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A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

ALICE, one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), is undergoing ambitious upgrades during the ongoing second long shutdown (LS2). The main goal of this project is to access rare events and previously inaccessible physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-23 Adam Laszlo Gera

The proposed high-energy and high-luminosity Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide one of the cleanest environments to precisely determine the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in a wide $x$-$Q^{2}$ range. Heavy flavor…

The electron-positron stage of the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) provides exciting opportunities that are enabled by next generation particle physics detectors. This contribution presents IDEA, a detector concept optimised for FCC-ee…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 Armin Ilg

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the next frontier project of nuclear physics in the United States. It is planned to be built in the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in close collaboration with Jefferson Lab. One of the key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-15 Greg Kalicy

We study the position sensitivity of radial zigzag strips intended to read out large GEM detectors for tracking at future experiments. Zigzag strips can cover a readout area with fewer strips than regular straight strips while maintaining…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Aiwu Zhang , Marcus Hohlmann , Babak Azmoun , Martin L. Purschke , Craig Woody

Thick GEM-like (THGEM) electrodes are robust, high gain gaseous electron multipliers, economically-manufactured by standard drilling and etching of thin printed circuit board or other materials. Their operation and structure are similar to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Chechik , M. Cortesi , A. Breskin , D. Vartsky , D. Bar , V. Dangendorf

The high-luminosity high-energy Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) to be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) will provide a clean environment to study several fundamental questions in the high energy and nuclear physics fields. A high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-06 Xuan Li

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC studies the new state of matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions and the spin structure of the nucleon in collisions of polarized protons. In order to improve the…

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

We recently proposed a high-granularity calorimeter insert for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that is based on plastic scintillator tiles readout with silicon photomultipliers. In this work, we concretize its design by characterizing its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-30 Miguel Arratia , Luis Garabito Ruiz , Jiajun Huang , Sebouh J. Paul , Sean Preins , Miguel Rodriguez

The International Large Detector (ILD) --a detector concept for the International Linear Collider (ILC)-- foresees a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as its main tracking detector. Currently, the R&D efforts for such a TPC focus on studies…

Detectors at future e+e- collider need special calorimeters in the very forward region for a fast estimate and precise measurement of the luminosity, to improve the hermeticity and mask the central tracking detectors from backscattered…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-02-01 Ivanka Bozovic-Jelisavcic

New Micromegas (Micro-mesh gaseous detectors) are being developed in view of the future physics projects planned by the COMPASS collaboration at CERN. Several major upgrades compared to present detectors are being studied: detectors…

Gas Electron Multipliers (GEM) are among the more prominent Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGDs) and widely used in high energy particle physics experiments and various related applications. Adoption of different production techniques…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-06 Promita Roy , Purba Bhattacharya , Prasant Kumar Rout , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Sandip Sarkar

CLIC is a proposed linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider with center-of-mass energies of up to $3\,\textrm{TeV}$. Its main objectives are precise top quark and Higgs boson measurements, as well as searches for Beyond Standard Model physics. To meet…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-07 Simon Spannagel

With the development of the circular collider, it is necessary to make accurate physics experimental measurements of particle properties at higher luminosity $Z$ pole. Micro-pattern gaseous detectors (MPGDs), which contain Gaseous Electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-22 Zhiyang Yuan , Huirong Qi , Yue Chang , Ye Wu , Hongyu Zhang , Jian Zhang , Yuanbo Chen , Yiming Cai , Yulan Li , Zhi Deng , Hui Gong

Advanced detector R&D requires performing computationally intensive and detailed simulations as part of the detector-design optimization process. We propose a general approach to this process based on Bayesian optimization and machine…

Gated wires are widely used in Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to avoid ion back-flow (IBF) in the drift volume. The anode wires can provide stable gain at high voltage with a long lifetime. However, switching on and off the gated grid (GG)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 Shuai Wang , Fuwang Shen , Xiao Zhao , Zhihang Zhu , Fangang Kong , Changyu Li , Qinghua Xu , Zhangbu Xu , Chi Yang , Chengguang Zhu

Novel high efficiency fast-neutron detectors were suggested for fan-beam tomography applications. They combine multi-layer polymer converters in gas medium, coupled to thick gaseous electron multipliers (THGEM). In this work we discuss the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Cortesi , R. Zboray , R. Adams , V. Dangendorf , A. Breskin , S. Mayer , H. Hoedlmoser , H. -M. Prasser

A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is a powerful detector for 3-dimensional tracking and particle identification for ultra-high multiplicity events. It is the central tracking device of many experiments, e.g. the ALICE experiment at CERN. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Bernhard Ketzer