Gianluigi De Geronimo
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
6/2/14, 2:10 PM
The complexity and resolving capability of detectors for high energy physics experiments have been steadily increasing. The front-end electronics, which provides the readout of signals from the sensing elements of these detectors, has observed a corresponding increase in complexity, functionality, and transistor count. A major breakthrough came with the advent of front-end Application-Specific...
Gerhard Raven
(NIKHEF (NL))
6/2/14, 2:40 PM
Since its inception in 1965, Moore’s law has had a large impact on
many technologies. This presentation will review how these changes
have influenced the design of trigger and DAQ systems, and attempt
to extrapolate the trends identified towards the future.
Dr
Marion Matters-Kammerer
(TU Eindhoven)
6/2/14, 3:10 PM
Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy based on optical and electronic generation and detection of radiation has resulted in a wealth of new application opportunities in the area of medical surgery (e.g. tumor margin detection), biomedical analysis (e.g. protein interaction), non-destructive testing (e.g. production control), security (e.g. airport scanners, detection of concealed weapons) as well...
Silvia Fracchia
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))
6/2/14, 4:10 PM
The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the central hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Together with other calorimeters, it provides precise measurements of hadrons, jets, taus and missing transverse energy. The monitoring and equalisation of the calorimeter response at each stage of the signal development is allowed by a movable 137Cs radioactive source, a laser calibration...
Henrique Araujo
(Imperial College London)
6/2/14, 4:10 PM
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a next-generation search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, scaling the very successful double-phase xenon technology to multi-tonne target mass. LZ will be deployed at the 4850-ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (South Dakota, USA) after completion of LUX, which is presently operating there. At its core, LZ will feature a 7-tonne...
Mr
Jan Veverka
(Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
6/2/14, 4:10 PM
The data acquisition system (DAQ) of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider assembles events at a rate of 100 kHz, transporting event data at an aggregate throughput of 100 GByte/s to the high level trigger (HLT) farm. The HLT farm selects interesting events for storage and offline analysis at a rate of around 1 kHz. The DAQ system has been redesigned during the accelerator...
Dr
Theodoros Geralis
(NCSR Demokritos)
6/2/14, 4:30 PM
We present for a first time, the development of Micromegas detectors based on Microbulk technology with segmented mesh. The space charge produced within the amplification volume induces both signals and the mesh strips provide the y coordinate while the anode strips the x coordinate. The manufacturing of a segmented mesh simplifies the x-y readout that up to now was produced in a complicated...
Dr
Alex Kish
(Physik-Institut UZH)
6/2/14, 4:30 PM
The XENON1T detector, currently under construction at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy, is a dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time-projection chamber (TPC) for particle detection. It is the successor of XENON100, which reached its sensitivity goal with the last limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleus interaction (2e-45 cm^2 at 55GeV/c^2), the world-leading result at the time...
Pablo Rodriguez Perez
(University of Manchester)
6/2/14, 4:30 PM
The LHCb Vertex Detector (VELO) will be upgraded in 2018 to a lightweight, pixel detector capable of 40 MHz readout and operation in very close proximity to the LHC beams. The thermal management of the system will be provided by evaporative CO2 circulating in microchannels embedded within thin silicon plates. This solution has been selected due to the excellent thermal efficiency, the...
Arabella Martelli
(INFN e Università Milano-Bicocca (IT))
6/2/14, 4:30 PM
The Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC is a hermetic, fine grained, homogeneous calorimeter, comprising 75848 lead tungstate scintillating crystals. We highlight the key role of the ECAL in the discovery and elucidation of the Standard Model Higgs boson during LHC Run I. We discuss, with reference to specific examples from LHC Run I, the...
Bastian Beskers
(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
6/2/14, 4:50 PM
Liquid xenon is used in many fields as detector medium. Dark Matter experiments based on liquid xenon have set the most stringent limits in the past decade and are still leading the field. Also in other areas of particle physics xenon is used as detector medium, for example in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (EXO), in the search for lepton flavor violation (MEG) or in envisioned...
Mr
Fernando Amaro
(Coimbra University)
6/2/14, 4:50 PM
We present a new concept for the suppression of the secondary ions in gaseous detectors. The Zero Ion Backflow electron multiplier operates in a noble gas atmosphere and supress the ion backflow to the level of the primary ionization, totally blocking the secondary ions that are produced in the multiplier. This detector is composed by a proportional scintillation region, composed by two highly...
Andrew Kevin Forrest
(CERN)
6/2/14, 4:50 PM
As part of the CMS upgrade during CERN’s shutdown period (LS1), the CMS data acquisition system is incorporating Infiniband FDR technology to boost event building performance for operation from 2015 onwards. Infiniband promises to provide substantial increase in data transmission speeds compared to the older 1GE network used during the 2009-2013 LHC run. Several options exist to end user...
Adolf Bornheim
(Charles C. Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics)
6/2/14, 4:50 PM
The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is made of 75,848 scintillating lead tungstate crystals arranged in a barrel and two endcaps. The scintillation light is read out by avalanche photodiodes in the barrel and vacuum phototriodes in the endcaps, at which point the scintillation pulse is amplified and sampled at 40 MHz by the on-detector electronics. The fast signal from the crystal...
Franck Gastaldi
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
6/2/14, 5:10 PM
This article presents the scalable Data Acquisition (DAQ) system that has been designed for prototypes of ultra-granular calorimeters for the International Linear Collider (ILC). Our design is generic enough to cope with other applications with some minor adaptations. The DAQ is made up of four different modules, including an optional one. One Detector InterFace (DIF) is placed at each end of...
Christoph Krieger
(Universitaet Bonn (DE))
6/2/14, 5:10 PM
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is searching for axions and other new particles coupling to photons and emerging from the sun. Those particles are converted into soft X-ray photons in a high magnetic field. To enhance sensitivity for physics beyond the Standard Model it is necessary to cope with weak couplings and low energies, thus requiring an efficient background discrimination as...
Tatsuya Chujo
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
6/2/14, 5:10 PM
ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the dedicated experiment focused on heavy ion collisions at LHC, to study a de-confined matter of quarks and gluons, called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). Among the sub-detector systems in AILCE, there are two types of calorimetry in the central barrel. One is EMCal (Lead-Scintillator, a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter with a WLS fiber and APD...
Petr Gorbounov
(CERN and ITEP(Moscow))
6/2/14, 5:10 PM
As part of the LHCb Phase-II upgrade programme, the existing downstream tracking
systems will be replaced by a new scintillating fibre tracker read out by multi-channel
silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). To ensure high tracking performance over the entire
experiment's lifetime, the SiPMs will be operated at sub-zero temperatures, down to -40ºC.
This presentation outlines the proposed...
Biagio Rossi
(Universita e INFN (IT))
6/2/14, 5:10 PM
SiGHT stays for Silicon Geiger Hybrid Tube for light detection. Our goal is to construct a modern, high performance, low radioactivity photo detector working at liquid argon and xenon temperature. The idea is to replace the classical dynodic chain of a PMT with a SiPM acting as an electron multiplying detector embedded in a low-radioactive fused silica envelope. This invention would represent...
Dr
Junji Naganoma
(Rice University)
6/2/14, 5:30 PM
We present results from measurements to detect proportional scintillation light near thin wires in liquid xenon (LXe). А LXe time projection chamber (TPC) has superior features for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) as demonstrated by the Xenon10 and Xenon100 experiments and more recently also by LUX.
Future upgrades of these experiments with a TPC...
Pascal Perret
(Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
6/2/14, 5:30 PM
The LHCb experiment is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of B hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva). It comprises a calorimeter system composed of four subdetectors: an electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) followed by a hadron calorimeter (HCAL). In addition the system includes in front of them the Scintillating Pad Detector (SPD) and...
Gergo Hamar
(Wigner RCP, Budapest)
6/2/14, 5:30 PM
Gaseous detectors can be made sensitive to photons, and become excellent choice for applications such as Cherenkov radiation imaging for particle identification. Micopattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) technologies opened new ways to photon detection, where the possibility for reduced ion feedback, better timing and the suppression of non-photon signals are factors of improved performance. On the...
Dr
Marcello Messina
(Columbia University)
6/2/14, 5:50 PM
The next generation of Dark Matter detectors based on dual-phase (liquid/gas) Xenon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) will require an active volume of liquid with a mass on the tonne-scale in order to reach the desired sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon interactions. One natural and effective way to increase the target mass is to build a TPC with larger cross-sectional area and longer drift distance. ...
Nicholas Chott
(University of South Carolina)
6/2/14, 5:50 PM
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a 1-ton scale bolometric experiment. The CUORE detector is an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact and granular structure of 19 towers. This will be by far the largest bolometric mass ever operated. These detectors will need a base temperature around 10 mK in order to meet the performance specifications....
Mr
Yuya Makino
(STEL, Nagoya University)
6/2/14, 5:50 PM
The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment is designed to measure the hadronic production cross sections of neutral particles emitted in the very forward angles in p-p collision at the LHC.
LHCf has reported energy spectra of forward photons and neutral pions at √s = 900 GeV and 7 TeV proton-proton collisions measured at LHC.
Forward spectra can be helpful in verifying cosmic ray...
Maximilien Chefdeville
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
6/2/14, 5:50 PM
Micromegas is an attractive option for a gaseous sampling calorimeter. It delivers proportional and fast signals, achieves high efficiency to minimum ionising particles with a compact design and shows well-uniform performance over meter-square areas. The current R&D focuses on large-size spark-protected Micromegas with integrated front-end electronics. It targets an application at future...
Stephanie Su
(University of Michigan)
6/2/14, 5:50 PM
The goal of KOTO experiment at J-PARC is to discover and measure the rate of the rare decay KL -> pi0-nu-nubar, for which the Standard Model predicts a branching ratio of (2.4 +/- 0.4)x10E-11 . The experiment is a follow-up to E391 at KEK with a completely new readout electronics, trigger and data acquisition system.
The KOTO DAQ comprises a front-end 14-Bit, 125MHz ADC board and a two-level...
Silvia Dalla Torre
(Universita e INFN (IT))
6/3/14, 9:30 AM
Driven by the availability of modern photolithographic techniques, the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) have been introduced in the last years of the 20th century by pioneer activities: Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) and Micromegas, later followed by thick-GEM, resistive GEM (RETGEM) and novel micro-pattern devices. Nowadays, a flourishing of R&D activities dedicated to MPGDs and of...
Jurriaan Schmitz
(University of Twente)
6/3/14, 10:00 AM
This keynote lecture describes the art to precisely manufacture solid-state devices at the scale of micrometers down to tens of nanometers. The latest developments in microchip fabrication are presented, with their possible consequences in circuit design and computing. Further, the use of microfabrication for particle detectors is reviewed.
Prof.
Shulin Liu
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rd. Yuquan 19B, 100049, Beijing, China)
6/3/14, 11:00 AM
In order to meet the needs of JUNO, we design and manufacture a kind of electrostatic focusing MCP-PMT which has very low radioactive background by introducing pure raw materials and controlling melting and artificial fine blowing process. This MCP-PMT has high photon detection efficiency which results from using transmission photocathode and reflection photocathode simultaneously, and the...
Cecile Lapoire
(Universitaet Bonn (DE)/CERN)
6/3/14, 11:00 AM
The ATLAS experiment will upgrade its Pixel Detector with the
installation of a new pixel layer in 2014. The new sub-detector,
named Insertable B-layer (IBL), will be installed between the existing
Pixel Detector and a new smaller radius beam-pipe at a radius of 3.3 cm.
To cope with the high radiation and pixel occupancy due to the
proximity to the interaction point, a new read-out...
Daniel Pelikan
(Uppsala University (SE))
6/3/14, 11:00 AM
Wireless data transfer has revolutionized the consumer market for the last decade giving products equipped with transmitters and receiver for wireless data transfer. Wireless technology has features attractive for data transfer in future tracking detectors. The removal of wires and connectors for data links is certainly beneficial both for the material budget and the reliability of the system....
Pierluigi Luciano
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
6/3/14, 11:00 AM
The Associative Memory (AM) system of the FTK processor has been designed to perform pattern matching using the hit information of the ATLAS silicon tracker. The AM is the heart of the FTK and it finds track candidates at low resolution that are seeds for a full resolution track fitting. To solve the very challenging data traffic problem inside the FTK, multiple designs and tests have been...
Frank Simon
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
6/3/14, 11:00 AM
The intrinsic time structure of hadronic showers influences the timing capability and the required integration time of highly granular hadronic calorimeters for future collider experiments. To evaluate the influence of different active media and different absorbers, dedicated experiments with tungsten and steel hadron calorimeters of the CALICE collaboration have been carried out. These use...
Dr
Alexey Petrukhin
(IPNL/CNRS)
6/3/14, 11:20 AM
The SDHCAL prototype that was completed in 2012 was exposed to beams of pions, electrons of different energies at the SPS of CERN for a total time period of 5 weeks. The data are being analyzed within the CALICE collaboration. However preliminary results indicate that a highly granular hadronic calorimeter conceived for PFA application is also a powerful tool to separate pions from electrons....
Mr
Hans Kristian Soltveit
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
6/3/14, 11:20 AM
State-of-the-art tracking detector systems as the ATLAS silicon micro-strip tracker will after the upgrade in 2022, require an overall readout bandwidth between 50 and 100 Tb/s.
To allow such a highly granular tracker to contribute to the first level trigger decision or event filtering, a fast readout system with a tremendous bandwidth is therefore essential. With up to 9 GHz of continous...
Mr
Yusuke Suda
(Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)
6/3/14, 11:20 AM
We have been developing new photodetectors for the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) detector, which is proposed as a next generation Megaton class water Cherenkov detector.
There are three candidate photodetectors; One is a 20-inch venetian blind dynode type PMT (R3600) which is used in Super-Kamiokande. Second is a newly developed box and line dynode type PMT which has a better collection...
Dr
Stefan Mattig
(Hamburg University (DE))
6/3/14, 11:20 AM
The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system, providing high precision space point measurements of charged particle trajectories.
Before 2018 the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC is expected to reach 2x1034cm−2s−1, which will significantly increase the number of interactions per bunch crossing.
The current pixel detector of CMS was not designed to work...
Christos Gentsos
(Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
6/3/14, 11:20 AM
The Fast Tracker (FTK) processor [1] for the ATLAS experiment has a computing core made of 128 Processing Units that reconstruct tracks in the silicon detector in a ~100 μsec deep pipeline. The track parameter resolution provided by FTK enables the HLT trigger to identify efficiently and reconstruct significant samples of fermionic Higgs decays.
Data processing speed is achieved with...
Calliope-louisa Sotiropoulou
(Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
6/3/14, 11:40 AM
The high performance multi-core 2D pixel clustering FPGA implementation used for the input system of the ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) processor is presented. The input system for the FTK processor will receive data from the Pixel and micro-strip detectors read out drivers (RODs) at 760Gbps, the full rate of level 1 triggers. Clustering is required as a method to reduce the high rate of the...
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Characterization of Ni/SnPb-TiW/Pt Flip Chip Interconnections in Silicon Pixel Detector Modules
Ms
Aneliya Karadzhinova
(Helsinki Institute of Physics, PO Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland)
6/3/14, 11:40 AM
In contemporary high energy physics experiments, silicon detectors are essential for recording the trajectory of new particles generated by multiple simultaneous collisions. To guarantee high sensitivity near the collision point, modern particle tracking systems may feature 100 million channels, or pixels, which need to be individually connected to read-out chains. Silicon pixel detectors are...
Dr
Atsumu Suzuki
(Kobe University)
6/3/14, 11:40 AM
Neutrino energy measurement is very important not only for a neutrino oscillation experiment but for a nuclear reactor monitor requested by IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) as one of their safeguards against misuse of nuclear technology and nuclear materials. The requirements for the reactor monitor are to be nonflammable and nonvolatile. As such a detector, we are developping a...
Prof.
Kazu Carvalho Akiba
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
6/3/14, 11:40 AM
The upgrade of the LHCb experiment, planned for 2018, will transform the entire readout to a trigger-less system operating at 40 MHz. All data reduction algorithms will be executed in a high-level software farm, with access to all event information. This will enable the detector to run at luminosities of 1-2 x1033 /cm2/s and probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the heavy sector with...
Yuji Takeuchi
(University of Tsukuba)
6/3/14, 12:00 PM
We present the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detectors as far-infrared single photon detector motivated by application to a search for radiative decay of cosmic background neutrino. The photon energy spectrum from the neutrino radiative decays is expected to have a sharp edge at high energy end in a far-infrared region ranging from 14meV to 25meV (from 50um to 90um in...
Vincent Boudry
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
6/3/14, 12:00 PM
The best jet energy resolution required for precise physics
measurements at ILC is achievable using a Particle Flow Algorithm (PFA) and highly granular calorimeters. As it was shown by CALICE international R&D collaboration, the silicon-tungsten imaging electromagnetic calorimeter provides the best granularity and jet resolution. After proving the PFA concept with physical prototypes in...
Mr
Joris van Heijningen
(Nikhef)
6/3/14, 12:00 PM
In order to make a really precise vibration sensor, a monolithic accelerometer, in which a mass is suspended by a pendulum and an inverted pendulum, is read out using a tabletop Michelson interferometer (IFO). To measure the position of the mass, a corner cube attached to the suspended mass is used. The signals in both arms of the IFO are monitored, matched and subtracted, using this...
