Dr
Giovanna Lehmann Miotto
(CERN)
16/01/2018, 13:00
Data AcQuisition (DAQ) is a very vague term that in high energy physics is associated to the readout, event building and storage of the physics data, as well as the control, configuration and monitoring of the data taking operations.
Though the main functional blocks of DAQ systems remain always the same (readout, event building, storage, control, configuration, monitoring), their design and...
Dr
Claudio Di Giulio
(INFN-LNF)
16/01/2018, 17:00
The BTF of the DAΦNE accelerator complex, in the Frascati National Laboratory of the INFN, is in operation since 2004 with an average of 200 beam-days and 25 groups/year. The doubling of the beam-line will allow increasing the access capability, as well as hosting long-term experiments in parallel with the test-beam activities. The activities ongoing for the upgrade of the facility are described
Ralf Diener
(DESY)
16/01/2018, 17:20
The DESY II Test Beam Facility will resume operations mid February 2018. The current status and possibilities for future improvements and extensions of the facility will be presented.
Mr
Dennis Proft
(University of Bonn)
16/01/2018, 17:40
The ELSA facility at Bonn University offers a primary electron beam for two hadron physics experiments and detector test applications. The beam is extracted from a 0.5 to 3.2 GeV storage ring with an energy deviation smaller than 0.1 percent. A dedicated detector test beamline has started operation in mid 2016 and has so far served the local high-energy physics research group in several...
Mr
Carsten Grzesik
(KPH Mainz)
16/01/2018, 18:00
The Mainz Microtron (MAMI) is an electron accelerator at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Mainz, that provides beam energies of up to 1.6 GeV.
With its narrow beam profile, continous stream of particles and beam currents of up to 100 µA it can be used for multiple test beam applications.
One of these is testing detectors at very high rates.
Another one is using the possibility of MAMI...
Dr
sestini lorenzo
(INFN)
16/01/2018, 18:20
In order to further consolidate the present kwnoledge of the
Standard Model and to look for deviations from its predictions
that would signal new physics effects a new generation of hadron
hadron or electron position colliders is often put forward.
However also the idea of a muon collider seems to be attractive
because such a machine would provide the high centre of mass
energy typical...
Lorenzo Uplegger
(Fermilab)
16/01/2018, 18:40
The Fermilab Test Beam Facility is a world class facility for testing and characterizing particle detectors. The facility has been in operation since 2005 and has undergone significant upgrades in the last two years. With two operational beam lines, the facility can deliver a variety of particle types and momenta ranging from 120 GeV protons in the primary beam line down to 200 MeV particles...
Davide Reggiani
17/01/2018, 09:20
This contribution will give an overview of the secondary beam lines of the PSI High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA). Particular emphasis will be given to those facilities currently available for tests.
Dr
Maarten van Dijk
(CERN)
17/01/2018, 09:35
The East Area at the Proton Synchrotron is one of CERN’s longest running facilities for experiments, beam tests, and irradiations with a history of 55 years. An overview of the available facilities will be given: two beam lines providing secondary hadron or electron beams in the momentum spectrum of 0.5-12 GeV/c complementing the momentum range of the SPS north area, as well as the CHARM and...
Dr
Alexander Gerbershagen
(CERN)
17/01/2018, 09:55
CERN’s accelerator complex offers a great variety of multi-purpose test-beam facilities. In this presentation, an overview of the secondary beams derived from proton beams extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) will be given. The available secondary particle beam momenta range from about 10 GeV/c up to 400 GeV/c. The available intensities extend from about 10^3 up to 10^7 particles...
Mr
Markus Joos
(CERN), Ms
Sarah Aretz
(CERN)
17/01/2018, 10:10
In 2014 CERN has started to organize “Beamline for Schools” (BL4S), an annual physics competition for high-school students aged 16 and up. In the competition, teams of students from all around the world are invited to propose an experiment to CERN that makes use of a secondary beam of particles with momenta of up to 10 GeV/c from CERN’s Proton Synchrotron (PS). The students have to describe...
Dr
Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler
(DESY)
17/01/2018, 10:30
Dr
Francisco Jose Iguaz Gutierrez
(University of Zaragoza)
17/01/2018, 11:00
The Picosec detection concept consists in a two-stage Micromegas detector coupled to a Cerenkov radiator and equipped with a photocathode. A 1cm2 area prototype has already been built and characterized to prove this concept. A single-photoelectron response of 76 ps has been measured with a femtosecond UV laser at CEA/IRAMIS, while a time resolution of 24 ps with a mean yield of 10...
