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The Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) is a proposed future electron-ion collider designed to achieve a high luminosity, with a center-of-mass energy ranging from 15 to 20 GeV. Excellent particle identification (PID) with extensive…

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A new beam dump experiment that utilizes the beam of future high energy electron-positron colliders could be an excellent avenue to search for dark sector particles due to its unprecedented high energy and intensity. We consider heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Pierce Giffin , Stefania Gori , Yu-Dai Tsai , Douglas Tuckler

We present ion backflow measurements in a Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GASeous detector) TPC device developed for the next high energy electron-positron linear collider under study and a simple explanation for this backflow. A Micromegas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Colas , I. Giomataris , V. Lepeltier

CMOS sensors were successfully implemented in the STAR tracker [1]. LHC experiments have shown that efficient b tagging, reconstruction of displaced vertices and identification of disappearing tracks are necessary. An improved vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-21 Nicolas T. Fourches , Geraldine Hallais , Charles Renard

Lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors(LEKIDs) have recently shown considerable promise as direct absorption mm-wavelength detectors for astronomical applications. One major research thrust within the N\'eel Iram Kids Array (NIKA)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Roesch , A. Benoit , A. Bideaud , N. Boudou , M. Calvo , A. Cruciani , S. Doyle , H. G. Leduc , A. Monfardini , L. Swenson , S. Leclercq , P. Mauskopf , K. F. Schuster

If Dark Matter is made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with masses below $\sim$20 GeV, the corresponding nuclear recoils in mainstream WIMP experiments are of energies too close, or below, the experimental threshold. Gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-21 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , J. A. García , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzón , A. Peiró

The bulk Micromegas detector is considered to be a promising candidate for building TPCs for several future experiments including the projected linear collider. The standard bulk with a spacing of 128 micron has already established itself…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Sudeb Bhattacharya , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sandip Sarkar , Paul Colas , David Attie

The MIMAC project is a multi-chamber detector for Dark Matter search, aiming at measuring both track and ionization with a matrix of micromegas micro-TPC filled with He3 and CF4. Recent experimental results on the first measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 F. Mayet , O. Guillaudin , C. Grignon , C. Koumeir , D. Santos , P. Colas , I. Giomataris

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a multi-TeV high-luminosity linear e$^+$e$^-$-collider under development by the CLIC accelerator collaboration, hosted by CERN. The CLIC accelerator has been optimised for three energy stages at…

A new Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is currently under development for the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC. The TPC will be read out using multistage GEM detectors on each end and will be divided into approximately 40 pad layers in radius. Each…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Azmoun , P. Garg , T. K. Hemmick , M. Hohlmann , A. Kiselev , M. L. Purschke , C. Woody , A. Zhang

We present megas, a new software tool that improves the simulation of the Micromegas gas detectors. Our tool offers the possibility to configure multiple arrangements with one or more layers of MM detectors. A series of simple commands can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-28 Dan A. Ciubotaru , Michele Renda

Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been chosen as the main tracking system in several high-flux and high repetition rate experiments. These include on-going experiments such as ALICE and future experiments such as PANDA at FAIR and ILC.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-03 Purba Bhattacharya , Bedangadas Mohanty , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Nayana Majumdar , Hugo Natal da Luz

A prototype Silicon-Tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) for an International Linear Collider (ILC) detector was installed and tested during summer and autumn 2006 at CERN. The detector had 6480 silicon pads of dimension 1x1 cm^2.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-24 CALICE Collaboration

A new design of highly granular hadronic calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers (GRPCs) with embedded electronics has been proposed for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) experiments. It features a 2-bit threshold…

A novel, non-invasive method of measuring the beam energy at the International Linear Collider is proposed. Laser light collides head-on with beam particles and either the energy of the Compton scattered electrons near the kinematic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-08-05 N. Muchnoi , H. J. Schreiber , M. Viti

The Linear Collider TPC collaboration constructed a Large Prototype TPC (LPTPC) which is now installed at the EUDET facility, in DESY. The SiLC-collaboration (Silicon for the Linear Collider) will install position sensitive silicon strip…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-19 S. Haensel , T. Bergauer , M. Dragicevic , J. Hrubec , M. Krammer , A. Dierlamm , T. Barvich , F. Hartmann , Th. Müller

Precise measurements of electroweak processes at the International Linear Collider (ILC) will provide unique opportunities to explore new physics beyond the Standard Model. Fermion pair production events are sensitive to new interactions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-15 Yuto Deguchi , Hiroaki Yamashiro , Taikan Suehara , Tamaki Yoshioka , Keisuke Fujii , Kiyotomo Kawagoe

Using a test TPC, consisting of the ALICE TPC field cage prototype in combination with the final ALICE TPC readout and electronics, the energy loss distribution and resolution were measured for identified protons. The measurements were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 P. Christiansen

Background: we develop the concept of a Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GAseous Structure) readout plane with an additional GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) preamplification stage placed a few mm above it, to increase the maximum effective gain of the…

It has been recently known that we can use beams of future lepton colliders, the International Linear Collider (ILC), the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), and the muon collider, for beam dump experiments if a shield and a detector are…

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