18–22 Feb 2019
Vienna University of Technology
Europe/Vienna timezone

Operation and performance of the PADME active target

Not scheduled
15m
Vienna University of Technology

Vienna University of Technology

Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Wien
Board: 51
Poster Dark matter and other low-background experiments Poster Session B

Speaker

Mrs Federica Oliva (INFN Lecce and Dip. di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento)

Description

Large size and thin high-quality polycrystalline diamond were used to build the full carbon active target of the PADME experiment, at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, searching for a dark photon of mass up to about 23.7 MeV.

The diamond sensors were ordered from a US commercial firm and graphitic electrodes on the surfaces were produced by a UV excimer laser at the University of Salento.

The full carbon active target has a size of 2x2 cm2 and a thickness of 100 microns. Both sensor surfaces host strip electrodes with a pitch of about 1 mm, oriented in orthogonal directions in the two planes. It is intended to acts as a beam and luminosity monitor by reconstructing at each bunch the beam intensity and profile in two orthogonal projections.

The detector is in operation since the beginning of September 2018. We review the status, the operation experience, and the performance of this device in the PADME experiment as measured so far.

Primary authors

Stefania Spagnolo (INFN Lecce and Dip. di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Universita del Salento (IT)) Mrs Federica Oliva (INFN Lecce and Dip. di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento)

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