Tiina Naaranoja
(Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland)
17/01/2018, 11:20
Diamond timing detectors were installed in CT-PPS Roman Pots in June
2016 and served for collecting 2.5 fb^-1 of data. During the LHC technical stop from Dec 2016 to Apr 2017 one plane of diamond detectors was removed from each detector package and replaced with Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD). This provided an opportunity to re-characterize the diamond detector performance after...
Spyridon Argyropoulos
(DESY)
17/01/2018, 11:40
The expected increase of the particle flux at the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) with instantaneous luminosities up to L ≃ 7.5 × 1034 cm^{−2} s^{-1} will have a severe impact on the ATLAS detector performance. The pile-up is expected to increase on average to 200 interactions per bunch crossing. The reconstruction and trigger performance for electrons, photons as well as jets and...
Prof.
Vincenzo Monaco
(University of Torino and INFN Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino, Italy)
17/01/2018, 12:00
Prototype beam monitoring devices are under development at the Torino section of INFN, with the goal of measuring the flux, the profile and the energy of charged particle beams, in particular for radiobiology and hadron-therapy applications. The devices will employ Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD), innovative silicon sensors optimized for timing measurements based on the Low-Gain Avalanche...
Dr
Nicola Minafra
(The University of Kansas)
17/01/2018, 12:20
A Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) was used to characterize a linear accelerator (LINAC) used for radiotherapy at St. Luke Hospital in Dublin. The LINAC, manufactured by ELEKTA, can produce an electron beam with energies between 5 and 15 MeV in pulses of ~2 us with a substructure of 3 GHz. A tungsten target is used to produce up to 10^11 photons/s mm2 X-rays (bremsstrahlung) that are used...
Dr
Jan Dreyling-Eschweiler
(DESY)
17/01/2018, 13:40
EUDET-type beam telescopes based on Mimosa26 sensors were developed in 2007. Ten years later, there a seven copies available for the R&D community at the DESYII, CERN PS/SPS and SLAC beam lines, which are frequently used mainly by HEP groups for future detector development, e.g. phase II at LHC or linear collider detectors. Within this user-driven evolution two software frameworks have been...
Dr
David Cussans
(University of Bristol)
17/01/2018, 13:55
The AIDA-2020 Trigger/Timing Logic Unit (TLU) is a piece of hardware that distributes signals to the detectors participating in a beam test. These signals allow the data from the different detectors corresponding to the same particle to be combined. The AIDA-2020 TLU is a development of TLUs designed for the AIDA and EUDET programmes. The original EUDET TLU was designed with only pixel beam...
Mr
Yannick Dieter
(University of Bonn)
17/01/2018, 14:10
A compact readout-system based on a single FPGA-based readout board (MMC3) and Python software (pymosa) was developed. It supports configuring and readout of up to 6 Mimosa26 planes.
Trigger-less and continuous data taking is implemented, allowing test beams with
high particle rates (> 20 kHz). In order to analyse test beam data a platform independent Python package with...
Mr
Jan-Hendrik Arling
(DESY), Ms
Michaela Queitsch-Maitland
(DESY)
17/01/2018, 14:30
The ATLAS Phase-II Inner Tracker (ITk) Strip Detector is an upgrade for the current ATLAS tracking detector designed for the challenges of the high-luminosity LHC.
A key point in the design stage of a tracking detector is to minimise the amount of material and therefore radiation lengths (X0) associated with the detector.
As local support for the silicon strip sensors in the forward region...
Enrico Junior Schioppa
(CERN),
Florian Dachs
(CERN),
Maria Moreno Llacer
(CERN)
17/01/2018, 15:10
Depleted monolithic active pixel sensors (DMAPS) in CMOS technology are being investigated for the outer layers of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk) for the High Luminosity LHC starting in 2026. The advantage of monolithic sensors with respect to hybrid technology is that there is only a single die integrating the functionality of sensor and readout, reducing the budget material and potentially...
Mr
Mateus Vicente
(Universite de Geneve)
17/01/2018, 15:30
In order to test detector prototypes, under study for the future vertex and track detectors, particle beam telescopes are widely used. The FEI4 telescope from Geneva University will be introduced together with its framework for data taking and remote control system. The telescope capabilities regarding timing measurement and achieved spatial resolution will also be shown. Multiple user cases...
Mr
Lennart Huth
(Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)
17/01/2018, 16:15
Precise tracking at high rates of low momentum particles requires novel
pixel technologies. Monolithic approaches are good candidates to fulfill the requirements of precision experiments like Mu3e, as they have a very low radiation length. The newest member of the MuPix prototype family - which is developed in the context of Mu3e – is the 1x2 cm large MuPix8. It features a fully functional...
