27 September 2015 to 3 October 2015
Kobe, Fashion Mart, Japan
Japan timezone

Performance simulation studies for the ALICE TPC GEM Upgrade

29 Sept 2015, 16:30
2h
Exhibition space 3 & 4

Exhibition space 3 & 4

Board: 1313
Poster Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation Poster Session

Speaker

Hans Martin Ljunggren (Lund University (SE))

Description

The ALICE collaboration plans major upgrades to its detectors for Run 3 and 4 of the LHC, in 2020 and beyond. For the TPC, the upgrade is aimed at increasing the rate capability to record an expected collision rate of 50 kHz Pb-Pb collisions, which requires continuous readout. The current TPC will therefore be reinstrumented with new Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) readout chambers that can suppress ~99% of the ion back flow. The remaining 1% ion back flow will still give rise to significant space charge distortions that have to be corrected. In this poster I will show how these corrections are foreseen to be done and report the expected performance obtained from simulations studies. In order to understand the time dependence of the space charge distortions, a dynamic simulation has been developed. Results from this simulations will also be presented here.
On behalf of collaboration: ALICE

Author

Hans Martin Ljunggren (Lund University (SE))

Presentation materials