Conveners
Photo Detectors and PID
- Karen Byrum (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Eugenio Nappi (BA)
Marco Vignati
(ROMA1)
5/25/15, 3:15 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
Large-mass arrays of bolometers proved to be good detectors for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (0ν2β) and Dark Matter searches.
CUORE and LUCIFER are bolometric 0ν2β experiments which will start to take data in 2016 at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The sensitivity of CUORE could be increased by removing the background due to α particles, by detecting the small amount of...
Mr
Alexander Barnyakov
(BINP, NSU)
5/25/15, 3:35 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
In 2014 the fully installed ASHIPH (Aerogel, SHifter, PHotomultiplier) system began its operation in the KEDR experiment at the VEPP-4M e+e- collider. The system contains 1000 liters of aerogel with refractive index 1.05 in160 counters that are arranged in two layers. Light collection is preformed by means of wavelength shifters. 160 Micro-Channel Plate PMTs with multialkali photocathode are...
Dr
Mark Tobin
(LPHE-EPFL)
5/25/15, 3:55 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during 2018/19 in order to collect data from proton-proton collisions at the LHC at higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40\,MHz using a trigger-less read-out system. All front-end electronics will be replaced and several sub-detectors must be redesigned to cope with the higher occupancy. The current tracking detectors downstream of...
Giuliana Rizzo
(Universita' & INFN Pisa)
5/25/15, 4:15 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
The PixFEL project, funded by INFN, is developing the fundamental building blocks for a large area X-ray imaging camera to be deployed at next generation free electron laser (FEL) facilities with unprecedented intensity.
Improvement in performance beyond the state of art in imaging instrumentation will be explored adopting advanced technologies like active edge sensors, a 65 nm node CMOS...
Matteo De Gerone
(GE)
5/25/15, 4:35 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
The development of a Timing Counter detector with a ~30ps resolution is presented. The detector has been designed for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, looking for the μ->eγ decay with an improved sensitivity of about a factor 10 with respect to the previous MEG setup.
It is based on 2 sets of scintillating pixels arranged on a semi-cylindrical structure (this shape being optimized to fit in...
Dr
Karen Byrum
(Argonne National Laboratory)
5/25/15, 5:25 PM
Oral
Francesca Bucci
(FI)
5/25/15, 5:50 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
NA62 is the last generation kaon experiment at CERN. Its main goal is the measurement of the $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$ branching ratio with 10\% accuracy. NA62 aims to collect 100 $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$ events in two years of data taking. Therefore, by assuming a $10%$ signal acceptance and a $K^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \nu \overline{\nu}$ branching ratio of...
C. A. Santos
(INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy)
5/25/15, 6:10 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
We report about the development status of large area gaseous single photon detectors based on Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEMs) for RICH applications. The R&D programme includes: characterization of THGEM structures of multiple active areas; study of the aspects related to single photon detection; optimization of front-end electronics; engineering towards large area detectors;...
Prof.
Neville Harnew
(University of Oxford)
5/25/15, 6:30 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
The TORCH time-of-flight detector is being developed to provide particle identification between 2-10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10m. TORCH is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30m^2, and has a DIRC-like construction with 10mm thick synthetic quartz radiator plates. Cherenkov photons propagate by total internal reflection to the plate edges and there are focussed onto...
Ezio Torassa
(INFN Padova)
5/25/15, 6:50 PM
S2 - Photon Detector and PID
Oral
The SuperKEKB e+e- collider will provide 40 times higher instantaneous luminosity than the KEKB collider.
The Belle-II detector, located at the collision point, is the upgrade of the Belle detector.
The particle identification in the barrel region will be improved by replacing the aerogel counter with a new high performance detector named time-of-propagagation (“TOP”).
The TOP...
