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A study of decays to strange final states with GlueX in Hall D using components of the BaBar DIRC

We propose to enhance the kaon identification capabilities of the GlueX detector by constructing an FDIRC (Focusing Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov) detector utilizing the decommissioned BaBar DIRC components. The GlueX FDIRC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-04 The GlueX Collaboration , M. Dugger , B. Ritchie , I. Senderovich , E. Anassontzis , P. Ioannou , C. Kourkoumeli , G. Vasileiadis , G. Voulgaris , N. Jarvis , W. Levine , P. Mattione , W. McGinley , C. A. Meyer , R. Schumacher , M. Staib , F. Klein , D. Sober , N. Sparks , N. Walford , D. Doughty , A. Barnes , R. Jones , J. McIntyre , F. Mokaya , B. Pratt , W. Boeglin , L. Guo , E. Pooser , J. Reinhold , H. Al Ghoul , V. Crede , P. Eugenio , A. Ostrovidov , A. Tsaris , D. Ireland , K. Livingston , D. Bennett , J. Bennett , J. Frye , M. Lara , J. Leckey , R. Mitchell , K. Moriya , M. R. Shepherd , O. Chernyshov , A. Dolgolenko , A. Gerasimov , V. Goryachev , I. Larin , V. Matveev , V. Tarasov , F. Barbosa , E. Chudakov , M. Dalton , A. Deur , J. Dudek , H. Egiyan , S. Furletov , M. Ito , D. Mack , D. Lawrence , M. McCaughan , M. Pennington , L. Pentchev , Y. Qiang , E. Smith , A. Somov , S. Taylor , T. Whitlatch , B. Zihlmann , R. Miskimen , B. Guegan , J. Hardin , J. Stevens , M. Williams , V. Berdnikov , G. Nigmatkulov , A. Ponosov , D. Romanov , S. Somov , I. Tolstukhin , C. Salgado , P. Ambrozewicz , A. Gasparian , R. Pedroni , T. Black , L. Gan , S. Dobbs , K. Seth , X. Ting , A. Tomaradze , T. Beattie , G. Huber , G. Lolos , Z. Papandreou , A. Semenov , I. Semenova , W. Brooks , H. Hakobyan , S. Kuleshov , O. Soto , A. Toro , I. Vega , N. Gevorgyan , H. Hakobyan , V. Kakoyan

A novel type of proximity focusing RICH counter with multiple refractive index aerogel radiator

A proximity focusing ring imaging Cherenkov detector, with the radiator consisting of two or more aerogel layers of different refractive indices, has been tested in 1-4 GeV/c pion beams at KEK. Essentially, a multiple refractive index…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Iijima , S. Korpar , I. Adachi , S. Fratina , T. Fukushima , A. Gorisek , H. Kawai , M. Konishi , Y. Kozakai , P. Krizan , T. Matsumoto , Y. Mazuka , S. Nishida , S. Ogawa , S. Ohtake , R. Pestotnik , S. Saitoh , T. Seki , T. Sumiyoshi , Y. Uchida , Y. Unno , S. Yamamoto

Quartz Cherenkov Counters for Fast Timing: QUARTIC

We have developed particle detectors based on fused silica (quartz) Cherenkov radiators read out with micro-channel plate photomultipliers (MCP-PMTs) or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for high precision timing (Sigma(t) about 10-15 ps).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 M. G. Albrow , Heejong Kim , S. Los , E. Ramberg , A. Ronzhin , V. Samoylenko , H. Wenzel , A. Zatserklyaniy

Developing high-performance DIRC detector for the Future Electron Ion Collider Experiment

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…

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Construction and Expected Performance of the Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

A new Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) for electron identification in high density hadron environment has been installed in the PHENIX detector at RHIC in the fall of 2006. The HBD will identify low momentum electron-positron pairs to reduce the…

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Production of Double Hypernuclei with antiprotons at PANDA

One of the goals of hypernuclear physics is to study the properties of baryon-baryon interaction including the strangeness contribution. Double hypernuclei can provide information about the $\Lambda\Lambda$ interaction in addition to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-16 Katarzyna Szymanska

R&D Efforts in Cherenkov Imaging Technologies for Particle Identification in Future Experiments

Cherenkov imaging detectors will continue to play a central role for particle identification in future particle and nuclear physics experiments. Growing demands on momentum coverage, timing precision, radiation tolerance, and sustainability…