Christian Lippmann
(GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
6/3/14, 12:00 PM
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dedicated to the study of strongly interacting matter, in particular the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The ALICE collaboration plans a major upgrade of the detector during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC, which is at present foreseen to start in summer 2018. The upgrade strategy is...
Dr
Griesmayer Erich
(CIVIDEC Instrumentation)
6/3/14, 12:20 PM
Diamond is perhaps the most versatile, efficient and radiation tolerant material available for use in beam detectors with a correspondingly wide range of applications in beam instrumentation. Numerous practical applications have demonstrated and exploited the sensitivity of diamond to charged particles, photons and neutrons. In this presentation, emphasis will be given to fast beam loss...
Lloyd Teh
(Shinshu University)
6/3/14, 12:20 PM
The idea of using scintillator strips coupled with Pixelated Photon-Detector(PPD) has provided the ILD an electromagnetic calorimeter(ECAL) option with a lower cost. In the FNAL 2009 beam test, it was found that the prototype calorimeter of 30 layers could meet the stringent requirements of the ILD. Following this, efforts has been made to develop a more feasible ECAL in terms of performance,...
Matthew Wetstein
(University of Chicago)
6/3/14, 12:20 PM
Neutron tagging in Gadolinium-doped water may play a significant role in reducing backgrounds from atmospheric neutrinos in next generation proton-decay searches using megaton-scale Water Cherenkov detectors. Similar techniques might also be useful in the detection of supernova neutrinos. Accurate determination of neutron tagging efficiencies will require a detailed understanding of the number...
Mr
Cahit Ugur
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GbmH)
6/3/14, 12:20 PM
One of the most crucial parts of the particle physics experiments, data digitisation, is being driven by the higher specifications for better particle identification. This increasing push by the experiments motivates the developers for different and better solutions for time, amplitude and charge digitisation methods. In our work we explain our solution for the tasks: TRB3 Platform.
The...
Dr
Carlos Marinas
(University of Bonn)
6/3/14, 12:20 PM
The DEPFET Collaboration develops highly granular, ultra-thin pixel detectors for outstanding vertex reconstruction at future collider experiments. A DEPFET sensor, by the integration of a field effect transistor on a fully depleted silicon bulk, provides simultaneously position sensitive detector capabilities and in-pixel amplification. The characterization of the latest DEPFET prototypes has...
Marcella Diemoz
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
6/3/14, 2:30 PM
Huge calorimetric systems built to ensure the Higgs discovery and new physics searches have borne scrutiny of collisions and harsh environment during the first LHC run. Few key aspects of the performance of these systems and lessons learnt in this context will be discussed. In the future, several crucial physics problems have to be addressed in different scientific fields and this research...
Gerhard Raven
(NIKHEF (NL)),
Johannes Albrecht
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)),
Vladimir Gligorov
(CERN)
6/3/14, 4:10 PM
The LHCb experiment is a spectrometer dedicated to the study of heavy flavor at the LHC. The rate of proton-proton collisions at the LHC is 15 MHz, of which only 5 kHz can be written to storage for offline analysis. For this reason the trigger system plays a key role in selecting signal events and rejecting background. In contrast to previous experiments at hadron colliders, the bulk of the...
Michael Tytgat
(Ghent University (BE))
6/3/14, 4:10 PM
In view of the high-luminosity phase of the LHC, the CMS Collaboration is considering the use of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector technology for the upgrade of its muon system in the forward region. With their ability to handle the extreme particle rates expected in that area, such micro-pattern gas detectors can sustain a high performance and redundant muon trigger system. At the same...
T. Takeshita
(Shinshu Univ.)
6/3/14, 4:10 PM
An idea of Compton-PET is not new, however, current trend to be equipped heavy and smaller scintillators makes this idea feasible and easy. Two layers which composed of 3x3 scintillator matrix read out by 9 MPPC are fabricated and tested. The results of the experiment and comparison to the simulation will be presented. Furthermore, much smaller scintillator makes to improve the SPECT...
Muriel Vander Donckt
(Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
6/3/14, 4:30 PM
The trigger systems of the LHC detectors play a crucial role in determining the physics capabilities of the experiments. A reduction of several orders of magnitude of the event rate is needed to reach values compatible with detector readout, offline storage and analysis capability. The CMS experiment has been designed with a two-level trigger system: the Level-1 Trigger (L1T), implemented on...
Paolo Iengo
(INFN Napoli (IT))
6/3/14, 4:30 PM
In view of the use of micromegas detectors for the upgrade of the ATLAS muon system, we have constructed two detector quadruplets with an area of 0.5 m^2 per plane serving as prototypes for future ATLAS chambers. They are based on the resistive-strip technology and thus spark tolerant. The detectors were built in a modular way. The quadruplets consist of two double-sided readout panels with...
Aine Kobayashi
(University of Tokyo (JP))
6/3/14, 4:30 PM
TREK is a precision-frontier experiment, planned at J-PARC (Tokai, Japan), for a T-violation search in Kaon decays into the pi0 mu+ nu final state. The signature is a non-zero transverse polarization (P_T) of muons in the direction perpendicular to the decay plane. Using the same process the E246 experiment at KEK has set an upper limit on | P_T | < 0.0050 at the 90% confidence level. TREK...
Susanne Kuehn
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
6/3/14, 4:30 PM
The revised schedule for the LHC upgrade foresees a significant increase of the luminosity of the LHC by upgrading towards the HL-LHC (High Luminosity-LHC). The final upgrade is planned for around 2023, followed by the HL-LHC running. This is motivated by the need to harvest the maximum physics potential from the machine. It is clear that the high integrated luminosity of 3000 fb-1 will...
Paul Dervan
(University of Liverpool (GB))
6/3/14, 4:50 PM
Different pitch layouts are considered for the pixel detector being designed for the ATLAS upgraded tracking system which will be operating at the
High Luminosity LHC. The tracking performance in the Endcap pixel regions could benefit from pixel layouts which differ from the geometries used in the
barrel region. Also, the performance in different barrel layers and eta regions could be...
Till Moritz Karbach
(CERN)
6/3/14, 4:50 PM
The LHCb experiment is designed to study B-decays at the LHC, and as such is
constructed as a forward spectrometer. The large particle density in the
forward region poses extreme challenges to the subdetectors, in terms of hit
occupancies and radiation tolerance.
To accurately and efficiently detect the charged decay particles in the
high-density particle environment of the LHC the...
Toru Tanimori
(Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)
6/3/14, 4:50 PM
We have developed an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) for medical imaging due to its wide energy dynamic range (200 - 1500keV) and abilities of background rejection and clear imaging using the tracking information of the recoil electron. Thus this camera has a potential of developing the new reagents for molecular imaging. Until now we have carried out several imaging reagent studies...
Jacopo Pinzino
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
6/3/14, 4:50 PM
The main goal of the NA62 experiment at CERN is to measure the Branching Ratio (BR) of the ultra-rare decay of a charged kaon into a charged pion and two neutrinos (K+→π+νν).
It aims to collect about 100 events in two years of data taking and to test the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM), using the positive charged proton beam provided by SPS accelerator.
The key issues are readout...
Karl Tasso Knoepfle
(MPI Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg)
6/3/14, 4:50 PM
The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, located underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of INFN, Italy, is searching for the neutrinoless double beta (0v2b) decay of Ge-76. It uses a new shielding concept by operating bare Ge diodes (enriched in Ge-76) in 64 m^3 of liquid argon supplemented by a 3m thick layer of water. The results of GERDA Phase I have been published...
Gianfranco Morello
(Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))
6/3/14, 5:10 PM
The KLOE-2 experiment is starting its data taking at the DAΦNE ϕ-factory at the Frascati National Laboratory of the INFN. The experiment is continuing the successful physics program of KLOE, that collected 2.5 fb-1 of integrated luminosity between 2001 and 2006. For the new data taking campaign the detector, consisting of a huge Drift Chamber and a Electromagnetic Calorimeter working in a 0.5...
Dr
Dmitry Hits
(Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))
6/3/14, 5:10 PM
Progress in experimental particle physics in the coming decade depends crucially upon the ability to carry out experiments at high energies and high luminosities. These two conditions imply that future experiments will take place in very high radiation areas. In order to perform these complex and perhaps expensive experiments new radiation hard technologies will have to be developed. ...
Dr
Dennis Schaart
(Delft University of Technology)
6/3/14, 5:10 PM
The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a photosensor that can be fabricated in cost-effective CMOS technology while offering high internal gain, fast response, and insensitivity to magnetic fields. The first prototype devices were developed in the late 1990s. Commercial products, including arrays of SiPMs with a total sensitive area of several square cm, became available in the mid-2000’s. The...
Ivana Radoslavova Hristova
(Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))
6/3/14, 5:10 PM
The level1 calorimeter trigger (L1Calo) of the ATLAS experiment has been operating effectively since the start of LHC data taking, and has played a major role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. To face the new challenges posed by the upcoming increases of the LHC proton beam energy and luminosity, a series of upgrades is planned for L1Calo. An
initial upgrade (Phase0) is scheduled to be...
Jacobus Willem Van Hoorne
(Vienna University of Technology (AT))
6/3/14, 5:10 PM
As a major part of its upgrade plans, the ALICE experiment schedules the installation of a novel Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the Long Shutdown 2 of the LHC in 2018/19. It will replace the present silicon tracker with 7 layers of Monolithic Silicon Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) and significantly improve the detector performance in terms of tracking and rate capabilities. The choice of...
Vazgen Gabrielyan
(MPI for Physics, Munich)
6/3/14, 5:30 PM
Speaker: V. Gabrielyan on behalf of the ATLAS Muon Collaboration
The Level-1 (L1) trigger for muons with high transverse momentum (pT) in ATLAS is based on chambers with excellent time resolution, able to identify muons coming from a particular beam crossing. These trigger chambers also provide a fast pT-measurement of the muons, the accuracy of the measurement being limited by the moderate...
Anna Macchiolo
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
6/3/14, 5:30 PM
We present the results of the characterization performed on n-in-p pixel modules produced with thin sensors, ranging in thickness from 100 to 200 μm, assembled to the ATLAS FE-I3 and FE-I4 read-out chips.
Among these samples, the sensors produced at VTT (Finland), 100 μm thick, have been processed to obtain active edges, which considerably reduce the dead area at the periphery of the device...
Dr
Craig Woody
(Brookhaven National Lab)
6/3/14, 5:30 PM
The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC is planning a series of major upgrades that will enable a comprehensive measurement of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions, provide enhanced physics capabilities for studying nucleon-nucleus and polarized proton collisions, and allow a detailed study of electron-nucleus collisions at a future Electron Ion Collider (eRHIC) at Brookhaven. These upgrades will...
Mrs
Maria Michela Del Viva
(University of Florence, Italy)
6/3/14, 5:30 PM
There are significant analogies between the issues related to real-time event selection in HEP, and the issues faced by the human visual system. In fact, the visual system needs to extract rapidly the most important elements of the external world from a large flux of information, for survival purposes. A rapid and reliable detection of visual stimuli is essential for triggering autonomic...
Roelof de Vries
(PANalytical)
6/4/14, 9:00 AM
PANalytical is a company in the Netherlands that designs and builds X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence systems. Systems are sold (and serviced) worldwide and many are operational 24/7.
Since the year 2000 PANalytical has been an industrial partner of the Medipix collaboration. The aim for PANalytical was to integrate Medipix detectors in their X-ray diffraction equipment to increase...
Werner Riegler
(CERN)
6/4/14, 10:00 AM
The LHC experiment collaborations are presently preparing major upgrades of their detectors during the long LHC shutdowns planned in 2018/2019 and 2023/2024.
This presentation will discuss the key challenges for these upgrades and will review the main detector technologies under consideration.
Prof.
Kock Kiam Gan
(Ohio State University (US))
6/4/14, 11:00 AM
Planned upgrades to the LHC at CERN will increase its energy and luminosity. These advancements will require increasing the optical data communication bandwidth to fully exploit the accelerator and detector upgrades. This require much increased per-fiber output data rates of up to 10 Gb/s. While 10 Gb/s optical links are mature in industry, as yet there are none that have sufficient radiation...
Dr
Maurizio Bonesini
(Sezione INFN Milano Bicocca)
6/4/14, 11:00 AM
Time-of-flight systems, based on scintillators, may reach good intrinsic time resolution, by using fast scintillators and photomultipliers. Examples are the large time-of-flight system constructed for the HARP experiment at CERN PS (~150 ps detector resolution) or the most demanding time-of-flight system of the MICE experiment at RAL (~50-60 ps detector resolution).
This level of intrinsic...
Dr
Antonis Papanestis
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
6/4/14, 11:00 AM
The LHCb experiment was fully operational during the Run 1 of the Large Hadron Collider in the period 2009-2013, collected more than 3 fb$^{-1}$ of data and has produced many world first and world best measurements. The RICH system is an integral part of LHCb proving hadron identification in the momentum range of 2-100 GeV/c. The ability to separate pions and kaons in this wide momentum range...
Jingbo Ye
(Southern Methodist University, Department of Physics)
6/4/14, 11:20 AM
We report an ASIC development based on a commercial 0.25-micron silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology. This ASIC is a dual channel serializer sharing one LC-PLL with 8 Gb/s each channel and a total data throughput of 16 Gb/s for each chip. The prototype packaged in QFN is measured from 7.2 to 8.5 Gb/s each channel, limited by the tuning range of the PLL. This design is for an optical link that...
Luka Santelj
(Jozef Stefan Institute)
6/4/14, 11:20 AM
The Belle II spectrometer, a follow up of the very successful Belle experiment, is under construction at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider at KEK in Japan. For the PID system in the forward region of the spectrometer, a proximity focusing RICH counter with aerogel radiator is being developed. For this counter we have devised a focusing radiator consisting of two aerogel layers with...
Jan Smolik
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
6/4/14, 11:20 AM
Modern detectors with significantly increasing number of active channels require new approach for calibration. The calibration system on the first prototype of the AHCAL in CALICE used one optical fibre for each of 7608 channels to distribute calibration light to tiles with SiPM. As the proposed analogue hadronic calorimeter for ILC should have around 10^6 channels, the former system is...
Mirco Deckenhoff
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
6/4/14, 11:20 AM
The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15) is based on 2.5 m long
multi-layered ribbons of 0.250 mm diameter Kuraray SCSF-78MJ scintillating fibre as the active medium and signal transport
over covering 350 m$^{2}$ with silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for photo-readout. Over 10,000 km of fibre will
turned into precision detector...
Ryan Frank Page
(University of Bristol (GB))
6/4/14, 11:20 AM
Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) is a treatment for cancerous tumours. These treatments are complex, with the radiation shaped using dynamic Multileaf Collimators (MLC). This increases dose to the tumour, whilst sparing healthy issue and sensitive organs. Due to the complex nature of these treatments safety is critical. Currently monitoring is from the linac itself and verification is...
Dr
Krzysztof Piotr Swientek
(AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))
6/4/14, 11:40 AM
The multichannel 6-bit ADC ASIC with data serialization was designed in view of LHCb Tracker System Upgrade. The first prototype was designed and fabricated in CMOS 130 nm technology. The main chip components are 8 channels of fast, very low power (<0.5 mW per channel) 6-bit SAR ADCs, data serialization circuitry based on ultra-low power internal PLL and fast SLVS I/O differential interface....
Henry Frisch
(University of Chicago)
6/4/14, 11:40 AM
The Large-Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a large-area, modular photo-detector system composed of thin, planar, glass-body modules, each with two 20x20-cm-squared ALD-functionalized MCPs in a chevron geometry. In the case of LAPPD, hermetic sealing between the entrance window and the detector body is complicated by the square shape of the detector...
Prof.
Md Naimuddin
(Delhi University)
6/4/14, 11:40 AM
Proton computed tomography (pCT) offers an alternative to x-ray imaging with potential for three dimensional imaging, reduced radiation exposure, and in-situ imaging. The second generation pCT system being developed at Northern Illinois University in collaboration with Fermilab and Delhi University is comprised of a tracking system, a calorimeter or the range detector, data acquisition system,...
Arnim Balzer
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
6/4/14, 11:40 AM
Future astroparticle physics facilities like CTA [1] and KM3NeT [2] require a relative timing precision better than 1 ns between detector elements separated by up to 100 km. At the same time, fiber-optical links for high-capacity data transfer from detector elements to central processing facilities are needed. The Open Hardware project White Rabbit [3] provides both data and time transfer...
Dr
Albert Lehmann
(University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
6/4/14, 11:40 AM
The PANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility at GSI will perform charmonium spectroscopy and search for gluonic excitations using high luminosity antiproton beams from 1.5 to 15 GeV/c. To accomplish the scientific goals a high performance kaon/pion separation up to 4 GeV/c is mandatory. Because of space limitations the main components of the particle identification system will consist of DIRC...
Mr
Matthew Andrew
(University of Hawaii)
6/4/14, 12:00 PM
Extremely fast timing from Micro-Channel Plate PhotoMultiplier Tubes
(MCP-PMTs) and multi-gigasample per second (GSa/s) waveform sampling
ASICs will allow precision timing to play a pivotal role in the
next-generation of Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors. We have
developed a second prototype of the electronics to instrument the Time
of Propagation (TOP) counter for the Belle II...
