Prof.
Bruna Bertucci
(University of Perugia)
22/05/2017, 10:05
oral
An impressive wealth of results has been released in the last decade by space borne experiments based on state-of-the-art particle physics detector technologies. Direct cosmic ray measurements are finally entering in a “precision era” highlighting new and unexpected phenomena, which challenge the current understanding of cosmic ray acceleration and propagation in galaxy while looking towards...
Dr
Rikutaro Yoshida
(JLAB)
22/05/2017, 11:20
Several plans for Electron-Ion Colliders (EIC) have been advanced around the world. In the US, the Nuclear Physics community, in its long range plan, has endorsed a US based EIC as its highest priority new construction after FRIB completion; R&D funds both for the accelerator and the detector are becoming available. I will discuss the considerations for an EIC detector and how they differ from...
Prof.
Chin-Tu Chen
(Chicago Univ.)
22/05/2017, 11:50
oral
Medical physics, particle physics, astrophysics, and other major branches of physics share a very broad technology common platform in their research and development of the respective instrumentation in these fields. Medical imaging often benefits greatly from advances made in particle physics, especially in the area of radiation detection technologies. For example, silicon photomultiplier...
Dr
Xie Junqi
(Argonne National Laboratory)
22/05/2017, 14:00
Planar microchannel plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) with bialkali photocathodes are able to achieve single photon detection with excellent time (picosecond) and spatial (millimeter) resolution. They have recently drawn great interests in experiments requiring time of flight (TOF) measurement and/or Cherenkov imaging. Current MCP-PMTs have a response range of 300 nm – 600 nm, limited by the...
Dr
Ren-Yuan Zhu
(Caltech)
22/05/2017, 14:18
Future HEP experiments at the energy and intensity frontiers require fast inorganic crystal scintillators with excellent radiation hardness to face the challenges of unprecedented event rate and severe radiation environment. This paper reports recent progress in application of fast inorganic scintillators for future HEP experiments, such as thin LYSO crystals for a shashlik sampling...
Kodai Matsuoka
(KMI, Nagoya University)
22/05/2017, 14:18
We developed a square-shaped micro-channel-plate photomultiplier tube (MCP-PMT) for the TOP counter in the Belle II experiment in collaboration with Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
It has a time resolution about 30 ps for single photon detection, a large photocoverage of 23 mm square photocathode and a peak quantum efficiency greater than 28% at a wavelength around 360 nm.
Those excellent time...
Mr
Dominic Gaisbauer
(TU Muenchen)
22/05/2017, 14:35
The Intelligent FPGA Data Acquisition Framework (IFDAQ)
is used for the development of the data acquisition systems.
It provides a collection of IPcores needed to built entire data acquisition
systems starting from a very simple stand-alone Time-to-Digital-Converter module
to a large-scale DAQ including time distribution, slow control, data concentrators
and event builders.
The IPcore...
Prof.
Nural Akchurin
(Texas Tech University)
22/05/2017, 14:36
We report on current research and development activities on cerium-doped fused-silica optical fibers intended for use in high-energy calorimetry, particle tracking, beam monitoring, dosimetry, and myriad other applications outside particle physics. We have partnered with the specialty fibers industry leader Polymicro Technologies and produced several scintillating and wavelength shifting...
Littlejohn Bryce
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
, Mr
Xianyi Zhang
(IIT)
22/05/2017, 14:54
PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum Experiment, is a multi-phased short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment aims to precisely measure the antineutrino spectrum of Highly Enriched U-235 (HEU) reactor and probe the possible neutrino oscillation that involves ∆m2 1 eV scale sterile neutrino. In PROSPECT phase-I, an 14 × 11 optically
segmented Li-6 loaded liquid...
Camplani Alessandra
(Università degli Studi e INFN Milano)
22/05/2017, 16:00
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
oral
The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scheduled for shut-down period of 2018-2019, referred to as Phase-I upgrade, will increase the instantaneous luminosity to about three times the design value. Since the current ATLAS trigger system does not allow sufficient increase of the trigger rate, an improvement of the trigger system is required. The Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimeter read-out...
Dr
Francesco Di Capua
(Università Federico II di Napoli and INFN)
22/05/2017, 16:18
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
oral
uSOP is a general purpose single board computer designed for deep embedded applications in control and monitoring of detectors, sensors, and complex laboratory equipment. In this paper, we present its deployment in the monitoring system framework of the ECL endcap calorimeter of the Belle2 experiment, presently under construction at the KEK Laboratory (Tsukuba, J). We discuss the main aspects...
Daniel Coderre
(University of Bern)
22/05/2017, 16:18
The XENON collaboration seeks to measure WIMP-nucleon interactions using liquid xenon time projection chambers (TPCs). The experiment is a staged process, with the most recent iteration, XENON1T, currently in operation at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. This TPC uses 3.5 tons of liquid xenon total and will achieve an unprecedented sensitivity to the WIMP-nucleon cross section with...
Tomoyuki Konno
(High energy accelerator research organization (KEK))
22/05/2017, 16:36
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
oral
The Belle II data acquisition system is one of the biggest challenges in the Belle II, a next generation of B factory, experiment, which is designed to collect data streams from the seven sub detectors with much higher trigger rate and larger data size up to 30 kHz and 30 GB/s at the level-1 trigger due to the 40 times higher luminosity of the Belle experiment. The Belle2Link, a common...
Giulio Aielli
(U)
22/05/2017, 16:54
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
oral
A decision making process requires to evaluate the saliency of data in a time scale short enough for the decision, to be useful in the ecosystem that generated the data. Experimental High Energy Physics pioneered in facing the problem of managing smartly and in real time big data, produced by detectors in the ns scale, and was always on the cutting edge in developing fast and complex...
Keishi Hosokawa
(Tohoku university)
22/05/2017, 16:54
WIMP dark matter search in GeV order mass range is led by xenon detectors. Moreover, searches for light (sub-GeV and MeV) dark matter are planning or ongoing with lighter target like silicon nucleus. We are planning an experiment to search dark matter up to keV mass region. To lower energy threshold, electrons in superconductor will be used as target. Energy gap of cooper-pair is enough small...
Kazuyoshi Akiba
(IF-UFRJ)
22/05/2017, 16:54
The LHCb Vertex Detector (VELO) will be upgraded in 2018 to a lightweight, pixel detector capable of 40 MHz readout and operation in very close proximity to the LHC beams. The thermal management of the system will be provided by evaporative CO2 circulating in micro channels embedded within thin silicon plates. This solution has been selected due to the excellent thermal efficiency, the...
Ning Zhou
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
22/05/2017, 17:12
PandaX collaboration proposed a 4-ton liquid xenon detector to search for rare physics like dark matter and neutrino. The PandaX-4ton detector contains a TPC with a diameter of 1.2 m and a height of 1.2m. The TPC size is approximately doubled in every dimension from PandaX-II (500kg liquid xenon), presenting several technological challenges. With 6 ton-year exposure, the sensitivity to...
Josef Frisch
(S)
22/05/2017, 17:12
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
oral
The SLAC Technology Innovation Directorate has developed a new electronics platform for instrumentation and control of particle accelerators and experiments. This “Common Platform” system is based on the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture , and uses the ATCA shelf backplane for data, management, precision timing and machine interlocking. Local interface and data processing is...
Francis Gagnon-Moisan
(Paul Scherrer Institute)
23/05/2017, 09:00
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
oral
The Center for Proton Therapy (CPT) of the Paul Scherrer Institute has a long history of technical innovation and development in the field of proton therapy and related quality assurance (QA). The second proton pencil beam scanning gantry built at the CPT, Gantry2, is a state-of-the-art system. The unique integration of QA equipment and detectors within the control system of the gantry allows...
Mr
Ziyi Guo
(Tsinghua University)
23/05/2017, 09:00
Slow liquid scintillator (water-based or oil-based) is proposed as the detection material of a few future neutrino experiments. It can be used to distinguish between scintillation and Cherenkov light. Thus neutrino detectors with it will have the directionality and particle identification for charged particles, so that a better sensitivity is expected for low energy (MeV-scale) neutrino...
Dr
Lei Guo
(Tsinghua University)
23/05/2017, 09:18
The Jinping Neutrino Experiment will perform an in-depth research on solar neutrinos, geo-neutrinos and supernova relic neutrinos. Many efforts were devoted to the R&D of the experimental proposal. The assay and selection of low radioactive stainless-steel (SST) was carried out. The U and Th concentration is less than 1e-8 g/g for selected SST samples. A wide field-of-view and...
Yajing XING
(SUBATECH, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes)
23/05/2017, 09:18
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
oral
We report on an innovative liquid xenon Compton camera project, XEMIS (XEnon Medical Imaging System), for a new functional medical imaging technique based on the detection in coincidence of 3 $\gamma$-rays. The purpose of this 3$\gamma$ imaging modality is to obtain a 3D image using 100 times less activity than in current PET systems. The combination of a liquid xenon time projection chamber...