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Design Studies of the PWO Forward End-cap Calorimeter for PANDA

The PANDA detection system at FAIR, Germany, is designed to study antiproton-proton annihilations, in order to investigate among others the realm of charm-meson states and glueballs, which has still much to reveal. The yet unknown…

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Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

The Nuclotron-base Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022. The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) has been designed to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-31 MPD Collaboration , V. Abgaryan , R. Acevedo Kado , S. V. Afanasyev , G. N. Agakishiev , E. Alpatov , G. Altsybeev , M. Alvarado Hernández , S. V. Andreeva , T. V. Andreeva , E. V. Andronov , N. V. Anfimov , A. A. Aparin , V. I. Astakhov , E. Atkin , T. Aushev , G. S. Averichev , A. V. Averyanov , A. Ayala , V. A. Babkin , T. Babutsidze , I. A. Balashov , A. Bancer , M. Yu. Barabanov , D. A. Baranov , N. Baranova , N. Barbashina , A. E. Baskakov , P. N. Batyuk , A. G. Bazhazhin , D. Baznat , M. Baznat , S. N. Bazylev , L. G. E. Beltran , A. V. Belyaev , S. E. Belyaev , E. V. Belyaeva , V. Benda , M. Bielewicz , W. Bietenholz , D. Blaschke , D. Blau , G. Bogdanova , D. N. Bogoslovsky , I. V. Boguslavsky , E. Boos , A. Botvina , L. Bravina , S. A. Bulychjov , M. G. Buryakov , A. V. Butenko , A. V. Butorin , S. G. Buzin , A. Bychkov , A. V. Bychkov , R. R. Cabellero , D. Chaires Arciniega , V. V. Chalyshev , W. Chen , Z. Chen , V. A. Cheplakova , V. F. Chepurnov , V. V. Chepurnov , M. Cheremnova , G. A. Cheremukhina , L. Chlad , P. Chudoba , P. V. Chumakov , E. Cuautle , M. Czarnynoga , B. Dabrowska , D. Dąbrowski , A. Demanov , D. V. Dementyev , Z. Deng , A. V. Dmitriev , V. Kh. Dodokhov , E. V. Dolbilina , A. G. Dolbilov , I. Domínguez , W. Dominik , D. E. Donets , V. Dronik , A. Yu. Dubrovin , A. Dudziński , P. Dulov , N. V. Dunin , V. B. Dunin , V. Dyatlov , V. F. Dydyshko , A. A. Efremov , D. S. Egorov , V. V. Elsha , A. E. Emelyanov , N. E. Emelyanov , V. G. Ermakova , G. Eyyubova , D. Fang , O. V. Fateev , O. Fedin , Yu. I. Fedotov , A. A. Fedyunin , C. Feng , S. Feng , G. A. Feofilov , I. A. Filippov , T. Fischer , K. Formenko , M. A. Gaganova , T. T. Gandzhelashvili , O. P. Gavrishchuk , N. Geraksiev , S. E. Gerasimov , K. V. Gertsenberger , O. Golosov , V. M. Golovatyuk , M. Golubeva , I. Goncharov , N. V. Gorbunov , M. Grabowski , M. Grodzicka-Kobyłka , K. Grodzicki , J. Grzyb , F. Guber , A. Guirado , A. V. Guskov , V. Guzey , W. He , L. A. Hernández Rosas , M. Huang , Y. Huang , R. Idczak , D. Idrisov , S. N. Igolkin , M. Ilieva , A. Yu. Isupov , D. Ivanishchev , A. V. Ivanov , O. Ivanytskyi , A. Ivashkin , A. Izvestnyy , E. Jaworska , J. Jiao , I. Kadochnikov , S. I. Kakurin , P. Kankiewicz , M. N. Kapishin , D. Karmanov , N. Karpushkin , L. A. Kartashova , E. Kashirin , G. Kasprowicz , Yu. Kasumov , A. O. Kechechyan , G. D. Kekelidze , V. D. Kekelidze , A. Khanzadeev , P. Kharlamov , O. A. Khilinova , G. G. Khodzhibagiyan , N. Khosravi , A. Khvorostukhin , Y. Khyzhniak , V. Kikvadze , V. A. Kireyeu , Yu. T. Kiryushin , I. S. Kiryutin , A. Kisiel , A. Klyuev , V. Klyukhin , L. Kochenda , O. Kodolova , V. I. Kolesnikov , A. Kolozhvari , V. G. Komarov , V. P. Kondratiev , M. Korolev , V. Korotkikh , D. Kotov , S. Kovalenko , V. N. Kovalenko , S. Kowalski , N. A. Kozlenko , M. Krakowiak , V. A. Kramarenko , L. M. Krasnova , P. Kravchov , Yu. F. Krechetov , I. V. Kruglova , A. V. Krylov , V. Krylov , E. Kryshen , A. Kryukov , A. Kubankin , A. Kugler , M. Kuich , S. I. Kukarnikov , S. N. Kuklin , V. Kukulin , S. Kuleshov , E. A. Kulikov , V. V. Kulikov , A. Kurepin , S. Kushpil , V. S. Kuzmin , J. Kvita , D. Lanskoy , N. A. Lashmanov , M. Ławryńczuk , T. V. Lazareva , R. Lednicky , S. Li , Z. Li , A. G Litvinenko , E. I. Litvinenko , G. N. Litvinova , D. Liu , F. Liu , A. N. Livanov , V. I. Lobanov , Yu. Yu. Lobanov , S. P. Lobastov , I. Lokhtin , P. Lu , Yu. R. Lukstinsh , B. V. Luong , B. Łysakowski , Y. Ma , A. Machavariani , D. T. Madigozhin , B. Maksiak , V. I. Maksimenkova , A. I. Malakhov , M. Malayev , I. Maldonado , J. C. Maldonado , I. V. Malikov , L. Malinina , N. A. Maltsev , N. V. Maria , M. Shopova , M. A. Martemianov , M. Maslan , M. A. Matsyuk , T. Matulewicz , D. G. Melnikov , M. Merkin , S. P. Merts , I. N. Meshkov , S. Mianowski , I. I. Migulina , K. R. Mikhaylov , M. Milewicz-Zalewska , Yu. I. Minaev , N. A. Molokanova , E. Moreno-Barbosa , S. Morozov , A. A. Moshkin , I. V. Moshkovsky , A. E. Moskovsky , S. A. Movchan , A. A. Mudrokh , K. A. Mukhin , Yu. A. Murin , Zh. Zh. Musul'manbekov , V. V. Myalkovsky , D. Myktybekov , L. L. Narvaez Paredes , D. K. Nauruzbaev , E. N. Nazarova , A. V. Nechaevsky , D. G. Nesterov , M. Nie , P. A. Nieto-Marín , G. Nigmatkulov , V. A. Nikitin , M. Nioradze , X. Niu , W. Nowak , L. Nozka , I. A. Oleks , A. G. Olshevsky , O. E. Orlov , P. Parfenov , S. S. Parzhitsky , M. E. Patiño , V. A. Pavlyukevich , V. A. Penkin , V. F. Peresedov , D. Peresunko , D. V. Peshekhonov , V. A. Petrov , S. Petrushanko , O. Petukhov , K. Piasecki , D. V. Pichugina , A. Piloyan , A. V. Pilyar , S. M. Piyadin , S. Plamowski , M. Platonova , J. Pluta , A. E. Potanina , Yu. K. Potrebenikov , K. Poźniak , D. S. Prokhorova , N. A. Prokofiev , F. Protoklitow , A. Prozorov , D. Pszczel , A. M Puchkov , N. Pukhaeva , S. Puławski , A. R. Rakhmatullina , L. F. Rebolledo Herrera , V. Z. Reyna-Ortiz , V. Riabov , Yu. Riabov , N. O. Ridinger , V. Rikhvitsky , M. Rodriguez-Cahuantzi , O. V. Rogachevsky , V. Yu. Rogov , P. Rokita , G. Romanenko , R. Romaniuk , A. Romanova , K. Rosłon , T. Rossler , E. F. Rozas Calderon , I. A. Rufanov , M. M. Rumyantsev , A. Rustamov , A. A. Rybakov , M. Rybczyński , D. Rybka , A. A. Rymshina , J. Rzadkiewicz , Z. Ya. -O. Sadygov , V. A. Samsonov , V. S. Sandul , R. Sattarov , A. A. Savenkov , K. Schmidt , S. S. Seballos , S. A. Sedykh , I. Selyuzhenkov , T. V. Semchukova , A. Yu. Semenov , I. A. Semenova , S. V. Sergeev , N. A. Sergeeva , E. V. Serochkin , A. Yu. Seryakov , A. V. Shabunov , R. Shanidze , L. Shcheglova , B. G. Shchinov , C. Shen , Y. Shen , A. N. Sherbakov , A. D. Sheremetyev , A. I. Sheremetyeva , R. A. Shindin , A. V. Shipunov , M. O. Shitenkov , D. K. Shtejer , U. Shukla , A. A. Shunko , A. V. Shutov , V. B. Shutov , A. O. Sidorin , I. Skwira-Chalot , I. V. Slepnev , V. M. Slepnev , I. P. Slepov , Yu. A. Solnyshkin , A. Solomin , T. Solovyeva , A. S. Sorin , T. Starecki , G. Stefanek , J. Stepaniak , E. A. Streletskaya , M. Strikhanov , T. A. Strizh , A. Strizhak , N. V. Sukhov , S. I. Sukhovarov , X. Sun , N. N. Surkov , D. Suvarieva , V. L. Svalov , L. Świderski , A. Syntfeld-Każuch , T. Szcześniak , J. Szewiński , Z. Tang , A. Taranenko , N. A. Tarasov , V. Tcholakov , G. Tejeda-Muñoz , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans , A. V. Terletskiy , O. V. Teryaev , V. V. Tikhomirov , A. A. Timoshenko , G. P. Tkachev , V. D. Toneev , N. D. Topilin , T. Traczyk , T. Tretyakova , A. V. Trubnikov , G. V. Trubnikov , I. A. Tyapkin , S. Yu. Udovenko , P. A. Ulloa Poblete , M. Urbaniak , V. Urumov , L. Valenzuela-Cazares , F. F. Valiev , V. A. Vasendina , I. N. Vasiliev , A. Vasilyev , V. V. Vechernin , S. V. Vereshchagin , N. N. Vladimirova , N. V. Vlasov , A. S. Vodopyanov , K. Vokhmyanina , V. Volkov , V. Volkov , O. A. Volodina , A. A. Voronin , V. Voronyuk , F. Wang , J. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. Wang , P. Wieczorek , D. Wielanek , Z. Włodarczyk , K. Wójcik , K. Wu , Z. Xiao , Q. Xu , C. Yang , H. Yang , Q. Yang , G. A. Yarygin , L. Yordanova , T. Yu , Z. Yuan , V. I. Yurevich , W. Zabołotny , E. Zabrodin , M. V. Zaitseva , J. A. Zamora Saa , N. I. Zamyatin , S. A. Zaporozhets , A. K. Zarochentsev , C. H. Zepeda-Fernández , W. Zha , M. Zhalov , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , V. I. Zherebchevsky , V. N. Zhezher , C. Zhong , W. Zhou , X. Zhu , X. Zhu , A. I. Zinchenko , D. A. Zinchenko

