On March 22nd, 1985 the first beam was accelerated which marked the beginning of 40 years of highly reliable operations. Since then, it plays an important role in the particle physics landscape. While no experiment was performed at DESY II, it served as a pre-accelerator for the DORIS storage ring, the PETRA storage ring and thus the one-of-its kind proton-electron collider HERA.
While...
The DESY II Test Beam Facility is looking back at another successful year.
In this contribution, a review is given over the test beam period 2024 and the running period 2025. This includes the current status of the facility as well as recent developments of the infrastructure, improvements for the user community, and noteworthy events.
In addition, the current developments for the future of...
Fermilab plays host to the Fermilab Test Beam Facility(FTBF) and the Irradiation Test Area (ITA). The FTBF is one of the highest energy proton facilities in the world which is dedicated to helping experimenters develop, test, and calibrate particle detectors. The Fermilab accelerator complex delivers a 120 GeV primary proton beam and secondary/tertiary beams of varying momenta and particle...
The CERN secondary beamlines of the North and the East Area deliver beams of secondary and tertiary particles, as well as attenuated primary protons and ions. These beams are driven by the SPS and PS accelerators, and used for fixed target experiments and beam tests. Protons with 24 GeV/c at the PS and with 400 GeV/c at the SPS produce typically hadrons, electrons, and muons within a wide...
CERN provides a wide range of testbeam opportunities to an ever increasing user base, with its 4 multi-user beamlines on the SPS North Area (H2,H4,H6,H8), 3 multi-user beam lines on the PS East Area (T9,T10,T11), 3 complimentary irradiation facilities (GIF++, IRRAD, CHARM) and several fixed target beamlines dedicated to specific long term experiments. While the technical description of the...
At KEK an electron test beam facility with beam momentum up to 5.5 GeV has been established since 2022. Usually the beam is available for sensor testing for three periods (May-June, Oct-Dec and Feb-Mar) in each year in total about 5.5 months. The beam rate at 3 GeV is more than 2 kHz with beam spot size of 2 cm (1 cm) in horizontal (vertical) direction in RMS.
We have a plan to improve the...
The DAFNE Beam Test Facility (BTF) at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN-LNF) provides primary and secondary electron (positron) beams for detector development, calibration, and various fixed target experiments. The DAFNE-LINAC feeds BTF with primary electron (positron) beams whose operational energy, charge and pulse duration can be also adjusted.
Through optimized use of primary...
The qualification of new detectors in test beam environments presents a challenging
setting that requires stable operation of diverse devices, often employing multiple
data acquisition (DAQ) systems running on several machines. Changes to these
setups are frequent, such as using different reference detectors depending on the
facility. Managing this complexity necessitates a system capable...
The AIDA-2020 Trigger Logic Unit (TLU) synchronizes different detector systems in test beams such as beam telescopes, time reference planes, and devices under test to identify tracks and accurately reconstruct particle trajectories.
The hardware offers a large set of features and provides flexible support for different test beam setups, including different trigger modes (legacy EUDET and AIDA...
A large part of the global test beam community relies on EUDET-type beam telescopes, which are provided as common infrastructure at the DESY II Test Beam and other major facilities. Considering their age, outdated components, and the increasing performance requirements for detector development, it is clear that an upgrade will become necessary soon. Among the distinguishing features of the...
Track reconstruction is a key ingredient to extract the properties of the Devices Under Test.
The precision of the reconstructed tracks and their extrapolation to the Devices Under Test depends on the intrinsic resolution of the reference devices and how precise it is known their positioning and orientation in the system. A track based alignment can help to accurately determine the geometry...
We present a novel framework for the processing of test beam data, and in particular timing DUTs. Based on a modular C++ architecture, it aims to normalise workflows for the analysis of timing detectors performances through the definition of standard and user-defined analyses, e.g. from time discrimination algorithms to a full estimation of time resolution, through the extraction of...
