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Prof. Steinar Stapnes (CERN (CH))07/07/2012, 09:00Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsThe Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project explores the possibility of constructing a future multi-TeV linear electron-positron collider. The CLIC-concept is based on high gradient normal-conducting accelerating structures. The RF power for the acceleration of the colliding beams is produced by a novel two beam acceleration scheme, where power is extracted from a high current drive beam that...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Philip Burrows (University of Oxford (UK))07/07/2012, 09:15Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsFuture lepton colliders such as the International Linear Collider (ILC), and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) require nanometer-sized beams at the interaction point (IP). We report on the design, protoyping and testing of beam-based feedback systems for steering the beams into collision at the IP so as to maximise the luminosity performance of the colliders. Both all-analogue and digital...Go to contribution page
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Umberto Dosselli (Universita e INFN (IT))07/07/2012, 09:30Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsThe SuperB experiment is a next generation Super Flavour Factory expected to accumulate 75ab^-1 of data at the Y(4S) in five years of nominal running. This facility will be constructed at the Cabibbo Lab in the Rome Tor Vergata Campus and will be operational later this decade. In addition to running at the Y(4S), SuperB will be able to accumulate data at the psi(3770) and above and below...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jenny List (DESY (DE))07/07/2012, 09:45Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsBeam polarisation is an important ingredient of the physics progam of future Electron Positron Linear Colliders. In order to fully exploit the benefits of the polarised beams, the luminosity weighted average polarisation needs to be known to 0.25% or even 0.1% at the ILC, while a few percent seem achievable at CLIC. We will present the polarimetry concept for the Beam Delivery Systems of both...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anthony Hartin (DESY (DE))07/07/2012, 10:00Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsIn order to exploit the full potential of proposed future high-energy electron-positron colliders, precise knowledge of the beam polarization is required as it evolves throughout the entire machine. Here we discuss global spin tracking efforts in the ILC design from source to Interaction Point. Numerical results are presented for the latest International Linear Collider (ILC) and Compact...Go to contribution page
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Dr Grigory Trubnikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))07/07/2012, 10:15Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsNew large accelerator complex: heavy ion collider facility NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is under active development now at JINR (Dubna). The main goal of the project is to start in the coming 5 years experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting baryonic matter and search for possible signs of the mixed phase and critical endpoint in heavy ion collisions (Energy...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Institut de Physique Nuclรฉaire d'Orsay / IN2P3-CNRS (FR))07/07/2012, 10:30Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsWe discuss the possibility of the conception of a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment with the proton or lead ion LHC beams extracted by bent a crystal. This mature extraction technique offers an ideal way to obtain a clean and very collimated high-energy beam, without altering at all the performance of the LHC [1,2,3]. It has been successfully tested at SPS (450 GeV) and at the Tevatron...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ralph Steinhagen (CERN (CH))07/07/2012, 11:00Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsThe Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) operated at CERN has been re-commissioned after a short scheduled technical maintenance stop and reached its previous peak performance safely and after only about a month in the beginning of 2012. The operational experience gained during the previous year and additional analysis of the robustness of the magnet interconnections as well as the measured...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Max Klein (CERN)07/07/2012, 11:30Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsA Conceptual Design Report has been completed for a new electron-proton and electron-ion collider, which achieves a cms energy of 1.3 TeV in ep using the high energy beams of the LHC. Designed for synchronous ep and pp operation, the LHeC will be a high luminosity collider with a wide ranging physics program on high precision deep inelastic scattering and new physics. The electron beam is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Young-Kee Kim (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))07/07/2012, 11:45Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsFermilabโs high intensity future is โProject-Xโ which is a US led initiative with strong international participation that aims to realize a next generation proton source that will dramatically extend the reach of Intensity Frontier research. The state of the art in Super-Conducting RF has advanced to a point where it can be considered and implemented as the core enabling technology for a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kenneth Long (Imperial College London (UK))07/07/2012, 12:00Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsIonization Cooling is the only practical solution to preparing high brilliance muon beams for a neutrino factory or muon collider. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE) is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) by an international collaboration. The muon beam line has been commissioned and, for the first time, measurements of beam emittance with particle...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (UK))07/07/2012, 12:15Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsThe Neutrino Factory produces high-energy neutrino beams with a well-defined flavour content and energy spectrum from the decay of intense, high-energy, stored muon beams to establish CP violation in the neutrino sector. The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) will provide a Reference Design Report (RDR) for the facility. The present baseline design has been...Go to contribution page
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Ms Yuko Hino (Osaka University (JP))07/07/2012, 12:30Track 14. Future AcceleratorsParallel SessionsMuSIC is a project to provide the world's highest-intensity muon beam with continuous time structure at Research Center of Nuclear Physics (RCNP) of Osaka University, Japan. A pion capture system using a superconducting solenoid magnet and a part of superconducting muon transport solenoid channel have been build in 2010. The highest muon production efficiency was demonstrated by the beam...Go to contribution page
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Dr David South (DESY (DE))07/07/2012, 13:45Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsWhile the current focus is on the LHC at CERN, in the current period several important and unique experimental programs at other facilities are coming to an end, including those at HERA, b-factories and the Tevatron. However, until recently no coherent strategy existed for data preservation and re-use, and many important and complex past data sets have simply been lost. To address this...Go to contribution page