Paul Schuetze
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
23/05/2017, 09:36
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
oral
Tomographic methods for the imaging and visualization of complex structures are widely used not only in medical applications but also for scientific use in numerous fields.
The CT-Imaging technique, which is commonly used for imaging in industry and the medical sector, exploits the difference of attenuation length for photons in different materials. Complete absorption of the photon beam for...
Lorenzo Paolozzi
(University of Geneva)
23/05/2017, 09:54
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
oral
The TT-PET collaboration is developing a new generation of fast, low noise and low power-consumption monolithic silicon detector in SiGe Bi-CMOS technology.
The target of this R&D is to produce a 100µm thick monolithic detector, with a time resolution better than 100ps for minimum ionizing particles, 1mm^2 readout pads and a time digitization at 20ps level. This performance will be achieved...
Prof.
Wei Wang
(Sun Yat-Sen University)
23/05/2017, 09:54
The primary physics goal of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is to resolve neutrino mass hierarchy taking the advantage of the copious antineutrinos from two powerful nuclear power plants at distances of ~53 km in Guangdong Province, China. To meet this goal, JUNO has designed a 20 kt underground liquid scintillator (LS) detector that deploys 20 k high quantum efficiency...
Prof.
Cunfeng Feng
(Shandong university)
23/05/2017, 10:12
SoLID (Solenoidal Large Intensity Device) is a new, general-purpose, large acceptance spectrometer being planned for experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA. The shashlik-type sampling technique will be used for the electromagnetic calorimeter for SoLID. This calorimeter is 20 radiation-lengths long with 194 layers each of 1.5mm-thickness plastic scintillators...
Julien Fleury
(W)
23/05/2017, 10:12
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
oral
Petiroc2A is a 32-channel ASIC designed conjointly by Omega laboratory and Weeroc company. It is aimed for SiPM read-out for time-of-flight application prototyping. It is a complete read-out ASIC embedding a fast trigger line with a 10GHz gain-bandwidth product and a precise energy measurement based on a shaper. Following the very front-end chain, a time-to-amplitude converter allows to...
Bahinipati Seema
(TIFR Mumbai)
23/05/2017, 11:00
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider in Japan will operate at an unprecedented luminosity of $8\times10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, about 40 times larger than its predecessor, Belle. Its vertex detector is composed on two-layer DEPFET pixel detector (PXD) and four layers double-sided silicon microstrip detector (SVD). To achieve a precise decay-vertex position determination and...
Dr
Shoushan Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
23/05/2017, 11:00
The SiPM-based camera technology is designed and developed for the Wide Field of View Cherenkov Telescope Array (WFCTA) of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) in the paper. WFCTA consists of 18 Cherenkov telescopes. Each Cherenkov telescope consists of an array of 32×32 SiPM array which cover a field of view 14°×16°with a pixel size of 0.5 °. The main scientific goal of...
Akatsuka Shunichi
(Kyoto University)
23/05/2017, 11:00
The LHC is expected to increase its instantaneous luminosity to
$3\times10^{34} \rm{cm^{-2}s^{-1}}$ after the 'Phase-1' upgrade, to take
place from 2018-2020. In order to cope with the high luminosity, an
upgrade of the ATLAS trigger system will be required.
The first-level Endcap Muon system identifies muons with high transverse
momentum by combining data from fast a muon trigger...
Ryo Yonamine
(CEA/Saclay)
23/05/2017, 11:18
The HARPO is a design concept of the gaseous TPC aiming for a high precision telescope and polarimeter for cosmic
$\gamma$-rays especially in the energy range from the pair-production threshold up to
the order of 1 GeV, where current $\gamma$-ray telescope has a sensitivity drop and
no polarimetry exists due to the multiple scattering.
In order to investigate the feasibility,
we built...
Mr
Baochen Wang
(University of Science and Technology of China)
23/05/2017, 11:18
Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) is a measurement
technique for nondestructive elemental analysis. The method is used intensively for
on-line and in situ analysis in various fields. It has a short measurement time, usually
only about 120s. In order to ensure the measurement accuracy and get better statistics,
the measurement system requires a high count rate, which is an...
Taikan Suehara
(Kyushu University)
23/05/2017, 11:18
The J-PARC muon g-2/EDM experiment is a planned experiment to measure the anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) and the electric dipole moment (EDM) of muons. In contrast to the experiment at Fermilab, which uses "magic momentum" (~3.09 GeV/c) of muons to exclude the electric field dependent term on the spin precession frequency, our experiment uses ultra-cold slow muon beam which requires no...
Victor ANDREI
(Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)
23/05/2017, 11:18
The ATLAS Level-1 calorimeter trigger is planning a series of upgrades in order to face the challenges posed by the upcoming increase of the LHC luminosity. The hardware built for the Phase-1 upgrade will be installed during the long shutdown of the LHC starting in 2019, with the aim of being fully commissioned before the restart in 2021.
The upgrade will benefit from new front end...
Adriano Di Giovanni
(N)
23/05/2017, 11:36
We present the characterization and performances of a muon tracking detector developed by New York University Abu Dhabi and Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy).
The tracker consists of 200 channels, organized in 10 separate levels. Each level is composed of two independent 40 cm X 40 cm planes, each one equipped with 10 plastic scintillator bars read out through Silicon...
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TAIGA experiment – a new instrument for high energy gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic ray studies.
Dr
Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev
(Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
23/05/2017, 11:36
The gamma-ray observatory TAIGA (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) is being developed to study gamma rays and fluxes of charged cosmic rays in the energy range of 10^13 eV – 10^18 eV. The array will include a network of wide-angle (Field-of-view (FOV) - 0.6 sr) Cherenkov stations and up to 16 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) with FOV~10×10...
Carlos Garcia-Argos
(University of Freiburg)
23/05/2017, 11:54
The ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) is an all-silicon tracker that will replace the existing inner detector at the Phase-II Upgrade of ATLAS. The outermost part of the tracker consists of the strips tracker, in which the sensors elements consist of silicon micro-strip sensors with strip lengths varying from 1.7 to up to 10 cm. The current design, at the moment under internal review in the Strips...
Spiwoks Ralf
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
23/05/2017, 11:54
The Muon-to-Central Trigger Processor Interface (MUCTPI) is part of the
Level-1 trigger system of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN. We will describe an upgrade of the MUCTPI which will use
optical input and provide full precision region-of-interest information on muon
candidates to the topological trigger processor of the Level-1 trigger system. The
...
Roman Dzhygadlo
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
23/05/2017, 11:54
The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) near GSI, Darmstadt, Germany will address fundamental questions of hadron physics.
Excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a large range of solid angles and particle momenta will be essential to meet the objectives of the rich physics program.
Charged PID for the barrel region...
Mr
Hongkui Lv
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
23/05/2017, 12:12
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is a multipurpose project focusing on the study of high energy gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics. The one square kilometer array (KM2A) of the observatory will consists of more than 5000 electromagnetic particle detectors (EDs). The large number of detectors demands on a robust, automatic self-calibration method. In this paper,...
Hongkai Wang
(Utrecht University)
23/05/2017, 14:00
It is widely expected that the non-linear growth of parton densities at low x predicted from linear QCD evolution will lead to gluon saturation. As a decisive probe of gluon saturation, the measurement of forward (3.5 < y < 5) direct photons in a new region of low x ($10^{−5}$ ∼ $10^{−6}$ ) in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC is proposed. An extremely high-granularity electromagnetic...
Antonio Amoroso
(University of Turin and INFN)
23/05/2017, 14:00
Gas detector are very light instrument used in high energy physics to measure the particle
properties: position and momentum.
Through high electric field is possible to use the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology to
detect the particles and to exploit the its properties to construct a large area detector, such as
the new IT for BESIII. The state of the art in the GEM production allow...
Kazuyoshi Akiba
(IF-UFRJ)
23/05/2017, 14:00
The Large Hadron Collider Beauty detector is a flavour physics detector, designed to detect decays of b- and c-hadrons for the study of CP violation and rare decays. At the end of Run-II, many of the LHCb measurements will remain statistically dominated. In order to increase the trigger yield for purely hadronic channels, the hardware trigger will be removed and the detector will operate at...
Dr
Iain Haughton
(The University of Manchester)
23/05/2017, 14:18
Advances in the laser assisted transformation of diamond into amorphous-carbon has enabled the production of a new type of particle detector - 3D diamond.
When compared to conventional planar technologies, previous work has proven a 3D geometry to improve the radiation tolerance of detectors fabricated in silicon.
This work demonstrates the same principle in diamond, with the aim of...
Mr
Riccardo Farinelli
(INFN Sezione di Ferrara)
23/05/2017, 14:18
The Beijing Electron Spectrometer III (BESIII) is a multi-purpose
detector that collects data provided by the collision in the Beijing
Electron Positron Collider II (BEPCII), hosted at the Institute of High
Energy Physics of Beijing. Since the start of its operation, BESIII has
collected the world's largest sample of J/psi and psi(2s). Due to the
unprecedent luminosity of the BEPCII, the...