Dr
Andreas Nürnberg
(CERN)
17/01/2018, 16:30
The vertex- and tracking detectors at the proposed high-energy CLIC electron-positron collider will be based on small-pitch silicon pixel- or strip detectors. The requirements for these detectors include single-point position resolutions of a few microns combined with nanosecond time tagging of hits. Tests with particle beams are needed to assess the performance of existing and future...
Dr
Martin van Beuzekom
(Nikhef)
17/01/2018, 16:50
The upgrade of the LHCb experiment will transform the experiment to a trigger-less system reading out the full detector at the LHC collision rate and up to $2\times 10^{33}cm^{−2} s^{-1}$ instantaneous luminosity. The Vertex Locator (VELO) is the silicon detector surrounding the interaction region. The upgraded VELO is based on a hybrid pixel system equipped with data driven electronics and...
Mr
Olivier Girard
(EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
17/01/2018, 17:05
A modular telescope composed of four X/Y scintillating fibre tracking stations has been developed and employed to test the LHCb-SciFi 2.5m long modules. The fibres are read out by silicon photomultiplier arrays characterised by a low correlated noise, high photodetection efficiency and very good stability on a wide operational range. A single hit spatial resolution smaller than 40um was...
Mr
Michael Reichmann
(ETH Zuerich)
17/01/2018, 17:50
In order to investigate the general functionality and the rate behaviour of irradiated and non-irradiated
diamond detectors a stand-alone modular beam telescope was developed at ETH Zurich based on CMS Pixel
Chips. The talk is going to briefly describe the basic functionality of the full telescope and its individual hardware
parts and focus attention on the recent upgrades. Many parts of...
Dr
Blake Dean Leverington
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)
18/01/2018, 09:00
The Scintillating Fibre (SciFi) Tracker is designed to replace the current downstream tracking detectors in the LHCb Upgrade during 2019-20 (CERN/LHCC 2014-001; LHCb TDR 15). Collecting data at the increased luminosity foreseen for the upgrade will only be possible with front-end electronics read out at 40MHz and a flexible software-based triggering system that will increase the data rate as...
Mr
Lukas Gerritzen
(ETH Zurich, IPA)
18/01/2018, 09:20
With the enduring intensity increase of particle physics experiments at the precision frontier, high granularity timing detectors with excellent timing resolutions and very low additional material become crucial to control combinatorial backgrounds. Scintillating fibres combined to thin mats, read out with segmented silicon photomultipliers provide sub-nanosecond timing resolutions with...
Marisol Robles Manzano
(JGU Mainz)
18/01/2018, 09:40
Within the CALICE collaboration, several concepts for the hadronic calorimeter of a future linear collider detector are studied. After having demonstrated the capabilities of the measurement methods in "physics prototypes", the focus now lies on improving their implementation in "engineering prototypes", that are scalable to the full linear collider detector. The Analog Hadron Calorimeter...
Ms
Tamar Zakareishvili
(High Energy Physics Institute of Tbilisi State University)
18/01/2018, 10:15
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Phase II upgrade aims to increase the accelerator luminosity by a factor of 5-10. Due to the expected higher radiation levels and the aging of the current electronics, a new readout system of the ATLAS experiment hadronic calorimeter (TileCal) is needed. A prototype of the upgrade TileCal electronics has been tested using the beam from the Super Proton...
Dr
Simon Spannagel
(CERN)
18/01/2018, 11:00
Allpix Squared is a generic open-source simulation framework for pixel detectors. Its goal is to ease the implementation of detailed simulations for both single detectors and more complex setups such as beam telescopes. Predefined detector types can be automatically constructed from simple model files describing the detector parameters.
The simulation chain is arranged with the help of...
Dr
Moritz Kiehn
(Université de Genève)
18/01/2018, 11:45
Beam telescopes are one of the key tools to investigate novel sensor
prototypes. Successful measurement campaigns rely on fast and
user-friendly reconstruction to produce relevant results in a timely
fashion. The Proteus software is the reconstruction package used for the
Geneva FE-I4 telescope. It supports streamlined event processing,
support for complex sensors with multiple...
Michaela Queitsch-Maitland
(DESY)
18/01/2018, 13:00
EUTelescope is a Generic Pixel Telescope Data Analysis Framework. It has started developing mainly using EUDET-type beam telescopes, but user-driven developments have extended the framework, as for example the General Broken Line (GBL) track finding.
