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Prof. Yasuyuki Horii19/07/2013, 09:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe Belle II experiment is an upcoming experiment based on the SuperKEKB e+e- collider, which will provide almost two orders of magnitude higher instantaneous luminosity than the KEKB e+e- collider. We aim to measure precisely the parameters of the Standard Model and search for physics beyond the Standard Model. We report here on the time-of-propagation (``TOP'') detector, which plays an...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yosuke Yusa (Niigata University)19/07/2013, 09:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationWe will present overview of Aerogel Ring Imaging CHerenkov counter (ARICH) which is developed as a particle identification detector in next generationB-factory experiment, the Belle II. The ARICH consists of aerogel radiator and photo sensor. When charged particle goes through the radiator, it emits Cherenkov light to the direction which depends on the particle mass. Using this dependance, we...Go to contribution page
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Mr Martino Borsato19/07/2013, 09:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe FDIRC (Focusing Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) is a charged particle identification (PID) detector which separates efficiently kaons from pions up to a few GeV/c. It is the successor of the BaBar DIRC, which was successfully operated at the PEP-II B-Factory during a decade, and benefits from the knowledge accumulated with a first focusing DIRC prototype, built and...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Cavallari (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))19/07/2013, 09:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC is a hermetic, fine grained, homogeneous calorimeter, comprising 75,848 lead tungstate scintillating crystals, located inside the CMS superconducting solenoidal magnet. It was designed to operate for a minimum of ten years at the LHC, with an instantaneous luminosity of 2x10^34/cm^2/s and for an...Go to contribution page
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Richard wigmans (Texas Tech)19/07/2013, 10:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationSimultaneous detection of the Cherenkov light and scintillation light produced in hadron showers makes it possible to measure the electromagnetic shower fraction event by event and thus eliminate the detrimental effects of fluctuations in this fraction on the performance of hadron calorimeters. In the RD52 (DREAM) project, the possibilities of this dual-readout calorimetry are investigated...Go to contribution page
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Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)19/07/2013, 10:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe design of calorimeter systems for a detector at a future Linear Collider (ILC, CLIC) is largely driven by the requirements of jet reconstruction. The particle flow technique has been shown to be capable of achieving an energy resolution ~30%/sqrtE, permitting the discrimination of W and Z bosons in their hadronic decays. Such performance requires the separation of neutral...Go to contribution page
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Tamsin Nooney (University of London (GB))19/07/2013, 11:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe Arachnid collaboration has been set up in the UK to develop CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors. The first device of this collaboration is named Cherwell. The Cherwell device consists of several arrays of pixels optimised either for vertexing or for calorimetry. For the former, two subarrays were designed. The first one has 96x48 pixels on a 25 um pitch. Each pixel consists of a...Go to contribution page
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Sergio Gonzalez Sevilla (Universite de Geneve (CH))19/07/2013, 11:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationState-of-the-art particle physics detectors at colliders contain a pixel detector as heart of their particle tracker to cope with the large density of particle tracks near the interaction point. For radiation damage reasons, mostly hybrid detectors were used which comprise a silicon pixel sensor fabricated on high-resistivity FZ silicon and a bump-bonded readout chip in deep sub-micron...Go to contribution page
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Dr Carlos Marinas (University of Bonn)19/07/2013, 11:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe 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...Go to contribution page
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Isabelle Ripp-Baudot (IPHC Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3)19/07/2013, 11:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe physics goals of a growing number of subatomic physics experiments assume vertexing and tracking performances calling for a specific pixel technology, which offers a high data rate capability as well as precision, low power and cost standards departing from those of the most widely used devices. CMOS Pixel Sensors (CPS), and the ultra-light systems they equip, address this...Go to contribution page
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Dmitry Hits (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))19/07/2013, 12:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationWith 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...Go to contribution page
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Michele Bianco (CERN)19/07/2013, 12:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe 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 Muon System of the ATLAS experiment at CERN needs to be upgraded. In the first station of the high rapidity region, micromegas detectors have been chosen as the main tracking chambers but will, at the same time, also...Go to contribution page
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Yan Benhammou (Tel Aviv University (IL))19/07/2013, 12:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe super-LHC (sLHC) is expected to operate with a luminosity of 7x1034 cm-2s-1 after the forthcoming luminosity upgrade which will increase by approximately a factor five, both the physics event rate and the beam background. It is essential to update the present inner most Muon Spectrometer components in the forward region to cope with these high rates. The small-strip Thin Gap Chambers...Go to contribution page
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Marcello Abbrescia (Universita e INFN (IT))19/07/2013, 12:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe CMS muon system is based on three types of gaseous detectors, RPC, CSC and DT. While operating very well in the present conditions, upgrades are foreseen for each of the subsystems, necessary to cope with the increased pile-up, coming along with higher rates and radiation. Electronics can be modernized by profiting from recent developments. In addition, detector R&D is ongoing, to possibly...Go to contribution page
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Dr Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES))19/07/2013, 14:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe ATLAS Detector: Performance Results - The ATLAS experiment is designed to study the proton-proton collisions produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. During Run I data taking, the ATLAS trigger system has been used to collect a rich data sample which supports a wide variety of physics analyses. The 2012 run saw larger luminosities and pile-up than 2011,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ignacio Redondo Fernandez (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)19/07/2013, 14:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of the two multipurpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CMS entered a phase of maintenance and upgrade in February 2013, when LHC stopped operation. The talk will present a brief selection of performance results obtained during the 2012 run, focusing on the objects that lead to the Higgs discovery measurements and ...Go to contribution page