The High-energy Proton Experiment Station (HPES) is currently being constructed as part of the CSNS-II project. The 1.6 GeV protons are extracted from the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron of CSNS and directed to the HPES in the form of "single particle beam". Two test terminals have been designed in the HPES to facilitate the completion of beam tests. The HPES is designed to serve as an advanced...
The current ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS2) is based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) called ALPIDE. During LHC Long Shutdown 3, its three innermost layers will be replaced by the ITS3 detector. It will based on wafer-scale silicon sensors of up to 26 cm $\times$ 10 cm, thinned to about 50 $\mu$m and curved into truly cylindrical detector layers. The first prototype of the sensor -...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer(AMS-02) is a particle detector that operates on the International Space Station(ISS), which aims to search for antimatter, and dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux. To improve cosmic ray acceptance and heavy ions resolution, a new layer(L0) of silicon strip tracker will be installed on top of AMS-02. Multiple...
The upcoming HL-LHC will pose significant challenges to particle detectors which will have to cope with many quasi simultaneous collisions. To disentangle different collisions and to restore the efficiency of reconstruction algorithms, the next-generation of silicon pixel detectors must provide a per hit time measurement with a resolution on the order of 50 ps enabling 4D tracking. 3D silicon...
The dual-radiator Ring Imaging Cherenkov (dRICH) detector is a crucial component of the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), designed for charged hadron identification in the forward region across a momentum range of ~3 to ~50 GeV/c. It will utilize aerogel and gas (C₂F₆) radiators to produce Cherenkov light, detected by a total of ~3 m2 of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) with...
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will deliver proton-proton collisions at 5 to 7.5 times the nominal LHC luminosity, with an expected number of 140 to 200 pp-interactions per bunch crossing. To maintain the performance of muon triggering and reconstruction under high background, the forward part of the muon spectrometer of the CMS experiment will be upgraded with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM)...
Constellation is a control and data acquisition framework for small-scale experiments like test beams or lab characterizations. It provides the necessary functionality for such environments like synchronous operation of several machines, unified configuration interface, logging, telemetry, data transmission and error handling. So-called satellites form the basis of Constellation, which are...
Presentations in working meetings and conferences are the culmination of weeks or months of work and are one of our most important communication methods to our peers. Yet the 10-15 minutes they take are often seen as tedious and boring, both by the audience and even the presenter! We will identify, as a group, some simple but effective methods of improving presentations and posters with...
Corryvreckan is a software framework dedicated to the analysis of test-beam data. It employs a modular concept, providing algorithms for typical analysis steps like pixel masking, clustering, tracking, alignment and for the reconstruction of commonly investigated observables like hit detection efficiency, spatial and temporal resolution, or material budget. This approach allows for a flexible...
In high energy physics experiments, hybrid pixel detectors are an integral part of the tracking systems closest to the interaction points, where their good spatial resolution and high radiation resilience allow for particle tracking by connection of “dots” registered in different layers of an onion-like detector. Another approach to particle detection and tracking relies on a complex analysis...
The Phase II upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aims to significantly increase the accelerator's instantaneous luminosity. To meet the trigger requirements and withstand the higher radiation levels and ageing of electronics, a new readout system for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is being developed. The performance of the new TileCal electronics has been evaluated in multiple...
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are particle detectors extensively used in several domains of Physics. In High Energy Physics, they are typically operated in avalanche mode with a high-performance gas mixture based on tetrafluoroethane (C2H2F4), a fluorinated high Global Warming Potential greenhouse gas.
The RPC EcoGas@GIF++ Collaboration has pursued an intensive R&D activity to search for...
The CMS experiment will be upgrading its detectors in lieu of higher luminosities and collision rates during the High-Luminosity era of the LHC (HL-LHC). One key upgrade of the CMS detector will be its end-cap calorimeters, which will be fitted with the new High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL). The Hadronic calorimeter is split into two sections using different technologies owing to the amount...
