Conveners
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 1
- Gobinda Majumder (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 2
- Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 3
- Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 4
- Gobinda Majumder (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 5
- Alexander Oh (University of Manchester (GB))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 6
- Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 7
- Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 8
- Eunil Won (Korea University)
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 9
- Kiyoshi Hayasaka
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 10
- Seh Wook Lee (Kyungpook National University (KR))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 11
- Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
Detector: R&D for Present and Future Facilities: 12
- Gobinda Majumder (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research (IN))
The performance of CMS detector on early 2018 data will be presented. Special attention will be given to the performance of the recently upgraded components, and in particular to the silicon pixel detector and hadronic calorimeters.
The tracking performance of the ATLAS detector relies critically on its 4-layer Pixel Detector, that has undergone significant hardware and readout upgrades to meet the challenges imposed by the higher collision energy, pileup and luminosity that are being delivered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with record breaking instantaneous luminosities of 2 x 10^34 cm-2 s-1 recently surpassed....
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}. A liquid argon-lead sampling calorimeter (LAr) is employed as electromagnetic calorimeter and hadronic calorimeter, except in the barrel region, where a scintillator-steel sampling calorimeter...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In particular, a new timing layer will measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of ~30ps and hermetic coverage up to a pseudo-rapidity of |η|=3. This MIP Timing...
Excellent electron and photon identification capabilities are crucial for many aspects of the ATLAS
physics program, from standard model measurements (including Higgs boson) to new physics searches.
The identification of prompt photons and the rejection of backgrounds, mostly coming from photons
from hadron decays, relies on the high granularity of the ATLAS calorimeter. Electron...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of the two multi-purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has a broad physics program. Many aspects of this program depend on our ability to trigger, reconstruction and identify events with final state electrons, positrons, and photons with the CMS detector with excellent efficiency and high resolution.
In this talk we present...
An accurate calibration of the energy measurement of electron and photon is needed for many ATLAS physics analyses. The calibration of the energy measurement is performed in-situ using a large statistics of Z->ee events. A pre-requisite of this calibration is a good understanding of the material in front of the calorimeter and of the inter-calibration of the different calorimeter layers. The...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been successfully delivering proton-proton collision data at the unprecedented center of mass energy of 13 TeV. An upgrade is planned to increase the instantaneous luminosity delivered by LHC in what is called HL-LHC, aiming to deliver a total of up 3000/fb to 4000/fb of data per experiment. To cope with the expected data-taking conditions ATLAS is planning...
The ATLAS experiment is currently preparing for an upgrade of the inner tracking for High-Luminosity LHC operation, scheduled to start in 2026. The radiation damage at the maximum integrated luminosity of 4000/fb implies integrated hadron fluencies over 2x10^16 neq/cm2 requiring replacement of the existing Inner Detector. An all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) is proposed with a pixel detector...
The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) has been operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy, with a bunch spacing of 25 ns and instantaneous luminosity exceeding 10^34 cm-2s-1. The CMS ECAL design ensures that its superb performance extends over a very wide range of energies, up to...
The expected increase of the particle flux at the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) with instantaneous luminosities up to L ≃ 7.5 × 10³⁴ cm¯² s¯¹ will have a severe impact on the ATLAS detector performance. The pile-up is expected to increase on average to 200 interactions per bunch crossing. The reconstruction and trigger performance for electrons, photons as well as jets and...
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will integrate 10 times more luminosity than the LHC, posing significant challenges for radiation tolerance and event pileup on detectors, especially for forward calorimetry, and hallmarks the issue for future colliders. As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS collaboration is designing a High Granularity Calorimeter to replace the existing endcap...
In order to meet the requirements of the upcoming luminosity upgrade of the LHC, the Micromegas (MM) technology was selected to be adopted for the New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade, dedicated to precision tracking. A large surface of the forward regions of the Muon Spectrometer will be equipped with 8 layers of MM modules forming a total active area of 1200 m2. The NSW is scheduled to be installed...
The increased luminosity of the HL-LHC requires a new, high rate capable, high resolution detector technology for the inner end cap of the muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment. For this purpose the Micromegas technology is chosen as precision tracker. The SM2 modules are 2 m^2 -sized micromegas quadruplets. This large size requires a sophisticated construction to provide a spatial...
