Conveners
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
- Megumi Naruki (Kyoto Univ. (JP))
Prof.
Vladimir Kekelidze
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
29/09/2015, 14:00
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
The NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) project is under preparation at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). The main goal of the project is a study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy ion collisions (up to gold) in the energy range up to √s_NN = 11 GeV. Two modes of operation are foreseen, collider and extracted beams, with two detectors: MPD and...
Dr
Hiroyuki Sako
(ASRC/J-PARC, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
29/09/2015, 14:20
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
We are developing a future heavy-ion program at J-PARC, which is one of the world’s highest intensity proton synchrotrons. In heavy-ion collisions at J-PARC, matter whose density is 8-10 times as high as the normal nuclear density, comparable to that of the neutron star core will be created. There, we aim at exploring QCD phase structures such as the critical point and phase boundaries, and...
Nestor Armesto Perez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
29/09/2015, 14:40
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is the project for an electron and hadron collider in a new 80-100
km tunnel in the Geneva area. In hadron mode, a centre-of-mass energy of order 100 TeV would be achieved in pp collisions. A design study is under development to be concluded in 2018, with the target start of operation of the machine in 2035-40.
The FCC could operate with heavy ions,...
Giacomo Contin
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
29/09/2015, 15:00
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
The Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) of the STAR experiment at RHIC is the first application of the state-of-the-art thin Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) technology in a collider environment. The HFT, composed of two silicon PiXeL detector (PXL) layers, an Intermediate Silicon Tracker (IST) and a Silicon Strip Detector (SSD), greatly improves the impact parameter resolution of STAR tracking...
John Haggerty
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
29/09/2015, 15:20
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
The PHENIX collaboration is planning a major detector upgrade,
sPHENIX, consisting of large acceptance calorimetry and precision
tracking in conjunction with the recently acquired BaBar 1.5~T
superconducting solenoid. The sPHENIX calorimeter system consists of
an inner layer of tungsten-scintillating fiber electromagnetic
calorimeter surrounded by two layers of sampling...
Petra Riedler
(CERN)
29/09/2015, 15:40
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
During the long shutdown of the LHC in 2018/19 (LS2) the present Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment based on silicon pixel,
silicon drift and silicon strip detectors, will be entirely replaced by a
new tracker using novel monolithic silicon pixel chips.
This new tracker will significantly enhance heavy flavor measurements, which
are out of reach for the present...
Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado
(GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))
29/09/2015, 16:00
Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation
Contributed talk
The ALICE Time Projection Chamber, the largest of its kind, has been operated during the LHC RUN 1 and is being operated during RUN 2, with Multi-Wire Proportional readout Chambers. These chambers feature a Gating Grid which is pulsed at a maximum frequency of about 3 kHz and allows one to amplify the charge produced in triggered events and prevents ions to invade the drift region, such that...