The expected luminosity increase at the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC), with instantaneous luminosities up $7.5 \times 10^{34}~\mathrm{cm}^{−2}\mathrm{s}^{−1}$, will be a challenge to the
performance of the ATLAS detector. The pile-up is expected to increase to up to 200 interactions per bunch crossing, resulting in degraded performance of the currently used reconstruction and...
Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition for high school students from all around the world organised at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, Switzerland, and DESY, the German Electron Synchrotron, in Hamburg, Germany. Teams of high school students can propose an experiment that they want to perform at a beamline, that is, a part of a particle accelerator....
Constellation is a control and data acquisition framework for small-scale experiments like test beams or lab characterizations. It provides the necessary functionality for such environments like synchronous operation of several machines, unified configuration interface, logging, telemetry, data transmission and error handling. So-called satellites form the basis of Constellation, which are...
Presentations in working meetings and conferences are the culmination of weeks or months of work and are one of our most important communication methods to our peers. Yet the 10-15 minutes they take are often seen as tedious and boring, both by the audience and even the presenter! We will identify, as a group, some simple but effective methods of improving presentations and posters with...
This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental functionalities of the Allpix Squared simulation framework, guiding them through key steps in sensor simulation and data analysis. Attendees will learn how to configure simulations, define detector geometries, and extract relevant quantities through histograms. Additionally, the participants will be able to learn how to...
Nuclear medicine is a branch of medicine that uses radiation to diagnose and treat diseases, one of the most representative being cancer. Although scanners for medical imaging are used daily, there is still room for improvement in terms of energy, spatial and timing resolutions. At the same time, regarding cancer treatment, in the last years hadrontherapy is becoming a key technique in...
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) fabricated using advanced CMOS imaging processes represent the ideal candidate for vertex detectors and trackers in future lepton colliders, offering high circuit densities, low material and power budgets.
The OCTOPUS project, developed within the DRD3 collaboration, aims to simulate, develop, and evaluate fine-pixel monolithic sensors based on the 65...
For the upcoming high-luminosity LHC, the endcap calorimeters of the CMS experiment will be replaced by the high-granularity calorimeter (HGCAL). HGCAL is a sampling calorimeter using both silicon and scintillator as active materials in different regions depending on the radiation dose. The scintillator-based front-end of HGCAL has been tested in Summer 2024 in a test beam campaign at CERN's...
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was installed on the
International Space Station in 2011. This particle physics experiment
is designed to measure the composition of cosmic rays in low Earth
orbit, with the primary goal of distinguishing between antimatter and
matter. AMS is equipped with a permanent magnet and multiple detectors,
allowing it to analyze incoming cosmic rays with...
Muon Spin Rotation (μSR) is a well-established technique in material science for probing magnetic properties at the atomic scale. Traditional scintillator-based μSR detectors are fundamentally limited in spatial resolution and event rate, restricting measurement precision. The utilization of ultra-thin silicon pixel sensors enables precise particle tracking, potentially revolutionizing μSR...
The DRD-on-calorimeter collaboration has attracted the ongoing developments of future experiment calorimeters. Several activities are ongoing in building and testing new prototypes capable of demonstrating the feasibility of different techniques. In this respect, already many results have been produced by the different projects in the community. Moreover, the collaboration is working on...
Beam Tests for the Belle II VTX upgrade at High Temperatures with a Peltier-based heating and cooling device
The Belle II experiment currently records data at the SuperKEKB e+e– collider, which holds the world luminosity record of $5.1\times10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ and plans to push up to $6\times10^{35}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. In such a luminosity range for e$^+$e$^-$– collisions, the inner detection...
Charged hadron particle identification (PID) is essential for a successful flavour physics experiment. The Ring-Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) system in LHCb has provided excellent performance to date, and maintaining this level of PID performance is central to the Upgrade II physics programme. The key challenge posed by the high-luminosity LHC is an increase in pile-up at LHCb to ~40 due to an...
In high-energy physics, there is a need to investigate silicon sensor concepts that offer large-area coverage and cost-efficiency for particle tracking detectors. Sensors based on CMOS imaging technology present a promising alternative silicon sensor concept.