In the high luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the instantaneous luminosity is expected to reach unprecedented values, resulting in about 200 proton-proton interactions in a typical bunch crossing. To cope with the resultant increase in occupancy, bandwidth and radiation damage, the ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced by an all-silicon system, the Inner Tracker (ITk),...
The LHC machine is planning an upgrade program which will smoothly bring the luminosity at about 5*10^34cm-2s-1 in 2028, to possibly reach an integrated luminosity of 3000fb-1 by the end of 2037. This High Luminosity LHC scenario, HL-LHC, will require a preparation program of the LHC detectors known as Phase-2 upgrade. The current CMS Outer Tracker, already running beyond design...
The present CMS muon system operates three different detector types: in the barrel drift tubes (DT) and resistive plate chambers (RPC), cathode strip chambers (CSC) and RPCs in the forward regions. In order to cope with the challenging conditions of increasing luminosity, several upgrades are planned to the trigger and muon systems. For the existing DT and CSC detectors, the electronics will...
The muon spectrometer of the ATLAS detector will undergo a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 3, in order to cope with the operational conditions at the high-luminosity LHC. The trigger and readout system will be completely redesigned, to support Level-0 trigger rates of 1--4 MHz and a latency of 10 us.
To do so, the readout electronics of all the trigger and precision chambers will be...
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the coming decade. Such increase will allow for precise measurements of Higgs boson properties and extend the search for new physics phenomena beyond the Standard Model. The largest phase-1 upgrade project...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be upgraded in several phases that will allow to significantly expand its physics program and sustain the requirements to maintain sensitivity for the electroweak and TeV scales. After the expected long shutdown in 2018 (LS2) the accelerator luminosity will be increased to 2 − 3 × 10^34cm−2s−1 exceeding the design value of 1 × 10^34cm−2s−1 allowing the CMS...
GEM detectors have been developed for the Phase II upgrade and will be installed in the endcap stations of the CMS muon system. In detail, the detector station called GE1/1 will be installed during long shutdown 2 scheduled in 2019 and the other detector stations, called GE2/1 and ME0, later. This upgrade will improve the muon trigger and tracking performance in the high-eta region. The Korea...
The Phase-I and Phase-II upgrades of the LHC accelerator will increase the LHC instantaneous luminosity to 2×1034 cm−2s−1 and 7.5×1034 cm−2s−1, respectively. The luminosity increase drastically impacts the ATLAS trigger and readout data rates. The present ATLAS small wheel muon detector will be replaced with a New Small Wheel (NSW) detector in 2019. The NSW will feature two new detector...
With the increase of the LHC luminosity foreseen in the coming years many detectors currently used in the different LHC experiments will be dramatically impacted and some need to be replaced. The new ones should be capable not only to support the high particle rate but also to provide time information to reduce the data ambiguity due to the expected high pileup.
RPC using low-resistivity...
To cope with large amount of data and high event rate expected from the planned High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade, the present ATLAS monitored drift tube (MDT) readout electronics will be replaced. In addition, the MDT detector will be used at the first-level trigger to improve the muon transverse momentum resolution and reduce the overall trigger rate. A new trigger and readout system has...
The ATLAS Trigger system has been operating successfully during LHC Run-2, between 2015 and 2017. Its excellent performance has been vital for the ATLAS physics program, selecting interesting collision events for a wide variety of physics signatures with high efficiency.
The trigger selection capabilities of ATLAS during Run-2 have been significantly improved compared to Run-1, in order to...
During its second run of operation, the LHC delivered proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with a peak instantaneous luminosity larger than $2 \cdot 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$, more than double the peak luminosity reached during Run1 and far larger than the design value. The upgraded CMS Level-1 trigger is designed to improve the performance at high luminosity and large...
The CMS experiment implements a sophisticated two-level triggering system composed of the Level-1, instrumented by custom-design hardware boards, and the High Level Trigger, a streamlined version of the offline reconstruction software running on a computer farm (more than 30k CPU cores). In 2017, the LHC delivered proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with a peak...