Particle identification performance of the prototype Aerogel RICH counter for the Belle II experiment

We have developed a new type of particle identification device, called an Aerogel Ring Imaging Cherenkov (ARICH) counter, for the Belle II experiment. It uses silica aerogel tiles as Cherenkov radiators. For detection of Cherenkov photons,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-09 S. Iwata , I. Adachi , K. Hara , T. Iijima , H. Ikeda , H. Kakuno , H. Kawai , T. Kawasaki , S. Korpar , P. Krizan , T. Kumita , S. Nishida , S. Ogawa , R. Pestotnik , L. Šantelj , A. Seljak , M. Tabata , E. Tahirović , Y. Yusa

FastDIRC: a fast Monte Carlo and reconstruction algorithm for DIRC detectors

FastDIRC is a novel fast Monte Carlo and reconstruction algorithm for DIRC detectors. A DIRC employs rectangular fused-silica bars both as Cherenkov radiators and as light guides. Cherenkov-photon imaging and time-of-propagation information…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-11-03 John Hardin , Mike Williams

Detectors and Electronics for the CBM experiment at FAIR

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is a next-generation heavy-ion experiment under development at the future FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. It is designed to explore the QCD phase diagram at high net-baryon densities with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-26 Maksym Teklishyn

Development of the MRPC for the TOF system of the MultiPurpose Detector

The Multipurpose Detector (MPD) \cite{cite1.MPD_CDR} is designed to study of hot and dense baryonic matter in collisions of heavy ions over the atomic mass range 1--197 at the centre of mass energy up to $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 11 GeV (for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-13 V. A. Babkin , S. N. Bazylev , I. S. Burdenyuk , M. G. Buryakov , A. V. Dmitriev , P. O. Dulov , V. M. Golovatyuk , S. P. Lobastov , M. M. Rumyantsev , A. V. Schipunov , A. V. Shutov , I. V. Slepnev , V. M. Slepnev , A. V. Terletskiy , S. V. Volgin

A Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) is being developed for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. It consists of a Cherenkov radiator operated with pure CF4 directly coupled in a windowless configuration to a triple-GEM detector element with a CsI…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Fraenkel , A. Kozlov , M. Naglis , I. Ravinovich , L. Shekhtman , I. Tserruya , B. Azmoun , C. Woody , S. Sawada , S. Yokkaichi , A. Milov , T. Gunji , H. Hamagaki , M. Inuzuka , T. Isobe , Y. Morino , S. X. Oda , K. Ozawa , S. Saito , T. Sakaguchi , Y. Yamaguchi

Status of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) Experiment at FAIR

The CBM experiment at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) aims to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net-baryon densities using nucleus-nucleus collisions ($\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.9 - 4.9 GeV). CBM will be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-01 Kshitij Agarwal

The GlueX DIRC Project

The GlueX experiment was designed to search for and study the pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced through photoproduction reactions at a new tagged photon beam facility in Hall D at Jefferson Laboratory. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Justin Stevens , Fernando Barbosa , Jason Bessuille , Eugene Chudakov , Roman Dzhygadlo , Cristiano Fanelli , John Frye , John Hardin , Jim Kelsey , Maria Patsyuk , Carsten Schwartz , Jochen Schwiening , Matthew Shepherd , Tim Whitlatch , Michael Williams

Post-irradiation examination of a prototype tantalum-clad target for the Beam Dump Facility at CERN

The Beam Dump Facility (BDF) is a planned fixed-target installation in CERN's North Area, set to start operating in 2031. A proton beam of 400 GeV/c will be delivered in 1 s pulses of 4e13 protons every 7.2 s, amounting to 4e19 protons on…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Tina Griesemer , Rui Franqueira Ximenes , Gonzalo Arnau Izquierdo , Ignacio Aviles Santillana , Thomas Brehm , Adria Gallifa Terricabras , Stefan Höll , Richard Jacobsson , Marco Kaiser , Roman Kuchar , Ana Teresa Pérez Fontenla , Alexey Rempel , Oscar Sacristan De Frutos , Marcel Schienbein , Stefano Sgobba , Marco Calviani

The CLEO-III RICH Detector and Beam Test Results

We are constructing a Ring Imaging Cherenkov detector (RICH) for the CLEO III upgrade for precision charged hadron identification. The RICH uses plane and sawtooth LiF crystals as radiators, MWPCs as photon detectors with TEA as the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Wang , M. Artuso , R. Ayad , F. Azfar , E. Dambasuren , A. Efimov , S. Kopp , G. Majumder , R. Mountain , S. Schuh , T. Skwarnicki , S. Stone , G. Viehhauser , S. Anderson , A. Smith , Y. Kubota , E. Lipeles , T. Coan , J. Staeck , V. Fadeyev , I. Volobouev , J. Ye

The FAIR Phase 0 program of the CBM TOF

In order to provide particle identification (PID) of charged hadrons at the future high-rate Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment the TOF group has developed a large-area Time-of-Flight (ToF) wall equipped with Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Ingo Deppner , Norbert Herrmann

The GlueX DIRC Program

The GlueX experiment is located in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab) and provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in high-energy photoproduction, utilizing a ~9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam. The initial,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 A. Ali , F. Barbosa , J. Bessuille , E. Chudakov , R. Dzhygadlo , C. Fanelli , J. Frye , J. Hardin , A. Hurley , G. Kalicy , J. Kelsey , W. Li , M. Patsyuk , C. Schwarz , J. Schwiening , M. Shepherd , J. R. Stevens , T. Whitlatch , M. Williams , Y. Yang