Dr
Francesco Romeo
(IHEP of Beijing)
23/05/2017, 14:18
The High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) is the technology choice of the CMS collaboration for the endcap calorimetry upgrade planned to cope with the harsh radiation and pileup environment at the High Luminosity-LHC. The HGCAL is realized as a sampling calorimeter, including an electromagnetic compartment comprising 28 layers of silicon pad detectors with pad areas of 0.5 — 1.0 cm^2...
Junjie Zhu
(University of Michigan)
23/05/2017, 14:18
To cope with large amount of data and high event rate expected from the planned High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade, the ATLAS monitored drift tube (MDT) readout electronics will be replaced. In addition, the MDT detector will be used at the first-level trigger to improve the muon transverse momentum resolution and reduce the trigger rate. A new trigger and readout system has been proposed....
Chiara La Licata
(for the BEAST II Collaboration)
23/05/2017, 14:36
The Belle II detector is currently under construction at the SuperKEKB electron-positron high-luminosity collider that will provide an instantaneous luminosity 40 times higher than that of KEKB. Therefore the Belle-II VerteX Detector (VXD) will operate in a very harsh environment. A radiation monitoring and beam abort system is needed to safely operate the VXD detector in these...
Mr
Mohammad AlAnazi
(King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST))
23/05/2017, 14:54
A triple gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector with an active area of 10x10 cm2 was constructed and tested for x-rays imaging using a 256 channel 2D x-y strips readout. The study includes optimization of GEM operating high voltage, x-ray tube distance, x-ray tube high voltage, the best x-ray filter, best ratio of Ar/CO2 gas mixture. A 90Sr beta source also was used. The result of the study...
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RDMA optimizations on top of 100 Gbps Ethernet for the upgraded data acquisition system of LHCb
Mr
Balazs Voneki
(CERN)
23/05/2017, 14:54
The LHCb experiment will be upgraded in 2018-2019 to change its operation to a triggerless full-software readout scheme from Run3. This results in increasing the load of the event building and filtering farm by a factor of 40. The farm will need to be able to handle all the 40 MHz rate of the particle collisions. The network of the data acquisition system is facing with a target speed of 40...
Prof.
Jianbei Liu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
23/05/2017, 15:12
We have improved the self-stretching GEM assembly technique that was initially developed at CERN for the CMS GEM upgrade project. With this improved technique, we can build GEM detectors at a scale of > 1m that still preserve very good gain uniformity. The technique results in high-quality stretching of GEM foils and good gas tightness in GEM detectors. This report presents details of the...
Ms
Dongxu Zhao
(China Spallation Neutron Source)
23/05/2017, 15:12
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is the first high-performance pulsed neutron source in China, which will meet the increasing fundamental research and technique applications demands domestically and overseas. Scintillator neutron detector (2D-SND) is the detector on the General Purpose Powder diffractometer (GPPD) of CSNS. It consists of 36 banks. Every bank has 192 channels. 2D-SND is...
Irakli Keshelashvili
(Forschungszentrum Jülich Gmbh Central Institute of Engineering Electronics and Analytics ZEA-2 - Electronic Systems)
23/05/2017, 15:12
The **JEDI** (Jülich Electric Dipole moment Investigations) collaboration performs a set of experiments at the COSY storage ring in Jülich, within the R&D phase to search for the Electric Dipole Moments (EDM) of charged particles.
A measurement of proton and deuteron EDMs is a sensitive probe of yet unknown CP violation.
The method of charged particle EDM search will exploit stored...
Xiaoxue Han
(H)
23/05/2017, 16:30
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The LHCb detector will be upgraded during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC in order to cope with higher instantaneous luminosities and to read out the data at 40MHz using a trigger-less read-out system. The current LHCb main tracking system will be replaced by a single homogenous detector based on scintillating fibres. The detector will be built from 2.5 m long plastic fibres with a...
Makoto Tabata
(Chiba University)
23/05/2017, 16:30
We have been in the process of developing the ARICH detector for identifying charged $\pi $ and $K$ mesons in a super-B factory experiment (Belle II) to be performed at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan. The ARICH detector is a ring-imaging Cherenkov counter that uses silica aerogel as a radiator and hybrid avalanche photo-detectors as position-sensitive...
Selma Conforti
(OMEGA/IN2P3/CNRS)
23/05/2017, 16:48
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
CATIROC (Charge And Time Integrated Read Out Chip) is a complete read-out chip designed to read arrays of 16 photomultipliers (PMTs). It finds a valuable application in the content of the JUNO experiment, the largest Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector ever built, currently under construction in the south of China. A double calorimetry system will be used for the first time ever...
Mr
Christopher Craven
(Incom, Inc.)
23/05/2017, 16:48
Recent performance results are presented for Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPD™s) that are being developed by Incom, Inc. The LAPPD is a micro-channel plate (MCP) based photodetector containing a bi-alkali photocathode with overall dimensions of 230 mm x 220 mm x 21 mm, an active area of up to 400 cm2, spatial resolution ~1 mm, and timing resolution of approximately 100 picoseconds...
Dr
Artur Ukleja
(National Centre for Nuclear Research Warsaw)
23/05/2017, 16:48
The LHCb experiment is designed to study B and D decays at the LHC, and as such is
constructed as a forward spectrometer. The large particle density in the
forward region poses extreme challenges to the subdetectors, in terms of hit
occupancies and radiation tolerance. Two methods and their results will be presented
that show no radiation damage of the gaseous straw tube detector after...
Dr
Qiang Wang
(Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University)
23/05/2017, 17:06
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The new trigger readout electronics system for ATLAS Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimeter aims to improve granularity of the calorimeter information for the L1 trigger, essential for physics research goals after the phase-1 upgrade. The major R&D activities for front-end readout electronics upgrade include designing a new radiation-hard ADC and a data multiplexing and serialization ASIC to send the...
haiyi jin
(Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.)
23/05/2017, 17:06
Prof.
Yi Wang
(Tsinghua University)
23/05/2017, 17:06
The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment (CBM) is one of the big experiments of the international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany. CBM aims to investigate rare probes such as charmed hadrons, multiple strange baryons, di-electrons and di-muons as messengers of the dense phase of strongly interacting matter with unprecedented accuracy. This is achieved by...
Mustafa Schmidt
(Justus Liebig University Giessen)
23/05/2017, 17:24
The PANDA detector at the future FAIR facility at GSI is planned as a fixed-target experiment for proton-antiproton collisions at momenta between 1.5 and 15\,GeV/c. It will be used to address open questions in hadronic physics. In order to achieve excellent particle identification, two different DIRC detector concepts have been developed. This talk describes the Endcap Disc DIRC detector,...
Dr
li yu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
23/05/2017, 17:24
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
Li Yu, Ping Cao, WeiJia Sun, ManYu Zheng, Ying Zhang and Qi An
Patrizia Barria
(University of Virginia, on behalf of the CMS Collaboration)
23/05/2017, 17:24
The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) is operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2016 with proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy and at a bunch spacing of 25 ns. Challenging running conditions for CMS are expected after the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC). We review the design and R&D studies for the CMS ECAL...
Nicolaus Kratochwil
(Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik, Wien, Austria)
23/05/2017, 17:42
The PANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility at GSI will perform high precision experiments in the strange and charm quark sector using cooled beams of antiprotons at high luminosity, in the momentum range of 1.5 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c. For the identification of low momentum charged particles with extreme accuracy, the barrel time-of-flight (TOF) detector is one of the key components of PANDA. Its...
K.K. Gan
(T)
23/05/2017, 17:42
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The LHC has recently been upgraded to operate at higher energy and luminosity. In addition, there are plans for further upgrades. These upgrades require the optical links of the experiments to transmit data at much higher speed in a more intense radiation environment. We have designed a new optical transceiver for transmitting data at 10 Gb/s. The device consists of a 4-channel ASIC driving a...
Gary Varner
(University of Hawaii)
23/05/2017, 18:00
High precision flavor physics measurements are an essential complement to the direct searches for new physics at the LHC. Such measurements will be performed using the upgraded Belle II detector that will take data at the SuperKEKB accelerator. With an anticipated 40-fold increase in the integrated luminosity of KEKB, the detector systems must operate efficiently at much higher rates than the...
Prof.
Marcel Demarteau
(Argonne National Laboratory)
24/05/2017, 09:00
oral
Photon detection has been a cornerstone in particle physics, enabling many fundamental physics discoveries. Traditional photo-detectors are based on a mature, time-honored technology that has seen incremental improvements over time. Recent years, however, have seen a rapid increase in new developments, either bringing new techniques to bear on traditional methods or implementing...
Dr
Liangjian Wen
(高能所)
24/05/2017, 09:30
oral
Recent development of detectors for neutrino intrinsic property measurements and neutrino oscillations are reviewed, including low background detectors for searching for the neutrino-less double beta decay, water Cherenkov, liquid Argon TPC, liquid scintillator for neutrino oscillations. Such technologies had significant progresses in the past a few years and further steps are planned for the future.