Following the Run 2 LHC data taking, the ATLAS experiment at CERN will enter the first phase (Phase-I) of the planned detector subsystem upgrades. Several systems, in particular, the hardware-based Level-1 calorimeter trigger (L1Calo) will be significantly enhanced to provide improved selectivity at the higher expected pileup in Run 3. During the second long shutdown (LS2) in 2019-2020, the...
Events containing muons in the final state are an important signature for many analyses being carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including both standard model measurements and searches for new physics. To be able to study such events, it is required to have an efficient and well-understood muon trigger. The ATLAS muon trigger consists of a hardware based system (Level 1), as well...
The CMS experiment at the LHC is designed to study a wide range of high energy physics phenomena. It employs a large all-silicon tracker within a 3.8 T magnetic solenoid, which allows precise measurements of transverse momentum (pT) and vertex position.
This tracking detector will be upgraded to coincide with the installation of the High-Luminosity LHC, which will provide up to about 10^35...
With the restart of the LHC in 2021 the ATLAS experiment will cope with high luminosity beams (2.5 x 10 34 cm -2 s -1 ). A new Level-1 Calorimeter trigger system (see Fig.1) will be introduced exploiting a finer calorimeter readout granularity. The new system consists of three Feature EXtractors (FEXs), electron (eFEX), jet (jFEX) and global (gFEX), that use FPGAs to reconstruct different...
Though hardware-based trackers were a crucial element of the triggering systems for both D0 and CDF, no such system has yet been incorporated into either ATLAS or CMS. The ATLAS FastTracKer (FTK) is a first step towards this goal, and will soon provide full tracking information for all events passing ATLAS’s Level-1 trigger. This system massively reduces the CPU required to identify...
When LHC enters the High Luminosity (HL-LHC) phase, the instantaneous luminosity will increase from the current 2 x 10^34 cm-2 s-1 (Run II) to a maximum expected value of 7.5 x 10^34 cm-2 s-1, equivalent to 200 interactions per bunch crossing, and the estimated integrated luminosity will reach 3000 fb-1.
New strategies are needed in order to make triggers more selective and to keep pT...
The precise measurement of the missing transverse momentum (MET) observable is critical for standard model measurements involving W, Z, and the Higgs bosons, and top quarks. In addition, MET is one of the most important kinematic observable used in searches for physics beyond the standard model targeting new weakly interacting neutral particles. A detailed understanding of various effects due...
The proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) will provide electron-positron collisions at centre-of-mass energies from a few hundred GeV up to 3 TeV. CLIC offers a rich precision physics program, and a high sensitivity to a wide range of possible new phenomena. The precision required for such measurements and the specific conditions imposed by the CLIC beam structure put strict requirements on...
The physics reach and feasibility of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) with centre of mass energies up to 100 TeV and unprecedented luminosity is entering its final phase before releasing a Conceptual Design Report. The new energy regime opens the opportunity for the discovery of physics beyond the standard model. 100 TeV proton-proton collisions will produce very high energetic particle...
The FCAL collaboration has performed a design study for luminometers at future electron-positron colliders. Compact sampling calorimeters with precisely positioned silicon sensors and a fast readout will reach the necessary performance even in the presence of background from beamstrahlung and two-photon processes. A prototype calorimeter has been built with special focus on ultra-thin fully...
The ALICE Collaboration is preparing a major upgrade of the ALICE detector, planned for installation during the second long LHC shutdown. The construction is expected to be completed by 2020 for data taking until 2029. A key element of the ALICE upgrade is the construction of a new, ultra-light, high-resolution Inner Tracking System (ITS).
With respect to the current ITS, this upgrade is...
In 2019-2020 the upgrade of CERN LHC will increase the luminosity and the collision rate beyond the design parameters of several of the key ALICE detectors [1]. To benefit from the improved performance of the LHC, ALICE will install two new forward detectors: the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) [2][3] and the Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) [4]. A further upgrade opportunity might arise during the...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) provides a rich science program with the focus on the neutrino oscillation physics, proton decay studies and Supernova explosions. The high-intensity wide-band neutrino beam will be produced at Fermilab and will be directed to the 40 kt Liquid Argon far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), 1300 km from Fermilab. One of...
