Giovanni Abbiendi
(Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
7/24/15, 9:00 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The CMS muon system has played a key role for many physics results obtained from the LHC Run-1 data. During the Long Shutdown (2013-2014) significant upgrades have been carried out on the muon detectors and on the L1 muon trigger. In parallel the algorithms for muon reconstruction and identification have been improved for both the High-Level Trigger and the offline reconstruction. Results of...
Chrysostomos Valderanis
(Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))
7/24/15, 9:15 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The luminosity of the LHC will increase up to 2 and 7x10^34 cm-2s-1 after long shutdowns in 2019 and 2025 (phase-1 and phase-2 upgrades). In order to cope with the increased particle fluxes, upgrades are envisioned for the ATLAS muon spectrometer. At phase-1, the current innermost stations of the ATLAS muon endcap will be upgraded with 2x4-layer modules of Micromega detectors, sandwiched by...
Rosamaria Venditti
(Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))
7/24/15, 9:30 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
For the LHC High Luminosity phase (HL-LHC) the CMS GEM Collaboration is planning to install new large size triple-GEM detectors in the forward region of the muon system (1.5<|η|<2.2) of the CMS detector. The muon reconstruction with triple-GEM chambers information included have been successfully integrated in the official CMS software, allowing physics studies to be carried out. The new...
Ilya Korolkov
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))
7/24/15, 9:45 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The upgrade of the LHC will bring instantaneous and total
luminosities which are a factor 5-7 beyond the original design of the
ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) and Tile Calorimeters and their read-out
systems. Due to radiation requirements and a new two-level hardware
trigger concept the read-out electronics will be improved in two
phases. In Phase-I, a dedicated read-out of the LAr Calorimeters...
Vladislav Balagura
(CNRS / IN2P3 / LLR - Ecole Polytechnique (FR))
7/24/15, 10:00 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for experiments at a future lepton collider optimized for particle flow event reconstruction. These technologies include electromagnetic calorimeters with tungsten absorbers and silicon or scintillator active elements, and hadronic calorimeters with steel and tungsten absorbers with...
Naomi Van Der Kolk
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
7/24/15, 10:15 AM
The highly granular calorimeter prototypes of the CALICE collaboration have provided large data samples with precise three-dimensional information on hadronic showers with steel and tungsten absorbers and silicon, scintillator and gas detector readout. From these data sets, detailed measurements of the spatial structure, including longitudinal and lateral shower profiles and of the shower...
Mr
Vasily Mikhaylov
(Nuclear Physics Institute of ASCR)
7/24/15, 10:30 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The design and performance of the hadron calorimeters developed for the future high energy nuclear physics experiments at FAIR, NICA, and CERN will be discussed. The Projectile Spectator Detector (PSD) for the CBM experiment at the future FAIR facility, the Forward Calorimeter for the NA61 experiment at CERN and the Multi Purpose Detector at the future NICA facility are reviewed. These...
Antoine Chapelain
(Cornell University)
7/24/15, 10:45 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
We present the design of the uTCA-based waveform digitizers that will instrument the electromagnetic calorimeters deployed for the E989 Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab. Each uTCA advanced mezzanine card (AMC) consists of a custom made 5-channel 12-bit 800 MSPS digitizer with dedicated 1Gbit memory buffers. The digitizer communicates with the CMS designed AMC13 module to receive the...
Jessica Lynn Leonard
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
7/24/15, 11:30 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The beam monitoring and luminosity systems of the CMS experiment are enhanced by several new and upgraded sub-detectors to match the challenges of the LHC operation and physics program at increased energy and higher luminosity. A dedicated pixelated luminosity telescope is installed for a fast and precise luminosity measurement. This detector measures coincidences between several three-layer...
Costas Fountas
(University of Ioannina (GR))
7/24/15, 11:45 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The CMS Level-1 Trigger from Run 1 is being replaced with an entirely new system which is based on large FPGAs, 10 Gbps optical links and it is based on the uTCA technology. This platform allows for new trigger algorithms whose sophistication approaches those of higher level triggers. Whilst the new trigger will be operational early in 2016, elements of it will be installed already in 2015....
Patrick Czodrowski
(University of Alberta (CA))
7/24/15, 12:00 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The ATLAS trigger system has been used successfully for data collection in the 2009-2013 Run 1 operation cycle of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at center-of-mass energies of up to 8 TeV. With the restart of the LHC for the new Run 2 data-taking period at 13 TeV, the trigger rates are expected to rise by approximately a factor of 5. The trigger system consists of a hardware-based first...
Paul Seyfert
(Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
7/24/15, 12:15 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The LHCb detector consists of subsystems designed to perform high efficiency tracking (>95%) with an excellent momentum resolution (0.5% for p<20 GeV). Two Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors provide precise particle identification.