Prof.
Kazuhiro Hayama
(U.Tokyo)
24/05/2017, 10:00
oral
For the detection of gravitational wave, KAGRA, Japanese 3km cryogenic gravitational wave telescope, project started from 2010. KAGRA has two unique feature to achieve the detection and long term stable observation : KAGRA is being constructed in an underground mine. The test mass is cooled down to cryogenic temperature of ~20 Kelvin. In this talk, we will present current status of the KAGRA...
Prof.
Grzegorz Zuzel
(Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University)
24/05/2017, 11:00
Dr
Christophe de La TAILLE
(OMEGA Ecole Plytechnique-CNRS/IN2P3)
24/05/2017, 12:00
oral
The next generation of calorimeters on colliders will provide unprecedented measurements of particle showers in 5 dimensions (space, energy and time). The very fine granularity leads to millions of readout channels and sets high constraints on the readout electronics, which is embedded inside the detector. In addition to the usual low noise/high dynamic range/high accuracy requirements of...
Valerio Vagelli
(INFN Perugia, Università degli Studi di Perugia)
24/05/2017, 14:00
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium is developing the new generation of ground observatories for the detection of very-high energy gamma-rays.
The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is contributing to the R&D of a possible solution for the Cherenkov photon cameras based on Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) detectors sensitive to near ultraviolet energies, produced by...
Andreas Dudder
(Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)
24/05/2017, 14:00
Large size multilayer resistive Micromegas detectors will be employed for the Muon Spectrometer upgrade of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The current innermost stations of the muon endcap system, the 10 m diameter Small Wheel, will be upgraded in the 2019-2020 long shutdown of LHC, to retain the good precision tracking and trigger capabilities in the high background environment expected with...
Alviggi Mariagrazia
(Universita e INFN, Napoli)
24/05/2017, 14:18
The resistive Micromegas detectors have already proved to be suitable for precision tracking in dense particle rate environment up to few kHz/cm$^2$. In order to achieve even higher rate capability, with low occupancy up to few MHz/cm$^2$, fine-segmented strips could be replaced by few mm$^2$ pads.
We present here a solution based on small anode pads, overlayed by an insulating layer with a...
Makoto Tabata
(Chiba University)
24/05/2017, 14:18
Since the 1970s, silica aerogel has been widely used as Cherenkov radiators in accelerator-based particle- and nuclear-physics experiments, as well as cosmic ray experiments. For this major application, the adjustable refractive index and optical transparency of the aerogel are highly important. We have been in the process of developing high-quality aerogel tiles for use in a super-B factory...
Ms
Jiali Jiang
(Novel Device Laboratory，Beijing Normal University)
24/05/2017, 14:18
Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), which consists of multiple pixels of avalanche photodiodes working in Geiger-mode (G-APD) is a promising semiconductor device in low level light detection for its excellent performances such as high response speed, low operated voltage, insensitive to magnetic field and small volume. The SiPM with epitaxial quenching resistors (EQR SiPM) using epitaxial silicon...
Dr
Eigen Gerald
(University of Bergen)
24/05/2017, 14:36
The gain of SiPMs increases with bias voltage and decreases with temperature. To operate SiPMs at stable gain, the bias voltage can be adjusted to compensate temperature changes.
We have tested this concept with 30 SiPMs from three manufacturers (Hamamatsu, KETEK, CPTA) in a climate chamber at CERN varying the temperature from 1°C to 50°C. We built an adaptive power supply that used a linear...
Chiara Perrina
(University of Geneva)
24/05/2017, 14:36
Scintillating fibers can be complementary to silicon micro-strips detectors for particle trackers in Space or offer an interesting alternative. Less fragile, more flexible, with no need of wire bonds, they can be used for the development of high-resolution charged-particle tracking detectors. Prototypes consisted in a ribbon of 40 cm long, 250 $\mu$m diameter fibers, with Hamamatsu MPPC arrays...
Angelo Cruciani
(INFN - Sezione di Roma)
24/05/2017, 14:54
Our comprehension of the dawn of universe grew incredibly during last years, pointing to the existence of the cosmic inflation. The primordial B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) represents a unique probe to confirm this hypothesis. The detection of such small perturbations of the CMB is a challenge that will be faced in the near future by a new dedicated satellite...
Dr
Tamer Tolba
(Institute of High Energy Physics - Chinese Academy of Science)
24/05/2017, 14:54
In the search for the nature of the neutrino, neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) plays a significant role in understanding its properties. By measuring the 0νββ decay rate with the desired sensitivity, it is hoped to verify the nature of the neutrino (Majorana or Dirac particle), lepton number violation and help determine the values for the absolute neutrino masses.
The Enriched Xenon...
Prof.
James Battat
(Wellesley College)
24/05/2017, 14:54
Recent work demonstrated gas gain in the negative ion gas SF$_6$ using GEMs and Thick GEMs. SF$_6$ is a favorable gas for directional dark matter detection with a TPC because it provides low diffusion (at the thermal limit), strong sensitivity to spin-dependent WIMP dark matter (through the high fluorine content), and full-volume fiducialization (thanks to multiple negative ion species). In...
Dr
Jianbei Liu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
24/05/2017, 15:12
We have developed a new method for fabricating Micromegas detectors based on thermal bonding technique. A high gain (>10000) and a good energy resolution of 16% (FWHM, 5.9 KeV x-rays) can be obtained for Micromegas detectors built with this method. In order to reduce sparking rate of the detectors, we have also studied resistive anodes by Germanium plating and carbon paste screen printing...
Nurnberg Andreas
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
24/05/2017, 16:30
The physics aims at the proposed future CLIC high-energy linear e+e- collider pose challenging demands on the performance of the detector system. In particular the vertex and tracking detectors have to combine precision measurements with robustness against the expected high rates of beam-induced backgrounds. The requirements include ultra-low mass, facilitated by power pulsing and air cooling...
Hils Maximilian
(Technische Universitaet Dresden)
24/05/2017, 16:30
The LHC high-luminosity upgrade in 2024-2026 requires the associated detectors to operate at luminosities about 5-7 times larger than assumed in their original design. The pile-up is expected to increase to up to 200 events per proton bunch-crossing. To be able to retain interesting physics events even at rather low transverse energy scales, increased trigger rates are foreseen for the ATLAS...
Axel König
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
24/05/2017, 16:30
The LHC will reach its third long shutdown period (LS3) around 2024. During this period the machine will be upgraded to the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) increasing its instantaneous luminosity to 5x10^34 cm^-2 s^-1. As a result, an integrated luminosity of about 3000 fb^-1 will be reached after 10 years of running. The drastic increase in luminosity demands for an upgrade of the CMS...
Ryoto Iwai
(ICEPP, The University of Tokyo)
24/05/2017, 16:48
The MEG experiment searched for the lepton flavor violating process, $\mu^{+} \rightarrow e^{+}\gamma$, and published result gave a new upper limit on the branching ratio of $\mathscr{B} < 4.2 \times 10^{-13}$.
The upgraded experiment (MEG II) will start to achieve one order higher branching ratio sensitivity $O(10^{-14})$ by using the world's most intense muon beam up to $\sim10^{8}...
Dr
Mathieu Benoit
(University of Geneva)
24/05/2017, 16:48
The entire tracking system of the ATLAS experiment will be replaced during the LHC Phase II shutdown (foreseen to take place around 2025) by an all-silicon detector called the “ITk” (Inner Tracker).
The innermost portion of the ITk will consist of a pixel detector with stave-like support structures in the most central region and ring-shaped supports in the endcap regions; there may also be...
Dr
Boqun Wang
(University of Cincinnati)
24/05/2017, 17:06
The imaging-Time-of-Propogation (iTOP) counter is a new type of ring-imaging Cherenkov counter developed for particle identification at the Belle II experiment. It consists of 16 modules arranged azimuthally around the beam line. Each module consists of one mirror, one prism and two quartz bar radiators. Here we describe the design, acceptance test, alignment, gluing and assembly of the...
Dr
Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
24/05/2017, 17:06
An electromagnetic sampling calorimeter prototype has been developed to satisfy the requirements for running at the CERN Large Hadron Collider after the planned High-Luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC).
An innovative design, with wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibers running along the chamfers of each calorimeter cell, minimizes the mechanical complexity. The resistance to radiation has been optimised by...
Jason Dhia MANSOUR
(ATLAS)
24/05/2017, 17:06
he large data samples at the High-Luminosity LHC will enable precise measurements of the Higgs boson and
other Standard Model particles, as well as searches for new phenomena such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions. To
cope with the experimental challenges presented by the HL-LHC such as large radiation doses and high pileup, the
current Inner Detector will be replaced with a new...
Mr
Kaile Wen
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
24/05/2017, 17:24
In order to improve the performance of the microchannel plate, a material having a high secondary electron emission coefficient (SEEC) is required, and the SEEC of this material needs to be accurately measured. For this purpose, a SEEC measuring device with spherical collector structure was designed. The device consists of a vacuum system, a baking system, a test system, an electronic readout...