As this technology follows a standardised industry process, it can provide lower sensor production costs and enable fast and...
A novel hybrid photodetector has been developed and produced as part of the 4DPHOTON ERC-funded project. This device is based on a vacuum tube containing a transmission photocathode, a microchannel plate, and a Timepix4 ASIC used as pixelated anode. It is designed to image single-photon at rates of up to 1 billion photons per second over an area of approximately $7 cm^{2}$, achieving excellent...
The Tile Calorimeter, the central hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, is in the process of being upgraded for the upcoming High Luminosity – Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The Tile Calorimeter test beam set-up in the North Experiment Area at CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is used to test electronics and software for the HL-LHC upgrade of the calorimeter. This study aims to show,...
During the LHC Long Shutdown 3, the ALICE experiment will replace the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System with three truly-cylindrical, ultra-light layers constituted by bent wafer-scale Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) realized in 65 nm CMOS technology through stitching technique.
The first ITS3 sensor prototypes were produced in the Engineering Run 1 in 2023....
Detectors operated within high radiation environments such as at the HL-LHC will face unprecedented challenges in particle rates and radiation induced damage. Thus, a deep understanding of radiation induced damage in the detector is crucial to ensure the performance requirements are met over the lifetime of the detector. In semiconductor based detectors the radiation induced damage can be...
The High Luminosity-Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will reach an approximate pile-up of 200 collisions per bunch crossing, three times more than the current Large Hadron Collider. Beginning operation at the end of the decade, it will accumulate up to 4000 fb^-1, increasing the chances of observing new processes and allowing measurement of rare processes with higher precision. Moreover, the...
The installations of detector upgrades for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) will begin in late 2026. The luminosity is expected to increase by a factor of 7.5, reaching a total integrated luminosity of 4000 fb$^{-1}$. The number of collisions per Bunch Crossing (BX) will be between 140 and 200 with 1.5 vertex/mm. This poses important challenges for the tracking performance in...
In the LHC Run 5, the instantaneous luminosity of LHCb will increase by more than a factor of 5. This necessitates an upgrade of the main tracking systems to cope with the increased occupancy and radiation damage. As a part of the proposed Upgrade II, the current scintillating fibre (SciFi) tracker will be replaced by the so-called Mighty Tracker, featuring a scintillating fibre part in the...
High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (HV-MAPS) offer $\mathcal{O}$(ns) timing in combination with a low material budget making them ideal for tracking detectors in high energy physics. With future experiments aiming for higher luminosities, the HV-MAPS technology has to satisfy strict requirements on time resolution and radiation tolerance. One of such experiments is the proposed LHCb...
The high energy physics community recently gained access to a 65 nm CMOS
imaging process, which enables a higher density of in-pixel logic in monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS). To explore this novel technology, the H2M (Hybrid-to-Monolithic) test chip has been designed and manufactured. The design followed a digital-on-top design workflow and ports a hybrid pixel-detector architecture,...
The IDEA apparatus, a proposed experiment for the future FCC-ee accelerator, recently incorporated a novel electromagnetic calorimeter into its baseline design. This calorimeter aims to improve the energy reconstruction for neutral particles to 3 $\%$ at 1 GeV, while simultaneously enabling particle-flow algorithms through fine segmentation.
Designed to fit inside the magnet coil, the...
During the $3^{rd}$ LHC Long Shutdown (LS3) that will take place in the years 2026-2030 the three innermost layers of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) will be replaced by a truly cylindrical tracker (ITS3) consisting of Monolithic Active Pixel Silicon (MAPS) sensors in a 65 nm technology.
A thickness reduction to 50 µm will allow the bending of silicon sensors to realize a...
The High-Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN will require silicon pixel detectors that can withstand extreme radiation levels. To face these challenges, the ATLAS experiment will carry out its Phase II Upgrade. This includes replacing the current tracking system with the all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk), whose innermost layer will feature radiation-hard 3D sensors....