The upgrade project of the T2K near detector
The T2K neutrino oscillation experiment established the $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance with only 10\% of the original beam request of $7.8\times10^{21}$ 30 GeV protons on target (p.o.t.). In view of the J-PARC program of upgrades of the beam intensity, the T2K-II proposal requires to run up to $20\times10^{21}$ p.o.t., i.e. an increase in...
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is currently the most attractive technology for neutrino oscillations studies, proton decay studies and Supernova explosions. Not only LAr TPCs are cost-effective and scalable to multi-ton scales, but they are also excellent calorimeters and can 3D reconstruct the tracks of ionising particles arising from neutrinos interaction products. Future...
The primary physics goal of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to resolve neutrino mass hierarchy, taking the advantage of the copious antineutrinos from two powerful nuclear power plants at distances of ~53 km in Guangdong Province, China. To meet this goal, JUNO has designed a 20 kt underground liquid scintillator (LS) detector which deploys 20,000 high quantum...
The proposed Hyper-Kamiokande experiment (Hyper-K) is a next generation large water Cherenkov (WD) detector with a broad physics program consisting of neutrino beam measurements in search of leptonic CP violation, astrophysical measurements and a search for proton decay. Hyper-K will act as the far detector to measure the oscillated neutrino flux from the long-baseline beam of 0.6 GeV...
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) is currently the most attractive technology for neutrino oscillations studies. Not only LAr TPCs are cost-effective and scalable to multi-ton scales, but they are also excellent calorimeters and are able to 3D reconstruct the tracks of ionising particles arising from neutrinos decay products. Future giant liquid Argon TPCs, at the ten-kiloton...
The Baby MIND (Magentized Iron Neutrino Detector) is characterized by its original magentization design, as well as by the presence of air gaps allowing muons to be reconstructed down to 300 MeV/c and their charge identified. The detector was completed, assembled and tested at the neutrino platform at CERN, and delivered to the T2K ND280 pit in December 2017. First results from test beam at...
Hyper-Kamiokande is a large water Cherenkov detector planned in Japan. It requires a large aperture photo-detector with a high photon detection efficiency to explore various neutrino physics and discover a nucleon decay. A photomultiplier tube (PMT), R12860 by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., was developed with a box-and-line dynode to achieve high resolutions of charge and timing, compared with an...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction. The primary goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure the oscillation parameters by detecting reactor anti-neutrinos. There will be around 20000 PMTs with a large photo-cathode of 20-inch equipped for the JUNO experiment, which includes 15000 MCP PMTs...
India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) has proposed a 50kton magnetised Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) in an underground laboratory to be constructed near Madurai. Main aims of this project are to precisely study the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and to determine the ordering of neutrino masses. The detector will deploy about 28,800 glass Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) of approximately...
The EXO programme is a two-phase experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The first phase, EXO-200, yielded the first measurement of two neutrino double beta decay in Xenon and one of the most sensitive searches for neutrinoless double beta decay. The second phase, nEXO, is a proposed 5 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC) that will implement several improvements...
Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K), a proposed one-megaton water Cherenkov detector to be built in Japan, is the logical continuation of the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. Its broad physics programme includes neutrinos from astronomical sources, nucleon decay, with the main focus the determination of leptonic CP violation.
To detect the weak Cherenkov light generated by neutrino...
India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) has proposed to build a 51kton magnetised Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) in an underground laboratory to be constructed near Madurai, South India. ICAL is aimed to precisely study the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and determine the ordering of neutrino masses. ICAL will be built by stacking 151 layers of 56mm soft iron plates, spanning essentially...
Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare-process Experiment (AMoRE) aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) of Mo-100 in scintillating molybdenum-based crystals using cryogenic metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMCs) at millikelvin temperature. Its commissioning phase, the AMoRE-Pilot, is currently running in the 700-meter-deep Yangyang underground laboratory (Y2L) with six...
The PTOLEMY project aims to develop a scalable design for a Cosmic Neutrino Telescope, the first of its kind and the only telescope conceived that can look directly at the image encoded in neutrino density fluctuations of the Universe in the first second after the Big Bang. The past two years of developments have established a compelling case to proceed to telescope design. The cryogenic...