Adi Bornheim
(On behalf of the CMS Collaboration)
24/05/2017, 17:42
Particle detectors with a timing resolution of order 10 ps can improve event reconstruction at high luminosity hadron colliders tremendously. The upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) crystal electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), which will operate at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), will achieve a timing resolution of around 30 ps for high energy photons and electrons....
Dr
Satyanarayana Bheesette
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
25/05/2017, 09:00
India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) has proposed construction of a 50kton magnetised Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) in an underground laboratory located in South India. Main aims of this, now funded project are to precisely study the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and to determine the ordering of neutrino masses. The detector will deploy about 28,800 glass Resistive Plate Chambers...
Tomomi Kawaguchi
(Nagoya University)
25/05/2017, 09:00
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is planned to start the operation in 2026 with an instantaneous luminosity of 7.5 x 10^34 cm-2s-1. To cope with the event rate higher than that of LHC, the trigger and readout electronics of ATLAS Thin Gap Chamber will need to be replaced. An advanced first-level trigger with fast tracking will be implemented with the transfer of all hit data from the frontend...
Magdalena Munker
(CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
25/05/2017, 09:18
The tracking detector at the proposed high-energy CLIC electron-positron collider will be based on small-pitch silicon pixel- or strip sensors arranged in a multi-layer barrel and end-cap geometry with a total surface of about 90 sqm. The requirements include single-point position resolutions of a few microns and time stamping with an accuracy of approximately 10 ns, combined with a low...
Chengguang Zhu
(Shandong University)
25/05/2017, 09:18
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five to seven with respect to the design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the coming decade. Such increase will allow for precise measurements of Higgs boson properties and extend the search for new physics phenomena beyond the Standard Model. The largest phase-1 upgrade...
Prof.
Andrea Bizzeti
(Università di Modena (Italy))
25/05/2017, 09:18
The NA62 experiment at CERN has been constructed to measure the ultra rare charged Kaon decay into a charged pion and two neutrinos with a 10% uncertainty. The main background is made by the charged kaon decay into a muon and a neutrino which is suppressed by kinematic tools using a magnetic spectrometer and by the different stopping power of muons and pions in the calorimeters. A RICH...
Mr
Matthew Buckland
(University of Liverpool)
25/05/2017, 09:36
The requirement of precision physics and the environment found in the proposed future high-energy linear e+e- collider CLIC, result in challenging constraints for the vertex detector. In order to reach the performance goals, various sensor technologies are under consideration. Prototypes of an active pixel sensor with 25 μm pitch (CCPDv3) have been fabricated in a commercial 180 nm...
Santos Alejandro
(CERN,the University of Heidelberg, Germany)
25/05/2017, 09:36
The ATLAS 'Phase-II' upgrade, scheduled to start in 2024, will significantly change the requirements under which the data-acquisition system operates. The input data rate, currently fixed around 150 GB/s, is anticipated to reach 5 TB/s. In order to deal with the challenging conditions, and exploit the capabilities of newer technologies, a number of architectural changes are under...
Dr
Huirong Qi
(Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
25/05/2017, 09:36
Compared with the International Linear Collider (ILC), the beam structure of the future Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is very different without the ‘power-pulsing’ mode. In this paper, some simulation and estimation results of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as one tracker detector option for CEPC were given. The optimized operation gas (Ar:CF4:C2H6=92:7:1) with the fast...
Mr
Jingzhou ZHAO Jingzhou
(高能所)
25/05/2017, 09:54
This talk will be about an new version of high performance xTCA compliant and FPGA based Data Processing Unit for trigger and data acquisition applications like in PANDA, PXD/BelleII upgrade and CMS trigger. The Unit consists of 4 Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC, called xFP card), 1 AMC carrier ATCA board(ACAB) and 1 Rear Transition I/O Board(RTM). The ACAB board features 1 Xilinx Ultrascale...
Igal Jaegle
(BEAST II Collaboration - University of Florida)
25/05/2017, 09:54
Ten 10 cm drift distance Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), filled with He:CO2:70:30 at slightly above one Atmosphere, equipped with a double GEM and a high resolution pixel readout were built by the University of Hawaii to measure fast neutrons produced by the SuperKEKB beam-induced background during the first and second commissioning phases. We characterized the TPCs with two different sources...
Ms
Anastasiia Velyka
(DESY Hamburg)
25/05/2017, 10:12
Future experiments in particle physics require few-micrometer position resolution in their tracking detectors. Silicon is today's material of choice for high-precision detectors and offers a high grade of engineering possibilities. Instead of scaling down pitch sizes, which comes at a high price for increased number of channels, our new sensor concept seeks to improve the position resolution...
Prof.
Ke Han
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
25/05/2017, 10:12
The PandaX-III (Particle And Astrophysical Xenon Experiment III) experiment will search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) of Xe-136 at the China Jin Ping underground Laboratory (CJPL). In the first phase of the experiment, a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) will contain 200 kg, 90% Xe-136 enriched gas operated at 10 bar. Fine pitch micro-pattern gas detector (Microbulk...
Lorenzo Cassina
(University of Milano Bicocca)
25/05/2017, 10:12
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is
the first bolometric experiment reaching the 1-ton scale. The detector
consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact
structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment and, in
particular, the installation of all towers in the cryostat was completed in
August 2016: the experiment is now...
Prof.
Shinhong Kim
(University of Tsukuba)
25/05/2017, 11:00
We present the status of the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detector with the cryogenic preamplifier as a far-infrared single photon detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search (COBAND) experiment. The photon energy spectrum from the radiative decay of cosmic background neutrino is expected to have a sharp cutoff at high energy end in a far-infrared region...
Johan Borg
(I)
25/05/2017, 11:00
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL), presently being designed by the CMS collaboration to replace the CMS endcap calorimeters for the High Luminosity phase of LHC, will feature six million channels distributed over 52 longitudinal layers. The requirements for the front-end electronics are extremely challenging, including high dynamic range (0-10 pC), low noise (~2000e- to be able to...
Dr
Nicola Casali
(INFN-Roma1)
25/05/2017, 11:18
Background rejection plays a key role for experiments searching for rare events, like neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu$DBD) and dark matter interactions.
Among the several detection technologies that were proposed to study these processes, cryogenic calorimeters (bolometers) stand out for the excellent energy resolution, the ease in achieving large source mass, and the intrinsic...
Dr
Changqing Feng
(University of Science & Technology of China)
25/05/2017, 11:18
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The PandaX-III (Particle And Astrophysical Xenon Experiment III) experiment, with the scientific objective of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, is going to be carried out at the China Jin Ping underground Laboratory (CJPL). In the first phase of the experiment, a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with 200 kg Xenon gas at the pressure of 10 bar is to be constructed. A total of 82...
Windel Hendrik
(Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
25/05/2017, 11:36
The SuperKEKB collider at KEK, which has started its commissioning in February 2016, is designed to achieve unprecedented luminosities, with a factor 40 higher than the record-breaking luminosity of the KEKB machine. For the operation of the Belle II detector, in particular of its pixel vertex detector, a precise understanding of the background conditions at the interaction point is crucial....
Daniel Antrim
(University of California, Irvine)
25/05/2017, 11:36
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The present small wheel muon detector at ATLAS will be replaced with a New Small Wheel (NSW) detector to handle the increase in data rates and harsh radiation environment expected at the LHC. Resistive Micromegas and small-strip Think Gap Chambers will be used to provide both trigger and tracking primitives. Muon segments found at NSW will be combined with the segments found at the Big Wheel...
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APPLICATION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TO PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE READOUT FOR PARTICLE PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS
Prof.
jennifer thomas
(ucl)
25/05/2017, 11:54
J.Thomas, A. Loving, J. Kelley, C. Wendt - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Water Cherenkov neutrino physics experiments typically utilize thousands of large area PhotoMulitplier- Tubes (PMTs) distributed around water volumes of size 105 m3. The precision of the physics results de- pends on the overall enclosed volume, and so larger detectors of order 106 m3 are desirable but presently...
Dr
Francesco Fienga
(University of Napoli Federico II)
25/05/2017, 11:54
We present the recent results of the monitoring of the central beam pipe of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS), at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The measurements are carried out by means of an innovative fiber optic monitoring system based on the Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor technology. The CMS central beam pipe is part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)...
Dr
Paolo Fresch
(INFN Sezione di Roma)
25/05/2017, 11:54
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The muon detector plays a key role in the trigger of the LHCb experiment at CERN. The upgrade of its electronics is required in order to be compliant with the new 40 MHz readout system, designed to cope with future LHC runs between five and ten times the initial design luminosity. The framework of the Service Board System upgrade is aimed to replace the system in charge of monitoring and...
Dr
Yunpeng LU
(Insitute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
25/05/2017, 14:00
Results from an SOI pixel sensor with in-pixel binary counters are reported. It's been well known that the transition of output pattern within each counter would induce considerably large spurious signal on the nearby charge collection electrodes, which interferes with the detection of real signals. Among the various remedies investigated, Double-SOI process proved to be an effective cure...