This tutorial provides a short overview on EUTelescope and is focusing on going through the analysis flow to get a scattering image....
Dr
Moritz Kiehn
(Université de Genève)
18/01/2018, 13:00
Proteus is a software to reconstruct and analyze data from beam telescopes. In this tutorial we will follow an analysis from raw hit data to reconstructed tracks and basic efficiency measurements using an example dataset.
The software requires ROOT and a C++11 compatible compiler. Participants are encouraged to install it on their local computer or on CERN lxplus machines by following the...
Dr
Simon Spannagel
(CERN)
18/01/2018, 15:15
Scope
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This tutorial will give an introduction to the Allpix Squared simulation framework. We will walk through the examples provided with the framework and set up our own telescope-plus-DUT simulation with different configuration options.
In addition, the tutorial will serve as AMA (ask-me-anything) for the framework.
Preparation
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Please install the latest...
Mr
Riccardo Farinelli
(INFN Ferrara)
19/01/2018, 09:00
Particle detection is one of the pillars of the research in fundamental physics. Since several years, a new concept of detectors, called Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD), allows to overcome many of limits the preexistent detectors, like drift chambers and microstrip detectors, reducing the discharge rate and increasing the radiation tolerance.
Among these, one of the most commonly used...
Mr
Florian Brunbauer
(Technische Universität Wien, CERN)
19/01/2018, 09:20
Optically read out Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEMs) are well suited for online monitoring of particle beams in high energy physics as well as medical fields. The high gain factors achievable by GEMs and the good spatial resolution enabled by state-of-the-art CCD or CMOS imaging sensors permit accurate beam profile and position monitoring over a wide range of beam energies, particle fluxes...
Dr
David Cooke
(ETH Zurich)
19/01/2018, 09:40
The NA64 experiment is a fixed target experiment at the SPS at CERN, searching for new physics using an active beam dump to detect missing-energy events. It employs a tracker based on multiplexed micromegas detectors, which presents a unique challenge with respect to reconstructing particle trajectories. In particular, the signature of dark photon (or alternatively $^8$Be anomaly X boson)...
Dr
Thomas Eichhorn
(DESY)
19/01/2018, 10:20
For the high-luminosity upgrade of the CMS outer tracker, a new, MicroTCA-based read-out system is envisaged. In a recent beam test at DESY, the functionality of a prototype version of this system and its firmware was demonstrated. This contribution shows beam test results and comparisons to simulations.
Ms
Caroline Niemeyer
(University of Hamburg)
19/01/2018, 11:10
For the HL- LHC the irradiation level that the detectors will have to withstand will be reaching a 1 MeV neutron equivalent fluence of 2×10^16neq/cm2 and a total ionizing dose of 10 MGy at the location where the sensors of the Inner Tracker will be installed.
The upgraded Phase-2 Inner Tracker is designed to maintain or improve the tracking and vertexing capabilities under these high pileup...
Mareike Weers
(TU Dortmund)
19/01/2018, 11:30
In phase II the LHC will be upgraded to the High Luminosity LHC. To fulfill the increased particle flux and higher instant luminosity, the ATLAS experiment will be equipped with a new Inner Tracker (ITk). Because of the close position to the beam line, the pixel modules of the ITk are exposed to high radiation.
Planar n-in-n silicon sensors with different pixel implantations have been...
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Compilation of the results on test beam characterization of ADVACAM 50 um-thick edgeless sensors
Mr
Dmytro Hohov
(LAL Université Paris-Sud)
19/01/2018, 11:50
The work is devoted to the study of the test beam performance of active and slim edge ATLAS planar pixel sensors (PPS) in various test conditions including irradiation fluences (1e15 and 2e15 neq/cm^2) and sensor inclination. CERN and DESY beam facilities have been used for the test beam performing.
Mr
Joern Lange
(IFAE Barcelona)
19/01/2018, 12:10
3D silicon detectors, with cylindrical electrodes that penetrate the sensor bulk perpendicularly to the surface, present a radiation-hard sensor technology. Due to a reduced electrode distance, trapping at radiation-induced defects is less and the operational voltage and power dissipation after heavy irradiation are significantly lower than for planar devices. During the last years, the 3D...
Ms
Morag Williams
(University of Glasgow / CERN)
19/01/2018, 12:30
A precise measurement of the arrival time distribution of ionisation charges in a reverse-biased single silicon pixel sensor layer can be used to determine the impact point, incident angle and direction of minimum ionising particles. This concept of a Silicon Time-Projection-Chamber could for example be used to reduce the number of sensor layers in large-area tracking detectors, or to improve...
