Smaller taks in INO project for M.Sc/Ph.D projects



o Glass surface qualification. Determining smooth and rough sides of glass plates using a diode laser and photo
  transistor or light sensitive diode. We need to use smooth on smooth surfaces facing gas in detector volume.

o Pickup strip width optimisation for position resolution necessary to reconstruct tracks and hence momentum.

o Fabrication of appropriate pickup panels - characteristic impedance, thickness, cost, insulating lamination, sizes

o Study of cluster size/occupancy in avalanche and streamer modes for a single track

o Timing resolution in streamer and avalanche modes. Is CFD is needed? If so, optimal design speifications of
  the ASIC.

o Fast preamp design for low power consumption. Number of channels per chip etc.

o Specification for glass plates suitable for RPC fabrication (related to the aging problem)

o Jigs for bulk resistivity measurements of glass

o Studies on freonless gas mixtures for RPC

o Performance differences between Japanese and Indian glass RPCs

o Resistive coating on glass plates, optimising the procedure for large scale production. Coat resistivity
  measurement jigs

o Optimisation of iron thickness between 2-10 cms. Physics goal of precision measurements of parameters

o Optimisation of magnetic field; Reversal of magnetic field to remove systematic error of track reconstruction

o Tolerance of iron plate thickness and its effect on magnetic field

o Effect of gaps in iron plate joints, inhomogeneties in susceptability and on reconstrution of muon momentum

o Optimisation of glass cleaning procedures

o Glass plate measurements (dimensions, thickness and perpendicularity)

o Thin pet film lamination on the graphite coat

o Spacers, frames, gas nozzle integration in the edge frames

o Closed loop gas system design

o ASIC/VLSI development centres
  - Centres/people, tools, fabs, HRD

o VME programme
  - Centres/people, training, board designs etc

o High voltage system

o Embedded controllers (with Ethernet interface) based measurement stations for ambient parameter measurement.