Dr
Gabriel Miroslav
(Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
25/05/2017, 14:00
The SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric e+e- collider has now started commissioning and is working towards its design luminosity of 8x10^35cm-2s-1. In spring 2016, SuperKEKB circulated beams in both rings during the first phase of commissioning, with the Belle II detector at the roll-out position. A dedicated array of sensors collectively called BEAST II was installed around the SuperKEKB interaction...
Dr
Davide Pedretti
(University of Padova - INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
25/05/2017, 14:00
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
At the core of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) front-end and readout electronics is the Global Control Unit (GCU), a custom and low power hardware platform with glue logic on board which is able to perform several different tasks spanning from selective readout and transmission as well as remote peripherals control. The hardware inaccessibility after installation, the...
Dr
Zhe Cao
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China)
25/05/2017, 14:18
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The waveform digitization is more and more popular for readout electronics in the particle and nuclear physics experiment. A data acquisition module for waveform digitization is investigated in this paper. The module is designed on a 3U PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) shelf, which can manage the measurement of two channels of waveform digitization for detector signals. It is equipped...
Kazuhiko Hara
(University of Tsukuba)
25/05/2017, 14:18
Monolithic pixel devices are attractive for various aspects in particle detector application. One of the notable features is that the pixel size can be reduced without constraints from the metal bumps which limit the pixel size of hybrid pixel devices typically to 50um. We are developing monolithic pixel devices utilizing Lapis 0.20 um FD-SOI (Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator) technology....
Dr
Pawel Marciniewski
(Uppsala University)
25/05/2017, 14:36
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
A compact size, 64-channel, 80 MSPS, 14-bit dynamic range ADC
modules for the scintillating electromagnetic calorimeter of PANDA were
developed and used for testing in various detector readout set-ups [1].
To minimize cabling bulk, the modules are planned to be placed inside of
the PANDA detector volume, where they will be exposed to magnetic field
of 2T and a non-negligible...
Chia-Ming Kuo
(National Central University (on behalf of the CMS Collaboration))
25/05/2017, 14:36
Many physics analyses using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC require accurate, high resolution electron and photon energy measurements. Particularly important are decays of the Higgs boson resulting in electromagnetic particles in the final state, as well as searches for very high mass resonances decaying to energetic photons or electrons. Following the excellent performance...
Mr
Hongbin Liu
(University of Science and Technology of China)
25/05/2017, 14:54
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
oral
The ATLAS experiment is planning to build and install a new all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade. Extensive R&D on pixel sensors based on High-Voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) process is ongoing. Given the potential advantages of this technology compared with the traditional planar pixel sensors, several prototypes with different pixel type have been designed and...
Yunlong Zhang
(University of Science and Technology of China)
25/05/2017, 14:54
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite has been operating in space for more than one year, and considerable science data have already been obtained. The BGO Electromagnetic Calorimeter (BGO ECAL) of the DAMPE is a total absorption calorimeter that allows for a precise three-dimensional imaging of the shower shape. It provides a good energy resolution (<1%@200GeV) and high...
Prof.
Guangqing Yan
(Beijing Normal University)
25/05/2017, 15:12
Low gain avalanche detectors (LGAD) were attracted considerable attention as a new concept of silicon radiation detectors. These devices are based on reach‐through avalanche photodiodes and provide a moderate gain (gain~10). Compared with general avalanche photodiodes (APD), LGAD have a remarkable improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) which makes them more suitable to detect high...
Dr
Giordano Raffaele
(University of Naples and INFN)
25/05/2017, 15:12
Static RAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (SRAM-based FPGAs) [1, 2] are widely adopted in Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) systems of High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiments for implementing fast logic due to their re-configurability, large real-time processing capabilities and embedded high-speed serial IOs. However, these devices are sensitive to radiation effects such as single event...
Mitsutaka Nakao
(The University of Tokyo)
25/05/2017, 16:30
The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland will search for the lepton flavour violating muon decay, $\mu^+\to e^+\gamma$, with a sensitivity ($4\times10^{-14}$) improving the existing limit of an order of magnitude. The positron Timing Counter (pTC) is the subdetector dedicated to the measurement of the positron emission time. It is designed on the basis of a new approach...
Le Goff Fabrice
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
25/05/2017, 16:48
The ATLAS experiment collects proton-proton collision events delivered
by the LHC accelerator at CERN. The ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition
(TDAQ) system selects, transports and eventually records event data from
the detector at several gigabytes per second. The data are recorded on
transient storage before being delivered to permanent storage. The
transient storage consists of...
Mr
Michele Piero Blago
(CERN)
25/05/2017, 16:48
For the upgrade of the LHCb RICH detectors in 2020 the existing photon detection system will be replaced. This study investigates the photon yield of the Multi Anode PMTs (MaPMT), which have been proposed as the new photon detectors, together with the associated readout electronics. Data collected during the LHCb RICH Upgrade testbeam experiment in autumn of 2016 is used.
Four MaPMTs were...
Stergios Tsigaridas
(Nikhef)
25/05/2017, 16:48
Our group is developing gaseous pixel detectors by using micromegas-based amplification structures on top of CMOS pixel readout chips of the Medipix family. By means of wafer post-processing techniques we add a spark-protection layer and a grid to create the amplification region above the chip. An inserted gas layer and cathode plane above the grid create a complete gaseous detector able to...
Bo Yu
(Brookhaven National Lab)
, Dr
ZELIMIR DJURCIC
(Argonne National Laboratory)
25/05/2017, 17:24
This presentation will concentrate on the development of the Photon-Detector (PD) System for DUNE.
The DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) will observe the long-baseline neutrino oscillations to determine the neutrino mass ordering, to determine if CP symmetry is violated in the lepton sector, and to precisely measure the parameters governing neutrino oscillation to test the...
Shikma Bressler
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
25/05/2017, 17:24
Gaseous detectors
Future experiments in Particle and Astro-particle Physics pose a growing demand for cost-effective large-area imaging detectors, capable of operating stably over a broad range of conditions. Promising candidates are detectors based on the Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) principle. Among them are: the cascaded-THGEM, WELL, Resistive-WELL (RWELL) and the recently introduced Resistive-Plate...
Mr
Raymond S, Larsen
(SLAC)
26/05/2017, 09:30
The accomplishments of the xTCA for Physics PICMG standards collaboration will be described since the group’s inception in 2009. PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) is a consortium of over 200 companies who invited the physics community to join in order to standardize extensions of their telecommunications standards called ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) and...
Shikma Bressler
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
26/05/2017, 10:00
Prof.
Harry van der Graaf
(Nikhef & TU Delft)
26/05/2017, 11:00
Harris Kagan
(Ohio State Univ.)
26/05/2017, 11:30
At present most experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
are planning upgrades in the next 5-10 years for their innermost
tracking layers as well as luminosity monitors to be able to take data
as the luminosity increases and CERN moves toward the High Luminosity-LHC
(HL-LHC). These upgrades will most likely require more radiation
tolerant technologies than exist today. As a...
Prof.
E. Craig Dukes
(University of Virginia)
Photon detectors
oral
The Mu2e experiment is designed to search for the charged-lepton-flavor-
violating process, μ− to a e−, with unprecedented sensitivity. The
single 105-MeV electron that results from this process can be mimicked
by electrons produced by cosmic-ray muons traversing the detector. An
active veto detector surrounding the apparatus is used to detect incoming
cosmic-ray muons. To reduce the...
Ms
Yang Li
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
Yang Li
*Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, 100049, China*
**Abstract:** Data Acquisition (DAQ) System is essential for high energy physics experiments. For the large scale experiments, we prefer to use the distributed DAQ framework which offers the powerful online features. However, some small scale experiments have less complicated requirements for the online data processing,...
Mr
Dongxu Yang
(USTC)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
The design of a high-resolution phase-shifter which is part of the LpGBT, a low power upgrade of the gigabit transceiver (GBTX) for the LHC upgrade program, is presented. The phase-shifter circuit aims at producing a programmable phase rotation (up to 360°) with a time resolution of 48.8 ps for several input clock frequencies: 40, 80, 160, 320, 640 or 1280 MHz. The circuit is implemented as...
Mr
Siyuan Ma
(USTC)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
A system of readout electronics used in both Micro-pattern Gas detectors and Scintillator detectors is introduced in this report. The system is intended as a general purpose multi-channel readout solution for a wide range of detector types and detector complexities. A 32-channel charge sensitive ASIC VATA160 from IDEAS company is adopted in this method. With its features of low noise and large...
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Min Li
(physics electronics)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
The new-generation particle and nuclear physics experiments are run with more channels and larger amount of data transmission. For example, in the high speed and high resolution waveform digitization, more than 10 Gbps date rate in one channel is necessary, thus the traditional architecture based on shared-bus, such as PCI and VME, is of low efficiency and inevitable deadtime. A prototype...
