILE MiniCALorimeter detected more than 2000 events in 8 years activity, by exploiting a unique sub-millisecond ...
    • Determination of jet calibration and energy resolution in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV using the ATLAS detector 

      Aaboud, Morad; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abdinov, Ovsat Bahram oglu; Abeloos, Baptiste; Abidi, Syed Haider; AbouZeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander; Abraham, Nadine L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Abreu, Henso; Buanes, Trygve; Dale, Ørjan; Eigen, Gerald; Fomin, Nikolai; Lipniacka, Anna; Martin dit Latour, Bertrand; Mæland, Steffen; Stugu, Bjarne; Yang, Zongchang; Zalieckas, Justas; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Feigl, Simon; Franconi, Laura; Garonne, Vincent; Gramstad, Eirik; Hellesund, Simen; Morisbak, Vanja; Oppen, Henrik; Ould-Saada, Farid; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Serfon, Cédric; Stapnes, Steinar; Vadla, Knut Oddvar Høie; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Adachi, Shunsuke; Adam-Bourdarios, Claire; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adelman, Jareed; Adersberger, Michael; Adye, Tim; Affolder, Anthony Allen; Afik, Yoav; Agheorghiesei, Catalin; Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio; Ahmadov, Faig; ATLAS, Collaboration (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The jet energy scale, jet energy resolution, and their systematic uncertainties are measured for jets reconstructed with the ATLAS detector in 2012 using proton–proton data produced at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with ...
    • Determination of the event collision time with the ALICE detector at the LHC 

      Adam, Jaroslav; Adamová, Dagmar; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, G; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Nikita; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahmad, N; Ahn, SU; Alme, Johan; Altinpinar, Sedat; Arsene, Ionut Christian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Dordic, Olja; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Lønne, Per-Ivar; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Milosevic, Jovan; Nystrand, Joakim; Qvigstad, Henrik; Rehman, Attiq Ur; Richter, Matthias Rudolph; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Wagner, Boris; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhang, Hui; Zhao, Chengxin; Zhou, Zhuo; Zhu, Hongsheng; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen André; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Alam, Sk Noor; De Albuquerque, Danilo Silva; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; Allesandro, B.; Alexandre, D; Alfaro Molina, R; Alici, A; Alkin, A; ALICE, Collaboration (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02)
      Particle identification is an important feature of the ALICE detector at the LHC. In particular, for particle identification via the time-of-flight technique, the precise determination of the event collision time represents ...
    • Determination of the minimum ignition energy (MIE) of premixed propane/air 

      Ngo, My (Master thesis, 2009-06-12)
      This Master thesis describes an experimental study aimed at determining the minimum ignition energy (MIE) of premixed propane/air mixtures. Two fundamentally different circuits have been employed for creating the sparks ...
    • Determination of the parton distribution functions of the proton from ATLAS measurements of differential W± and Z boson production in association with jets 

      Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abbott, Dale C.; Abed Abud, Adam; Abeling, Kira; Abhayasinghe, Deshan Kavishka; Abidi, Syed Haider; AbouZeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander; Abraham, Nadine L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Bjørke, Kristian; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Garonne, Vincent; Gramstad, Eirik; Heggelund, Andreas; Hellesund, Simen; Håland, Even Simonsen; Morisbak, Vanja; Oppen, Henrik; Ould-Saada, Farid; Pedersen, Maiken; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Rye, Eli Bæverfjord; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Vadla, Knut Oddvar Høie; Buanes, Trygve; Djuvsland, Julia Isabell; Eigen, Gerald; Fomin, Nikolai; Latour, Bertrand Pascal Christian; Lee, Graham Richard; Lipniacka, Anna; Stugu, Bjarne Sandvik; Træet, Are Sivertsen; Abreu, Henso; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Achkar, Baida; Adam, Lennart; Adam-Bourdarios, Claire; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adamek, Lukas; Adelman, Jareed; Adigüzel, Aytül; Adorni, Sofia; Adye, Tim; Affolder, Anthony Allen; ATLAS, Collaboration (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This article presents a new set of proton parton distribution functions, ATLASepWZVjet20, produced in an analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The new data sets considered are the measurements of W+ and W− boson ...