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Dr Alessandro Rossi (INFN - Perugia)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe SuperB project is an asymmetric e+eโ accelerator of $10^{36}cm^{โ2}s^{โ1}$ luminosity, capable of collecting a data sample of 50โ75 ab$^{โ1}$ in five years of running. The SuperB electromagnetic calorimeter (EMC) provides energy and direction measurement of photons and electrons, and is used for identification of electrons versus other charged particles. In particular we will present its...Go to contribution page
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Adriano Zallo (LNF)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterA minicalorimeter has been built in the Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) of INFN for the BESIII detector, based at the BEPCII storage rings of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has been installed in one of the two small-theta angle regions of BESIII to measure the energy of photons from Initial State Radiation (ISR) events with an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Djamel Boumediene (LPC Clermont CNRS / IN2P3 Univ. Blaise Pascal)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe TileCal is the hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. It is a sampling calorimeter with iron plates as absorber and plastic scintillating tiles as the active material. The scintillation light produced by the passage of charged particles is transmitted by wavelength shifting fibers to about 10000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Integrated on the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maria Margherita Obertino (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe CMS ECAL is one of the highest resolution electromagnetic calorimeters ever constructed, but relies upon precision calibration in order to achieve and maintain its design performance. Variations in light collected from the lead tungstate crystals, due to intrinsic differences in crystals/photodetectors, as well as variations with time due to radiation damage for example, need to be taken...Go to contribution page
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Dr Simona Giovannella (INFN - LNF)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterIn the new design of the DAFNE interaction region, the position of the inner quadrupoles leaves place for inserting a crystal calorimeter to tag low energy photons in the angular region between 10 and 18 degrees thus increasing the acceptance of the central calorimeter for rare eta and kaon decays ( such as $K_s \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$, $\eta \rightarrow \pi^0 \gamma \gamma$, $K_s...Go to contribution page
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Jean-Louis Faure (DSM/IRFU-Saclay)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is a high resolution, fine-grained calorimeter devised to measure photons and electrons at the LHC. Built of lead tungstate crystals, it plays a crucial role in the search for new physics as well as in precision measurements of the Standard Model. A preshower detector, based on silicon strip sensors, improves position measurements and particle...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Sameh Mannai (Universitรฉ Catholique de Louvain, Belgique)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterA high-granularity semi-digital Hadronic calorimeter using GRPC as sensitive medium is to be proposed for the future International Linear Collider project. A prototype of 1 m$^3$ was built within the CALICE collaboration in order to validate this option. The prototype intends to be as close as possible to the one proposed in the ILD Letter Of Intent. The active media of this HCAL are large...Go to contribution page
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53. Dependence of the Energy Resolution of a Scintillating Crystal on the Read-Out Integration time.Davide Pinci (ROMA1)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterWhen using detectors made of a crystal and a photo-detector in high rate applications it is not always possible to integrate the whole signal, the integration time being dictated by the need to avoid in the read-out the pile-up due to the large background of low energy particles. By means of both experimental data on a BGO crystals and simulation, we developed a technique to compute the...Go to contribution page
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Michele Cascella (Universitร del Salento e INFN di Lecce)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterFirst attempts to use electromagnetic calorimeter prototypes made of Mo-doped PbWO4 crystals or by BGO crystals, in view of the possible application of such a detector in dual-readout hybrid calorimetry will be presented. We have tested matrices of these crystals as electromagnetic calorimeters and studied the properties of the Cerenkov and scintillation components of the signals generated...Go to contribution page
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Ms Lucy Kogan (Oxford University)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterAbout one year after the first proton proton collisions at a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}= 7$TeV the ATLAS experiment has achieved an accuracy of the jet energy measurement between 2-4% for jet transverse momenta from 20 GeV to 2 TeV in the pseudo-rapidity region up to eta=4.5. The jet energy scale uncertainty is derived from in-situ single hadron response measurement a long with...Go to contribution page
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Dr Giovanni Onorato (Universita' Guglielmo Marconi / Fermilab)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterMu2e will search for coherent, neutrino-less conversion of muons into electrons in the field of a nucleus to a few parts in $10^{-17}$, a sensitivity improvement of a factor of 10,000 over existing limits. Muon-Electron conversion provides unique windows into new physics inaccessible to other lepton flavor violation searches and probes up to mass scales ~ $10^4$ TeV, far beyond the reach of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jacob Anderson (Fermilab)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe CMS Barrel (HB) and Endcap (HE) Hadron Calorimeters are scintillator sampling calorimeters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers (WLS) in scintillator tiles. The fibers from the sampling layers are ganged together to form towers whose light is detected by photo-sensors. The photo-sensors that are currently used are hybrid photodiodes (HPDs).The HCAL upgrade is required for the increased...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Apostolos Panagiotou (University of Athens)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterCASTOR is a Cerenkov quartz-tungsten sampling calorimeter, installed in the very forward region of the CMS experiment at the LHC and covering the pseudorapidity range of โ5.2 to โ6.6. The calorimeter surrounds the beam pipe as a very compact structure of tungsten and quartz plates, with a depth of 10 interaction lengths. The granularity of 16 azimuthal sectors and 14 longitudinal sections...Go to contribution page
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Dr Evelin Meoni (IFAE - Barcelona)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the central section of the hadronic calorimeter of ATLAS. It is a key detector for the reconstruction of hadrons, jets, taus and missing transverse energy. TileCal is a sampling calorimeter with steel as absorber and scintillators as active medium. The scintillators are read-out by wavelength shifting fibers coupled to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jacob Anderson (Fermilab)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterWe present a scheme to upgrade the CMS HCAL front-end electronics in the second long LHC shutdown (~2017). The HCAL upgrade is required to handle a major luminosity increase of the LHC that is expected for 2017. A key aspect of the HCAL upgrade is to readout longitudinal segmentation information to improve background rejection, energy resolution, and electron isolation at the L1 trigger. This...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Saputi (LNF)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe upgrade of the DAFNE machine layout requires a modification of the size and position of the inner focusing quadrupoles of KLOE-2 thus asking for the realization of two new calorimeters covering the quadrupoles area. To improve the reconstruction of $K_L \rightarrow 2 \pi^0$ events with photons hitting the quadrupoles a calorimeter with high efficiency to low energy photons (20-300...Go to contribution page