Mr
Fan Yang
(Northwestern Polytechnical University/Imdetek Corporation Ltd)
Photon detectors
oral
Cd0.9Zn0.1Te(CZT) as room temperature radiation detector materials has a great potential in photon counting applications, which could achieve multi-energy photon imaging. However, the development of CZT suffers from the large counting rate caused degradation of detectors, where the mechanism was not fully recognized yet. This study focuses on the photocurrent characterization of the CZT...
Dr
Yangfan ZHOU
(Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
The silicon avalanche-photodiodes (APD) detector has been already used in time-resolved experiments with pulsed synchrotron X-rays, such as Nuclear Resonance Scattering (NRS) experiments and Laser Pump / X-ray Probe experiments, since more than two decades. However, the traditional time-resolved APD detectors only have a single APD sensor and adopt a commercial circuit or discrete element...
Mr
Shiyu Lou
(IHEP)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
**1. Introduction**
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and many related searches, which will make a great contribution to high-energy physics.
In this paper, Huffman dynamic coding is applied to data processing and plays a good effect since it is an efficient data compression...
Mr
yang yu
(institute of high energy physics chinese academy of sciences)
Photon detectors
Poster
Electron scrubbing is an important process for microchannel plates (MCP) production to clean residual gas in microchannel wall, which will reduce ion feedback and improve gain stability. This manuscript has designed an auto-feedback control system for MCP electron scrubbing, including surface electron source, power supply and auto-control system. The surface electron source is hot electrons...
Ogawa Kazuya
(Niigata University)
Photon detectors
Poster
Various B-meson decay modes include charged kaons and pions in the final state. Therefore it is essential for the Belle II detector to identify them with a high accuracy. To fulfill this in a wide momentum range, the Aerogel Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (ARICH) counter will be installed as PID device in the endcap region of the Belle II detector.
The target performance of the ARICH counter...
Mircea Bogdan
(The University of Chicago)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
This paper introduces a new Crate Distribution and Trigger Processing Module (CDT) designed for the KOTO Experiment at J-PARC, Japan.
The CDT Module will work in the existing KOTO-ADC crates. Each 6UVME Crate includes 16 ADC Modules which require an 8ns sampling clock and two trigger pulses.
This new Module receives these signals from the System Master and distributes them to the ADCs via...
Mr
Weigang Yin
(State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
Radioactive sources are essential in nuclear applications such as calibration of nuclear spectrometer and nuclear physics experiment. However, nuclear radiation brings security risks at the same time. If there is a pulse signal generator capable of outputting the same signal as the true nuclear pulse, the radioactive sources and the detectors can be replaced, and therefore radiation safety...
Mr
CHENG Li
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
PandaX-III (Particle And Astrophysical Xenon Experiment III) is aimed to search for NLDBD (Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay) of 136Xe at China Jin Ping underground Laboratory (CJPL). For first phase of this experiment, a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) containing 200 kg, 90% 136Xe enriched gas at 10 bar operates as detector. In the current baseline design, each TCP end-plate...
Mr
Zhou He
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
In Inertial confinement fusion experiment (ICF), we should keep away from the experimental equipment because of the nuclear radiation. Therefore, the data acquisition unit is connected by long distance transmission line to the control section. Since the ICF experiment detector array is a large scale which has thousands of channels, there are massive troubles in data acquisition by transmission...
Ryutaro Nishimura
(SOKENDAI)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
Small pixel size X-ray counting-type detector is required in many X-ray diffraction experiments. Since the number of readout pixels becomes huge to cover large area, fast readout system is important. We are developing a data readout system for a new counting-type SOI detector 'CNPIX1'. CNPIX1 detector has 328 x 256 pixels of hexagonal pixels and frame rates more than 1 kHz is demanded to...
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Development of highly compact digital pixels for the vertex detector of the future e+e- collider
ZHOU Yang
Semiconductor detectors
Poster
For the advantages of reduced power dissipation, higher readout speed, and less insensitive sensor area, pixel-level discrimination becomes the necessary solution of the pixel sensors for the vertex detector in the future e+e- collider. However, the complexity of digital pixels always leads to an increased pixel dimension which is contrary for vertex detector to obtain a high spatial...
Mr
Jianquan Jia
(Novel Device Laboratory, Beijing Normal University)
Photon detectors
Poster
Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is alternative to conventional PMT in various applications due to its high photon detection efficiency (PDE), excellent resolution for single photon detection, insensitivity to magnetic field, low operating voltage and convenience for integration, etc. SiPM with epitaxial quenching resistor (EQR SiPM) is one of the main SiPM technologies, which can effectively...
Axel König
(I)
Semiconductor detectors
oral
Silicon sensors are widely used in HEP and for medical applications like for imaging techniques in hadron therapy. At the moment there is only one high volume industrial producer. In view of widening the market, we are working to establish a second high-quality and high-throughput European vendor.
We are developing silicon strip sensors with the European semiconductor company Infineon...
Kenichi Takemasa
(University of Tsukuba)
Photon detectors
Poster
We present the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction detector using hafnium (Hf-STJ) as far-infrared single photon detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search (COBAND) experiment.
The photon energy spectrum from the radiative decays of cosmic background neutrino is expected to have a sharp edge at high energy end in a far-infrared region ranging from 15 to 30meV in the...
Dr
Shengli Liu
(TRIUMF)
Interface and beam instrumentation
Poster
AWAKE (The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN) stripline BPMs are required to measure single electron bunch to a precision less than 10 um rms, for a minimum charge of 100 pC to 1 nC. This paper presents an unique AFE-Digital processing platform developed at TRIUMF (Canada) that could achieve such high performance. The simulation and design of the analog...
Masanobu Yonenaga
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
Poster
The Aerogel Ring Imaging Cherenkov (ARICH) counter is a particle identification device located in the endcap region of the Belle II detector, which is designed to discriminate charged pions from kaons. In total 420 of the Hybrid Avalanche Photo Detectors (HAPDs) are used in the ARICH counter to detect emitted photons. Therefore the management of power supplies and readout electronics of the...
Haiqiong Zhang
(IHEP)
Dark Matter Detectors
Poster
Neutrino physics and dark matter detection are frontier topics of current particle physics. Good rock shielding, ultra low background and ultra low energy threshold are key to detect signals from neutrino and WIMPs scattering in underground experiments successfully. A novel large volume spherical proportional counter has been set up in IHEP. The detector adopted an ultra small front-end...
Beatrice Mandelli
(CERN)
Experimental detector systems
Poster
At the LHC experiments the Muon Systems are equipped with different types of gaseous detectors that will need to assure high performance (tracking, trigger, etc.) until the end of the LHC run periods (beyond 2035). One of the key parameters for good and safe long-term detector operation is the gas mixture composition and quality. Indeed a wrong gas mixture composition can decrease the detector...
Dr
Ping Cao
(Nuclear Electronics)
, Mrs
Yanli Chen
(Nuclear Electronics)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
There are several spectrometers in the white neutron source at China Spallation Neutron Source (WNS-CSNS) including detectors of C6D6, Silicon, fission chamber and light charged particle etc. Matching signals from these various detectors becomes design challenge for readout electronics design. In this paper, a generalized readout structure based on PXIe platform is proposed. In this structure,...
Dr
Mirela Angela Saizu
(Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Enginering (IFIN-HH))
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
Poster
The development of digital electronics focused on fast and high-precision analog to digital converters and optimal pulse filtering and shaping has led to improved gamma-ray spectrometer parameters regarding the high resolution and high throughput.
A high performance gamma-ray spectrometer based on digital electronics is successfully integrated in a state-of-art installation dedicated to...
Jordan Tucker
(C)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
oral
The CMS pixel detector phase 1 upgrade in 2017 requires an upgraded DAQ to accept higher data rates. A new DAQ system has been developed based on a combination of custom and standard microTCA parts. Custom mezzanines on FC7 AMCs provide a front-end driver for readout, and front-end controller for configuration, clock and trigger. The DAQ system is undergoing a series of integration tests...
Mr
Yinhong ZHANG
(IHEP)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
The communications technology development greatly promotes growing of Internet of Things based on wireless sensor network, which is provided with the characteristics of low cost, low power consumption and self-organization. On the basis of detailed introduction of 6LoWPAN (IPv6 low power wireless personal area network), ATmega128RFA1 is used as the hardware core of sensor node and the...
Mr
Shuai Wang
(Shandong University)
Gaseous detectors
Poster
STAR experiment at RHIC is upgrading the inner sectors of the STAR Time Projection Chamber (iTPC) to increase the segmentation on the inner padplane from 13 to 40 rows and to replace the inner sector Multi Wire Proportional Chamber. The upgrade will provide better momentum resolution, better dE/dx resolution, and most importantly it will provide improved acceptance at high rapidity to |η| ≤...
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One to one comparison between R11410 photomultiplier tube and VUV 4 Multi Pixels Photon Counter.
