Conveners
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques: Joint session with Operation, Performance and Upgrade
- Gianluigi Cibinetto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Mogens Dam (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Jianchun Wang (IHEP)
- Felix Sefkow
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Gianluigi Cibinetto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Mogens Dam (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Mogens Dam (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University)
- Felix Sefkow
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Daniela Daniela Bortoletto (University Of Oxford)
- Cornelia Wunderer (DESY)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Daniela Daniela Bortoletto (University Of Oxford)
- Jianchun Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Felix Sefkow
- Cornelia Wunderer (DESY)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Gianluigi Cibinetto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Daniela Daniela Bortoletto (University Of Oxford)
Detectors for Future Facilities, R&D, novel techniques
- Cornelia Wunderer (DESY)
- Jianchun Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
The Belle II experiment is taking data at the asymmetric SuperKEKB collider, which operates at the Y(4S) resonance. The vertex detector is composed of an inner two-layer pixel detector (PXD) and an outer four-layer double-sided strip detector (SVD). The SVD-standalone tracking allows the reconstruction and identification, through dE/dx, of low transverse momentum tracks. The SVD information is...
Belle II is a new-generation B-factory experiment operating at the beam intensity frontier, SuperKEKB accelerator, dedicated to exploring new physics beyond the standard model of elementary particles in the flavor sector. Belle II started data-taking in April 2018, using a synchronous data acquisition (DAQ) system based on a pipelined trigger flow control. Belle II DAQ system is designed to...
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB e+e- collider has started data taking in 2018 with the perspective of collecting 50ab-1 during the next several years. The detector is working well with very good performance, but the first years of running are showing novel challenges and indicate the need for an accelerator consolidation and upgrade to reach the target luminosity of 6E35 cm-2s-1,...
The addition of a Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) to the ALICE experiment is proposed for LHC Run 4 to provide unique constraints on the low-x gluon structure of protons and nuclei via forward measurements of direct photons. A new high-resolution electromagnetic Si-W calorimeter using both Si-pad and Si-pixel layers is being developed to discriminate single photons from pairs of photons...
After the successful installation and first operation of the upgraded Inner Tracking System (ITS2), which consists of about 10 m2 of monolithic silicon pixel sensors, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors for the ITS3 for Run 4. Sensors larger than typical reticle sizes can be produced using the technique of stitching. At thicknesses of about 30 µm, the silicon is...
ALICE 3 is proposed as the next-generation experiment to address unresolved questions about the quark-gluon plasma by precise measurements of heavy-flavour probes as well as electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions in LHC Runs 5 and 6. In order to achieve the best possible pointing resolution a concept for the installation of a high-resolution vertex tracker in the beampipe is being...
Circular colliders have the advantage of delivering collisions to multiple interaction points (up to 4 IPs for e+e- collisions at the FCC-ee facility) that allow for different detector designs to be studied and optimized individually aiming at complementary physics target studies. On the one hand, the detectors must satisfy the constraints imposed by the invasive interaction region layout. On...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider is a proposed, high luminosity factory for massive SM particles. It aims to deliver millions of Higgs bosons, trillions of Z bosons, hundreds millions of W bosons in 10 - 20 years of data taking, and has the potential to upgrade its center of mass energy to 360 GeV, producing decent statistics of t-tbar events. The CEPC is expected to search for New...
The future circular electron-positron collider (FCCee) is receiving much attention in the context of the FCC Feasibility Study currently in progress in preparation for the next EU strategy update. We present IDEA, a detector concept optimized for FCCee and composed of a vertex detector based on DMAPS, a very light drift chamber, a silicon wrapper, a dual readout calorimeter outside a thin 2...
The IDEA drift chamber is designed to provide efficient tracking, a high precision momentum measurement, and excellent particle identification by exploiting the cluster counting technique. The ionization process by charged particles is the primary mechanism used for particle identification (dE/dx). However, the significant uncertainties in the total energy deposition represent a limit to the...
The IDEA detector concept for a future e+e− collider adopts an ultra-low mass drift chamber as central tracking system. The He based ultra-low mass drift chamber is designed to provide efficient tracking, a high precision momentum measurement, and excellent particle identification by exploiting cluster counting technique. Studies with the Garfield++ simulation confirm that the cluster counting...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is designed to operate at center-of-mass energies of 240 GeV as a Higgs factory, as well as at the Z-pole and the WW production threshold for electroweak precision measurements and study of flavor physics. A good particle identification on charged hadrons is essential for the flavor physics and jet study. To meet this requirement, a tracker with a...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed as a Higgs/Z factory in China. The baseline design of a detector concept consists of a tracking system, which is a high precision (about 100 $\mu$m) large volume Time Projection Chamber as the main track device. The tracking system has high precision performance requirements, but without power-pulsing, which leads to additional...