The Center for Underground Physics (CUP) at Institute for Basics Science (IBS) has been conducting and preparing a few ultra-low background rare decay experiments at the Yangyang underground laboratory (Y2L). In order to keep the background levels in the experiments low enough, it is critical to screen raw materials or detector components to be used in the detectors. For the screening, a...
In the baseline design of the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) tracking system, the high position resolution(~100μm) Time Projection Chamber(TPC) would be as the main tracker detector integrated with silicon tracker and ECAL. Unlike the detector at International Linear Collider (ILC), the beam structure of CEPC is the continous mode, which determines the detector's operation without...
The SoLid collaboration is currently operating a 1.6 ton neutrino detector near the Belgian BR2 reactor, with as main goal the observation of the oscillation of electron anti-neutrinos to previously undetected flavor states. The highly segmented SoLid detector employs a compound scintillation technology based on PVT scintillator in combination with a LiFZnS screens containing 6Li isotopes....
We present the status of development of the Superconducting Tunnel
Junction (STJ) detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search
(COBAND) experiment. The signal of the cosmic background neutrino decay is
identified as a sharp cutoff at high energy end in a far-infrared region
ranging from 15meV to 30meV in the energy spectrum of the photons from the
space[1]. The COBAND experiment...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed as a Higgs/Z0 (flavor) factory, which would allow precision measurements of the Higgs boson properties, as well as of W±/Z0 bosons. The baseline design of CEPC tracking system consists of a vertex detector with three concentric double-sided pixel layers and a silicon tracker with some layers on both barrel and end-cap regions,...
Abstract
The very forward region at CepC will be instrumented with a luminometer aiming to measure integral luminosity with a precision of 10-3 and 10-4 in e+e- collisions at 240 GeV center-of-mass energy and at the Z0 pole, respectively. Present understanding of the technology solutions for the measurement, and an assessment of the systematic uncertainties are presented.
Circular Electron Position Collider (CEPC) is proposed as a Higgs or Z factory. This work introduce the R&D progress of CEPC HCAL. Three detector technologies including RPC detector, GEM detector and plastic scintillator were researched for CEPC HCAL sensitive detector. For RPC detector, we corporation with CALICE collaboration and do some analysis on beam test result. For GEM detector, some...
Circular Electron Position Collider (CEPC) is proposed as a Higgs or Z factory. One option of CEPC-ECAL(Electromagnetic calorimeter), designed based on the Particles Flow Algorithm(PFA), consists of tungsten and scintillator coupling with SiPM as active sensor. A advanced study of the gain with single photon and the responding curve of SiPM will be presented. Scintillator module also had be...
The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass experiment for the International Space Station, ISS-CREAM, aims to study the origin, acceleration and propagation mechanisms of high-energy cosmic rays. The ISS-CREAM detector was launched in August 2017 to the ISS aboard the SpaceX-12 Dragon spacecraft. The Top Counting Detector (TCD) and Bottom Counting Detector (BCD) are parts of the ISS-CREAM instrument...
This year, at the end of LHC Run 2, LHCb will start replacing major parts of the detector and installing new detector components in the underground cavern of LHC Interaction Point 8, thus realizing the long-planned upgrade I of the LHCb experiment. The new detector is designed to operate at the instantaneous luminosity of 2·10^33 cm-2s-1, more than five times higher than in Run 2. All...
The Belle II experiment is a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and will operate at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider. The accelerator has already successfully completed the first phase of commissioning in 2016. First electron positron collisions in Belle II are expected for April 2018. The design luminosity of SuperKEKB is $8 \times 10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ and...
The Large Hadron Collider Beauty detector is a flavour physics detector, designed to detect decays of b- and c-hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of Run-II, many of the LHCb measurements will remain statistically dominated. In order to increase the trigger yield for purely hadronic channels, the hardware trigger will be removed and the detector will operate at 40...
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC in order to cope with higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40MHz using a trigger-less read-out system. The current LHCb main tracking system, composed of an inner and outer tracking detector, will not be able to cope with the increased particle multiplicities and will be replaced by a single...
The imaging Time Of Propagation (iTOP) counter is the primary Particle IDentification (PID) system in the barrel region of Belle II. It contains 16 identical modules between the tracking detectors and the calorimeter. The key elements of each module are the quartz radiator, the Micro-Channel Plate PhotoMultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs), and the front end readout electronics. The Cherenkov photons...
