Detector mechanics and infrastructure such as detector cooling systems have often a crucial impact on detector design, operation and ultimately also on physics performance. Mechanics usually has to compete with conflicting requirements like minimum space use, thermal constraints, high precision, low mass and radiation hardness.
I am an aerospace engineer graduated at Politecnico di Milano. I pursued a PhD in the same field at Delft University of Technology. I joined the EP-DT-EO group as a post-doctoral research fellow in...