Innovation and High Impact Research in Taiwan
Taiwan is a technology hub, unique in having High-Tech companies willing to collaborate with Academia in the design and production of novel detector parts and sophisticated equipment for R&D not initially intended for mass production. A clear benefit from such an Industry-Academia collaboration, is that Taiwanese companies can provide high-quality custom-design parts for state-of-the-art detectors.
Taiwan experimental HEP (TW-HEP) have already started exploiting these advantages and developing novel detectors and systems for leading-International experiments and real-life applications. Our current success through a seed Taiwan-wide collaboration of leading Institutes, has led us to merge forces in a Consortium and share laboratories, resources and personnel. We firmly believe that the High Impact Research in our stated mission can only be achieved through collaboration and sharing of resources.
The benefit to local companies is enormous, as significant foreign funds could be invested in Taiwan.
The benefit to our international reputation as TW-HEP is also unprecedented. We have already been invited to leading positions in world class projects like CMS, ATLAS, etc.
This is also beneficial for National reasons as the Taiwanese products and the local expertise are often internationally praised. Our goal is to build on this reputation and deliver novel instruments that are 100% made in Taiwan, and display superior performance.
Soon after the Taiwan Instrumentation and Detector Consortium (TIDC) was formed, we agreed to setup a Core Facility model and a define a plan for the next 10-15 years. TIDC invited all high energy experimental groups in Taiwan and built a large personpower mass to perform detector R&D. TIDC has already become a hub for exchanging expertise and organizing shared tasks among groups. In this way, we currently share technologies and resources including particle detectors and computing to achieve maximum efficiency in research output. TIDC has welcomed two new projects associated with RHIC at BNL and will continue working on the LHC phase 2 upgrade. TIDC has also expanded its R&D to the quantum sensor area, as well as crystal detector R&D and Medical Physics related R&D. TIDC is already building its reputation and visibility through these projects. We hope TIDC can attract more projects and have novel detectors built in Taiwan.
Our Members
The TIDC is governed by the consortium members who are the PIs of the NSTC/MOE funded projects that are associated with TIDC and share interests in performing research within the consortium.
Wen-Chen Chang
Research Fellow
Institute of Physics
Academia Sinica
Yuan-Hann Chang
Distinguished Research Fellow
Institute of Physics
Academia Sinica
Kai-Feng Chen
Professor
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University
Suen Hou
Research Fellow
Institute of Physics
Academia Sinica
Pai-hsien Jennifer Hsu
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
National Tsing Hua University
Chia-Ming Kuo
Professor
Department of Physics
National Central University
Chih-Hsun Lin
Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Physics
Academia Sinica
Rong-Shyang Lu
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University
Stathes Paganis
Professor
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University
Minzu Wang
Professor
Department of Physics
National Taiwan University
Yi Yang
Professor
Department of Physics
National Cheng Kung University
Missions and Objectives
The main goal of the TIDC consortium is to produce novel devices, electronics, and related software for basic Physics, interdisciplinary, as well as industrial applications. The core and main research area will be High Energy Physics experiments, where the main expertise of the majority of the Center members hold. The consortium will be cross-institutional and interdisciplinary. Through collaboration, the various institutes will share responsibilities in several major R&D and construction projects.
Benefits of the Consortium
International Leadership
All PI’s have been and will be working directly with world-leading experts in the field of detector technology or computing. At this level the visibility and exposure of PI’s are unprecedented. TIDC will place our PI’s, staff, and students in a very prominent position in the field.
Engaging with Taiwan Industry
The ex-HEP has worked closely with the industry as the technology and technique to complete a HEP project are demanding. This is also a milestone for the Taiwan HEP community as we prepare the silicon detector center aiming at not only the CMS project but any other future possibilities.
Innovation and interdisciplinary Research
It is a common goal of all experimental PI’s to explore the possibility of using variations of the devices or the components of the devices we are producing, for applications.
Training and Education
TIDC will provide training in modern detector building, readout electronics, data analysis, and stimulate the trainees to develop new applications in fields outside HEP like medical physics and industry. The benefits to the young scientists working in Universities (students, post-docs, junior technicians, and junior faculty) will also be significant.