Mr
hiroshi ITO
(Chiba University)
6/4/14, 12:00 PM
Radioisotope have been emitted around Japan by a nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011. A problem is the contaminated water including the atomic nucleus which relatively has a long half-life time such as 90Sr, 137Cs generated from 235U used for nuclear fuel in particular. Particular, since 90Sr has a long...
Yosuke Maeda
(Kyoto University)
6/4/14, 12:00 PM
A novel gamma-ray detector which is highly sensitive to photons but insensitive to neutrons has been developed for the rare neutral-kaon decay experiment (KOTO experiment) at J-PARC.
This experiment aims to study the KL->pi0nunubar decay with an electromagnetic calorimeter and hermetic veto detectors surrounding the the decay region.
The veto counters located in the beam should be able to...
Kazuhiro Agatsuma
(Nikhef)
6/4/14, 12:00 PM
We will report a study of the phase camera, which is a wave-front sensor of laser. This sensor is utilized for observing phase-modulated laser in an interferometer of gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The GW detectors are well sophisticated apparatus that need accurate position controls for mirrors. The laser modulation/demodulation is used for readout of the mirror displacement in such...
Mr
Angus Comrie
(University of Cape Town)
6/4/14, 12:20 PM
A compact scintillation detector, comprising of plastic scintillators capable of pulse shape discrimination, coupled to silicon photomultipliers and digital readout electronics, has been constructed and characterised using a range of neutron and gamma radiation fields with energies between 0.5 and 14 MeV. Experimental measurements will be presented and compared with simulations built using...
Elliot Hughes
(Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
6/4/14, 12:20 PM
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will upgrade the photodetection and readout systems of its hadron calorimeter (HCAL) through the second long shutdown of the LHC in 2018. A central feature of this upgrade is the development of two new versions of the QIE (Charge Integrating Encoder), a Fermilab-designed custom ASIC for measurement of charge from detectors in high-rate...
Deepak Gajanana
(NIKHEF (NL))
6/4/14, 12:20 PM
Physics experiments generally deal with enormous data throughput. The density of the data is increasing with upgrades on the detectors and experiments. Fiber optic communication with its high bandwidth and high capacity provides an effective solution. In experiments like the KM3NeT, cost-effective long haul optical communication is desired. A Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) based...
Prof.
Kock Kiam Gan
(Ohio State University (US))
6/4/14, 12:20 PM
With the first three years of the LHC running complete, ATLAS and CMS
are planning to upgrade their innermost tracking layers with more
radiation hard technologies. Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond
is one such technology. CVD diamond has been used extensively in beam
condition monitors as the innermost detectors in the highest radiation
areas of BaBar, Belle, CDF and all LHC...
Dr
York Haemisch
(Philips Technologie GmbH)
6/4/14, 3:00 PM
The lecture will introduce the concept of disruptive technologies using the example of the Digital Photon Counter (DPC, dSiPM) developed at Philips since 2004. The major characteristics of disruptive technologies will be worked out and examples given. As the development of the technology at Philips was triggered by its potential application in medical imaging, in particular in...
Dr
Marten Bosma
(Amsterdam Scientific Instruments)
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
In The Netherlands policy makers have frequently addressed the ‘gap’ between the excellent standing of Dutch fundamental research and the perceived inability to translate that into profitable commercial activities. Although Nikhef’s primary focus is and will be curiosity driven research, pushing the boundaries of the fundamental knowledge, a key intangible societal gain. Nikhef also...
Dr
Hirokazu Ishino
(Okayama University)
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
We present our recent developments of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) for phonon and photon detections.
An MKID is a type of superconducting detectors. Cooper-pair breaking caused by deposited energy changes the kinetic inductance of the superconductor. Consisting of LC resonators formed by a thin superconducting metal layer, it detects the energy by sensing the change of the...
Dr
H. Chagani
(University of Minnesota)
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
The first phase of the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB experiment shall consist of a 110 kg array of germanium and silicon athermal phonon detectors. It is expected to reach an order of magnitude better sensitivity than has been achieved so far by the best experiments in the field. The technical challenges of commissioning a payload of this size have led to the...
Philippe Gros
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
Observation of high-energy sources requires gamma-ray telescopes aboard balloons or satellites to study thermal and non thermal phenomena (black holes, neutron stars, active galactic nuclei, supernovae, supernova remnants, and gamma-ray bursts). In recent years, R&D has been mainly active to improve the sensitivity required for polarimetry. In this context, a concept of a Time Projection...
Dr
Maurizio Bonesini
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
6/4/14, 4:20 PM
Array of SiPMTs may be used, in place of fast conventional
photomultipliers (PMTs), for the readout of scintillator based time-of-flight systems. These new detectors are insensitive to external magnetic fields, have lower cost than traditional PMTs and present a compact design.
Comparison of the obtained timing resolutions as respect to
the baseline one (~ 50 ps) obtained with Hamamatsu...
Federico Izraelevitch
(Fermilab)
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
DAMIC is a novel dark matter search experiment that has a unique sensitivity to hypothetic dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to the CCD's low electronic readout noise (R.M.S. ~ 3 electrons), this instrument is able to reach a detection threshold of 60 eV, suitable for the search in the low mass range. The excellent energy response and high spatial resolution of a CCD image...
Prof.
Erika Garutti
(Univ. Hamburg)
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
Abstract–For Hamamatsu silicon-photomultipliers (SiPM) S10362-11-050P before and after irradiation to 200 Gy, 20 kGy, 2 MGy and 20 MGy, forward current–voltage, reverse current–voltage, capacitance/conductance–voltage, capacitance/conductance–frequency, pulse shape and pulse height measurements below and above the breakdown voltage were performed. The data were analysed using an electrical...
Sebastien Procureur
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
Modern physics experiments require particle detectors with excellent performance, in particular the spatial resolution of trackers. This usually leads to systems with very high numbers of electronic channels, from 10,000 to several millions. All these channels represent a significant cost of an apparatus, even if in many cases the useful signal is concentrated on a small fraction of them, for...
Toru Tanimori
(Kyoto University)
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
For next MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we developed Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) consisting of a Time projection Chamber and pixel scintillators. By measuring the track of an electron, ETCC measures the direction of gamma-rays as a small arc, which provides a good background rejection using the kinematical test and energy loss rate of the track (particle identification), and clear...
Dr
Ronald Lipton
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
6/4/14, 4:40 PM
We report on the processing and performance of 3D integrated circuits (3DIC) bonded to silicon sensors. The circuits were part of the Fermilab-sponsored two-tier 0.13 micron run at Tezzaron/ Global Foundries. They include designs for the CMS track trigger, ILC vertex detectors, and x-ray correlation spectroscopy. Sensors were bonded to the 3DICs using
die-to-die solder ball bonding as...
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
The Spherical Proportional Counter is a novel type of radiation detector, with a low energy threshold (typically below 100 eV) and good energy resolution. This detector is being developed by the network NEWs, which includes several applications. We can name between many others Dark Matter searches, low level radon and neutron counting or low energy neutrino detection from supernovas or nuclear...
Karen Byrum
(Argonne National Lab)
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
The Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a large-area, modular photo-detector system composed of thin, planar, glass-body modules, each with two 20cm x 20cm ALD-functionalized MCPs in a chevron geometry. The collaboration is working closely with industry partner Incom, Inc. towards the commercialization of this technology. One of the major...
Michael Lupberger
(University of Bonn)
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
Within the LCTPC collaboration several possibilities to build a time projection chamber for a linear collider are studied. In all concepts, micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGD) are used as amplification structure. Compared to the traditional pad-based readouts used in most cases, a pixelated TPC is a new approach.
Only pixel ASICs can reflect the high granularity of MPGDs from the readout...
Massimiliano Fiorini
(Universita di Ferrara (IT)),
Wander Baldini
(Universita di Ferrara (IT))
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
An irradiation test on 16 Silicon Photo Multipliers produced by Hamamatsu has been performed in Louvain-la-Neuve at the CRC-CYCLONE 110 facility.
The devices has been irradiated with neutrons in three dose steps: 5x10^8 1MeV-neutron equivalent (neq), 5x10^9 neq and 5x10^10 neq. After each irradiation step the characteristic current-voltage curves and a high statistics sample of...
Quirin Weitzel
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik Heidelberg)
6/4/14, 5:00 PM
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based instrument for the detection of cosmic gamma-rays with energies from about 20 GeV up to several hundred TeV. It is envisaged to be comprised of large-, medium- and small-sized telescopes (23m, 10-12m and 4m mirror aperture, respectively). Within the scope of the FlashCam project, a novel camera for the medium-sized...
Dr
Xander Janssen
(VDL ETG Research)
6/4/14, 5:20 PM
In contrast to existing linear accelerators (LINAC) based on superconductivity, several institutes are currently developing high gradient LINACs based on normal-conducting cavities. A LINAC based on this technique has some intrinsic advantages over their superconducting cousins e.g. lack the necessity for cryogenic cooling, can obtain larger accelerating gradients and hence allow for a reduced...
Prof.
Justin Vandenbroucke
(UW Madison)
6/4/14, 5:20 PM
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the particle nature of dark matter. We have designed an innovative Schwarzschild-Couder telescope which uses two mirrors to achieve excellent optical performance...
Guido Haefeli
(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
6/4/14, 5:20 PM
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are solid state photo detectors that combine all of the features necessary for
the photon detection of a high resolution scintillating fibre tracker. Two SiPM manufacturers, Hamamatsu and KETEK have
developed customized devices for SciFi Tracker application in the context of the LHCb tracker upgrade. These custom devices
provide high photon detection...
Mr
Ian G. Wisher
(University of Wisconsin - Madison)
6/4/14, 5:40 PM
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, located on the Sierra Negra plateau (4100m a.s.l.) in central Mexico, is currently under construction and scheduled for completion at the end of summer 2014. The detector is comprised of tightly-packed optically-isolated water tanks, each 5 m tall and 7.3 m in diameter, which are instrumented with 4 Hamamatsu photomultiplier tubes. The...
Mr
Michael Wagenpfeil
(ECAP)
6/4/14, 5:40 PM
In modern astroparticle physics, noble gases are often chosen as detector material for a wide range of different experiments. Noble gases can provide a very long electron drift distance which is required for large-scale low-background experiments such as the search for dark matter or for the neutrinoless double beta decay.
Due to the higher density, xenon is often used in the liquid instead...
Fernando Duarte Ramos
(CERN)
6/4/14, 5:40 PM
The strict requirements in terms of material budget for the inner region of the CLIC detector concepts require the use of a dry gas for the cooling of the respective sensors. This, in conjunction with the compactness of the inner volumes, poses several challenges for the design of a cooling system that is able to fulfil the required detector specifications. This presentation introduces a...
Alexander Ruschke
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
6/4/14, 5:40 PM
We present the newly developed Position Sensitive Scintillating Muon SiPM -Detector (POSSUMUS). This modular designed scintillation detector is capable to determine
particle's position two-dimensional with resolution of a few mm for minimum ionizing
particles. POSSUMUS is usable for large area trigger applications with few readout
channels.
The idea of this detector is to combine...
Dr
Anton Lymanets
(University of Tuebingen)
6/4/14, 6:00 PM
The CBM experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will explore the properties of nuclear matter at high net baryon densities and at moderate temperature. The key detector – a Silicon Tracking System (STS) – will reconstruct charged particle tracks created in interactions of heavy-ion beam with nuclear target at projectile energies ranging from 10 to 40...
Maksym Titov
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
6/5/14, 9:00 AM
Peter Hommelhoff
(Univ. of Erlangen and Max Planck for Quantum Optics)
6/5/14, 9:30 AM
In free space, efficient momentum transfer over an extended distance between an oscillating field and a massive charged particle is impossible. With a proper boundary, this notion does not hold any longer. We have recently shown that electrons can be continuously accelerated with laser light at a dielectric grating structure. With low-power femtosecond laser pulses at 800 nm we could...
Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
6/5/14, 10:00 AM
Detectors using liquid noble gas media like xenon or argon have shown a great potential for direct dark matter searches. Particles interacting with these targets cause the emission of light and free electrons, via excitation and ionization processes, respectively.
The pulse shape of the prompt light signal and/or the ratio between light and extracted charge can be used to discriminate between...
Dr
Jan-Willem den Herder
(SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
6/5/14, 11:00 AM
The hot and energetic Universe has been selected by ESA as its next large
class mission with a scheduled launch date in 2028. This mission will have a large
collecting area (2 m2) with focussing optics and in the focal plane two interchangeable
instruments: a Si-based DEPFET detector which is optimised for its field of view
and its count rate capability. The second instrument is a...
Enrico Junior Schioppa
(NIKHEF (NL))
6/5/14, 11:00 AM
In the development of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in medical imaging, one is working to implement spectral information. While keeping the dose level the same, or even lower, than in conventional systems, spectral CT offers the possibility to measure energy dependent features of different tissues that will allow the extraction of additional information about the patient, eventually leading...
Dr
Shruti Shrestha
(Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)
6/5/14, 11:00 AM
The Mu3e experiment searches for the lepton flavor violating
decay $\mu^{+}\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}e^{+}$. We are aiming for a sensitivity
of one in $10^{16}$ $\mu$-decays. To measure the momentum and vertex position of
low momentum electrons (10 - 53 MeV/c) originating from such a rare decay with
high precision, a tracking detector built from High-Voltage Monolithic Active Pixel...
Peter Goettlicher
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
6/5/14, 11:20 AM
The AGIPD (Adaptive Gain Integrated Pixel Detector) X-ray imaging camera will operate at the X-ray Free Electron Laser, Eu-XFEL, under construction in Hamburg, Germany. Key parameters are 1Mega 200µm square pixels, single 12.4 keV photon detection and a dynamic range to 10000/pixel/image. The developed sensors, ASICs, PCB-electronics and FPGA-firmware acquire individual images per bunch at...
Mr
Ayaki Takeda
(SOKENDAI/KEK)
6/5/14, 11:20 AM
We have been developing a monolithic active pixel sensor with the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for use in future X-ray astronomical satellite mission. Our objective is to replace the X-ray Charge Coupled Device, which is the standard detector in the field, by offering high coincidence time resolution (∼ 50 ns), superior hit-position readout time (∼ 10 μs), and wider bandpass (0.3...
Alex Cerri
(University of Sussex (GB))
6/5/14, 11:20 AM
The future plans for the LHC accelerator allow, through a schedule of
phased upgrades, an increase in the average instantaneous luminosity
by a factor 5 with respect to the original design luminosity.
The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will be able to maximise the physics potential from this higher luminosity only if the detector, trigger and DAQ infrastructure are adapted to handle the...
Igor Rubinskiy
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown)
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
A high resolution ($\sigma \sim 2\mu m$) beam telescope based on monolithic
active pixel sensors (MAPS) was developed within the EUDET
collaboration. The telescope consists of six monolithic active pixel
sensor planes (Mimosa26) with a pixel pitch of 18.4 \mu m and thinned
down to 50 \mu m. The excellent resolution, readout rate and DAQ
integration capabilities made the telescope a...
Hideaki Matsumura
(Kyoto University)
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs, monolithic active pixel sensors based on the Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology for next-generation X-ray astronomy satellites. Their high time resolution (~micro sec) and event trigger output function enable us to reduce non-X-ray background by two orders of magnitude at 20 keV, compared with X-ray CCDs widely used in current X-ray astronomy...
Dr
Bjoern Seitz
(University of Glasgow)
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
Molecular imaging modalities require sensor systems capable of detecting and identifying gamma rays emitted by radio-tracers as well as providing the complete position information. The combination of dense, new scintillator materials with compact photon detector solutions insensitive to magnetic fields provides a promising prospect to meet the requirements in modern combined molecular imaging...
Nicola Neri
(Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
We report on the R&D for a first prototype of a silicon tracker with trigger capabilities based on a novel approach for fast track finding. The working principle is inspired from neurobiology, in particular by the processing of visual images by the brain as it happens in nature. It is based on extensive parallelization of data distribution and pattern recognition. In this work we report on the...
Lorenzo Paolozzi
(Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
6/5/14, 11:40 AM
The results obtained at BTF (Beam Test Facility) of Frascati with 500 MeV electrons working at single electron mode and with cosmic rays have shown a time resolution of the order of 100 ps with a polycrystalline diamond detector of 1.25 mm total thickness and a surface of 3x3 mm^2 operated at 350 V. To achieve this performance, a new structure of the diamond detector and a dedicated front-end...
Martin Richard Jaekel
(CERN)
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
The high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade is setting a new challenge for particle detector technologies. The increase in luminosity will produce a higher particle background with respect to present conditions. Performance and stability of detectors at LHC and future upgrade systems will remain the subject of extensive studies. The current CERN-Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF) has been...
Fergus Wilson
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
We report on the status and performance of the CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) Cherwell 1 and 2 sensors for the detection of charged particles in vertexing, tracking, and calorimetry applications. Cherwell is a 4-T CMOS sensor in 180 nm technology on a 12um epitaxial substrate with low-noise, low-power, in-pixel correlated double sampling, and high conversion gain.
Cherwell...
Stefano Gallorini
(Universita e INFN (IT))
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
The LHCb experiment is entering in its upgrading phase, with its detector and read-out system re-designed to cope with the increased LHC energy after the long shutdown of 2018. In this upgrade, a trigger-less data acquisition is being developed to read-out the full detector at the bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz. In particular, the High Level Trigger (HLT) system, where the bulk of the trigger...
