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High Voltage CMOS sensors are a promising technology for tracking detectors in collider experiments. Extensive R&D studies are being carried out by the ATLAS Collaboration for a possible use of HV-CMOS in the High Luminosity LHC upgrade of…

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A new Beam Halo Monitor (BHM) detector system has been installed in the CMS cavern to measure the machine-induced background (MIB) from the LHC. This background originates from interactions of the LHC beam halo with the final set of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Kelly Stifter

An overview of plans for the measurement of gamma at the LHCb experiment will be shown. The gamma angle is the least accurately known parameter of the CKM unitary triangle. The LHCb experiment at the CERN LHC aims to perform precision heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexandra Martín Sánchez

Precision timing has alway been a prominent topic in the instrumentation for high-energy physics experiments. In this document I discuss what the perspectives are for the use of silicon sensors for a time-of-flight detector in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-15 Roberto Preghenella

A small set of final prototypes of the ATLAS Inner Detector silicon tracker (Pixel and SCT) were used to take data during the 2004 Combined Test Beam. Data were collected from runs with beams of different flavour (electrons, pions, muons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Ahmad , A. Andreazza , T. Atkinson , J. Baines , A. J. Barr , R. Beccherle , P. J. Bell , J. Bernabeu , Z. Broklova , P. A. Bruckman de Renstrom , D. Cauz , L. Chevalier , S. Chouridou , M. Citterio , A. Clark , M. Cobal , T. Cornelissen , S. Correard , M. J. Costa , D. Costanzo , S. Cuneo , M. Dameri , G. Darbo , J. B. de Vivie , B. Di Girolamo , D. Dobos , Z. Drasal , J. Drohan , K. Einsweiler , M. Elsing , D. Emelyanov , C. Escobar , K. Facius , P. Ferrari , D. Fergusson , D. Ferrere , T. Flick , D. Froidevaux , G. Gagliardi , M. Gallas , B. J. Gallop , K. K. Gan , C. Garcia , I. L. Gavrilenko , C. Gemme , P. Gerlach , T. Golling , S. Gonzalez-Sevilla , M. J. Goodrick , G. Gorfine , T. Goettfert , J. Grosse-Knetter , P. H. Hansen , K. Hara , R. Hartel , A. Harvey , R. J. Hawkings , F. E. W. Heinemann , T. Henns , J. C. Hill , F. Huegging , E. Jansen , J. Joseph , M. Karagoz Unel , M. Kataoka , S. Kersten , A. Khomich , R. Klingenberg , P. Kodys , T. Koffas , N. Konstantinidis , V. Kostyukhin , C. Lacasta , T. Lari , S. Latorre , C. G. Lester , W. Liebig , A. Lipniacka , K. F. Lourerio , M. Mangin-Brinet , S. Marti i Garcia , M. Mathes , C. Meroni , B. Mikulec , B. Mindur , S. Moed , G. Moorhead , P. Morettini , E. W. J. Moyse , K. Nakamura , P. Nechaeva , K. Nikolaev , F. Parodi , S. Parzhitski , J. Pater , R. Petti , P. W. Phillips , B. Pinto , A. Poppleton , K. Reeves , I. Reisinger , P. Reznicek , P. Risso , D. Robinson , S. Roe , A. Rozanov , A. Salzburger , H. Sandaker , L. Santi , C. Schiavi , J. Schieck , J. Schultes , A. Sfyrla , C. Shaw , F. Tegenfeldt , C. J. W. P. Timmermans , B. Toczek , C. Troncon , M. Tyndel , F. Vernocchi , J. Virzi , T. Vu Anh , M. Warren , J. Weber , M. Weber , A. R. Weidberg , J. Weingarten , P. S. Wells , A. Zhelezko

In this paper we describe the history of the LHCb experiment over the last three decades, and its remarkable successes and achievements. LHCb was conceived primarily as a b-physics experiment, dedicated to CP violation studies and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 I. Belyaev , G. Carboni , N. Harnew , C. Matteuzzi. F. Teubert

We study the production of heavy neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) through the dominant s-channel production mode as well as the vector boson fusion (VBF) process. We consider the TeV scale minimal linear seesaw model containing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-13 Gulab Bambhaniya , Srubabati Goswami , Subrata Khan , Partha Konar , Tanmoy Mondal

The LHCb experiment has the unique possibility, among the LHC experiments, to be operated in fixed target mode, using its internal gas target. The energy scale achievable at the LHC, combined with the LHCb forward geometry and detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-05-17 Giacomo Graziani

DEPFET active pixel sensors are a well-developed technology for vertex detectors at future colliders. Extensive test beam campaigns have proven the excellent performance of these devices, and their radiation hardness has been thoroughly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank Simon

In the scope of the Physics Beyond Colliders studies, the Gamma-Factory initiative proposes the use of partially stripped ions as a driver of a new type of high-intensity photon source in CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In 2018, the LHC…

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed to enable more thorough and precise measurements of the properties of Higgs, W, and Z bosons, as well as to search for new physics. In response to the stringent performance…

Collimation with hollow electron beams is a technique for halo control in high-power hadron beams. It is based on an electron beam (possibly pulsed or modulated in intensity) guided by strong axial magnetic fields which overlaps with the…

We present an overview including the historical motivation, design principles, and experimental methodology of the LHCb experiment. Originally conceived as a dedicated experiment for CP violation and rare decays in the B-meson sector, LHCb…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-06 Marcel H. M. Merk , Niels Tuning

In 2019, the LHCb experiment at CERN will undergo a major upgrade where its detector electronics and the entire readout system will be replaced. The goal is to read-out all events at the full LHC frequency of 40 MHz, reaching a total data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 Federico Alessio , Paolo Durante , Guillaume Vouters

ALICE at the LHC is the experiment dedicated to study the physics of nucleus-nucleus collisions. The apparatus is well suited for the measurement of heavy-quark hadron production, making use of the high spatial resolution provided by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Masciocchi

Hadron collisions at the LHC offer a unique opportunity to study strong interactions. The exciting data collected by the four RHIC experiments suggest that in heavy-ion collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV, an equilibrated, strongly-coupled…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christof Roland

We present new measurements related to spin alignment of $\mathrm{K^{*0}}$ vector mesons at mid-rapidity for Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV. The spin alignment measurements are carried out with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Ranbir Singh

The LHCb experiment is one of four major experiments at the LHC. Despite being designed for the study of beauty and charm particles, it has made important contributions in other areas, such as the production and decay of $W$ and $Z$ bosons.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-22 W. Barter

The physics, and a design, of a Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) are sketched. With high luminosity, 10^{33}cm^{-2}s^{-1}, and high energy, \sqrt{s}=1.4 TeV, such a collider can be built in which a 70 GeV electron (positron) beam in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 J. B. Dainton , M. Klein , P. Newman , E. Perez , F. Willeke

The silicon systems of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors are briefly described. The complexity and diversity of the projects are illustrated by highlighting for discussion different components of the silicon systems in each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Parkes