A large, worldwide community of physicists is working to realise an exceptional physics program of energy-frontier, electron-positron collisions with the International Linear Collider (ILC). The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of the proposed detector concepts at the ILC. The ILD tracking system consists of a Si vertex detector, forward tracking disks and a large volume Time...
The $\mu$-RWELL is a single amplification stage resistive MPGD. The amplification stage is realized with a copper-clad polyimide foil patterned with a micro-well matrix coupled with the readout PCB through a DLC resistive film (10÷100 M$\Omega$/square).
The detector is proposed for several applications in HEP that require fast and efficient triggering in harsh environment (LHCb muon-upgrade),...
In view of the construction of a circular e+e- collider, like FCC_ee, the scientific community of RD_FCC is conceiving the IDEA apparatus: the Innovative Detector for Electron-positron Accelerator.
The detector is composed, from the innermost region going outward, of a central tracker, the magnet, the pre-shower, the calorimeter and the muon system.
The micro-Resistive WELL technology has...
The future of HEP experiments foresee new upgrades of the current accelerators (HL-LHC) and the design of high energy and very high intensity new particle accelerators (FCC-ee/hh, EIC, Muon Collider). This opens new challenges to develop cost effective, high efficiency particle detectors operating in high background and high radiation environment.
An R&D project is ongoing in order to...
A long-term irradiation and longevity test was conducted on two bulk-Micromegas detectors with screen-printed resistive strips, working with Ar:CO$_2$ gas mixture at the CERN GIF++ facility between 2015 and 2018.
The results have been presented at previous conferences and are under publications. In that test the detectors have integrated a total charge of about 0.3 C/cm$^2$.
One of the...
A special readout chain was developed for the data acquisition of an innovative cylindrical gas-electron multiplier (CGEM) [1], which is being built to replace the inner drift chamber of the BESIII [2] experiment.
The whole system [3] was designed with modularity, versatility and scalability in mind and can be used to test other innovative micro-pattern gaseous detectors.
Signals from...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will search for charged-lepton flavour violating neutrino-less conversion of negative muons into electrons in the coulomb field of an Al nucleus. The conversion electron has a monoenergetic 104.967 MeV signature slightly below the muon mass and will be identified by a complementary measurement carried out by a high-resolution tracker...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the Standard Model forbidden conversion, within the field of a nucleus, of a negative muon into an electron. A clean discovery signature is provided by the observation of mono-energetic conversion electrons with energy of 104.967 MeV. If the conversion is not observed, Mu2e can set a limit of the ratio between the conversion and the capture rate...
Dual-readout fibre-based calorimeters have been demonstrated to achieve a superior built-in energy resolution, that can be further enhanced by the application of post-processing reconstruction techniques (like particle flow, for example). A prototype built starting from capillary tubes as basic elements has been exposed to test beams with energies ranging from 1 to 100 GeV to measure the...
The aim of the LHCb Upgrade II is to operate at a luminosity of 1.5 x 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1 to collect a data set of 300 fb^-1. This will require a substantial modification of the current LHCb ECAL due to high radiation doses in the central region and increased particle densities. A consolidation of the ECAL already during LS3 would reduce the occupancy in the central region and mitigate...
Future electron-positron colliders, or Higgs factories, impose stringent requirements on the energy resolutions of hadron and jets for the precision physic programs of the Higgs, Z, W bosons and the top quark. Based on the particle-flow paradigm, a novel highly granular crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) has been proposed to address major challenges from the jet reconstruction and to...
The Crilin (CRystal calorImeter with Longitudinal INformation) calorimeter is a semi- homogeneous calorimeter based on Lead Fluoride (PbF$_2$) Crystals readout by surface-mount UV-extended Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). It is a proposed solution for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the Muon Collider. In a Muon Collider, the timing could be used to remove signals produced by beam-induced...
It is well known that the lattice structure of a scintillating crystal can influence the development of the electromagnetic processes inside it. For electron and photon beams aligned with the symmetry axis of a crystal, if the strong field condition is satisfied, a reduction of the radiation length X$_0$ is expected. However, these effects have been experimentally observed only in the last few...
The next generation of collider detectors will make full use of Particle Flow Algorithms, requiring high precision tracking and full imaging calorimeters. The latter, thanks to granularity improvements by two to three orders of magnitude compared to existing devices, have been developed during the past 15 years by the CALICE collaboration and are now reaching maturity. The state-of-the-art and...
Prototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic imaging calorimeters developed and operated by the CALICE collaboration provide an unprecedented wealth of highly granular data of hadronic showers for a variety of active sensor elements and different absorber materials. We will discuss detailed measurements of the spatial and the time structure of hadronic showers to characterize the different...
The highly granular imaging calorimeters developed and operated by the CALICE collaboration provide a fertile testing ground for the application of innovative simulation and reconstruction techniques. Firstly, we show how granularity and the application of multivariate analysis algorithms enable the separation of close-by particles, and ParticleID. Secondly, we will outline how Machine...
Based on the particle-flow paradigm, a novel hadronic calorimeter (HCAL) with highly granular scintillating glass tiles is proposed to address major challenges from precision measurements of jets at future lepton collider experiments, such as the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC). Compared with the plastic scintillator option, the scintillating glass HCAL design aims for further...
This contribution will present a resource-efficient FPGA-based neural network regression model which was developed for potential applications in the future hardware muon trigger system of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our model uses a neural network regression to significantly improve the rejection of the dominant source of background events in the central detector...
Trigger strategies for future high-rate collider experiments invariably envisage implementations of Neural Networks on FPGAs. For the HL-LHC case, as well as for FCC-ee and ILC, triggerless approaches are explored where the event selection will be largely committed to Machine Learning models directly interfaced with detector’s front-end readout. Even for the huge amounts of data produced at...
Diamond sensors (DS) are widely used as solid-state particle detectors, beam loss monitors, and dosimeters in high-radiation environments, e.g., particle colliders. We have calibrated our DS with steady $\beta$- and X-radiation, spanning a dose rate in the range 0.1-100 mGy/sec. Here, we report the first systematic characterization of transient responses of DS to collimated, sub-picosecond, 1...
BULLKID is an R&D project on a new cryogenic particle detector to search for low energy processes such as low-mass dark matter and neutrino coherent scattering off nuclei. The detector unit we are building consists in an array of 60 silicon absorbers sensed by phonon-mediated, microwave-multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs), with energy resolution on nuclear recoils around 100 eV ...
The proposed high-luminosity high-energy Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide a clean environment to precisely study several fundamental questions in the high energy and nuclear physics fields. A low material budget silicon vertex/tracking detector with fine spatial resolution (hit spatial resolution < 10 $\mu$m) is critical to carry out heavy flavor hadron and jet measurements at the...
Future vertex detectors operating in colliders at very high instantaneous luminosity will face great challenges in the event reconstruction due to the increase in track density. In particular the high luminosity LHC phase, with the collider operating at 1.5x10$^{34}$/cm/s, will pose strict requirements on subdetectors capabilities. Concerning the LHCb Upgrade2, 2000 tracks from 40 pp...
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Incom Inc is producing a standard version of the Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPD) – the world’s largest commercially-available planar-geometry photodetector based on microchannel plates (ALD-GCA-MCPs). It features a stacked chevron pair of “next generation” large area MCPs produced by applying resistive and emissive Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coatings to glass...
Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPDs) are micro-channel based photosensors featuring hundreds of square centimeters of sensitive area in a single package and timing resolution on the order of 50 ps for a single photon detection. However, LAPPDs currently do not exist in finely pixelated 2D readout configurations that in addition to the high-resolution timing would also provide the...
The plans for LHCb upgrade II in the HL LHC era include complementing the experiment’s particle ID capabilities in the low momentum region up to 10-15 GeV with the novel TORCH time of flight detector. TORCH is designed to provide 15 ps timing resolution for charged particles, resulting in K/pi (p/K) particle identification up to 10 (15) GeV/c momentum over a 10 m flight path. Cherenkov...
At the latest European strategy update in 2020 it has been highlighted that the next highest-priority collider should be an $e^+e^-$ Higgs factory with a strong focus on precision physics. Particle identification will be an essential tool for such precision measurements to utilise clean event environment and push event reconstruction to its full potential. A recent development of the...
A 51-kiloton magnetised Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector, using Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) as active detector elements, aims to study atmospheric neutrinos. It will be the flagship experiment at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) which is proposed to be housed in a cavern at the end of a 2 km tunnel in a mountain near Pottipuram (Tamil Nadu). A prototype - 1/600 of the weight of...
Serendipitously discovered by the BATSE mission in the nineties, Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) represent the most intense and energetic natural emission of gamma rays form our planet. TGFs consist of sub-millisecond bursts of gamma rays (energy up to one hundred MeV) generated during powerful thunderstorms by lightenings (average ignition altitude of about 10 km) and are in general...
Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) will be a next generation water Cherenkov detector capable of measuring neutrino interactions with unprecedented statistical precision. Discriminating candidate neutrino interactions from cosmic-ray muons and low-energy backgrounds is dependent upon constructing an effective Outer Detector (OD). The baseline design proposes deploying up to ten thousand 3-inch...
IceCube-Gen2 is a proposed high energy extension of IceCube that would expand the high energy neutrino sensitivity by an order of magnitude. IceCube, located at the South Pole, is the world's largest neutrinos telescope. The IceCube-Gen2 optical array has a planned instrumented volume of 7.9 km^3, 8 times larger than that of IceCube, and will deploy 9,600 modules in 120 new strings with 240 m...
The nEXO experiment is a proposed next-generation liquid xenon experiment to search for neutrino-less double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{136}$Xe. The experiment will use a 5-tonne liquid xenon monolithic time projection chamber enriched to 90% $^{136}$Xe. Ionization electrons and scintillation photons from energy deposits in the detector will recorded by a segmented anode and a large...
The DUNE experiment is a future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming at measuring the neutrino CP violation and establishing the neutrino mass hierarchy, as well as at a rich physics programme from supernovae over low-energy physics to beyond standard model searches.
The baseline technology for the first far detector is a proven single-phase horizontal drift liquid Argon TPC...
The ability of identifying and discriminating electronic and nuclear recoil events at the experimental low energy threshold represents the main limitation of the modern dark matter direct detection experiments. In this context, the gaseous Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with optical readout are a promising and innovative technique. Thanks to the high granularity and sensitivity of the latest...
FLArE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) based experiment designed to detect very high-energy neutrinos and search for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It will be located in the proposed Forward Physics Facility, 620 m from the ATLAS interaction point in the far-forward direction, and will collect data during the High-Luminosity LHC era. With a fiducial mass of...
The history of neutrino physics has been profoundly marked by the use of transparent liquid scintillator (LS) detectors. Their application in reactor and solar neutrino physics led to the discovery and the study of many fundamental properties of the elusive neutrinos. Despite all these successes and many decades of R&D, particle identification (PID) remains a weak point for this technology. In...
The RES-NOVA project will hunt neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SN) via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) using an array of archaeological lead (Pb) based cryogenic detectors. The high CEνNS cross-section on Pb and the ultra-high radiopurity of archaeological Pb enable the operation of a high statistics experiment equally sensitive to all neutrino flavors...
Very-high energy physics (VHEP) is the development of a higher energy frontier that is complementary to HEP using accelerators to investigate interactions in space caused by fundamental particles and to study the structure and fundamental interactions of elementary particles. Probing for VHE elementary particles will also enable the discovery of VHE celestial objects and the elucidation of...
The Beam Dump Experiment (BDX) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLAB) is electron-beam thick-target experiment to search for Light Dark Matter (LDM) particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. BDX will exploit the high-intensity 10.6 GeV e$^-$ beam from CEBAF accelerator impinging on the beam dump of experimental Hall-A, collecting up to 10$^{22}$ electrons-on-target in a few years time. Any LDM particles...
The FASER experiment is a new small and inexpensive experiment that is being placed 480 meters downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC. FASER is designed to discover dark photons and other light and very weakly-interacting particles that are produced in the far-forward region, outside of the ATLAS detector acceptance. The experiment has been successfully constructed and installed...
NUSES is a space mission project promoted by the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space Italy and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) with the aim at investigating cosmic radiation, astrophysical neutrinos, Sun-Earth environment, space weather and possible signals of magnetosphere-ionosphere-lithosphere coupling (MILC) phenomena....
The proposed ECCE detector at the future Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a physics-driven design concept, meeting and exceeding the EIC physics program requirements.
To gain further insights on the partonic structure of the nucleon, jets in the hadron-going (forward) direction provide an excellent probe.
They provide a strong handle on parton kinematics in...
The LUXE experiment aims at studying high-field QED in electron-laser and photon-laser interactions, with the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL and a laser beam with power of up to 350 TW. The experiment will measure the spectra of electrons, positrons and photons in expected ranges of $10^{-3}$ to $10^9$ per 1 Hz bunch crossing, depending on the laser power and focus. These...
The Any Light Particle Search (ALPS) II is a light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiment
which investigates the existence of axions and axion-like-particles (alps) in the sub-eV mass range. Their existence is motivated by QCD physics, astrophysics and cosmology; alps are also promising candidates for dark matter. ALPS~II aims to probe the coupling of axions and alps (to photons) down to a...