Mr
Merlin Kole
(KTH - Royal Institute of Technology)
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
PoGOLite is a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimeter. It determines polarisation by measuring the azimuthal angular distribution of Compton scattered photons in a plastic scintillator array. The use of an all plastic target yields a relatively large but low mass detection area. The dominant source of background for the polarisation measurements has been shown through Geant4 simulations to...
Dr
Salleh Ahmad
(Weeroc SAS)
6/5/14, 12:00 PM
Triroc is the latest addition to SiPM readout ASICs family developed at Weeroc, a start-up company from the Omega microelectronics group of IN2P3/CNRS. This chip developed under the framework TRIMAGE European project which is aimed for building a cost effective tri-modal PET/MR/EEG brain scan. To ensure the flexibility and compatibility with any SiPM in the market, the ASIC is designed to be...
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
6/5/14, 12:20 PM
After almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on their coupling to photons, one of the most promising ones being the helioscope technique.
We will report on the current status of the CERN Axion Solar...
David Gascon
(University of Barcelona (ES)),
Juan Trenado Garcia
(University of Barcelona (ES))
6/5/14, 12:20 PM
This work discusses the capability of a time based readout ASIC, the so-called FlexToT ASIC, to perform Depth of Interaction (DOI) measurements. In particular we will analyse the performance of the ASIC with a Phoswich PET module. FlexToT ASIC is optimized for readout of common cathode Silicon Photo- Multipliers arrays with direct coupling and individual anode voltage control. FlexToT presents...
Norman Anthony Graf
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
6/5/14, 12:20 PM
As the complexity and resolution of particle detectors increases, the need for detailed simulation of the experimental setup also increases. We have developed efficient and flexible tools for detailed physics and detector response simulations which build on the power of the Geant4 toolkit but free the end user from any C++ coding. Geant4 is the de facto high-energy physics standard for...
Mia Tosi
(Universita' degli Studi di Padova e INFN (IT))
6/5/14, 12:20 PM
The trigger systems of the LHC detectors play a crucial role in determining the physics capabilities of the experiments. A reduction of several orders of magnitude of the event rate is needed to reach values compatible with detector readout, offline storage and analysis capability. The CMS experiment has been designed with a two-level trigger system: the Level-1 Trigger (L1T), implemented on...
henry frisch
(university of chicago)
6/5/14, 2:00 PM
The precision of large-area spatial measurements has improved dramatically over
the last 50 years due to the invention of silicon strip and pixel detectors. The precision
of large-area time measurements, however, has only recently started to attract a similar
level of attention and investment. The ultimate time resolution of large-area devices
is not yet known, but the intrinsic resolution of...
Colin Barschel
(CERN),
Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi
(CERN)
6/5/14, 4:10 PM
A novel, non-disruptive technique to measure transverse beam shapes
was recently demonstrated by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC).
The technique is based on the detection of beam-gas interaction
vertices with a tracking detector and was used in LHCb to obtain
a 1.4% precision on the luminosity calibration.
A new device, the Beam-Gas Vertex (BGV) system, is now under...
Burak Bilki
(University of Iowa (US))
6/5/14, 4:10 PM
Forward calorimeters in CMS will need to be upgraded for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) operations, which is planned to be started in 2025. The major challenge is to preserve/improve the high performance of the current forward detectors while designing the detectors considerably radiation hard. This report will concentrate on the need for the upgrade, major challenges and various proposed...
Mr
Matteo Cardinali
(Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz), Dr
Matthias Hoek
(Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)
6/5/14, 4:10 PM
High-precision single photon timing with resolutions well below 100 ps is becoming increasingly important. It enables new detector designs, like the Time-of-Propagation DIRC of Belle II, or the TORCH upgrade for LHCb, and to improve existing designs, e.g. allow chromatic corrections in DIRCs. These applications have in common a high channel density, limited available space and low power...
Mr
Christopher Craven
(Incom Inc.)
6/5/14, 4:10 PM
Manufacturing plans for “next generation” microchannel plates (MCPs) and the technical advantages enabled by this evolving technology will be presented. The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD™) is an MCP based photodetector, capable of imaging, with high spatial and temporal resolution in a hermetic package with an active area of 400 square centimeters. A key component of LAPPD™ is a...
Dr
Kota Ueshima
(Tohoku University RCNS)
6/5/14, 4:10 PM
KamLAND-Zen experiment was started data taking from October 2011 to search for neutrino less double beta decay. The Mini-balloon filled with 136Xe loaded liquid scintillator was installed in the KamLAND detector. From the first result of KamLAND-Zen, there was the BG peak at 2.6 MeV region. As a result of data analysis, it was found that 110mAg was the BG candidate. The purification system of...
Artur Apresyan
(California Institute of Technology (US))
6/5/14, 4:30 PM
Current and future high energy physics particle colliders are capable to provide instantaneous luminosities of 1034 cm-2s-1 and above. The high center of mass energy, the large number of simultaneous collision of beam particles in the experiments and the very high repetition rates of the collision events pose huge challenges. They result in extremely high particle fluxes, causing very high...
Alfredo Martin Castaneda Hernandez
(Texas A & M University (US))
6/5/14, 4:30 PM
The CMS experiment is preparing an upgrade of its muon detection system, one of the main purposes is to extend the muon detection capabilities in the very forward region (|eta|>1.6) with the installation of new stations of Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) and Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector technologies for the second (2019) and third (2023) CMS upgrade scenarios. With the increase of the...
Mr
Takuya Yonekura
(Nagoya university)
6/5/14, 4:30 PM
We developed the micro-channel-plate (MCP) PMT for the Time-of-Propagation (TOP) counter, which is a novel Cherenkov counter to be used for particle identification in the Belle II experiment. The developed MCP-PMT has excellent performance for single photon detection; a timing resolution of about 40ps (sigma, including readout jitter), a nominal gain as high as 2 x 10^6, and a position...
Mrs
Sylvie BLIN
(OMEGA Ecole Polytechnique&CNRS/IN2P3)
6/5/14, 4:30 PM
The SPACIROC ASIC is designed for the JEM-EUSO fluorescence-imaging telescope on board of the International Space Station. Its goal is the detection of Extreme Air Showers (EAS) above a few 10^19 eV, developing underneath at a distance of about 400 km, in the troposphere. The SPACIROC family is dedicated to readout 64-channel Multi Anode PMT (MAPMT) or similar detectors. The two main features...
Dr
Cristina M. B. Monteiro
(University of Coimbra) (on behalf of the NEXT Collaboration)
6/5/14, 4:30 PM
The NEXT Experiment aims to detect neutrinoless double beta decay using an HPXe TPC based on electroluminescence to be deployed in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.
New-generation experiments for double beta decay detection need to be sensitive to lifetimes longer than 1025 years. One remarkable challenge is the conception of a detector that enables an efficient and unambiguous...
Dr
Kodai Matsuoka
(Nagoya University)
6/5/14, 4:50 PM
The TOP (Time-Of-Propagation) counter is a novel ring-imaging Cherenkov detector for particle identification in Belle II. Our goal is to identify up to 3 GeV/c kaons and pions with a pion efficiency of 95% and a fake-pion rate of 5% or better. The TOP counter mainly consists of a 2.7 m long quartz radiator bar and 32 micro-channel-plate PMTs. It measures the time of propagation of the...
Dr
Christophe De La Taille
(OMEGA CNRS/IN2P3 et Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
6/5/14, 4:50 PM
PETIROC2 is a 32 channel readout ASIC for high speed readout of SiPM matrixes. It features a 1 GHz 20 dB preamp followed by 1 GHz high speed discriminator and time-to-amplitude converter to measure the time down to 50 ps. A variable shaper channel measures the charge over 10 bits and also feeds a discriminator for high level signal trigger. The time and charge signals are digitized internally...
Euan Niall Cowie
(University of Bristol (GB))
6/5/14, 4:50 PM
TORCH (Time Of internally Reflected CHerenkov radiation) is an innovative time-of-flight system designed to provide particle identification over large areas up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c. Cherenkov photons emitted within a 1 cm thick quartz radiator are propagated by internal reflection and imaged on to an array of Micro-Channel Plate photomultiplier tubes (MCPs).
Performing 3$\sigma$...
Ruslan Asfandiyarov
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
6/5/14, 4:50 PM
The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a totally active scintillator detector to be installed in the muon beam of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) - the R&D project for the future neutrino factory. It is aimed at measuring properties of low energy beam composed of muons, electrons and pions performing the identification particle by particle. The EMR is made of 48 intersecting layers....
Kay Graf
(University of Erlangen)
6/5/14, 5:10 PM
The KM3NeT project is a deep-sea research infrastructure that will host a neutrino telescope with a volume of several cubic kilometres as well as Earth and Sea science instrumentation for monitoring the deep Mediterranean Sea.
Within the project, a variety of acoustic topics are pursued: from acoustic position calibration of the flexible detector structures of the neutrino telescope over...
Karina Martin
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
6/5/14, 5:10 PM
For experiments at VEPP-2000 e+e- collider with SND detector the particle identification system based on the threshold aerogel Cherenkov counters was developed. The counter design is based on ASHIPH technique (Aerogel, SHifter, PHotomultiplier). Cherenkov light emitted in aerogel is collected by a wavelength shifter and detected by a photomultiplier tube based on microchannel plates (MCP...
Thomas Kirn
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
6/5/14, 5:10 PM
In high energy physics experiments tracking detectors
consisting of scintillating fibers readout by linear
arrays of silicon photomultipliers have become a competitive
alternative to silicon strip detectors.
The modules produced at the I$^{st}$ Physics Institute of RWTH Aachen University
are made out of ribbons of 0.25~mm diameter scintillating fibers.
Ribbons with different...
Claudio Gotti
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
6/5/14, 5:30 PM
The CLARO-CMOS is a prototype ASIC that allows fast photon counting with 5 ns peaking time, a recovery time to baseline smaller than 25 ns, and a power consumption of about 1 mW per channel. This chip is capable of single-photon counting with multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (Ma-PMTs), and finds applications also in the read-out of silicon photomultipliers and microchannel plates. The...
Andrey Elagin
(University of Chicago)
6/5/14, 5:30 PM
We present initial studies of a technique for separating scintillation and
Cherenkov light in a large liquid scintillator detector in order to
reconstruct directionality for electrons with energies typical of
neutrino-electron scattering (5 MeV) and double-beta decay (2.1 MeV
and 1.4 MeV).
On average scintillation light is delayed with respect to the direct
Cherenkov light due to...
Prof.
Martin Pohl
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
6/6/14, 9:00 AM
I will review the transfer of technology from accelerator-based particle detection to space-borne astroparticle physics. Requirements for detection, identification and measurement of ions, electrons and photons in space will be recalled. The additional requirements and restrictions imposed by the launch process in manned and unmanned space flight, as well as by the hostile environment in orbit...
Edouard Kistenev
(Department of Physics)
6/6/14, 11:00 AM
The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC is planning a series of major upgrades that will transform the current PHENIX detector into a new detector, sPHENIX, which will be used to carry out a systematic measurement of jets in heavy ion collisions in order to study the phase transition of normal nuclear matter to the Quark Gluon Plasma near its critical temperature. The baseline design of sPHENIX will...
Marius Wensing
(Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
6/6/14, 11:00 AM
The ATLAS experiment is the the largest of the four LHC experiments. Currently its Pixel-Detector
is being upgraded with a new innermost 4th layer, the Insertable b-Layer (IBL). The upgrade will
result in better tracking efficiency and compensate radiation damages of the Pixel-Detector. Newly
developed front-end electronics (FE-I4) will require a complete re-design of the...
Prof.
Laktineh Laktineh
(Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))
6/6/14, 11:00 AM
New generation of RPC using semi-conductive plates could provide an excellent choice for the upgrade of LHC muon detectors. These cost-effective GRPC stand high particle rate. The excellent timing they can provide could allow to improve on the trigger rate and reduce the pileup consequences of the LHC luminosity increase.
Single and multi-gap GRPC using low-resistivity glass are being...
Tetsuichi Kishishita
(University of Bonn)
6/6/14, 11:00 AM
The Belle II experiment, which will start after 2015 at the Super-KEKB accelerator in Japan, will focus on the precision measurement of the CP-violation mechanism and on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. To cope with considerably increased background, a pixel vertex detector (PXD) based on DEPFET technology has been developed.
The PXD consists of two layers of DEPFET sensor...
Dr
Michael Cooney
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
6/6/14, 11:20 AM
Readout of micro-channel plate detectors using cross strip anodes require low noise, fast charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) front-end electronics. The goal of this CSA project is to improve noise and shaping time from the "PreShape32" amplifier ASIC of the RD-20 collaboration at CERN, presently used in the readout system. A target noise of 100e- + 50e-/pF (<1000e- noise overall) with <100ns...
Dr
Angelo Cruciani
(University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
6/6/14, 11:20 AM
Millimetre-wave astronomical observations have an enormous discovery potential in the study of the earliest stages of the evolution of the universe, clusters of galaxies, high redshift objects, and star formation regions. One of the challenges today is to perform observations with the finest angular resolution, in order to accurately investigate the nature of these astrophysical sources....
Shaw-Pin Chen
(University of Washington (US))
6/6/14, 11:20 AM
The ATLAS Experiment is reworking and upgrading systems during the current LHC shut down. In particular, the Pixel detector is inserting an additional inner layer called Insertable B-Layer (IBL). The Readout-Driver card (ROD), the Back-of-Crate card (BOC), and the S-Link together form the essential frontend data path of the IBL’s off-detector DAQ system. The strategy for IBLROD firmware...
Dr
Ivano Sarra
(LNF INFN Frascati, Italy)
6/6/14, 11:20 AM
The Mu2e experiment at FNAL aims to measure the charged-lepton flavor violating
neutrinoless conversion of of a negative muon into an electron. The conversion
results in a monochromatic electron with an energy slightly below the rest mass
of the muon (104.97 MeV). The calorimeter should confirm that the candidates
reconstructed by the extremely precise tracker system are indeed...
Mr
Aleksandr Kotelnikov
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
6/6/14, 11:40 AM
The real-time processing of the electron beam parameters is a necessary procedure to optimize the key characteristics of the synchrotron radiation source using feedback loops. The actual problem is to study multi-bunch beam instabilities. To solve this problem a high-speed electron beam profile monitor is developed. This device includes a photodetector unit and signal recorder. The...
Dr
Guido Volpi
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
6/6/14, 11:40 AM
The associative memory (AM) system is a computing device made of hundreds of AM ASICs chips designed to perform “pattern matching” at very high speed. Since each AM chip stores a data base of 130000 pre-calculated patterns and large numbers of chips can be easily assembled together, it is possible to produce huge AM banks. Speed and size of the system are crucial for real-time High Energy...
clarence chang
(Argonne National Lab)
6/6/14, 11:40 AM
Advances in CMB instrumentation have opened a new era for studying
fundamental physics through precision measurements of the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB). CMB measurements are critical for our understanding of
cosmology and provides a unique probe of Dark Energy, the Cosmic Neutrino
Background, and the physics of inflation. The South Pole Telescope (SPT)
collaboration has been...
Marco Incagli
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
6/6/14, 11:40 AM
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a high-energy particle detector deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) since May 19, 2011 to conduct a long-duration mission on fundamental physics research in space. The main scientific goals of the mission are the detection of antimatter and dark matter through the study of the spectra and fluxes of protons, electrons, nuclei until the...
Massimiliano Fiorini
(Universita di Ferrara (IT))
6/6/14, 12:00 PM
We describe a pilot project for the use of GPUs (Graphics processing units) in online triggering applications for high energy physics experiments.
General-purpose computing on GPUs is emerging as a new paradigm in several fields of science, although so far applications have been tailored to the specific strengths of such devices as accelerator in offline computation. With the steady...
Giuseppe Finocchiaro
(Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN)
6/6/14, 12:00 PM
The Belle II experiment will operate at the SuperKEKB e+e− collider, designed to reach a peak luminosity of 8×10^35 cm−2 s−1 at the Ypsilon(4S).
The high background environment of SuperKEKB poses serious challenges to the design of the Belle II detector.
In particular, an upgrade of the forward Electromagnetic Calorimeter is foreseen: the new calorimeter will use pure CsI crystals, which...
Ms
Diana Carolina Herrera Muñoz
(University of Zaragoza)
6/6/14, 12:00 PM
Electron-ion recombination is experimentally studied in Xe+trimethylamine
mixtures, motivated by its potential use for directional dark matter
searches. A time projection chamber of 2.4 l with a novel configuration
formed by two symmetric drift regions with two microbulk-Micromegas
readouts is used to measure the recombination of $\alpha$- and $\gamma$-particles,
which are emitted in...
Mr
Klaus Weidenhaupt
(RWTH Aachen University)
6/6/14, 12:20 PM
The Pierre Auger Observatory detects ultra-high energy cosmic rays by measuring extensive air showers induced in the earth's atmosphere. Besides established detection techniques using a 3000 km2 array of particle detectors sampling shower particles at ground level, and detecting fluorescence light emitted during the shower development with telescopes, the Observatory explores the potential of...
Massimiliano De Gaspari
(CERN)
6/6/14, 12:20 PM
Timepix3 is a unique ASIC developed to provide fast readout in a low to medium hit rate environment. The pixel matrix consists of 256x256 pixels with a pitch of 55μm. The chip can be configured in either data driven or frame-based modes. In data driven mode the chip sends out a 48-bit package every time a pixel is hit while the shutter is open. This packet contains 18bits of Time-Of-Arrival...