In Run II of the LHC, a new scheme for the LHCb software trigger allows splitting the triggering of the event in two stages, giving room to perform the alignment...
Johanna Gramling
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
7/24/15, 12:30 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
Physics collisions at 13 TeV are expected at the LHC with an average of 40-50 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing. Tracking at trigger level is an essential tool to control the rate in high-pileup conditions while maintaining a good efficiency for relevant physics processes. The Fast TracKer (FTK) is an integral part of the trigger upgrade for the ATLAS detector. For every event...
Francesco Crescioli
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
7/24/15, 12:45 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The Fast TracKer (FTK) trigger project is an upcoming upgrade for the
ATLAS trigger system currently under installation. A first reduced-coverage FTK
is expected to participate in data taking by the end of 2015, while full detector coverage will be
reached in 2016 and more processing power will be added in 2017-2018.
The ATLAS FTK is a dedicated supercomputing processor based on FPGAs...
Benedikt Vormwald
(Hamburg University (DE))
7/24/15, 2:30 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The present CMS pixel detector designed for a luminosity of 10^34 cm-2s-1 will have to be replaced at the end of 2016. The new upgraded detector will have higher tracking efficiency and lower mass with four barrel layers and three forward/backward disks to provide a hit coverage up to absolute pseudo-rapidities of 2.5. In a second stage, in order to maintain its physics reach during the high...
Karolos Potamianos
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
7/24/15, 2:45 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The upgraded Pixel detector and the commissioning of the Inner Detector
tracking of the ATLAS experiment for Run-2 at the Large Hadron collider.
Run-2 of the LHC will provide new challenges to track and vertex
reconstruction with higher energies, denser jets and higher rates.
Therefore the ATLAS experiment has constructed the first 4-layer Pixel
detector in HEP, installing a new Pixel...
Giulia Casarosa
(Sezione di Pisa (IT))
7/24/15, 3:00 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
In the future Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in
Tsukuba, Japan, charged particle tracking in the vicinity of the $e^+$ $e^-$ interaction point is provided by a two-layer silicon pixel detector based on the novel DEPFET technology (PXD) and by a four-layer silicon strip detector (SVD). In this presentation, we review the technology and the design of these two devices, and...
Mark Richard James Williams
(CERN)
7/24/15, 3:15 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The upgrade of the LHCb experiment, planned for 2019, will transform the experiment to a trigger-less system reading out the full detector at 40 MHz event rate. All data reduction algorithms will be executed in a high-level software farm. The upgraded detector will run at luminosities of 2 x 1033 /cm2/s and probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the heavy flavour sector with...
Blake Dean Leverington
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
7/24/15, 3:30 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during 2019 in order to collect data from proton-proton collisions at the LHC at
higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40MHz using a trigger-less read-out system. All
front-end electronics will be replaced and several sub-detectors must be redesigned to cope with the higher
occupancy. The current tracking detectors downstream of the...
Deb Sankar Bhattacharya
(CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
7/24/15, 3:45 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of the detector concepts at the ILC where calorimetry and tracking systems are combined. The tracking system consists of a Silicon vertex detector, forward tracking disks and a large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC). R&D for a Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD) TPC has been carried out within the framework of LC-TPC collaboration. Beam...
Etam Noah Messomo
(Geneva university)
7/24/15, 4:30 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
In the T2K experiment, the far detector, Super-Kamiokande, observes neutrino interactions on water while the near detectors are mainly constituted of plastic. The uncertainty due to the difference of target materials is one of major systematic uncertainties in the T2K neutrino oscillation analyses. A new neutrino detector named WAGASCI has been developed to measure the cross section ratio of...
Vito Palladino
(CERN)
7/24/15, 4:45 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The NA62 experiment at CERN is a fixed target experiment, it is located in the north area SPS high intensity facility. It aims at a precision measurement of the ultra-rare decay $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$. In order to achieve this goal a low mass (~1.8% $X_0$) spectrometer has been built to track charged kaon decay products. The system consists of ~7000 straw tubes operating in...
Paul Richard Newman
(University of Birmingham (GB))
7/24/15, 5:00 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The LHeC is a proposed upgrade of the LHC to study ep/eA collisions in the TeV regime, by adding a 60 GeV electron beam through an Energy Recovery Linac. A detector is under design for high precision measurements which may be readily installed by its modular structure.
The talk presents the main concepts and progress in the simulation, including an extension to the FCC-he configuration.
