The Tevatron, Fermilab’s pp 1.96 GeV/c C.M. Collider, has recently reached a delivered total of 1 fb of integrated luminosity to its two multi-purpose detectors, DØ and CDF, during the current data taking period known as RunII. Initial difficulties with beam stability were efficiently corrected during a shutdown in late 2003, and since then the Tevatron complex has operated remarkably well, wit...

In the scope of the COMPASS experiment a multi-purpose, high rate capable TDC with digitisation width of 60 ps has been developed. The integration into the readout system and the flexible input of the CATCH readout driver is presented.

MACRO was a multi-purpose experiment that took data from 1989 to 2000, at the underground Laboratory of Gran Sasso (Italy). MACRO gave important results/limits concerning: (i) the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos, also in the non-conventional scenario of violations of Lorentz invariance, (ii) the searches for exotic particles (supermassive GUT magnetic monopoles, nuclearites, WIMPs), (iii) ...

The CONSERN project (COoperative aNd Self growing Energy awaRe Networks) develops the novel SelfGrowing concept. It is part of the European Commission’s FP7 research initiative focusing on the following two major research directions: i) Solutions for optimised energy and power consumption in a small scale, purpose-driven network through balancing autonomic and cooperative approaches and ii) mec...

This paper addresses the underlying principles of Evolvable Assembly Systems. This paradigm was recently proposed as an answer to the requirements faced by assembly companies in the current world of business and technological change.i. The basis for this new approach lies in a muhi-disciplinary study of the needs and requirements, and shifts the technological focus from complex, flexible, multi...