Dr
Ryu Sawada
(ICEPP, the University of Tokyo)
6/6/14, 12:20 PM
The MEG experiment yielded the most stringent upper limit on the branching ratio of the flavor-violating muon decay $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$. A major upgrade of the detector is planned to improve the sensitivity by one order of magnitude.
For the upgrade, 2-inch round-shape photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) on the entrance window will be replaced by $12\times12$ cm${}^2$ Multi-Pixel Photon...
Dr
Anastasios Belias
(NCSR Demokritos), Dr
Konstantinos Manolopoulos
(NCSR Demokritos)
6/6/14, 2:00 PM
KM3NeT is a deep-sea neutrino telescope of very large scale (several km3) to be deployed and operated in the Mediterranean Sea. Neutrino-induced charged particles are detected by measuring their Cherenkov light in sea-water, using photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) inside transparent and pressure resistant spherical enclosures.
The aim is to instrument several km3 of sea volume with tens of...
Mr
Shuichi Iwata
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
6/6/14, 2:00 PM
For the Belle II experiment at the superKEKB accelerator, we have been developing a proximity focusing ring imaging Cherenkov detector using a silica aerogel as a radiator (A-RICH). This counter is designed to be used at the forward endcap region and to have pion/kaon separation with more than 4-sigma deviations at momenta up to 4 GeV/c. 144-channel Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector (HAPD)...
Alexandra Junkes
(Hamburg University (DE))
6/6/14, 2:00 PM
The CMS tracker collaboration is aiming to identify the best suited silicon materials and sensor thicknesses for future tracking detectors for the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). Therefore, a large material investigation and irradiation campaign was initiated. \\% A variety of silicon $p-in-n$ and $n-in-p$ test-sensors made from Float Zone (FZ), Magnetic...
Shunsuke Honda
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
6/6/14, 2:00 PM
We are developing monolithic pixel sensors based on a 0.2 um fully-depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology. Such sensors have properties such as high-speed operation, low-power dissipation, and SEU/SET immunity. The major issue in applications them in high-radiation environments is the total ionization damage (TID) effects. The effects are rather substantial in the SOI devices since the...
Mr
Mykhaylo Filipenko
(Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics - ECAP)
6/6/14, 2:20 PM
Many experiments, especially low-background experiments like the search for
neutrinoless double beta decay, and applications, like Compton-imaging, would highly benefit from a room-temperature semiconductor voxel detector technology. A voxel detector is a 2D pixelated device which is able to determine the 3d coordinate (the depth of interaction) in every pixel. Thus, it can be used to...
Stefano Levorato
(INFN Trieste)
6/6/14, 2:20 PM
Architectures based on MicroPattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) represent a possible answer to the quest for novel gaseous counters with single photon detection capability able to overcome all the limitations of the present generation of gaseous photon detectors. In Cherenkov imaging counters, gaseous photon detectors are still the unique option when insensitivity to magnetic field, low material...
Dr
Daniela Calvo
(INFN - Sezione di Torino)
6/6/14, 2:20 PM
Daniela Calvo on behalf of the PANDA MVD group.
The fixed target experiment PANDA is one essential part of the FAIR facility in Darmstadt and is going to study the interactions of antiproton beams, featuring unprecedented quality and intensity, on protons and on nuclei. It includes the Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) [1], as innermost detector of the tracking system, specially able to detect...
Mr
Stefan Petrovics
(Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society)
6/6/14, 2:20 PM
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a promising candidate for replacing conventional photomultiplier tubes in many applications, thanks to ongoing developments and advances in their technology. A drawback of conventional SiPMs is their limited fill factor caused by the need for a high ohmic polysilicon quench resistor and its metal lines on the surface of the devices, which in turn limits the...
Delia Tosi
(UW Madison / WIPAC)
6/6/14, 2:40 PM
The IceCube neutrino observatory is composed of more than five thousand Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), installed on the surface and at depths between 1500 and 2500 m in clear ice at the South Pole. Each DOM incorporates a 10” diameter photomultiplier tube (PMT) intended to detect light emitted when high energy neutrinos interact with atoms in the ice. Depending on the energy of the neutrino...
Yang ZHOU
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
6/6/14, 2:40 PM
The need for miniaturized and versatile real-time radiation monitors has become a general trend for spacecraft applications. It requires a highly integrated detection system with the ability to identify ion species in a high flux mixed environment. We have proposed [1] a new strategy to meet these requirements with a single CMOS pixel chip.
This sensor is based on a matrix of 50×50 µm2...
Dr
Daniele Vivolo
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and INFN Napoli)
6/6/14, 2:40 PM
Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube (VSiPMT) is an innovative photodetector based on the combination of SiPM and PMT technologies. The basic idea consists in replacing the classical dynode chain of a PhotoMultiplier Tube with a SiPM.
Such a design was proposed by our group in order to match the goal of a large photocathode sensitive area with the unrivalled photon counting performances of...
Blake Leverington
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
6/6/14, 2:40 PM
The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker is designed to replace the current downstream tracking detectors in the LHCb
Upgrade during 2018 (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15). The operation and the results obtained from the data collected 2011
and 2012 demonstrate that the current detector is robust and functioning very well. However, the limit of
$\mathcal{O}($1 fb$^{-1}$) of data per year...
Ourania Sidiropoulou
(Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (GR))
6/6/14, 3:00 PM
A DAQ system based on custom electronics (Scalable Readout System -
SRS) has been developed inside the Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector community (RD51 Collaboration) in the recent years and is now being upgraded for large scale applications using the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platform.
We present the development and test of a readout system which consists of...
Kota Kasahara
(University of Tsukuba (JP))
6/6/14, 3:00 PM
We develop superconducting tunnnel junction (STJ) to search for radiative decays of cosmic background neutrino using cosmic infrared background energy spectrum.
The requirement for performance of the detector in our experiment is to detect a single far-infrared photon.
We can detect a single far-infrared photon with Nb/Al-STJ theoretically. So far we have not succeeded in detecting it yet...
Diego Gonzalez Diaz
(Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
6/6/14, 3:00 PM
Microbulk-Micromegas constitutes a new generation of Micromegas (MICRO MEsh GAseous Structure) used for the detection and tracking of particles. Its simplicity, inherited from its constituent element --a double copper-clad kapton foil--, enhances its radiopurity, making it particularly well suited for Rare Event searches. The energy resolution is amongst the best obtained with Micro-Pattern...
Mr
Robert Klanner
(University of Hamburg)
6/6/14, 3:00 PM
The response of p+n strip sensors to electrons from a 90Sr source and focussed laser light with different wave lengths was measured using the ALiBaVa read-out system. The measurements were performed over a period of several weeks, during which a number of operating conditions were varied. The sensors were fabricated by Hamamatsu on 200 µm thick float-zone silicon. Their pitch is 80 µm, and...
Christophe Goetzmann
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
6/6/14, 3:00 PM
The CMS tracker is the largest silicon detector ever built, covering 200 square meters and providing an average of 14 high-precision measurements per track. Tracking is essential for the reconstruction of objects like jets, muons, electrons and tau leptons starting from the raw data from the silicon pixel and strip detectors. Track reconstruction is widely used also at trigger level as it...
Ms
Mika Kagaya
(Ibaraki University)
6/6/14, 3:20 PM
We developed a Compton camera γI (Gamma Eye) using CsI (Tl) scintillators for measurement of arrival direction of gamma rays produced by radioactive cesium released into the environment from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident due to the great east Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in 2011.
The radiation exposure of residents remains extremely a serious problem in...
Michael DuVernois
(University of Wisconsin)
6/6/14, 3:20 PM
The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), currently under construction at the South Pole, is a large-scale cosmogenic neutrino detector designed to observe the coherent radio pulses associated with neutrino-induced cascades in the radio-transparent cold Antarctic ice. The detector incorporates novel bore-hole antenna designs, RF over fiber technology, custom ASIC digitizer, FPGA-based triggering, and...
Dean Andrew Hidas
(Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey (US))
6/6/14, 3:20 PM
The Pixel Luminosity Telescopes (PLT) will be the first dedicated luminosity monitor installed in the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. It is designed to measure the bunch-by-bunch relative luminosity to high precision. It consists of a set of small angle telescopes each with three planes of pixel sensors. The full PLT will be installed in CMS for the first full energy...
Lorenzo Massa
(University of Bologna and INFN (IT))
6/6/14, 3:20 PM
This report presents a project for the upgrade of the Level-1 muon trigger in the barrel-endcap transition region (1.0<|ƞ|<1.3) of the ATLAS detector with RPC chambers.
The ATLAS Level-1 muon trigger rate is dominated by fake triggers in the Endcap region (|ƞ|>1) caused by charged particles originating from secondary interactions downstream of the interaction point. After the LHC phase-1...
Auke-Pieter Colijn
(NIKHEF (NL)),
Els Koffeman
(NIKHEF (NL))
6/6/14, 4:30 PM
Isabella Garzia
(INFN)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
We are developing a low mass, cylindrical GEM detector with analog readout for the inner tracker upgrade of the BESIII experiment at the BEPC-II e+e- collider. The GEM detector will replace the current inner drift chamber that is suffering early aging due to the increase of the machine luminosity.
The new inner tracker is expected to match the momentum resolution (σpt/Pt~0.5% at 1 GeV) and...
eric oberla
(uchicago)
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
A data acquisition (DAQ) system using the 10 - 15 Gigasample/second (GSa/s) PSEC4 waveform recording
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) has been developed as part of the
Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD).
The LAPPD collaboration is developing 20$\times$20 cm$^2$ glass-body micro-channel plate (MCP)
photomultiplier tubes equipped with an economical 1.5...
Dr
Michael Cooney
(University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
To accurately reconstruct the charge cloud centroid from a microchannel plate (MCP) photon event with a cross strip anode readout, a fast sampling ADC is required. The digitization chip, HalfGraph, is an 8 channel, 12 bit Wilkinson based ADC manufactured on a 0.25um TSMC CMOS process. Each channel has 32 samples with 2048 addressable storage cells and over threshold triggering capability. The...
Claudio Gotti
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
Experiments searching for rare nuclear events, such as the neutrinoless double beta decay, need to operate for several years in order to reach the required sensitivity.
The readout electronics for such systems must guarantee stable operation during the whole data taking phase.
Major experiments in the field are CUORE and LUCIFER, both based on macrobolometers and currently under construction...
Mr
Futian Liang
(University of Science and Technology of China),
Ge Jin
(Univ. of Science & Tech. of China (CN)), Ms
Xin Gao
(University of Science and Technology of China), Mr
Yuan Yao
(University of Science and Technology of China),
Ziru Sang
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Technology transfer: 5a) Industry Liaisons
Poster
The Direct Detection Doppler Wind LIDAR (DWL) is of great significance in the study of global wind measurements and climatology. The DWL adopting double-edge technique of Fabry-Perot etalon requires outgoing laser frequency to fall on the abrupt linear region of the transmittance curve of F-P etalon. Vibration and temperature variation would cause frequency shift, which will further induce...
Alberto Collu
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in nucleus-nucleus interactions at LHC energies.
In order to improve the ALICE physics capabilities, the apparatus will be substantially upgraded during the LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2). In particular, the Inner Tracking System will be replaced by a new detector based on an innovative radiation...
Andrea Triossi
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The CMS muon trigger will undergo considerable enhancements during Phase I upgrade. In order to improve rate reduction and efficiency the full muon trigger chain will be completely redesigned: the plan is to move from a redundant scheme, where the three subdetectors (CSC, DT, RPC) have a separate track finder, to three geographical track finders (barrel, endcap and overlap) that combine...
Dr
Federico Ravotti
(CERN)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The proton and mixed-field irradiation facilities in the CERN PS East Area (known as IRRAD1 and IRRAD2), were heavily and successfully exploited for irradiation of particle detectors, electronic components and materials since 1992. These facilities exploited the particle bursts - protons with momentum of 24GeV/c - delivered from the PS accelerator in “spills” of about 400ms (slow extraction)....
Miki Nishimura
(The University of Tokyo)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The MEG experiment searches for the charged lepton flavor violation, $\mu$ $\rightarrow$ e$\gamma$ decay, with an unprecedented sensitivity which is expected to occur in the context of the new physics beyond standard models.
The upgrade of the experiment (MEG-II) is planned to improve the sensitivity by another order of magnitude with a higher beam intensity and improved detector performance....
Laszlo Olah
(Eötvös Loránd University and Wigner RCP of the HAS)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
A portable tracking detector for muon radiography experiments
Cosmic muon radiography is a tool for examination of large scale objects via proper measurement of the absorption of the atmospheric muons. In this application of particle physics detectors standard HEP techniques encounter new challenges.
The REGARD group of Wigner RCP (Budapest) has developed a portable muon...
Cristian Alejandro Fuentes Rojas
(CERN)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The vertex detector is the innermost detector at the proposed CLIC linear electron-positron collider. It is composed of several layers of pixel sensors and readout ASICs, and the barrel region is made of “ladders”. The precision physics requirements limit the material budget for sensors, readout, support, cooling and cabling to less than 0.2% of a radiation length (X0) per detection layer....
Borislav Milanovic
(Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Nuclear Physics (IKF))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) will
be installed at the SIS-100/SIS-300 accelerators of the FAIR
facility, which is currently under construction at Darmstadt, Germany.
Its purpose is the study of hadronic matter in the region of highest
net baryon density with rare probes, e.g. open charm particles.
To reconstruct those particles, a Micro Vertex
Detector (MVD)...
Dr
Ming Zeng
(Tsinghua University)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
In past years, BLM systems have been designed and implemented for the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. The Bergoz BLM detector and direct-readout Si-PIN BLM detector were mixed used in the BLM systems, for different monitoring purpose of the linac, the booster and the storage ring. Si-PIN detector is excellent as it can get...
Dr
Ming Zeng
(Tsinghua University), Dr
Zhi Zeng
(Tsinghua University)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
A prototype of LaBr3:Ce in situ gamma-ray spectrometer for marine environmental monitoring is developed and applied for marine measurement. A 2-inch LaBr3:Ce scintillator is used in the detector, and a digital pulse process electronics is chosen as the pulse height analyzer. Both Ethernet and RS-485 are implemented as the data and control interface of the system, and a GPS module is also...
Mr
Daehee Lee
(KAIST)
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Poster
The impact from radiation to complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit which is used as read out circuit for high energy experiments or space satellite has been categorized into two problems: Total ionizing dose (TID) reflecting the long-period-time effects exists and the other is the single event effects (SEE) characterizing short time result. TID effect makes threshold voltages...
Giulio Aielli
(Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The architecture of the present trigger system in the ATLAS muon barrel was designed according to a reference luminosity of 1034 cm-2 s-1 with a safety factor of 5 with respect to the simulated background rates, confirmed by the 2012 data.
In the HL-LHC conditions, we expect a luminosity of 5x1034 cm-2 s-1 and a rate about an order of magnitude higher than the present one. This, while...
Tatsuhiko Tomita
(Kyushu University)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The International Large Detector(ILD) is a proposed detector for the International Linear Collider(ILC). It has been designed to achieve an excellent Jet Energy Resolution by using Particle Flow Algorithms (PFA), which rely on the ability to separate nearby particles within jets. PFA requires calorimeters with high granularity. The ILD Electromagnetic Calorimeter(ECAL) is a sampling...
Jingbo Ye
(Southern Methodist University, Department of Physics)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
We report the development of a VCSEL driver based on a commercial 0.25-micron silicon-on-sapphire CMOS technology. The driver is designed with a speed of 8 Gb/s with I2C configuration. The QFN packaged prototype measures up to 10 Gb/s in a miniature dual channel optical transmitter module called MTx. The ASIC and the custom MTx are prototypes for an optical link that is under development to...
Boxiang Yu
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
This talk introduces the aging experiment of JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) liquid scintillator (LS) with several containers. JUNO will need 20kt LS, and energy resolution of detector reach to 3%/E and LS detector will run 10-15 years, so LS stability and compatibility in containers is very important. The method and results of LS aging with containers are reported.
Dr
Alexandre Dyshkant
(Northern Illinois University)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The CALICE collaboration has been developing calorimetry for particle flow algorithms based detectors. To measure particle shower development, a finely segmented calorimeter optimized for PFA must consist of millions of channels. A scintillator-based calorimeter with cells of size 30 x 30 x 3 mm3 and read out with silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) shows great promise. The construction and...
Yasuyuki Okumura
(University of Chicago (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The Pulsar II is an FPGA-based full mesh enabled ATCA general purpose processor board, its design is motivated by the silicon-based tracking trigger needs for LHC experiments. Some of the main challenges of silicon-based tracking trigger are the complex data dispatching and the pattern recognition and track fitting. Data dispatching is where the hits from many thousands silicon modules must be...
Michelle Stancari
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
Between Run II commissioning in early 2001 and the end of
operations in September 2011,
the Tevatron collider delivered
12 inverse femtobarns of proton-antiproton collisions to the
Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). During that time, the
CDF silicon vertex detector was subject to radiation doses of up to 12
Mrad.
After the end of operations, the silicon detector was annealed for...
Dr
anil mane
(Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
Microchannel plates (MCPs) are excellent electron amplifiers and when incorporated into photodetectors they provide a combination of unique properties such as high gain, high spatial resolution, high temporal resolution and low dark current. MCPs can be used in wide variety of applications such as imaging spectroscopy, photodetectors for high energy physics and astronomy, time-of-flight mass...