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Christoph Michael Langenbruch (CERN), Christoph Michael Langenbruch (CERN)19/07/2013, 15:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe 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 analytsis. For this reason the LHCb data acquisition system -- trigger -- plays a key role in selecting signal events and rejecting background. In contrast to previous experiments at...Go to contribution page
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Gianluca Lamanna (Sezione di Pisa (IT))19/07/2013, 15:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationWe describe a pilot project for the use of GPUs (Graphics processing units) in online triggering applications for high energy physics experiments. Two major trends can be identified in the development of trigger and DAQ systems for particle physics experiments: the massive use of general-purpose commodity systems such as commercial multicore PC farms for data acquisition, and the reduction of...Go to contribution page
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Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)19/07/2013, 15:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationRooStats is a project providing advanced statistical tools required for the analysis of LHC data, with emphasis on discoveries, confidence intervals, and combined measurements in the both the Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. The tools are built on top of the RooFit data modelling language, where mathematical concepts such as variables, (probability density) functions and integrals are...Go to contribution page
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Julien Cogan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))19/07/2013, 15:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe LHCb experiment is designed to perform high-precision measurements of CP violation and search for New Physics using the enormous flux of beauty and charmed hadrons produced at the LHC. The operation and the results obtained from the data collected in 2010 and 2011 demonstrate that the detector is robust and functioning very well. However, the limit of 1 fb–1 of data per nominal year cannot...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Costas Fountas (University of Ioannina (GR))19/07/2013, 16:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationto be provided by the CMS CollaborationGo to contribution page
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Dr Peter Vankov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))19/07/2013, 16:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationAfter successful LHC operation at the center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV in 2011 and 2012, plans are actively advancing for a series of upgrades, culminating roughly 10 years from now in the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project, delivering of order five times the LHC nominal instantaneous luminosity along with luminosity levelling. The final goal is to extend the data set from about few...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Bergauer (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))19/07/2013, 17:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe Belle experiment in Tsukuba (Japan) has been designed to measure rare decays in the B system with high statistics. Currently, both the KEK-B e+/e- collider and the Belle experiment are being upgraded to provide and cope with an ultimate luminosity of 8x10^35 cm-2 s-1. Since the previous Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) cannot be operated with the 40-fold increased luminosity after the...Go to contribution page
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Jens Dopke (CERN)19/07/2013, 17:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe upgrades for the ATLAS Pixel Detector will be staged in preparation for high luminosity LHC. The first upgrade for the Pixel Detector will be the construction of a new pixel layer which is currently under construction and will be installed during the first shutdown of the LHC machine, in 2013-14. The new detector, called the Insertable B-layer (IBL), will be installed between the existing...Go to contribution page
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Katja Klein (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))19/07/2013, 17:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe performance of the Tracker of the CMS experiment, comprising of a pixel and a strip detector, has so far been excellent, as reflected in the wealth of beautiful physics results from CMS. However, the foreseen increases of both the instantaneous as well as the integrated luminosity by the LHC during the next ten years will necessitate a stepwise upgrade of the CMS tracking detector. In...Go to contribution page
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Dominik Dannheim (CERN)19/07/2013, 17:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe physics aims at future high-energy Linear e+e- Colliders (ILC and CLIC), set very high precision requirements on the performance of the vertex detector. Moreover, these detectors have to be well adapted to the experimental conditions, such as the beam spill structure and the presence of beam-induced backgrounds. The principal challenges are: a point resolution of a few micron, ultra-low...Go to contribution page
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Jochen Kaminski (Universitaet Bonn (DE))19/07/2013, 18:00Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe tracking detectors proposed for future linear collider experiments (ILC and CLIC) are based either on silicon layers or time-projection detector technology. Both tracking systems are designed to be an integral part of a particle flow algorithm approach to excellent jet energy measurement, but also to yield superb individual charged particle momentum resolution for reconstruction of the...Go to contribution page
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Mikhail Danilov (ITEP Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (RU))19/07/2013, 18:15Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationA solid scintillator detector DANSS (Detector of Anti-Neutrino based on Solid Scintillator) designed for remote on-line diagnostics of nuclear reactor parameters and a search for short range neutrino oscillation is under construction now. It will be installed at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant next year. DANSS is a 1 m3 plastic scintillator detector divided into 2500 cells and surrounded with...Go to contribution page
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David Michael South (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))19/07/2013, 18:30Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThe international study group on data preservation in high energy physics, DPHEP, achieved a milestone in 2012 with the publication of its eagerly anticipated large scale report, which contains a description of data preservation activities from all major high energy physics collider-based experiments and laboratories. A central message of the report is that data preservation in HEP is not...Go to contribution page
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Danilo Domenici (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))19/07/2013, 18:45Detector R&D and data handlingTalk presentationThree new subdetectors are being installed in the KLOE apparatus of the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, for a new data taking period due to start in late summer 2013. Photon detection is upgraded by means of a small crystal calorimeter in the very forward direction and of a tungsten-scintillating tiles sampling device instrumenting the low-beta quadrupoles of the accelerator. A...Go to contribution page
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