Exploiting the experience gained during the FP6 period by the participants of the NoRHDia Collaboration, the goal of this project is to prove the potential of quasi-single-crystal CVD Diamond grown on Iridium (Dia-on-Ir) wafers, for large-area, radiation-hard, ultra-fast, and low-material budget detectors, capable of tracking and timing of minimum-ionizing particles. The CARAT project is focused on the development of a large-area position-sensitiveprototype strip detector to be readout with novel broadband as well as fast charge-sensitive ASICs, which have been recently designed at GSI.

Contact: e.berdermann@gsi.de