Masaki Hori
(Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
Metastable pionic helium atoms $\pi{\rm He}^+$ are heretofore hypothetical three-body Coulomb systems composed of a helium nucleus, an electron occupying the 1s ground state, and a $\pi^-$ occupying a Rydberg state, with principal and orbital angular momentum quantum numbers of around $n\sim\ell+1=16$ [1-2]. The atom has been conjectured to explain the apparent metastability of $\pi^-$...
Mr
ALI DASTGHEIBI FARD
(CNRS/IN2P3/LSM (FR))
Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter Detectors
Poster
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The Spherical gaseous detector (or Spherical
Proportional Counter, SPC) is a novel type of particle detector, with a
broad range of applications. Its main features include a very low
capacitance, then a potential low energy threshold independent of the
volume, a good energy resolution, robustness and a single detection
readout channel. Applications range from radon...
Smita Darmora
(University of Texas at Arlington (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, the Tile Calorimeter (TileCal), is a non-compensating sampling calorimeter comprised of steel and scintillating plastic tiles which are read-out by photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The TileCal is regularly monitored and calibrated by several different calibration systems: a Cs radioactive source that illuminates the scintillating tiles directly, a laser light...
Dr
Atsuhiko Ochi
(Kobe University (JP))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
Carbon sputtering is a promising technology for making resistive electrodes for MPGDs. The research on this technology started in the context of the development of MicroMEGAS detectors for the ATLAS muon system upgrade. By sputtering carbon layers of varying thickness (a few hundred to a few thousand angstrom) the surface resistivity can be controlled between $400$ kΩ/sq. and $2$ GΩ/sq....
Matthew Wetstein
(University of Chicago)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector Collaboration (LAPPD) is developing economical techniques for fabricating large area, glass-body microchannel-plate photomultiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs), scalable for use in a variety of High Energy Physics applications. An important capability of these photosensors is in precision measurements of arrival times and positions of single photons. Prototype...
Dariusch Deermann
(Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
The $\overline{\text{P}}\text{ANDA}$-experiment will be one of the main
experiments inside the upcoming Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
(FAIR) at the GSI in Darmstadt. The fixed target experiment will explore
$\overline{\text{p}}$p annihilation in the charm mass region with intense,
phase space cooled beams with momenta between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c.
The innermost subdetector of...
Mr
Lin Qi
(Delft University of Technology)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
With PureB technology, Si photodiode detectors have been fabricated and commercialized with outstanding optical and electrical performance for low penetration-depth beams such as vacuum-/extreme-ultraviolet (VUV/EUV) light and low-energy electrons of which the minimum penetration depth in Si is only ~5 nm. The PureB layer is formed by a pure-boron chemical- vapor deposition (CVD) in a manner...
Prof.
Yasar Onel
(University of Iowa)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The Hadron Forward Calorimeter of CMS is going through a complete Phase I upgrade. The current photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are being replaced with thinner window, higher quantum efficiency, four-anode photomultiplier tubes. The new PMTs will provide better light detection performance, a significantly reduced background and unique handles to recover the signal in the presence of background....
Federico Sforza
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
For the upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in March 2014 new muon tracking chambers (sMDT) with drift-tubes of 15 mm diameter, half of the value of the standard ATLAS Monitored Drift-Tubes (MDT) chambers, and 10 $\mu m$ positioning accuracy of the sense wires have been constructed.
The new chambers are designed to be fully compatible with the present ATLAS services but, with respect to...
Dr
Dmitry Nagornyy
(Institute of Applied Physics, NAS of Ukraine)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
The term "Coordinate-sensitive microelectronic detector" means a device for one dimentional simultaneous detection of separated in the space electron flow, falling on the working surface of the detector. Laser mass spectrometry is one of the most beneficial applications of this detector, but these detectors can be successfully used in other areas where one-dimensional spatial detection of...
Dr
Bill Lee
(Fermilab)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
Located 350 feet beneath the surface the MINOS Underground Areas, at Fermilab provide a useful shallow testing site for Dark Matter Detector R&D. It is accessible 24hrs/day, 365 days/year, under normal circumstances, with minimal training. The area is fully supported by Fermilab staff and resources, including network capabilities and other utilities.
It has been used by the DAMIC and COUPP...
Karina Martin
(BINP)
Data-processing: 3c) Embedded software
Poster
Studies being performed nowadays in the field of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion, are continuously becoming more complex. They advance new challenges on the diagnostic equipment. Several of the basic requirements for a modern diagnostic technique are an easy scaling on multi-channel measurement systems, simultaneity of recording channels and the possibility of adapting the...
Dr
Massimo Della Pietra
(Engineering Dept, University of Naples “Parthenope” and INFN)
Emerging technologies: 4e) Precision engineering
Poster
The frontier evolution of a gaseous tracking particle detector technology has been moved in developing Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors that can achieve unprecedented spatial resolution, high rate capability and large sensitive area. However, also the geometry of such kind of tracking detector, in spite of the particular technology used, has to be known with a precision of the order of few tens of...
Dr
Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi
(NCMP-KACST-Saudi Arabia),
Abdulrahman Alghamdi
(KACST), Mr
Mohammad S. alanazi
(NCMP-KACST- Saudi Arabia)
Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcare
Poster
The Gas Electron Multiplier detectors technology is well known for its high counting rate, charge and position resolution capabilities. Under the umbrella of the KACST Detector Laboratory (KDL) project we have succeeded in designing, constructing and, operating a single channel small (10x10 cm2 ) GEM detector for radiation detection applications. The performances of the detector was tested...
Mircea Bogdan
(The University of Chicago)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
We present a design for increasing the buffer length from 25.6ns to 3.3us in a 2-channel prototype of PSEC5, a custom integrated circuit designed for analog-to-digital conversion of fast analog signals at a sampling rate between 5 and 15 Gigasamples/second. The prototype is being designed in the same 0.13um IBM-8RF CMOS process as the PSEC4 ASIC [1]. The major improvements are the increase of...
Stella Orfanelli
(National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
A fast and directional monitoring system for the CMS experiment is designed to provide an online, bunch-by-bunch measurement of beam background induced by beam halo interactions, separately for each beam. The background detection is based on Cherenkov radiation produced in synthetic fused silica read out by a fast, UV sensitive photomultiplier tube. Twenty detector units per end will be...
Dr
Abdullrahman H. Maghrabi
(NCMP - KACST - Saudi Arabia), Dr
Abdulrahman S. Alghamdi
(National Center for Mathematics and Physics, KACST)
Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcare
Poster
The main objective of this project is to develop a medical imaging system to be used in the two dimensions Proton dosimetry applications using the gas electron multiplier technology. These include designing and construction of the detector, readout board, and related electronics. The first step toward attaining the goal of this project is to build a prototype of triple-GEM detector (10cm...
clarence chang
(Argonne National Lab)
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Poster
SPT-3G is an ambitious focal plane upgrade for the South Pole Telescope
(SPT) platform. The SPT is one of the world's premier mm-wave
observatories and has been optimized for precision measurements of the
Cosmic Microwave Background. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing research
and development of multi-chroic Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometer
arrays which will be the detector...
Robert Jan Ekelhof
(Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker for the LHCb Upgrade (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15) is based on 2.5 m long
multi-layered ribbons from 10,000 km of scintillating fibre over 12 planes covering 350 m$^{2}$. The planes are separated
into modular detectors, each with cooled silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for photo-readout. In this talk, we will
present the construction and...
Hiroyuki Sako
(Japan Atomic Research Agency)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
We have been developing a TPC using GEMs and a gating grid to search for the H-dibaryon at J-PARC with high rate hadron beams up to 10^6 count per second (cps) /cm^2.
The TPC consists of an octagonal-shape drift cage of 50 cm diameter and 55 cm height, filled with Ar-CH_4 (90:10) gas, and the end cap chamber consisting of a gating grid plane, 3-layer GEMs, and a pad plane. The TPC is operated...
Dr
Anatoly Ronzhin
(Fermilab)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
One possibility to make a fast and radiation resistant shower maximum (SM) detector is to use a secondary emitter as an active element. We present below test beam results, obtained with different types of the photo detectors based on micro channel plates (MCP) as the secondary emitter. The SM time resolution - we obtained for this new type of detector is at the level of 20-30 ps. We estimate...
Dr
Erik Ramberg
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
Future calorimeters and shower maximum detectors at high luminosity accelerators need to be very radiation resistant and very fast. In this report we outline the study of the development of such detectors using microchannel plate (MCP) secondary emitters. The first proposal to use secondary emitters in such a detector can be found in Ref. [1]. Our research is based on the use of MCP secondary...
Fabrizio Petrucci
(Roma Tre Universita Degli Studi (IT)), Dr
Michela Biglietti
(INFN Roma Tre),
Paolo Iengo
(INFN Napoli (IT)),
Stefano Mastroianni
(INFN)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Cosmic ray tomography is a technique under development since years. It consists in using particle detectors to reconstruct the scattering angle of cosmic rays traversing the volume under inspection, thus revealing the presence of materials with high atomic number, as radioactive elements or heavy metals. Although the validity of the muon tomography has already been demonstrated, its use on a...
Joshua Abramovitch
(Southern Methodist University)
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
X-ray detectors currently on the market are expensive, costing thousands of dollars each and still limited in data acquisition options. The goal of this project is to create a device that can be used to accurately measure gamma and x-ray flux, calculate radiation dose rates, and be simple and inexpensive to produce. Developing an accurate and reliable system of measuring gamma and x-ray flux...
Lei Xia
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Traditionally RPCs use either Bakelite or glass as resistive plates.
Compared with other Micro-pattern gas detectors, RPCs are known to
suffer from rate limitations. The rate capability of the devices is
defined by the signal size, bulk resistivity of the resistive electrode
and the thickness of the electrode. We report on efforts to develop
low-resistivity Bakelite and glass, as well...
Kate Doonan
(University of Glasgow (GB))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
ATLAS is proposing to replace the entire tracking system for operation at the HL-LHC. This will include a significantly larger pixel detector. This paper reports on the development of large area planar detectors for the outer pixel layers and the pixel endcaps. Large area sensors have been fabricated and mounted onto 4 FE-I4 readout ASICs, so called quad-modules, and their performance...
Damien Neyret
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Future physics programs using high intensity muon and hadron beams of a few hundred GeV on fixed targets are being prepared by the COMPASS experiment at CERN for the years 2015 and beyond. Large size Micromegas gaseous detectors (40x40cm² active area) which are used in COMPASS tracking since 2001 need to be upgraded in order to cope with the foreseen higher beam intensities (up to a few...
Zelimir Djurcic
(A)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The LBNE (Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment) is the next generation accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment planned in US. The experiment will use a new muon-neutrino beam sent from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and will detect electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance using a Liquid Argon TPC located at a distance of 1300 km at Sanford Underground Research...
Prof.
Yoshiyuki Fukuda
(Depertment of Physics, Miyagi University of Education)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
An organic liquid scintillator containing zirconium complex was studied for neutrinosless double beta decay experiment. A $^{96}$Zr nuclei has a large Q-value (3.35MeV), and no experiment is planned to use as a target. In order to realize ton scale target isotope with good energy resolution (4\%@2.5MeV), we have used zirconium beta-diketon complex which has huge solubility (over 10w.t.\%)...
Mr
hiroshi ITO
(Chiba University)
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
We have developed a multipurpose aerogel Cherenkov counter (M-ACC) which works particle identification in a narrow space and can cover large area with arbitrary shapes. Generally, a size of photodetector which is required for aerogel Cherenkov detector tends to become bigger in proportion to an effective area. Therefore, it is difficult to make detector which has large area and thin width. We...
Ranjeet Dalal
(University of Delhi)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
During the high luminosity upgrade of LHC the CMS tracking system consisting of silicon pixel and strip sensors will face intense radiation environment than the present system was designed for. It is important to complement the measurements of the irradiated Si strip sensors with device simulation, which helps in both the understanding of the device behavior and optimizing the design...
Diego Real
(IFIC)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
The KM3NeT collaboration aims at the construction of a neutrino
telescope with a volume of several cubic kilometres at the bottom of
the Mediterranean Sea. The telescope will consist in an array of
Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) that will detect the Cherenkov light
originated by the interaction of the neutrinos with the matter in the
proximity of the detector. In the present...
Dr
Aldo Ianni
(INFN LNGS)
Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter Detectors
Poster
DarkSide-50 (DS-50) at Gran Sasso underground laboratory, Italy, is a
direct dark matter search experiment based on a TPC with liquid argon from
underground sources. The DS-50 TPC, with 50 kg of active argon and a
projected fiducial mass of >33 kg, is installed inside an active neutron
veto based on a boron-loaded organic scintillator. The neutron veto is
built inside a water cherenkov...
Dr
Ashok Kumar
(University of Delhi (IN))
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Oral
The gaseous detectors can be used in variety of applications including particle detection, medical imaging and radiological applications. We will present an extensive study of optical, structural and electrical properties performed for different electrode materials for gaseous detectors such as Resistive Plate Chambers. We also present the gas mixture composition studies with different gases...
Nicolo Tosi
(Universita e INFN Bologna (IT))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
In the context of increasing luminosity of LHC, it will be important to accurately measure the Machine Induced Background. A new monitoring system will be installed in the CMS cavern for measuring the beam background at high radius. This detector is composed of synthetic quartz Cherenkov radiators, coupled to fast photomultiplier tubes (PMT). The readout chain of this detector will make use of...
Coralie Neubuser
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
Within the CALICE collaboration different Calorimeter technologies are studied for a future linear collider. These technologies differ in active material, granularity and readout systems. The Analog Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCal) reads out the signal height of the energy deposition in each calorimeter cell, while the digital HCal detects hits by firing RPC pad sensors above a certain threshold....
Hanno Perrey
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
A high resolution ($\sigma \sim 2\mu m$) beam telescope based on monolithic
active pixel sensors was developed within the EUDET collaboration. It
has become the primary beam tool for many groups including several
CERN based experiments, largely due to its precise resolution,
reliable operation and DAQ integration capabilities. For the telescope
to deliver this excellent performance, two...
Alexey Finkel
(University of Minnesota (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The CMS Hadron Calorimeter is undertaking a upgrade of front-end electronics which increases the channel count by a factor of three and adds additional TDC data. To transfer the larger data volume off-detector, CMS is evaluating a commercial FPGA with integrated high-speed serial link for use in the radiation environment. This talk will report on the studies of the candidate device under...
Michael Planer
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
Calorimetry for the CMS detector is currently performed at the LHC with a lead tungstate crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) and a brass/scintillator hadronic calorimeter (HCAL), both divided into barrel and endcap regions. High-Luminosity running at the LHC, which is planned for 2022 and beyond, will imply an order of magnitude increase in radiation levels and particle fluences with...
Christopher Betancourt
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
A number of measurements have recently reported a type of gain effect in silicon detectors for particle physics. This effect manifests itself in signal levels that significantly exceed expectations and in some cases even the signal charge generated by a passing MIP. The excess charge is seen in particular for heavily irradiated sensors operated at very high bias voltages. It is believed that...
Carlos Maximiliano Mollo
(INFN)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The Vacuum Silicon PhotoMultiplier Tube (VSiPMT) is an innovative design that we proposed for the first time at the 11th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD08) in Siena, triggering deep discussions on the feasibility of the device itself and on the convenience of such an idea. The basic idea is to replace the classical dynode chain of a PMT with a SiPM, which...
Carlos Oliveira
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
High Pressure Gaseous Xenon shows outstanding intrinsic energy resolutions when compared with the liquid phase due to the smaller (~20x) Fano factor. The gaseous phase should also show better electron to nuclear recoil discrimination based on the ratio of ionization to scintillation signals (S2/S1).
The addition of trimethylamine (TMA) may further improve the energy resolution due to the...
Herve Chanal
(Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during the next LHC shutdown in 2018/19. The tracker system will have a major overhaul.
Its components will be replaced with new technologies in order to cope with the increased hit occupancy and radiation
environment. A detector made of scintillating fibres read out by silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) is studied for this
upgrade. Even if this technology...
Ivo Polak
(Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The gain of SiPMs depends both on bias voltage and on temperature. For
stable operations, both need to be kept constant. In an ILC calorimeter with
millions of channels this is a challenging task. It is, therefore, desirable
to compensate automatically for temperature variations by readjusting the
bias voltage. We have designed an adaptive power supply to achieve this
task. We anticipate...
Alexey Badalov
(University of Barcelona (ES))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
During the second long shutdown in 2017, the beam will undergo an intensity increase. This will place an increased load on the hardware, necessitating an upgrade. One potentially very cost-effective way to add computational power would be to replace some of the CPU cores with graphics processing units or other modern many-core hardware.
A number of people is currently working on GPU versions...
Stefano Riboldi
(Universita' degli Studi di Milano)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment, investigating neutrino-less double beta decay of 76Ge at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of INFN - Italy is currently upgrading to phase II, in order to improve both its sensitivity and background rejection capabilities.
Many technological improvements are foreseen during the planned upgrade; among what most concerns the core of the GERDA...
Antonio Sidoti
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
General Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) provide exceptional
massive parallel computing power with small power consumption. GPGPU
bring high performance computing with off-the-shelf products. However
the full exploitation of this new computing paradigm will not be
possible if software applications only partially employs massive
parallelism.