Mr
Philipp Lösel
(LMU Munich)
7/24/15, 5:15 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
Micromegas (MICRO MEsh GAseuos Structures) are used in a broad field of applications due to their excellent spatial resolution and single plane track reconstruction capability. They consist of three active planes, a cathode, a micro-mesh and a strip anode with 0.45 mm modularity. The distance of the micro-mesh from the cathode being typically 5 mm is large in contradiction to the tiny distance...
Maurizio Bonesini
(Sezione INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Universita' Milano Bicocca, Italy)
7/24/15, 5:30 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
Development of fast scintillators, such as Pr:LuAg or Ce:GAAG crystals, has been put forward in the framework of Time-of-Flight (TOF) Positron Emission Tomography (PET). These crystals have fast primary decay time (20-90 ns), high density and a fairly high light output (up to 57000 photons/MeV). The fact that they have higher densities and are not hygroscopic, as compared to Ce:LaBr3, points...
Rok Pestotnik
(Jozef Stefan Institute)
7/24/15, 5:45 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
Particle identification at the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan, is provided by two Cherenkov imaging devices, the time of propagation (TOP) counter in barrel (RICH with quartz radiator) and the ARICH in the endcap regions (RICH with aerogel radiotor). In this presentation, we review the technology and the design of these two devices, and describe the current...
Marc Dunser
(CERN)
7/24/15, 6:00 PM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
A prototype of a novel detector using single-crystal chemical vapor deposited
diamond and resistive electrodes in the bulk forming a 3D diamond device
will be presented. The electrodes of the device were fabricated with laser
assisted phase change of diamond into a combination of diamond-like-carbon,
amorphous carbon and graphite. The connections to the electrodes of the 3D
device were...
Brieuc Arnaud L Francois
(Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
7/25/15, 9:00 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
We will discuss the early Run II performance of the CMS Pixel and Strip Tracker, with the detector operating cold for the first time. The startup conditions at 13 TeV for both subdetectors will be summarised, including specifics for 50ns and 25ns operations and improvements in calibrations which were developed during 2013 and 2014. The impact of the Tracker alignment based on cosmic and...
Alessandro Di Girolamo
(CERN)
7/25/15, 9:15 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The ATLAS Distributed Computing infrastructure has evolved after the first
period of LHC data taking in order to cope with the challenges of the
upcoming LHC Run2. An increased data rate and computing demands of the
Monte-Carlo simulation, as well as new approaches to ATLAS analysis,
dictated a more dynamic workload management system (ProdSys2) and data
management system (Rucio),...
Sascha Stahl
(CERN)
7/25/15, 9:30 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The current LHCb trigger system consists of a hardware level, which reduces the event rate of 30 MHz of inelastic collisions to 1 MHz, at which the detector is read out. In the subsequent High Level Trigger, based on a farm of 20k parallel-processing CPUs, the event rate is reduced to what can be processed offline, about 5 kHz in Run I. In preparation for Run II, LHCb has implemented a...
Franz Muheim
(University of Edinburgh (GB))
7/25/15, 9:45 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
During the LHC Run 1 the LHCb experiment has successfully performed a large number of world-class precision measurements in heavy flavour physics by having collected over 3 fb-1 at centre-of-mass energies of 7 TeV and 8TeV. However, even after an additional expected integrated luminosity of 5 fb-1 in Run 2, many of the LHCb measurements will remain limited by statistics. The current 1 MHz...
Chunhua Li
7/25/15, 10:00 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
Both the trigger and the data acquisition systems of the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Tsukuba, Japan, are completely redesigned to cope with the considerably higher event and background rates compared to the previous Belle experiment. Belle II hardware (Level-1) trigger consists of several sub-triggers and a final decision logic, which issues the trigger with a fixed...
Dr
Jeanette Miriam Lorenz
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))
7/25/15, 10:15 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
We present a software framework for statistical data analysis, called *HistFitter*,
that has been used extensively by the ATLAS Collaboration to analyze big datasets
originating from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Since 2012 HistFitter has been the standard statistical tool in searches for supersymmetric
particles performed by ATLAS.
HistFitter is a...
Tobias Schlüter
(LMU München)
7/25/15, 10:30 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
We discuss track fitting as implemented in the Belle II experiment currently under construction at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan. Track fitting sits at the interface of physics analysis and detector data, is essential to the tasks of detector calibration and alignment, and it also is an integral part of Belle II's high-level trigger. To address the variety of tasks, the track-fitting software,...
Julia Hrdinka
(Vienna University of Technology (AT))
7/25/15, 10:45 AM
Detector R&D and Data Handling
talk
The outstanding success of the physics program of the LHC including the discovery of the Higgs boson shifted the focus of part of the high energy physics community onto the planning phase for future collider projects. Hadron based and electron-positron based collider technologies are considered as potential LHC successors. Common to both branches is the need for a coherent software framework...