Adriano Di Giovanni
(N)
Photon detectors
Poster
The search for Dark Matter using liquid noble gas time projection chambers is calling for a larger target mass consistently with a reduced background level of radioisotopes present in the detector components. A preliminary screening campaign is the most effective strategy to constrain the radiogenic contamination in the detector, while a trade-off must be considered in selecting the ideal...
Mr
Gang Wang
(University of South China)
Neutrino Detectors
Poster
The 3inch PMT will be used in future large detectors, like JUNO with LS detector, for multi-physics measurements. In order to optimize the performance of 3inch PMT to photon counting mode in a LS detector, we will show a detailed study about its feature including PMT HV divier and de-coupler with positive HV, to optimize/finalize the configurations of 3inch PMT working on HV ratio, HV DC...
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Fengjiao Luo
(IHEP)
Photon detectors
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using a 20 kton underground liquid scintillator center detector (CD).
One of the keys is the energy resolution of the CD to reach <3%@1MeV, where totally 15,000 20‘’ MCP-PMT will be used. To optimize the 20” MCP-PMT with better detection efficiency, stable performance, and long life is...
Mr
hengshuang liu
(Center China Normal University)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
Charge amplifier and switched capacitor array (CASCA) asic is designed to provide 32 electronic channels for different micro-pattern gas detectors.A large number of electronic channels means massive amounts of data. Thus, we designed a readout system with high-speed transmission. The system mainly consists of three kinds of modules: the CASCA card, the Analog-Digital conversion card (AD card),...
Mr
Chao Li
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
**Abstract:** The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at highest net baryon densities and moderate temperatures. The Time-of-Flight (TOF) system, a spectrometer in CBM experiment, is comprised with super module (SM) detectors, each of which contains serval Multi-gap...
Alan Cosimo Ruggeri
(INFN Sezione di Napoli)
Photon detectors
Poster
Hyper-Kamiokande is the next upgrade of the currently operating Super-Kamiokande experiment. It is a large water Cherenkov detector with a fiducial volume which will be approximately 20 times larger than its precursor. Fundamental elements for this experiment are large aperture, high sensitivity photosensors able to detect the weak Cherenkov light generated by neutrino interactions or proton...
Stepan Vereschagin
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
The TPC barrel is placed in the center of a Multi-Purpose Detector comprising the interaction point of colliding beams together with other central detectors that provides the recovery and identification of charged particle tracks in the pseudorapidity’s range │η│≤ 1.2 in future NICA collider experiments.
Tracks in the TPC are registered by 24 readout chambers placed at both end-caps of...
Mr
Xincheng Qi
(University of Science and Technology of China)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
The BaF2 detector array that is one of the detector systems at CSNS-WNS (White Neutron Source at China Spallation Neutron Source), mainly aiming at measuring the cross section of (n,γ), consists of the BaF2 crystals and photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with 92 channels, the front-end electronics, readout electronics, and the data acquisition system (DAQ). To maintain as much information of the...
ZHU YUWEI
(SUBATECH, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes)
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
Poster
The XEMIS project (Xenon Medical Imaging System) which makes use of 3$\gamma$ imaging technique, aims at making a precise 3D localization of radioactive emitter and reducing drastically (100 times less) the injected activity to the patient. The 3$\gamma$ imaging is characterized by the simultaneous detection of 3 $\gamma$-rays emitted by $^{44}$Sc within a liquid xenon Compton camera.
This...
Pradeep Sarin
(Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Interface and beam instrumentation
oral
In extreme radiation environments like monitoring intense proton beams,
or at high temperature in a nuclear reactor, semiconductor charged
particle detectors made of synthetic diamond provide a promising
solution due to their high radiation tolerance and thermal properties.
We present new test results on the charge collection performance of
diamond detectors tested in intense proton...
Baiyang Bi
(IHEP, CAS)
Astrophysics and space instrumentation
Poster
The Wide Field of View Cherenkov Telescope Array (WFCTA), a main component of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), covers more than 2.5 orders of primary cosmic rays in each observation mode, which requires the dynamic range of the photoelectric device from 10 p.e. to 32000 p.e. The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a new kind of photoelectric device developing rapidly in...
Koki Maekawa
(University of Tokyo)
Gaseous detectors
Poster
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the present design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the coming decade. In order to benefit from the expected high luminosity performance that will be provided by the Phase-1 upgraded LHC, the first station of the ATLAS muon end-cap Small Wheel...
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Mikhail Danilov
(NRNU MEPhI and LPI (Moscow))
Photon detectors
oral
We have studied the rate dependence of the radiation damage of BICRON-408 (BICRON Co.) scintillator with Y11 WLS fiber and EJ-260 (ELJEN Co.) scintillator with O2 WLS fiber (Kuraray Co.). The doses were in the range from 4 to 25 Mrad and the dose rates varied from 2 to 600 krad/hour. We observed the light yield drop (measured in number of detected photoelectrons from a 60x12x4mm3...
In-soo Lee
(Hanyang University)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
Poster
The Belle II experiment is under final stage of construction at KEK in Japan to probe New Physics beyond the Standard Model by measuring CP violation phenomena and rare decays of beauty, charm quark and tau lepton particles. The experiment is being performed at the SuperKEKB collider that does operate 40 times higher instantaneous luminosity than the KEKB. As a severe beam background...
Mr
Tamas Almos Vami
(Wigner RCP)
Semiconductor detectors
Poster
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of two general-purpose detectors that reconstruct the products of high energy particle interactions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The silicon pixel detector is the innermost component of the CMS tracking system. The detector which was in operation between 2009 and 2016 has now been decommissioned. An upgraded one is in preparation...
Dr
Yunayuan Du
(Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science)
Semiconductor detectors
oral
Schottky barrier diode (SBD) radiation detectors were prepared using 20μm thick n-type 4H-SiC epitaxial layers for α particles detection. The SBD was fabricated by depositing Ni on Si face forming Schottky contacts and Ni/Au ohmic contact on C face, respectively. The forward and reverse current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, over a wide temperature range 298-423K, were carried out on the...
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xiaojuan zhou
(IHEP)
Gaseous detectors
Poster
With the international development of the new generation neutron source, the traditional neutron detector can't satisfy the demand of the application of the high flux especially. And facing the global crisis of 3He supply, the research on the new style of the neutron detector becomes extremely urgent. Considered with the development demand of the domestic neutron scattering facility CSNS...
Fanbo Meng
(University of Notre Dame, on behalf of the CMS Collaboration)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
The CMS experiment implements a sophisticated two-level triggering system composed of Level-1, instrumented by custom-design hardware boards, and a software High-Level-Trigger. A new Level-1 trigger architecture with improved performance is now being used to maintain the thresholds that were used in LHC Run I for the more challenging luminosity conditions experienced during Run II. The...
Katsuaki Tomoyori
(QST)
Medical Imaging, security and other applications
Poster
There are so many proteins which are embedded into biological membranes. Many membrane proteins are the major players in important cell processes and therefore key targets for research on human health and drug development. The crystals of these large membrane proteins typically have very large unit cells with repeat of a few hundred Å. Neutron diffraction experiments on membrane proteins can...
Grygorii Sokhrannyi
(S)
Backend readout structures and embedded systems
Poster
Diamond Beam Monitor (DBM) is one of the ATLAS sub-detector which is designed to provide luminosity measurements and is a part of the Pixel Detector.
At the ATLAS experiment, the Detector Control System (DCS) is used to oversee the hardware conditions and ensures a safe, a correct and an efficient experiment operation.
The Safety interlocks, which are implemented into DCS, has one of the...
William Panduro Vazquez
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Trigger and data acquisition systems
oral
The expected factor of 10 increase in peak luminosity of the upgraded High Luminosity LHC will force the ATLAS experiment to increase early stage trigger selection power. The agreed strategy is to implement precise track reconstruction, through which sharper trigger turn-on curves can be achieved for primary single-lepton selections, while contributing to b-tagging and tau-tagging techniques...
LIU Zhao
(é)
Front-end electronics and fast data transmission
Poster
Introduces a method of high-speed readout of front-end large-scale data based on the new JESD204B commercial ADC to FPGA transmission protocol. Design a front-end acquisition source board, to achieve the board to the back-end data transmission system. The JESD204B protocol is simulated by FPGA, which provides the principle support for front-end ASIC with high-speed data readout.
Ms
Yuzhen Yang
(Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academic of Science)
Photon detectors
Poster
The pulse height spectra of a one-stack microchannel plate (MCP) are studied. The MCP studied is with a length-to-diameter ratio (L/D) of 80:1, which is larger than the usual MCPs for image intensifier application while are stacked as component. Using single MCP with large L/D, can achieve high gain ~ 106, and get better resolution than MCP assembly. In this manuscript, we measure the single...
Mr
Yongpeng Zhang
(IHEP)
Neutrino Detectors
Poster
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) detector, under construction in a 700 meters underground lab, will explore the neutrino mass hierarchy by measuring the reactor anti-neutrino spectrum in a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector. For the sake of suppressing the radioactivity from the surrounding rocks and tagging the cosmic muons, the outer of the central detector is filled...