High Energy Physics experiments have...
Naomi van der Kolk
(LAL/LLR/CNRS/P2IO)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The physics goals of future lepton colliders ask for a very precise measurement of the jet energy. Highly granular calorimeters will play an important part in achieving this high precision as they allow the application of Particle Flow Algorithms. These calorimeters are being developed by the CALICE collaboration and several prototypes have already been build and tested.
The optimization...
Dr
Rok Pestotnik
(Jozef Stefan Institute)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
Silicon photo multipliers are promising candidates to replace
the photomultiplier tubes in Ring Imaging Cherenkov counters. Their main advantages are high gain, low operational voltage, insensitivity to magnetic fields, robust and compact design. Their big disadvantage for single photon detection is their high dark count rate, which is of the order of 0.1-1 MHz/mm$^2$. We have however...
Philipp Schwegler
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
The Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) chambers of the ATLAS experiment provide muon track reconstruction with a spatial resolution of about 35 µm and efficiency of almost 100% up to the maximum expected background rates at nominal LHC luminosity. For much higher background rates, as they are anticipated for LHC luminosity upgrades (HL-LHC), sMDT chambers with 15 mm tube diameter, which is half the...
Mr
David Calvo
(IFIC)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
Precise measurements on time intervals (TIs) are frequently needed in many physics applications such as particle detection. Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) perform conversion of TIs into a digital word. In the case of KM3NeT, thirty-one TDCs are used to discretize the photomultiplier output. Both the event width and the instant when it happens, require an accuracy of 1 ns. An oversampling...
DONG-UK KANG
(KAIST)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
This study is concerned with the simulation and design of a high-speed photon counting readout circuit for spectral computed tomography detectors. We propose a novel front-end architecture aimed at reducing dead time by introducing multi signal paths in each pixel. A prototype chip using 0.18um six-metal standard CMOS process is consisting of 16 x 16 pixels and periphery circuits. Each pixel...
Dr
Duc Bao Ta
(Michigan State University (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The Level-‐1 calorimeter trigger (L1Calo) of the ATLAS experiment has been operating well since the start of LHC data taking, and played a major role in the Higgs boson discovery. To face the new challenges posed by the upcoming increases of the LHC proton beam energy and luminosity, a series of upgrades is planned for L1Calo. This paper presents the L1Calo upgrade program for the initial...
Alexander Cheplakov
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
At the proposed high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) the readout electronics of the ATLAS Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter (HEC) will have to withstand a much harsher radiation environment than is present at the LHC design luminosity. The heart of HEC read-out electronics is the pre-amplifier and summing (PAS) system, which is realized in GaAs ASIC technology. These PAS devices are installed inside the...
Dr
Angelo Cruciani
(University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
Large-mass arrays of bolometers proved to be good detectors for Neutrinoless Beta Decay (0vDBD) and Dark Matter (DM) searches. The CUORE and LUCIFER 0vDBD experiments at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso will start to take data in 2015. The potential of CUORE could be increased by removing the background due to alpha particles, by detecting the small amount of Cherenkov light (100 eV)...
Mr
Miguel Mendez
(Seven Solutions)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
KM3NeT collaboration aims to build a cubic-kilometre scale neutrino telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT is composed of an On-Shore Station which connects via an optical network to a matrix of underwater sensors, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs). Bulk data will continuously flow from the sensors to the On-Shore Station and only a limited amount of bandwidth will be...
Mr
Benjamin Crider
(University of Kentucky), Prof.
Rodney Piercey
(Eastern Kentucky University)
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The University of Kentucky Acceleratory Laboratory (UKAL), a facility that possesses unique experimental capabilities for the scattering and detection of monoenergetic fast neutrons, has recently invested in updating its data acquisition capabilities. Starting with a new system for high-precision singles measurements, where subsequent analysis leads to the extraction of lifetimes in the...
Prof.
Panagiotis Liaparinos
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, 12210 Athens, Greece)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
Abstract: Inorganic scintillating crystals are employed as radiation to light converters in most medical imaging modalities. This study presents a comparative investigation of the luminescence emission properties of LFS-3 (Zecotek Photonics Inc) and GAGG:Ce (Furukawa Co Ltd) single crystal scintillators under medical X-ray excitation. Both scintillating materials have dimensions of 10x10x10mm3...
Ettore Segreto
(INFN)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Oral
We present the results obtained with a liquid argon scintillation
detector with light read-out completely based on SiPM. We used a 1 liter PTFE chamber observed by an array of 7 large area SiPMs (Hamamatsu S11828-3344M) covering about the 4% of the internal surface. The chamber is lined with a reflective foil (3M VIKUITI) evaporated with a
wavelength shifter (TetraPhenyl Butadiene). This...
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Axion helioscopes search for solar axions by their conversion in x-rays in the presence of high magnetic fields. The use of low background x-ray detectors is an essential component contributing to the sensitivity of these searches. In this work, we review the recent advances on Micromegas detectors used in the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and proposed for the future International Axion...
Federico Lasagni Manghi
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The ATLAS luminosity monitor, LUCID, has been completely redesigned.
Both the detector and the associated read-out electronics have been improved in order to cope with the LHC luminosity increase foreseen for RUN 2 and RUN 3.
The new operating conditions will require a careful tuning of the read-out electronics in order to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio. The new read-out electronics...
Dr
Stratos David
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Athens)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
Many of the contemporary photonics technologies dealing with detection of radiation owe their existence to diverse scintillation materials. The scintillators play a decisive role in the registration of X-rays and γ-quanta necessary in many fields of application in industry, medicine, fundamental research, and security where they are used to convert high-energy photons into visible light....
Jessica Lynn Leonard
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The measurement of the luminosity delivered by the LHC is pivotal for several key physics analyses. During the first three years of running, tremendous steps forwards have been made in the comprehension of the subtleties related to luminosity monitoring and calibration, which led to an unprecedented accuracy at a hadron collider. The detectors and corresponding algorithms employed to estimate...
Dr
Huirong Qi
(Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
With the continuous development of the micro-structure of gaseous detectors in recent years, a lot of the new detection requirements have been proposed in synchrotron radiation facility. To get the stable working time, lower discharge rate with long working term and higher effective gain, the new structure detector has been designed. One structure was based the coated Ge resistive anode...
Norman Anthony Graf
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
Geant4 is the de facto HEP standard for simulating the interaction of particles with materials and fields. The software toolkit provides a very rich library of basic geometrical shapes, often referred to as “primitives”, plus the ability to define compound geometries, making it capable of supporting extremely complex physical structures. Current versions of Geant4 fully and natively support an...
Dr
Silvia Dalla Torre
(INFN Trieste)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Oral
Driven by the availability of modern photolithographic techniques, the Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) have been introduced in the last years of the 20th century by pioneer activities: Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) and Micromegas, later followed by thick-GEM, resistive GEM (RETGEM) and novel micro-pattern devices. Nowadays, a flourishing of R&D activities dedicated to MPGDs and of...
Vladimir Yurevich
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
Nowadays the TOF measurement with picosecond time resolution is important feature in high-energy physics experiments and the detectors solving this task are important part of experimental setups.
The initial point of our activity in this direction was a proposal of Fast Forward Detector (FFD) for MPD/NICA project [1]. The detector concept and results obtained with the first version of...
Dr
Anna Mazzacane
(Fermilab)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
A Multi-Tev Muon Collider is currently being studied by the Muon Accelerator Project (MAP).
Experiments at the Muon Collider will need to cope with intense backgrounds from decays
of muon beams.
Physics and detector studies including full simulation of muon decay backgrounds are
underway. We report on some of these studies utilizing the ILCroot detector simulation
framework integrated...
Dr
Jonathan Burns
(AWE)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Muon scattering tomography (MST) allows the identification of shielded high atomic number, or Z materials by measuring the scattering angle of atmospheric cosmic ray muons passing through an inspection region. Materials of different densities can be differentiated using this technique as muons interacting with high-Z materials are scattered to a greater degree by multiple Coulomb scattering...
Ewa Skup
(Fermilab)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The Multiwire Proportional Chamber Tracking System at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility has been upgraded. Improvements include a renovation of the chambers themselves to vastly improve noise on the signals. An extensive study was done to find the most efficient gas for operation, and a completely new electronics read-out system has been created to improve reliability, and system...
David Calvo
(IFIC)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
A very large volume neutrino telescope is being constructed in the Mediterranean Sea by the KM3NeT collaboration. Thousands of glass spheres holding a set of 31 small area photomultipliers will be deployed at high depth forming a tri-dimensional matrix. The glass spheres, called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), will detect the Cerenkov light induced by neutrino interactions with the surrounding...
Mr
Erik Etzelmüller
(Justus-Liebig-Univeristät Gießen), Mr
Julian Rieke
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The DIRC-principle (detection of internally reflected Cherenkov light) allows a very compact approach for particle identification detectors. The PANDA detector at the future FAIR facility at GSI will use a Barrel-DIRC for the central region and a Disc-DIRC for the forward angular region between 5 and 22 degrees.
It will be the first time, that a Disc-DIRC is used in a high performance 4π...
Aria Soha
(Fermilab)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
A new area for beam tests of high rate tracking devices is being commissioned at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. The new area is in the MTest beam line upstream of the pinhole collimator in the MT3 Alcove. This area is suitable for tests of detectors with modest transverse dimensions. High rate tests will use 120 GeV protons. The maximum rate available is approximately 2.5 GHz/cm2(1E10...
Rinaldo Santonico
(Universita e INFN Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Poster
RPCs presently working in many accelerator and cosmic ray experiments are made up with resistive plates of phenolic laminate (improperly referred to as “bakelite”) or glass. They are operated with gas mixtures mostly constituted of C2H2F4, i-C4H10, and small amounts of SF6. In the next future however all these materials should be reconsidered for different reasons. Indeed for the resistive...
Dr
Esther Ferrer Ribas
(DAPNIA, Saclay)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Small gap micromegas detectors ($< 50\,\rm\mu$m) are expected to be optimal for high pressure applications. These detectors are particularly relevant for rare event searches like double beta decay or dark matter search. We will present recent results obtained with small gap microbulks (25 and 12.5\,$\rm\mu$m) that have been manufactured recently. Electric field simulations taking into account...
Deepak Gajanana
(NIKHEF)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The KM3NeT collaboration is building a large underwater neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. The detector operates by detecting Cherenkov light produced by the charged products of neutrino interactions in seawater. The detection is done by
digital optical modules (DOMs), which each house 31 3 inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). A custom, low power, PMT base was developed to provide the...
Martina Malberti
(University of California Riverside (US))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The CMS silicon tracker is the largest silicon detector ever built. It consists of an inner pixel detector, with 66 million read-out channels, and an outer 200 m² silicon strip detector with 10 millions channels. The successful operation of this detector during the first three years of LHC running with proton-proton and heavy ion collisions will be discussed. Results will include operational...
Norman Anthony Graf
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
We describe a software toolkit for full event simulation and reconstruction in silicon tracking detectors. It features modular packages providing sophisticated simulations of the response of silicon detectors to the passage of charged particles. Sensor classes allow very detailed descriptions of charge carrier movement in silicon detectors: one can list the collecting, absorbing and reflecting...
Dr
Anna Mazzacane
(Fermilab)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The $K^+\to\pi^+\nu \bar\nu~$ decay is highly suppressed in the Standard Model (SM), while its rate can be
predicted with minimal theoretical uncertainty.
Precision measurement of the the branching ratio (BR) for this decay would be thus one of the most incisive probes
of quark flavor physics in the next years.
The primary sensitivity goal of the ORKA experiment is 1000 events at the...
Moritz Guthoff
(CERN)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
At CMS, a beam loss monitoring system is operated to protect the silicon detectors from high particle rates, arising from intense beam loss events. As detectors, poly-crystalline CVD diamond sensors are placed around the beam pipe at several locations inside CMS. In case of extremely high detector currents, the LHC beams are automatically extracted from the LHC rings.
Diamond is the...
Prof.
Kazu Carvalho Akiba
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
LHCb is a dedicated experiment to study New Physics in the decays of heavy hadrons at the LHC. Heavy hadrons are identified through their flight distance in the Vertex Locator (VELO), hence the detector is critical for both the trigger and offline physics analyses.
The VELO is the retractable silicon-strip detector surrounding the LHCb interaction point. It is located only 7 mm from the LHC...
Mr
Ludovic Raux
(OMEGA Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS/IN2P3)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
In the framework of CALICE, EUDET and AIDA programs, technological prototypes for ILC calorimetry have been developped. They rely dout ASIC on highly integrated readout ASICs to perform signal readout, auto-trigger and energy measurement over several millions of channels. Ultra-low power is achieved thanks to power pulsing, which must maintain calorimetric performance. The chips developped...
Hiroko Miyamoto
(LAL/Univ. Paris-SudXI/IN2P3/CNRS)
Experiments: 2b) Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
Poster
Here the performance of EUSO-BALLOON front-end electronics with dedicated detector elements will be reported.
EUSO-BALLOON is a balloon-borne pathfinder of the space-borne fluorescence detector JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on board Japanese Experimental Module) on board the International Space Station.
The goal of EUSO-BALOON is to perform as a technological demonstrator of...
Christian Jendrysik
(Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max-Planck-Society)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
In recent years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) profited from ongoing developments and improvements in technology, leading to devices having the potential to replace conventional photomultiplier tubes. The Geiger-mode operation of a SiPM requires a high-ohmic quench resistor, which is usually realized in conventional devices by a structured polysilicon layer on the surface, leading to a...
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Pre-research of Front-end readout electronics system for APD detectors for synchrotron radiation
qiuju li
(I)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
Since many types of the silicon avalanche photodiode (Si-APD) detector have been developed for synchrotron X-ray experiments on nuclear resonant scattering, a readout electronics system scheme is introduced which includes front-end electronics for amplification, shaping circuit, analog to digital converter and data processing and so on. The designing of the pre-amplifier is described. The...
Dr
Anna Mazzacane
(Fermilab)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The physics program at future colliders demands an energy resolution of the calorimetric component of detectors at the limits of traditional techniques.
The ADRIANO technology (*A Dual-readout Integrally Active Non-segmented Option*) is under development with an expected excellent performance.
Results from detailed Montecarlo studies on the performance with respect to energy...
218.
Preparing Electrons and Photons High Level Trigger Reconstruction in CMS for Run II data taking
Simon Regnard
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The CMS experiment has been designed with a 2-level trigger system. The first level is implemented on custom-designed electronics. The second level is the so-called High Level Trigger (HLT), a streamlined version of the CMS offline reconstruction software running on a computer farm. For Run II of the Large Hadron Collider, the increase in center-of-mass energy and luminosity will raise the...
Dr
Makoto Tabata
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
This paper presents recent progress in developing a spiral fiber tracker for use in the E36 experiment scheduled to be performed at J-PARC, Japan. This positive kaon decay experiment using the stopped kaon method will search for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics through precision measurements of lepton flavor universality, heavy sterile neutrino search, and dark photon...
Daniel Joseph Bullock
(University of Texas at Arlington (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
Prometeo is the portable test-bench for the full certification of the front-end electronics of the ATLAS Tile calorimeter designed for the upgrade phase-II. It is a high throughput electronics system designed to simultaneously read-out all the samples from 12 channels at the LHC bunch crossing frequency and assess the quality of the data in real-time. The core of the system is a Xilinx Virtex...
Sebastian Laurien
(University of Hamburg)
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
Within the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future linear collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now lies on improving their implementation in "engineering prototypes", that are scalable to the full linear collider detector. The Analog Hadron Calorimeter...
Alessia Cemmi
(ENEA UTTMAT Casaccia (RM) and INFN Sezione di Roma (IT))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
Optical coupling materials are usually applied to ensure good optical matching in the APD-scintillating crystal detection system. High transparency at the scintillating emission wavelength and material stability under irradiation are recommended requirements.
In this work, silicon optical grease (BC630) and two-component epoxy resins (Epo-tek 301-2FL and Epo-tek 305), to be employed in...
417.
Radiation-hard Active Pixel Sensors for HL-LHC Detector Upgrades based on HV/HR-CMOS Technology
Ivan Peric
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
We explore the concept of using deep-submicron HV-CMOS and imaging processes to produce a drop-in replacement for traditional radiation-hard silicon sensors. Unlike fully integrated monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS), such active sensors contain simple circuits, e.g. amplifiers and discriminators, but still require a readout chip - which can be a traditional strip or pixel readout chip or...
Alina Ivanova
(I)
Data-processing: 3c) Embedded software
Poster
The International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (ITER) is a large-scale scientific experiment intended to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, and to collect the data necessary for the design and subsequent operation of the first electricity-producing fusion power plant. ITER is an experimental nuclear reactor operating with a magnetic toroidal field of 5.3 T, plasma current of...
Silke Altenheiner
(TU Dortmund)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
In the framework of the HL-LHC upgrade, the ATLAS experiment plans to introduce an all-silicon inner tracker with the HL-LHC upgrade to cope with the elevated occupancy.
To investigate the suitability of pixel sensors using the proven planar technology for the upgraded tracker, the ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project was established comprising 19 institutes and more than 90 scientists....
Dr
Makoto Tabata
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
This paper presents recent progress in the development and mass production of large area hydrophobic silica aerogels for use as a radiator in the aerogel-based ring-imaging Cherenkov (A-RICH) counter that will be installed in the forward end cap of the Belle II detector under upgrade at KEK, Japan. The proximity-focusing A-RICH system is especially designed to identify charged pions and kaons...