The LHCb RICH detectors have been operating successfully since 2010 and proven to be an essential element of the experiment thanks to their excellent particle identification performance. During the Long Shutdown II of the LHC in 2019-2020, the two detectors will be upgraded in order to maintain their PID performance while operating at significantly increased luminosity, aiming to collect 5...
We will present studies on the development and first implementation of a novel technique to improve particle identification at high energy physics experiments through the use of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) with CsI(Tl) scintillators used for electromagnetic calorimeters. Using $5 \times 5 \times 30 \text{ cm}^3 $ CsI(Tl) crystals, such as those used in the electromagnetic calorimeter of...
A phase 2 upgrade is proposed for the LHCb experiment in order to take full advantage of the flavor physics opportunities at the HL-LHC. This upgrade could be installed during Long Shutdown 4 of the LHC (2030) and is targeting a luminosity of 2x10^34 cm-2s-1, ten times that of the phase 1 upgrade. Hence it would require a completely revised detector strategy. One of the primary importance...
The LHCb Collaboration is planning an Upgrade II, a flavour physics experiment for the high luminosity era. This will be installed in LS4 (2030) and targets an instantaneous luminosity of 1 to 2 x10^34 cm-2 s-1, and an integrated luminosity of at least 300fb-1. Modest consolidation of the current experiment will also be introduced in LS3 (2025). Physics goals include probing new physics...
The COMET experiment at J-PARC searches for the neutrinoless coherent transition of a muon to an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, which violates the lepton flavor conservation and has never been observed yet so far. The conversion rate is predicted to be enhanced in new physics models beyond the Standard Model, while the process is extremely suppressed in the Standard Model. The...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavour violating
neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus.
The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker and an electromagnetic
calorimeter and an external veto for cosmic rays.
The calorimeter plays an important role in providing excellent particle identification...
The Mu3e experiment searches for a rare lepton flavour violating μ+ → e+e+e− decay and it aims at reaching an ultimate sensitivity of 10^−16 on the branching fraction of the μ+ → e+e+e− decay, four orders of magnitude better than the current limit B(μ+ → e+e+e−) < 10^−12. The experiment will be hosted at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) which delivers the most intense low...
The muon anomalous magnetic moment $(g-2)_{\mu}$ and electric dipole moment (EDM) are sensitive to new physics beyond the Standard Model. J-PARC muon g-2/EDM (E34) experiment [1] aims to measure $(g-2)_{\mu}$ with a precision of 0.1 parts per million and search for EDM with a sensitivity of $10^{-21} e \cdot$cm with different concept from the muon g-2/EDM experiment at BNL and FNAL. We utilize...
The Mu2e experiment will search for neutrinoless conversion of muons into electrons
In the field of an aluminum nucleus. The signature of this process is an electron with
energy nearly equal to the muon mass. Precise and robust measurement of the outgoing
electron momentum, combined with other background rejection methods, is essential to the
experiment. We rely on a low-mass straw tube...
MEG II experiment is an upgrade of the MEG experiment which searches for the charged lepton flavor violating decay of muon, $\mu \rightarrow e \gamma$. Target sensitivity of MEG II is $6\times10^{-14}$, which is one order of magnitude better than MEG [1]. The engineering run of the MEG II detectors is planned in 2018.
Liquid xenon (LXe) detector is designed to measure the hit position,...
The KLOE-2 experiment at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati has concluded the data-taking at the e+e- DAPHNE phi-factory with more than 5 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected. Record performance in terms of 2.4 x 10^32 cm-2s-1 peak luminosity and 14 pb-1 maximum daily integrated luminosity were achieved with the crab waist scheme of beam collisions.
KLOE-2 represents the...
The aim of the KOTO experiment [1] is the first observation of $K_L\to \pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$ which is sensitive to CP-violating new physics beyond the standard model (SM). The experimental signature is only two photons from the $\pi^0$. To detect this simple signature, the KOTO detector consists of a pure cesium iodide (CsI) calorimeter and hermetical veto counters. The calorimeter is made...
