Conveners
Cherenkov Detectors
- Peter Krizan (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
Cherenkov Detectors
- Peter Krizan (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))
Dr
Klaus Föhl
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
2/13/13, 9:00 AM
Talk
The PANDA experiment at the FAIR laboratory, currently under construction at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, requires excellent Particle Identification for its study of proton-antiproton reactions in the few GeV energy range. In the confined space of the PANDA Target Spectrometer, two RICH-type Cherenkov detectors mainly aim at pion-kaon separation: a Barrel-DIRC detector patterned after the...
Mariana Narcisa Rihl
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
2/13/13, 9:25 AM
Talk
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are multi-pixel APDs operated in Geiger mode. This photon detection technology is characterized by a high photon detection efficiency, low costs and an insensitivity to magnetic fields. These attributes make them suitable for detectors in many research fields, such as particle physics, nuclear physics or medical imaging.
A prototype of a position sensitive...
Davide Caforio
(Universita e INFN (IT))
2/13/13, 9:50 AM
Talk
LUCID is a gas Cerenkov detector deployed near to the beam‐pipe at 17 m either side of the ATLAS Intersection point. The LUCID detector ‐ when calibrated via a Van der Meer scan – is now measuring absolute luminosity on a bunch‐by‐bunch basis. It is now measuring integrated luminosity up to high luminosity with a precision of around 3%. The technical challenges that had to faced to make this...
Patrizia Cenci
(INFN Perugia (IT))
2/13/13, 11:30 AM
Talk
NA62 is the last generation kaon experiment at CERN. Its main goal is to collect about 100 K+→π+νν events with 10% background. This implies to collect 10^13 K+ decays with a backgound rejection factor of at least 10^12. The challenging aspect of the experiment is the suppression of K decays with branching ratio up to 10 orders of magnitude higher than the signal and similar experimental...
Antonello Di Mauro
(CERN)
2/13/13, 11:55 AM
Talk
The Very High Momentum Particle Identification (VHMPID) detector has been proposed as upgrade for the ALICE experiment at LHC to extend charged hadron track-by-track identification in the momentum range 5-25 GeV/c. It is a RICH counter with focusing geometry using pressurized perfluorobutane (C4F8O) as Cherenkov radiator. Three options are currently being investigated for the photon detector:...
Mr
Sergey Kononov
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
2/13/13, 12:20 PM
Talk
FARICH is a modern RICH detector based on variable refractive index 'focusing' aerogel. Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) can be successfully employed in large RICH detectors due to their potentially low costs, compactness and immunity to magnetic field. Recently Philips has developed a digital silicon photomultiplier (dSiPM) by integrating readout electronics on the same chip as the array of...
