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CALOR 2016 - Daegu, Korea
Contact: CALOR 2016 Secretariat
Phone: +82-53-746-9966/ Fax: +82-53-746-9007 Email: calor2016@gmail.com
Scintillating calorimeter is one of the best detector for interesting rare events searches in nuclear and astroparticle physics such as WIMP-like dark matter as well as neutrinoless double beta decay. In this talk, I will summarize activety on developing low background scintillating calorimeter and its physics achievement in Korea.
The ATLAS detector was designed and built to study proton-proton collisions produced at the LHC at centre-of-mass energies up to 14 TeV and instantaneous luminosities up to $10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s${^-1}$. Liquid argon (LAr) sampling calorimeters are employed for all electromagnetic calorimetry in the pseudorapidity region $|\eta|<3.2$, and for hadronic calorimetry in the region from $|\eta|=1.5$ to $|\eta|=4.9$.
The calibration and performance of the LAr calorimetry system was
established during beam tests, cosmic ray muon measurements and in
particular the first three years of pp collision data-taking. During
this period, referred to as Run-1, approximately 27~fb$^{-1}$ of data
have been collected at the center-of-mass energies of 7 and
8~TeV. Following a period of detector consolidation during a long shutdown,
Run-2 started in 2015 with approximately 3.9~fb$^{-1}$ of data
at a center-of-mass energy of 13~TeV recorded in this year. Results
on the LAr calorimeter operation, monitoring and data quality, as well as
their performance will be presented, including the
calibration and stability of the electromagnetic scale, response
uniformity and time resolution. These results demonstrate that the
LAr calorimeters perform excellently within their design
requirements. The calorimetry system thus played a crucial role in the
Run-1 physics programme, and, in particular, in the discovery of a Higgs boson.
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab searches for the charged-lepton flavor violating
neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of
a aluminum nucleus. The dynamics of such a process is well
modelled by a two-body decay, resulting in a mono-energetic electron with
an energy slightly below the muon rest mass (104.967 MeV).
If no events are observed in three years of running, Mu2e will set a limit on
the ratio between the conversion and the capture rates, \convrate, of $\leq
6\ \times\ 10^{-17} (@ 90 \%$ C.L.). This will improve the current
limit by four orders of magnitude.
A very intense pulsed muon beam ($\sim 10^{10} \mu/$ sec) is stopped on
a target inside a long evacuated solenoid where the detector is located.
The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker, an electromagnetic
calorimeter and a veto for cosmic rays externally surrounding the
detector solenoid. The calorimeter plays an important
role in providing excellent particle identification capabilities and an
online trigger filter while aiding the track reconstruction capabilities.
It should keep functionality in an environment where the neutron, proton and photon
backgrounds from muon capture processes and beam flash
deliver a dose of $\sim$ 120 Gy/year in the hottest area.
It will also need to work in 1 T axial magnetic
field and a $10^{-4}$ torr vacuum. The calorimeter requirements are
to provide a large acceptance for 100 MeV electrons and reach at this energies:
(1) a time resolution better than 0.5 ns, (2) an energy resolution {\it O($5\%$)};
and (3) a position resolution of {\it O(1)} cm.
The baseline calorimeter configuration consists of two disks, each one
made of $\sim$ 700 undoped CsI crystals read out by two large area
UV extended Silicon Photomultipliers (SIPM). These crystals emit at 310 nm
with a large light yield (30 pe/MeV) when coupled in air to the SIPMs and
provide a fast response and accurate timing having a time emission
of $\tau \sim$ 20 ns. These crystals match the requirements for stability
of response, high resolution and radiation hardness. SIPM signals are amplified,
shaped and then read out through 200 msps waveform digitizers
optically connected to the DAQ system. We present the calorimeter design,
the experimental tests and the simulation carried out to prove the
validity of the chosen configuration. In particular, we will summarise the
results of the test beam with electron beams in the energy range between
80 and 140 MeV and the irradiation program carried out both with crystals
and SiPM.
At present new SuperKEKB collider is under commissioning at KEK (Japan) while the Belle II detector for experiments at this collider is at the final stage of the construction. This new experiment will continue and widen the studies began at the previous experiments with the Belle detector. The luminosity of this collider will exceed the previous one by about 40 times, amounting to $8\times 10^{35}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. However, high luminosity is unavoidably accompanied by the high event rate and background. Then the detector should be drastically upgraded. The electromagnetic calorimeter is a very important component of the BELLE II detector. This calorimeter is described in this report. A core part of the calorimeter, 8736 counters based on CsI(Tl) crystals read out by PIN photodiodes, is reused from the Belle detector which operated at the KEKB asymmetric energy collider from 1999 to 2010. Since the project luminosity of the SuperKEKB is 40 times higher than that of the previous collider, much more severe background conditions are expected. Therefore all readout electronics is replaced to a new one that will be able to cope with high event rate.
Signals from preamplifiers attached to the crystals are transmitted to the Shaper Digitizer Boards (SDB). In this board a signal after shaping with a time constant of 0.5us is digitized by 18 bit ADC with 1.8 MHz sampling rate and sent to pipeline buffer in FPGA where waveform fitting is performed to extract energy and timing information. Amplitude and timing data obtained by fit are collected by the Collector Board (CB). The CB sends this information to backend DAQ system. By now all calorimeter DAQ electronics including 576 (432 barrel+144 endcap) SDB and 52 CB are installed to the detector. The barrel part of the calorimeter is tested with cosmic rays.
A second step of the upgrade when the crystals in the end caps are replaced by the fast pure CsI crystals is under study. Since the photon emission of undoped CsI crystal is roughly 10 times smaller than that of doped one, the photosensors with amplification should be used. Current baseline option is vacuum photopenthods, their characteristics and performance study is presented. An option of a read out with the large area APD is also under study.
In last two decades a large number of scintillator materials including inorganic crystals have been studied and optimized and their properties are now well understood. Depending on the application, a material is selected to fulfill the most important properties and eventually its further improvement is considered.
In calorimetric detectors at high luminosity colliders in high energy physics, the properties of critical importance are the radiation resistance, speed of scintillation response and up to a lesser extent the light output and density.
As these applications usually require a large volume of scintillation materials its cost becomes also important and is influenced by the price of raw material, the material preparation method and production yield and final manufacturing of the scintillation element.
A new crystal growth method CRIG (CRystal Improved Growth) has been developed to grow large core-free single crystals of yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG).
Using this method [1], the crystals of unmatched quality are produced as for the size, homogeneity, low stress etc.
The growth of 6 inch diameter undoped YAG as well as YAG:Ce has been accomplished in CRYTUR spol. s r.o. This technology can be essential in its application in large scale detectors in high energy physics where single crystals of YAG:Ce is also considered.
The characteristics of CRIG grown method will be presented together with the properties of YAG:Ce standard scintillator. First steps for optimization of YAG:Ce scintillator for high enery physics application will be discussed as well.