In this contribution, I will review the growing interest in implementing larga area fast timing detectors with a time resolution of 30-50 ps, based on Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors.
Precise time information added to tracking brings benefits to the performance of the detectors by reducing the background and sharpening the resolution; it improves tracking performances and simplify tracking...
Calorimeters for particle physics experiments with integration time of a few ns will substantially improve the capability of the experiment to resolve event pileup and to reject backgrounds. In this paper time development of hadronic showers induced by 30 and 60 GeV positive pions and 120 GeV protons is studied using Monte Carlo simulation and beam tests with a prototype of a sampling...
After the successful demonstration of the performance of highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters by the CALICE collaboration, emphasis has shifted to system issues and large scale production. These are addressed by varied technological prototypes currently in production. We present work on silicon, scintillator, and gas-detector based imaging calorimeters for future...
At present most experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are planning upgrades in the next 5-10 years for their innermost tracking layers as well as luminosity monitors to be able to take data as the luminosity increases and CERN moves toward the High Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC). These upgrades will most likely require more radiation tolerant technologies than exist today. As a result...
Detectors based on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond have been used extensively and successfully in beam conditions/beam loss monitors as the innermost detectors in the highest radiation areas of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. Over the last two years the RD42 collaboration has constructed a series of 3D detectors using CVD diamond as the active material and laser fabricated...
We present an experimental setup developed at the Detector Laboratory at Antonio Nariño University to automatically and precisely capture high resolution images of GEM foils. These high resolution images are then used for quality control of the corresponding GEM foils through an automatic determination of defects and geometry changes of the thousands of the micro-holes contained in a GEM foil....
Performance of the microchannel plate photomultiplier (MCP-PMT) in magnetic field is an important aspect for its application in the proposed electron ion collider (EIC). The motivation of this paper is to explore the critical parameters that affect the performance of MCP-PMT in magnetic field, and to guide the design optimization of MCP-PMTs for high magnetic field tolerance. MCP-PMTs with two...
Researchers at IHEP have conceived a new concept of MCP-PMT several years ago. The small MCP units replace the bulky Dynode chain in the large PMTs. In addition the transmission and reflection photocathode in the same glass bulb to enhance the efficiency of photoelectron conversion. After three years R&D, a num-ber of 8 inch prototypes were produced in 2013. The 20 inch prototypes were...
We report on the result of the R&D activity focused on the development of a Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Chamber with Multi-Strip readout architecture, for high counting rate and multiplicity environment, specific for high interaction rate experiments.
An innovative chamber design which fulfills simultaneously two requirements for strip readout MRPCs, i.e. the granularity and the impedance...
Micromegas resistive detectors have already proven to be suitable for precision tracking at rates up to few kHz/cm$^2$. Rate capability up to few MHz/cm$^2$ and low occupancy can be achieved by using few mm2 readout pads. Such a rate capability will be required in upgrades of forward muon detectors of LHC experiments as well as in experiments at future colliders.
We present the development of...
Two resistive-strip bulk Micromegas detectors have been installed in the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN in 2015.
The primary goal was to assess the performance of the detectors after long term irradiation. This study is particularly relevant in view of the adoption of the Micromegas technology for future upgrades, as in the ATLAS inner muon system. In this region the expected accumulated...
We report prototype production results achieved for fully functional sealed Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPD™). The LAPPD™ is a microchannel plate (MCP) based photodetector, capable of imaging with single-photon sensitivity at high spatial and temporal resolutions in a hermetic package with an active area of 400 square centimeters. In December 2015, Incom Inc. completed...
The TORCH detector is a time-of-flight based system that is being developed for use in particle physics experiments with the aim of providing particle identification in the momentum range 2–10 GeV/c over a wide area. The detector exploits prompt Cherenkov light produced by charge particles traversing a 10 mm thick quartz plate. Photons propagate via total-internal reflection and are focussed...
The Center for Underground Physics (CUP) at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has been conducting two major experiments, the COSINE experiment for dark matter search and the AMoRE experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay search. The COSINE experiment is using NaI:Tl scintillation crystals and the AMoRE is studying the 100Mo based scintillation crystals such as CaMoO4 and Li2MoO4. To...