Shoichiro Nishimura
(The Univ. of Tokyo)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
The muon’s anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) was measured with 0.54ppm accuracy. There is 3.3 sigma discrepancy between the SM prediction and measured value. Muon’s electric dipole moment (EDM) limit is 10^-19 e・cm. The muon g-2/EDM at J-PARC (E34), aims to reach a sensitivity of 0.1 ppm, and try to measure EDM down to 10^-21 e・cm sensitivity.
In this experiment, we accelerate muon to the 300...
Jose Manuel Cela Ruiz
(Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The first layer of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) DT (Drift Tube) readout system is built around the ROBs (Read Out Boards), which are responsible for the time measurement of the chamber signals to allow reconstruction of charged particle tracks with a resolution of 250 μm per cell.
ROB boards have shown an excellent performance during LHC operation and are expected to continue their...
Dr
Kazuki Ueno
(KEK)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The COMET experiment at J-PARC aims to search for the charged lepton flavor violating process of neutrinoless $\mu$-e conversion with an improvement of a sensitivity by a factor of 10000 to the current limit. When the $\mu$-e conversion occurs, almost all the energy of the muon mass is carried out by the electron which is expected to have the monochromatic energy of about 105 MeV. In order to...
Richard French
(University of Sheffield (GB))
Emerging technologies: 4e) Precision engineering
Poster
The existing luminosity of the LHC will be increased in stages to a factor of 10 above its current level (HL-LHC) by 2022. This planned increase in luminosity results in significantly higher levels of radiation inside the planned ATLAS Upgrade detector. This means existing detector technologies together with new components and materials need to be re-examined to evaluate their performance and...
Anna Soter
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
The Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN [1,2] recently constructed segmented scintillators to detect and track charged pions emerging from antiproton annihilations [3]. The detectors were designed to accompany a future superconducting radiofrequency Paul trap for antiprotons, but some of the modules...
Thomas Conneely
(University of Leicester)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
The next generation Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for particle ID applications, at CERN, PANDA, and others place stringent requirements on photon detectors, with potentially high magnetic fields unaligned with the detector’s optical axis, high event rates challenging detector lifetime, high density multi-anode readout and a high time resolution requirement typically less than 50 ps....
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Simulations of Inter-Strip Capacitance and Resistance for the Design of the CMS Tracker Upgrade
Thomas Eichhorn
(DESY)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
An upgrade of the LHC accelerator, the high luminosity phase of the LHC is
foreseen for 2023. The tracking system of the CMS experiment at HL-LHC will face
an intenser radiation environment than the present system was designed for. This
requires an upgrade of the full tracker, which will be equipped with higher
granularity as well as radiation harder sensors, which can withstand...
Dr
Christopher Tunnell
(Nikhef)
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The XENON1T will soon be the world's largest and most-sensitive dark matter experiment. Dark-matter particles would be detected by their interaction with 2.2 tonnes of liquid xenon viewed by approximately 250 PMTs. In order to calibrate our detector, we must use radioactive sources that will result in roughly 300 MB/s of data coming from the flash ADC boards connected to our PMTs. An overview...
Vadim Babkin
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
Multigap resistive plate chambers have proven to be the best choice for time-of-flight systems of large experiments such as ALICE, STAR, PHENIX. In the MPD experiment aimed at the study of hot and dense baryonic matter it has been also decided to use MRPCs. To reduce the number of TOF system channels it is advisable to use readout from each end of a strip. Several different prototypes of...
Paolo De Remigis
(INFN)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) is the innermost sensitive layer of the PANDA
experiment at the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (Fair). The MVD
will be composed of two kind of sensors: hybrid pixels and double sided strips.
The front end electronics of the MVD will be placed at a few centimetres from
the interaction point, where high radiation levels are expected. Therefore...
Eric Shearer Hazen
(Boston University (US))
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
The AMC13 provides clock, timing and DAQ service for many subdetectors in the CMS
experiment at CERN, as well as the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The module hardware
was recently upgraded to support 10 gigabit optical fiber and backplane interfaces. New
firmware is now under development to support arbitrarily large event fragments from 12 AMC
cards with up to 3 simultaneous output...
David Zou
(Boston University (US)),
Eric Shearer Hazen
(Boston University (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The AMC13 provides clock, timing and DAQ service for many subdetectors
in the CMS experiment at CERN, as well as the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. The module hardware was recently upgraded to support 10 gigabit
optical fiber and backplane interfaces. New firmware is now under development
to support arbitrarily large event fragments from 12 AMC cards with up to 3
simultaneous output...
Konstantinos Ntekas
(National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN foresees a luminosity increase by a factor 5 compared to the LHC. To cope with the corresponding rate increase, the ATLAS detector needs to be upgraded. The upgrade will proceed in two steps: Phase I in the LHC shutdown 2018/19 and Phase II in 2023-25. The largest of the ATLAS Phase-1 upgrades concerns the replacement of the first...
Semi conductor tracker Atlas SCT collaboration
(ATLAS)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
We report on the operation and performance of the ATLAS Semi-Conductor Tracker (SCT), which has been functioning for 3 years at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The SCT is constructed of 4088 silicon detector modules. We find 99% of the 6.3 million strips are operational, the noise occupancy and hit efficiency exceed the design specifications; the alignment is very close to the ideal to...
Petar Kevin Rados
(University of Melbourne (AU))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
In the Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, the strategies for triggering will become more important than ever for physics analyses. The ATLAS tau trigger system combines information from the tracking and calorimetry detectors to identify the signature of tau lepton hadronic decays. Under the demanding, high luminosity environment of Run 2 at the LHC experiment (with instantaneous luminosities...
Burak Bilki
(University of Iowa (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The large CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype (DHCAL) was built in 2009 - 2010 and was tested in the Fermilab and CERN test beams. The DHCAL uses Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active media and is read out with 1 x 1 cm2 pads and digital (or 1 - bit) resolution. With a world record of nearly 480k readout channels, the DHCAL offers the possibility to study hadronic interactions with...
Paolo Musico
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
The KM3NeT deep sea neutrino observatory will include a very large number of
multi-Photomultiplier (PMT) optical modules (DOM) to detect the
Cherenkov light generated by secondary particles produced in neutrino interactions.
The Central Logic Board (CLB) has been developed to acquire timing and amplitude
information from the PMT signals, implementing time-to-digital conversion...
Mr
Alexandre Zabi
(Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The CMS experiment implements a sophisticated two-level online selection system that achieves a rejection factor of nearly 10e5. The first level (L1) is based on coarse information coming from the calorimeters and the muon detectors while the High-Level Trigger combines fine-grain information from all sub-detectors. During Run II, the LHC will increase its centre of mass energy up to 13 TeV...
Prof.
Jeremy Mans
(University of Minnesota (US))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The CMS central hadron calorimeters will undergo a complete replacement of their data
acquisition system electronics. The replacement is phased, with portions of the replacement
starting in 2014 and continuing through LHC Long Shutdown 2 in 2018. The existing VME
electronics will be replaced with a µTCA based system. New on-detector QIE electronics cards will be transmit data at 4.8 GHz...
Jim Freeman
(Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The CMS central hadron calorimeters will undergo an extensive upgrade before LHC Run 3
which will occur in 2019. The upgrade is based on replacement of the current HPD with SIPMs
read out into a new ADC, the QIE11. Longitudinal segmentation of the HCAL will be increased
by about 3X depending on eta. The entire front and back end electronics will be replaced with a
3X higher bandwidth...
Michael Planer
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide unprecedented instantaneous and integrated luminosity. The lead tungstate crystals forming the barrel part of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) will still perform well, even after the expected 3000 fb-1 at the end of HL-LHC. The avalanche photodiodes (APDs) used to detect the scintillation light have recently been exposed to the levels of...
Michael Planer
(University of Notre Dame (US))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide unprecedented instantaneous and integrated luminosity. The lead tungstate crystals forming the barrel part of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) will still perform well, even after the expected 3000 fb-1 at the end of HL-LHC. The avalanche photodiodes (APDs) used to detect the scintillation light have recently been exposed to the levels of...
Miguel Angel Olivan
(Universidad de Zaragoza)
Experiments: 2d) Dark Matter Detectors
Poster
ANAIS (Annual modulation with NAI Scintillators) experiment will look for dark matter annual modulation with 250 Kg of ultrapure NaI scintillators at the Canfranc Underground Labroratory (LSC). The detector will consist of 20 close-packed single modules, each of them coupled to two photomultipliers (PMTs) working in coincidence. An electronic chain and data acquisition system (DAQ) have been...
Dr
Lisa Kaufman
(Indiana University)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
The Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) is an experimental program designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136. Observation of this decay would determine an absolute mass scale for neutrinos, prove that neutrinos are massive Majorana particles (i.e. they are their own anti-particles), and constitute physics beyond the Standard Model. The first phase experiment called...
Henry J. Frisch
(Univ of Chicago)
Sensors: 1d) Photon Detectors
Poster
We present the design for the `Frugal Tile', an all-glass MCP-PMT with
an active area of 400 square centimeters. The LAPPD glass tile module
was designed to be simple, with: a) a hermetic package made of top and
bottom plates and a rectangular sidewall, each made of water-jet-cut plate
glass; b) an internal stack consisting of 2 glass capillary plates
functionalized with Atomic Layer...
Massimiliano Fiorini
(Universita di Ferrara (IT))
Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcare
Poster
The aim of the GAP project is the deployment of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in real-time applications, ranging from online event selection (trigger) in high energy physics (HEP) experiments to medical imaging reconstruction. The final goal of the project is to demonstrate that GPUs have a positive impact in sectors different for rate, bandwidth, and computational intensity.
The relevant...
Michelle Stancari
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Experiments: 2c) Detectors for neutrino physics
Poster
Fermilab has an extensive program of research and development for
liquid argon detectors encompassing purification and cryogenics,
readout electronics, photon detection and high voltage.
The current status and future plans
of this program will be presented, with an emphasis on
recent results from the Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator (LAPD).
Removing electronegative
impurities from...
Dr
Alain Delbart
(CEA/Irfu, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
CEA-Irfu developed a new device, called MINOS (MagIc Numbers Off Stability), to improve both the luminosity and the sensitivity of proton-induced knockout reactions experiments performing in-beam spectroscopy of very exotic nuclei produced at fragmentation facilities (such as RIBF at RIKEN in Japan and FAIR in Germany). Its innovative approach is that it uses a compact annular 300 mm long Time...
Michael Gericke
(University of Manitoba)
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The MOLLER collaboration is currently preparing an experiment to measure the Weak charge of the electron to a fractional accuracy of 2.3% at very low momentum transfer, using parity violating electron scattering. At this precision, the experiment will be sensitive to the interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral current amplitudes as weak as $10^{-3}\cdot G_{F}$. The...
Dr
Francesco Gonnella
(LNF (IT))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The aim of the NA62 experiment is to measure the BR(K+ -> pi+ nu nu bar) to within about 10%.
The large-angle photon vetoes (LAVs) must detect particles with better than 1 ns time resolution and 10% energy resolution over a very large energy range in order to reject the dominant background.
A low threshold, large dynamic range, Time-over-threshold based solution has been developed for the...
Mr
Wenhao You
(University of Science and Technology of China), Mr
Yi Zhou
(University of Science&Technology of China),
cheng li
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
NS2 technology is a newly developed self-stretch technology for the construction of the large area gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector. Using the NS2 technology, we have built a 30cm×30cm GEM detector. This R&D work includes the mechanical design for detector frames and test setup. The detector is assembled and tested in the state key laboratory of particle detection and electronics at...
Giuseppina Anzivino
(University of Perugia and INFN (IT))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
NA62 is the last generation kaon experiment at CERN. Its main goal is to measure the branching ratio of the ultra-rare decay K+→π+ννbar with 10% accuracy and background contamination at the 10% level. Given the tiny branching ratio of this decay, O(10E-10), to fulfil such request the main background process K+→μ+ν (BR ~63%) must be suppressed by a rejection factor of 4x10E-13. This is...
Dr
Bin Cheng
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
Positron lifetime - momentum correlation spectrometer (AMOC) is a important method to analysize material structures using positron annihilation technology. However a key problem of low count rates need to be tackled. A noval geometry and scintillator architectures with the AMOC spectrometer is designed to promote the spectrometer count rates. A well-shape BaF2 scintillator is employed to...
Marina Artuso
(Syracuse University (US))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The LHCb upgrade requires replacing the silicon strip tracker between the vertex locator and the magnet. A new design has been developed and tested based on the "stave" concept planned for the ATLAS upgrade. We will describe the new detector being constructed and show its improved performance in charged particle tracking.
Prof.
Xiaoshan JIANG
(IHEP C.A.S.)
Data-processing: 3a) Front-end Electronics
Poster
This post is to introduce the study of the electroncs design for the upgrade of the Endcap TOF of BESIII. MRPC will be used as the main detector unit. Two methods were studied. The first one is to use NINO and HPTDC, which have already be used in ALICE. And the second one is to use a self-designed ASIC with TOT function and use sampling chip to get the waveful the to caculate the time and...
DONG-UK KANG
(KAIST),
Daehee Lee
(KAIST), Mr
Kim MyungSoo
(KAIST)
Sensors: 1b) Semiconductor Detectors
Poster
Typical in-direct X-ray image sensor have used a upper scientillator, which is like CsI(Tl) or Gd2O2S. In soft X-ray imaging for mammography, most of X-ray Energy is absorbed a surface of scientillator. Thus, MTF and sensitivity of image sensor can be decreased. In our study, we adapted a upside-down structure, which has bottom sided scientillator of image sensor. In MCNP and LightTools...
Serge Duarte Pinto
(Technische Universiteit Delft (NL))
Sensors: 1e) Novel technologies
Poster
We present the Delft initiatives in thermal neutron detection, a field that has been dominated by 3-He gaseous detectors. Our developments will be tested at the research reactor of the TU Delft, but the group also designs and builds instruments for partner institutes like ISIS, UK and the future European Spallation Source in Sweden. In this framework we present our collaborations on...
Prof.
Horst Fischer
(ALU-Freiburg)
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
For the upcoming measurements of deeply virtual Compton scattering at the COMPASS-II experiment at CERN/SPS we have developed a modular high speed (1GS/s) and high resolution (>10.5 effective bits) sampling ADC module, which allows for trigger decisions based on digital comparisons of signal amplitudes, coincidence times and geometric conditions. Featuring digital pulse processing in real-time...
Christian Kahra
(Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
ATLAS is an experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. By 2015 the LHC instantaneous luminosity will be increased from $10^{34}$ up to $3\cdot10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s${-1}$. This places stringent operational and physical requirements on the ATLAS Trigger in order to reduce the 40MHz collision rate to a manageable...
Christophe Goetzmann
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The tracker of CMS experiment is composed at one hundred percent of silicon detectors. They are arranged in successive layers of concentric cylinders around the beam axis, in the central part of CMS detector, and in disks perpendicular to the beam axis, in the forward and backward part of the detector. The whole has the shape of a cylinder of 110 cm radius and 540 cm length. The silicon...
Joschka Lingemann
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
Data-processing: 3b) Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems
Poster
The increase in center-of-mass energy and luminosity for Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider pose new challenges for the trigger systems of the experiments. To keep triggering with a similar performance as in Run 1, the CMS muon trigger is currently being upgraded. The new algorithms will provide higher resolution, especially for the muon transverse momentum and will make use of isolation...
Frederic Machefert
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The LHCb collaboration foresees a major upgrade of the detector for the high luminosity run that will take place after the LS2 shut-down. Apart from the increase of the instantaneous luminosity at the interaction point of the experiment, one of the major ingredients of this upgrade is a full readout at 40MHz of the sub-detectors and the acquisition of the data by a large farm of PC. The...
Jessica Lynn Leonard
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Poster
The CMS beam and radiation monitoring subsystem BCM1F during LHC Run I consisted of 8 individual diamond sensors situated around the beam pipe within the tracker detector volume, for the purpose of fast monitoring of beam background and collision products. Effort is ongoing to develop the use of BCM1F as an online bunch-by-bunch luminosity monitor. BCM1F will be running whenever there is beam...
Takashi Yamanaka
(University of Tokyo (JP))
Sensors: 1a) Calorimetry
Poster
The ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) calorimeters produce almost 200K signals that must be digitized and processed by the front-end and back-end electronics at every triggered event. Additionally, the front-end electronics sums analog signals to provide coarse-grained energy sums to the first-level (L1) trigger system. The current design was optimized for the nominal LHC luminosity of...
Dr
Yuguang Xie
(IHEP, Beijing, China)
Sensors: 1c) Gaseous Detectors
Poster
A new type of THGEM was developed for applications requiring relative high spacial resolution <200 um, which can be achieved by THGEM with 150um hole diameter, 400um pitch, and 150um thickness, and even smaller hole array structure. A THGEM-TPC is designed to monitor 3 - 50 MeV pulsed electron beam online. And a THGEM-based 2D detector is designed to measure the incident positions of 0.1 – 3...
Simone Coelli
(I.N.F.N. Milano)
Emerging technologies: 4a) Cooling and cryogenics
Poster
Design, prototype production and thermal test of a new cooling system for the the Upgrade of the UT Tracker for LHCb, based on vertical not straight CO2 boiling channels at about -30 °C.
