Conveners
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 1
- Maria Chamizo Llatas (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 2
- Thomas Fritzsch (Fraunhofer IZM)
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 3
- Maria Chamizo Llatas (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 4 (Infrastructure)
- Elena Rocco (University of Utrecht (NL))
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 5
- Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)
II.a Experiments & Upgrades: Session 6
- Massimiliano Ferro-Luzzi (CERN)
Cecile Lapoire
(Universitaet Bonn (DE)/CERN)
03/06/2014, 11:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Dr
Stefan Mattig
(Hamburg University (DE))
03/06/2014, 11:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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 2x1034cmโ2sโ1, which will significantly increase the number of interactions per bunch crossing.
The current pixel detector of CMS was not designed to work...
Prof.
Kazu Carvalho Akiba
(Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
03/06/2014, 11:40
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Christian Lippmann
(GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
03/06/2014, 12:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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
Carlos Marinas
(University of Bonn)
03/06/2014, 12:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Ouellet Jon
(LBL)
03/06/2014, 16:10
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
CUORE is a 741 kg array of TeO2 bolometers for the search of neurinoless double beta decay in Te-130. The detector is being constructed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, where it will start taking data in 2015. If the target background of 0.01 counts/(keV kg y) will be reached, in five years of data taking CUORE will have an half life sensitivity of about 1026 y. CUORE-0 is a...
Aine Kobayashi
(University of Tokyo (JP))
03/06/2014, 16:30
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Karl Tasso Knoepfle
(MPI Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg)
03/06/2014, 16:50
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Jacobus Willem Van Hoorne
(Vienna University of Technology (AT))
03/06/2014, 17:10
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Dr
Craig Woody
(Brookhaven National Lab)
03/06/2014, 17:30
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Dr
Antonis Papanestis
(STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))
04/06/2014, 11:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Luka Santelj
(Jozef Stefan Institute)
04/06/2014, 11:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Dr
Albert Lehmann
(University Erlangen-Nuremberg)
04/06/2014, 11:40
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Yosuke Maeda
(Kyoto University)
04/06/2014, 12:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Prof.
Kock Kiam Gan
(Ohio State University (US))
04/06/2014, 12:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Aria Soha
(Fermilab)
05/06/2014, 11:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
The Fermilab Test Beam Program provides flexible, equal, and open access to test beams for all detector tests, with relatively low bureaucratic overhead and a guarantee of safety, coordination, and oversight. The facility provides a multitude of particle and energy types, as well as an array of instrumentation with an extensive infrastructure.
Recently Fermilab went through a 14 month...
Dr
Carsten Hast
(SLAC)
05/06/2014, 11:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
We present the current status and plans of the various electron test beams available at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. They span an energy range of a few MeV in our ASTA, mainly used for gun development and RF structure testing, NLCTA, a 120 to 200 MeV linac for free electron laser seeding, dielectric laser acceleration and medical studies, to ESTB, the End Station (A) Test Beam, which...
Igor Rubinskiy
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)-Unknown-Unknown)
05/06/2014, 11:40
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Martin Richard Jaekel
(CERN)
05/06/2014, 12:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Norman Anthony Graf
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
05/06/2014, 12:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Burak Bilki
(University of Iowa (US))
05/06/2014, 16:10
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Artur Apresyan
(California Institute of Technology (US))
05/06/2014, 16:30
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Ruslan Asfandiyarov
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
05/06/2014, 16:50
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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....
Thomas Kirn
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
05/06/2014, 17:10
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Jacqueline Yan
(T)
05/06/2014, 17:30
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
The Shintake Monitor is an essential beam tuning device installed at the interaction point of ATF2 to measure its nm order vertical e- beam sizes (ฯy*). It is crucial for verifying ATF2โs Goal 1 of focusing ฯy* down to 37 nm in order to verify a final focus system of linear colliders featuring the Local Chromaticity Correction scheme. The e- beam collides with a target of laser interference...
Alexandra Junkes
(Hamburg University (DE))
06/06/2014, 14:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Dr
Daniela Calvo
(INFN - Sezione di Torino)
06/06/2014, 14:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Blake Leverington
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
06/06/2014, 14:40
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Christophe Goetzmann
(Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
06/06/2014, 15:00
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
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...
Lorenzo Massa
(University of Bologna and INFN (IT))
06/06/2014, 15:20
Experiments: 2a) Experiments & Upgrades
Oral
This report presents a project for the upgrade of the Level-1 muon trigger in the barrel-endcap transition region (1.0<|ฦ|<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 (|ฦ|>1) caused by charged particles originating from secondary interactions downstream of the interaction point. After the LHC phase-1...