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Dr Igor Chirikov-Zorin (JINR)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe design of the new of Shashyk EM calorimeter ECAL0 for COMPASS II (CERN) is described. Micropixel avalanche photodiodes MAPD-3N with the density of pixels 15000 per square mm and area 3ร3 mm manufactured by the Zecotek Company are used as photodetectors. Preliminary results of studying the energy resolution of the ECAL0 3ร3 module matrix at the T9 CERN PS test-beam facility are presented.Go to contribution page
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Angela Lucaci Timoce (CERN)22/05/2012, 13:16PosterWe present the study of the showers initiated by low momentum (p <10 GeV) electrons, pions and protons in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-tungsten HCAL. The data were taken at the CERN PS in 2010. The analysis includes energy resolution measurements for each particle type and studies of the shower development in both longitudinal and transverse planes. The results are compared...Go to contribution page
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Dr Natasa Raicevic (University of Montenegro)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterFast simulation of showers in calorimeters is very important for particle physics analysis since shower simulation typically takes significant amount of the simulation time. At the same time, a simulation must reproduce experimental data in the best possible way. In this paper, a fast simulation of showers in two calorimeters of the H1 experiment is presented. High speed and good...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Berra (MIB)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterSilicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) consist of a matrix of small passively quenched silicon avalanche photodiodes operated in limited Geiger-mode (GM-APDs) and read out in parallel from a common output node. Each pixel (with a typical size in the 20-100 $\mu$m range) gives the same current response when hit by a photon; the SiPM output signal is the sum of the signals of all the pixels, which...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mรกrio Sousa (LIP-Lisbon, FCUL)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterSingle hadron response measurement in minimum bias proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of $\sqrt s = 7 \, TeV$ are presented. Together with test-beam results these measurement form the basis to evaluate the calorimeter response uncertainty of jets at high transverse momenta. The novel technique to evaluate the jet from the single particle response will be presented. The...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Ludovica Aperio Bella (LAPP)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe ATLAS experiment is designed to study the proton-proton collisions produced at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) at CERN. Liquid argon sampling calorimeters are used for all electromagnetic calorimetry covering the pseudo-rapidity region up to 3.2, as well as for hadronic calorimetry in the range 1.4-4.9. The electromagnetic calorimeters use lead as passive material and are characterized...Go to contribution page
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Ms Yesenia Hernandez (University of Valencia)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe Tile Calorimeter (TileCal), the central section of the hadronic calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, is a key detector component to detect hadrons, jets and taus and to measure the missing transverse energy. Due to the very good muon signal to noise ratio it assists the spectrometer in the identification and reconstruction of muons. TileCal is built of steel and scintillating tiles coupled...Go to contribution page
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Dr Giovanni Signorelli (INFN Pisa)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe FOXFIRE R&D project (FIRB On a Xenon detector with Frontend for Ionization Real-time Extraction) aims at studying and developing new techniques for the detection of rare processes in elementary particle physics by means of condensed noble gases detectors. Noble liquids, notably liquid xenon, present in fact a unique set of characteristics (high density and stopping power, high light yield)...Go to contribution page
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Sofia Maria Consonni (INFN - Milano)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterTau leptons will play an important role in the physics program at the LHC. They will be used not only in searches for new phenomena like the Higgs boson or Supersymmetry and electroweak measurements but also in detector related studies like the determination of the missing transverse energy scale. Optimal identification of hadronically decaying tau leptons is achieved by using detailed...Go to contribution page
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Fernando Carrio Argos (University of Valencia)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) is the hadronic calorimeter covering the most central region of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. I consists of about 1000 channels. The main upgrade will occur for the High Luminosity LHC phase (phase 2) scheduled around 2022. The upgrade aims at replacing the majority of the on- and off-detector electronics so that all calorimeter signals are directly digitized...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jacob Anderson (Fermilab)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe CMS Hadron Outer Calorimeter (HO) is undergoing an upgrade to replace the existing photodetectors (HPDs) with SIPMs. The chosen device is the Hamamatsu 3X3mm 50ยตm pitch MPPC. A system has been developed to be a โdrop-inโ replacement of the HPDs. A complete control system of bias voltage generation, leakage current monitoring, temperature monitoring, and temperature control using solid...Go to contribution page
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Margret Fincke (Univ. of Victoria)22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterAlthough LHC data-taking is expected to continue for a number or years, plans are already being developed for operation of the LHC and associated detectors at a increased instantaneous luminosity about 5 times the original design value of 10$^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The increased particle flux at this high luminosity (HL) will have an impact on many sub-systems of the ATLAS detector. ...Go to contribution page
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Mr Steffen Stรคrz (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))22/05/2012, 13:16P8 - CalorimetryPosterThe ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) calorimeters produce a total of 182,486 signals which are digitized and processed by the front-end and back-end electronics at every triggered event. In addition, the front-end electronics is summing analog signals to provide coarsely grained energy sums, called trigger towers, to the first-level trigger system, which is optimized for nominal LHC luminosities....Go to contribution page
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