Conveners
Particle ID Detectors
- Toru Iijima (Nagoya)
Particle ID Detectors
- Toru Iijima (Nagoya)
Monica Pepe
(INFN Perugia)
09/06/2011, 16:00
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
The CERN NA62 experiment aims to measure the ultra-rare charged kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar(branching fraction O(10-10)) with a 10% accuracy. The detector must be able to reject background events from decay channels which branching fractions are up to 10 order of magnitude higher than the signal and with similar experimental signature. To suppress the main background from K+ -> mu+ nu decay...
Davide Perego
(Univ. Milano-Bicocca+ INFN)
09/06/2011, 16:20
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
Particle identification is the
fundamental requirement of the LHCb experiment to fulfill its physics programme. Positive hadron identification
is performed by two Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) detectors. This system covers
the full angular acceptance of the experiment and is equipped with three
Cherenkov radiators to identify particles in the wide momentum range from
1 GeV/c up to 100...
Dr
Antonis Papanestis
(RAL)
09/06/2011, 16:40
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
Hadron identification, in particular the ability to distinguish
charged kaons and pions, is crucial to many of LHCb core physics
analyses. LHCb Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector fulfills this
role by providing charged particle identification in the momentum
range between 1 and 100 GeV/c. The calibration and monitoring of the
RICH detectors is achieved using samples of $D^{*}$,...
Dr
Makoto Tabata
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
09/06/2011, 17:00
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
We reported on a successful production of hydrophobic silica aerogels with a wide range of refractive index, 1.0026 < n < 1.26 in the previous TIPP09 conference. Since then highly transparent aerogels with high refractive index have been especially developed by a new production method: pin-drying method. This significant progress opens up wide opportunities to employ aerogels in Cherenkov...
Masahiro Notani
(Muons, Inc.)
09/06/2011, 17:20
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
The next-generation of fast time-of-flight detectors, with expected time resolutions ≤ 10 ps and space resolutions ≤ 1 mm, are attractive in many fields, including particle and nuclear physics, medical and industrial applications. We will show how precise timing and space resolution can be used to improve muon cooling measurements for muon collider studies, TOF spectrometry, and particle...
Dr
Wander Baldini
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
09/06/2011, 17:40
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
SuperB is a next generation super-flavor factory which will be built in Italy with a strong international involvement . The project, recently approved by the Italian Government, and classified as one of the flagship projects of the Italian INFN, foresees the construction of a high intensity asymmetric electron-positron collider and of the related detector. The expected luminosity of 2 x...
Dr
Jochen Schwiening
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
11/06/2011, 11:00
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
The PANDA experiment at FAIR will address fundamental questions of the strong force, explore the structure of the nucleon, investigate Charmonium states, and search for new forms of matter using cooled antiproton beams of unprecedented intensities in the momentum range of 1-15 GeV/c.
Particle identification (PID) will play a crucial role in reaching the physics goals.
The charged PID in the...
Dr
Kurtis Nishimura
(University of Hawaii)
11/06/2011, 11:25
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
The Belle II detector operating at the SuperKEKB accelerator will utilize the time-of-propagation (TOP) counter as its primary particle identification device in the barrel region. The TOP counter is a compact variant of the detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC) technique, which trades the imaging-based performance of a traditional DIRC with fast timing provided by...
Neville Harnew
(Univ. of Oxford (UK))
11/06/2011, 11:50
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
The TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov light) detector is an
innovative high-precision time-of-flight system which is suitable for large
areas, up to tens of square metres, and is being developed for the upgraded
LHCb experiment. The TORCH provides a time-of-flight measurement from the
imaging of photons emitted in a 1 cm thick quartz radiator, based on the
Cherenkov principle....
Dr
Michael Albrow
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
11/06/2011, 12:10
Particle Identification
Oral Presentation
We have developed particle detectors (QUARTICs) with 10 ps resolution, based on Cherenkov light in fused silica read out by micro-channel plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Their geometry is edgeless, allowing an active area very close to the intense Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beam, with the photodetectors away from the beam to minimize radiation damage....