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Dr Domenico Del Prete (INFN Napoli (IT))07/07/2012, 14:00Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsDeveloping a computing model for the next generation of Super Flavor Factories, like SuperB and SuperKEKB, present significant challenges. With a nominal luminosity above 10^36 cm^-2 s^-1, we estimate that, after few years of operation, the size of the data sample will be of the order of 500 PB and the amount of CPU required to process it will be close to 5000 KHep-Spec06. The new many and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jean-Roch Vlimant (CERN (CH))07/07/2012, 14:15Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe CMS detector, currently taking data at the LHC in Geneva, is a very complex apparatus composed of more than 70 million acquisition channels. Fast and efficient methods for the calibration and the alignment of the detector are a key asset to exploit its full physics potential. Moreover, a reliable infrastructure for the monitoring of the data quality and for their validation are...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ikuo Ueda (University of Tokyo (JP))07/07/2012, 14:30Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe ATLAS experiment has collected more than 5 fb-1 of data in 2011 at the energy of 7 TeV. Several billions of events had been promptly reconstructed and stored in the ATLAS remote data centers spanning tens of petabytes of disk and tape storage. In addition, a similar amount of data has been simulated on the Grid to study the detector performance and efficiencies. The data processing and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))07/07/2012, 14:45Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsIn this presentation we will discuss the process and some examples of the development of common solutions that face the LHC experiments. The LHC experiments have relied on common grid components since the design of the computing models. Recently there have been efforts to develop and support higher-level services that provide solutions to problems common to several experiments. We will discuss...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sudhir Malik (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))07/07/2012, 15:00Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsIn this presentation we will discuss progress on providing access to CMS experiment data through the use of wide area transfer protocols directly from remote storage to a running application. This program of work has involved the deployment of infrastructure on facilities in both the US and in Europe, the optimization of the application to make more efficient use of a higher latency...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Polini (DESY (DE) & CERN (CH))07/07/2012, 15:15Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe Conceptual Design Report for the Large Hadron Electron Collider has recently been released. This contribution summarises the part of the report covering design concepts for a new detector, which combines the demands of very high precision with those of large acceptance into a novel device for electron-proton physics at TeV energies. The physics and technical requirements, choices of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paul Soler Jermyn (University of Glasgow (UK))07/07/2012, 15:30Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will carry out a systematic investigation of ionization cooling of a muon beam, for the future Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As the emittance measurement will be done on a particle-by-particle basis, a sophisticated beam instrumentation is needed to measure both particle coordinates and timing vs RF in a harsh environment...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Martin Sevior (University of Melbourne (AU))07/07/2012, 16:00Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe next generation of B factories (so called super B factories) are designed to accummulate a 50 times larger data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 50 ab^-1. To achieve the necessary increase of event rates by a factor of 40, a substantial upgrade is required both of the accelerator complex as well as of the detector. To maintain the excellent performance of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Stefan; on behalf of the DEPFET collaboration Rummel (LMU Munich (DE))07/07/2012, 16:15Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe luminosity upgrade of the KEKB accelerator towards SuperKEKB opens up new possibilities for physics at the intensity frontier. SuperKEKB will provide an instantaneous luminosity of 8x10^35 1/cm2/s which allows to increase the integrated luminosity of 1ab-1 achieved at the BELLE detector towards 50 ab-1 at BELLE II. The increased luminosity poses challenges to all subsystems like DAQ,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington (US))07/07/2012, 16:30Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe SiD Detector is one of the two validated concepts for experiments at the future International Linear Collider. The SiD detector concept has been used to perform physics and benchmark studies at a 500 Gev ILC and a 3TeV CLIC electron positron collider. SiD is a highly performant, compact, cost-constrained, detector design. It is designed to make precision measurements and be sensitive to a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tomohiko Tanabe (ICEPP University of Tokyo (JP))07/07/2012, 16:50Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe ILD detector concept is a proposal for a detector at an electron โ positron linear collider, in particular the international linear collider, ILC. It has been conceived as an experiment optimized for precision physics in the comparatively clean environment of electron positron collisions. The particle flow concept has played a central role in the overall optimization of the concept, which...Go to contribution page
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Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fรผr Physik (DE))07/07/2012, 17:10Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe Compact Linear Collider CLIC with e+e- collisions up to 3 TeV in energy is designed to precisely explore New Physics at the TeV scale as well as Standard Model Physics such as the Higgs Mechanism. It will be capable of precisely measuring the masses and couplings of new particles, the mass, decay branching ratios and the self-coupling of the Higgs Boson as well as the parameters of the top...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tamaki Yoshioka (Kyushu University (JP))07/07/2012, 17:30Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsThe CALICE collaboration has developed highly granular calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for experiments at a future lepton collider, and measured their performance in test beams. One important use of these data is the validation of the physics models in GEANT4, especially those related to hadronic showers. This validation is crucial if Monte Carlo simulations are to be used to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Adam Para (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))07/07/2012, 17:45Track 13. Detectors and Computing for HEPParallel SessionsWe review the physics foundations of hadron calorimetry with the help of detailed simulation based on GEANT5. Detailed studies of spatial and temporal development of hadronic showers are presented and the contributions of various particles species to the observed signals are evaluated. We identify the principal contributions to the energy resolutions and demonstrate the importance of the...Go to contribution page
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