Conveners
Detectors for Particle Physics
- Philip Patrick Allport (University of Liverpool (GB))
Detectors for Particle Physics
- Peter Hobson (Brunel University)
Detectors for Particle Physics
- Philip Patrick Allport (University of Liverpool (GB))
Dr
Beniamino Di Girolamo
(CERN)
13/09/2011, 11:10
Applications in Particle Physics
Invited Oral
The talk will overview the big variety of detectors deployed by the experiments at LHC, their performance and few example of physics results obtained so far, with emphasis on techniques and results in ATLAS. An analysis and a comparison will be done to show the reasons of the choices made. Finally a roadmap of the foreseen improvements and upgrades will be covered.
Dr
Joleen Pater
(Manchester Universirty)
13/09/2011, 11:50
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT), comprising of silicon micro-strip detectors is one of the key precision tracking devices in the ATLAS Inner Detector. ATLAS is one of the experiments at CERN LHC.
The completed SCT is in very good shapes with 99.3% of the SCT’s 4088 modules (a total of 6.3 million strips) are operational. The noise occupancy and hit efficiency exceed the design...
Dr
Carolina De Luca
(SUNY)
13/09/2011, 12:10
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
The ATLAS Pixel Detector is the innermost detector of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, providing high-resolution measurements of charged particle tracks in the high radiation environment close to the collision region. This capability is vital for the identification and measurement of proper decay times of long-lived particles such as b-hadrons, and thus vital for the...
Prof.
Jochen Schieck
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
13/09/2011, 12:30
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
ATLAS is a multipurpose experiment that records the LHC collisions. In order to reconstruct trajectories of charged particle, ATLAS is equipped with a tracking system built using different technologies, silicon planar sensors (pixel and microstrips) and drift-tube detectors. In order to achieve its scientific goals, the ATLAS tracking system requires to determine accurately its almost 700,000...
Marius Bjornstad
(University of Manchester)
14/09/2011, 10:50
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
LHCb is a dedicated experiment to study new physics in the decays of beauty and charm hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The beauty and charm hadrons are identified through their flight distance in the Vertex Locator (VELO), and hence the detector is critical for both the trigger and offline physics analyses. The VELO is the highest resolution vertex detector at the...
Giacomo Contin
(Dipartimento di Fisica-Universita degli Studi di Trieste / INFN Sezione di Trieste)
14/09/2011, 11:10
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment is made out of six layers of silicon detectors exploiting three different technologies (pixel, drift and strip). It covers the central pseudorapidity range of |η| < 0.9 and its distance from the beam line ranges from r = 3.9 cm for the innermost pixel layer up to r = 43 cm for the outermost strip layer. The main tasks of the ITS are to...
Carlos Marinas Pardo
(University of Bonn)
14/09/2011, 11:30
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
An upgrade of the existing Flavour Factory KEKB (Tsukuba, Japan) is under construction, and is foreseen for commissioning by the end of 2014. This new e+e- machine ("SuperKEKB") will deliver an instantaneous luminosity of 8x1035 cm-2s-1, which is 40 times higher than the the world record set by KEKB.
In order to be able to fully exploit the increased number of events and provide high...
Dr
Elena Martin
(Catholic University of Louvain)
14/09/2011, 11:50
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
The Gigatracker (GTK) is a hybrid silicon pixel detector developed for NA62, the experiment studying ultra-rare kaon decays at the CERN SPS. Three GTK stations will provide precise momentum and angular measurements on every track of the high intensity NA62 hadron beam with a time-tagging resolution of 150ps. Multiple scattering and hadronic interactions of beam particles in the GTK has to be...
Filip THYSSEN
(Universiteit Gent)
14/09/2011, 12:10
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) are used in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as a dedicated trigger detector. Moreover, they contribute to the muon identification and reconstruction alongside Drift Tubes and Cathode Strip Chambers.
The operational experience after more than one year of LHC collisions and the performance of the RPC detector during...
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Daniela Bassignana
(IMB-CNM CSIC)
14/09/2011, 12:30
Applications in Particle Physics
Oral Presentation
We have developed a novel 2D position-sensitive semiconductor detector manufactured using the conventional planar technology used in the production of single-side AC-coupled microstrips sensors. In the new device the coupling electrode
is made of a slightly resistive material being read out at both ends. The balance between the recorded charges at both electrode ends is used to define an...
Petteri Pusa
(University of Liverpool)
16/09/2011, 11:00
Applications in Particle Physics
Invited Oral
The aim of the ALPHA experiment at CERN is to trap cold atomic antihydrogen and study it’s properties, and ultimately, perform a comparison between hydrogen and antihydrogen atomic spectra. Recently, ALPHA has reached important milestones by demonstrating the ability to trap neutral cold antihydrogen and keep the antiatoms confined over a period of 1000 s. [1,2].
The main diagnostic tool...
