12–17 Sept 2021
University of Birmingham
Europe/London timezone

New beam position detectors for NA61/SHINE experiment

15 Sept 2021, 15:10
15m
Teaching and Learning Building (University of Birmingham)

Teaching and Learning Building

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston Campus University of Birmingham B15 2TT UK
talk Applications in Particle Physics Applications in Particle Physics 2

Speaker

Yuliia Balkova (University of Silesia (PL))

Description

NA61/SHINE is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment located at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN. The main goals of the experiment include studies for physics of strong interactions, neutrino physics, and cosmic-rays physics. After the upgrade of the detector system, scheduled to be completed this year, the experiment will collect data up to 1 kHz event rate (factor 10 increase). The development of new beam position detectors, used to measure the positions of incoming beam particles in the transverse plane, is a crucial part of the upgrade. The previous set of beam position detectors was based on the proportional gas chambers.

Instead, two new kinds of beam position detectors are prepared and tested. One of them is the scintillating fibre detector with a multi-anode photomultiplier readout. It is built of two perpendicularly arranged ribbons, each consisting of two shifted layers of green-emitting scintillating fibres with a diameter of 250 µm. The second type of detector is based on the single-sided silicon strip detector (Hamamatsu S13804).

The talk will give an overview of both detectors' concepts and will present the results of tests and commissioning experiments.

Title Ms
Your name Yuliia Balkova
Institute University of Silesia in Katowice
email yuliia.balkova@cern.ch
Nationality Ukrainian

Primary author

Yuliia Balkova (University of Silesia (PL))

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