Session C16: Particle Detectors I

The Mu2e Experiment

The Mu2e experiment is a future Fermilab experiment designed to search for the neutrinoless conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus. Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) has never been observed, and its observation would be evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Mu2e will achieve a sensitivity 10,000 times greater than previous experiments. After overviewing the physics and experiment I will discuss the crucial role of a novel straw tube tracker and progress in its design.   

The Slow Controls System of the New Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab

The goal of the new muon g-2 experiment (E-989), currently under construction at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is to measure the anomalous gyromagnetic ratio of the muon with unprecedented precision. The uncertainty goal of the experiment, 0.14ppm, represents a four-fold improvement over the current best measurement of this value and has the potential to increase the current three standard deviation disagreement with the predicted standard model value to five standard deviations. Measuring the operating conditions of the experiment will be essential to achieving these uncertainty goals. This talk will describe the design and the current status of E-989's slow controls system. This system, based on the MIDAS Slow Control Bus, will be used to measure and record currents, voltages, temperatures, humidities, pressures, flows, and other data which is collected asynchronously with the injection of the muon beam. The system consists of a variety of sensors and front-end electronics which interface to back-end data acquisition, data storage, and data monitoring systems. Parts of the system are all already operational and the full system will be completed before beam commissioning begins in 2017.   

Performance of the ATLAS Hadronic calorimeter and the phase II upgrade program

The Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is the hadronic calorimeter designed for energy reconstruction of hadrons, jets, tau-particles and missing transverse energy. Results on calibration, monitoring, signal reconstruction and performance of the TileCal detector using \textit{pp}collision from the LHC run I are presented. In particular, the studies of the TileCal response to single isolated charged particles and high-pT jets, as well as the noise description with increasing pile-up are presented. Upgrade plans for TileCal electronics for the High Luminosity LHC programme in 2024 are discussed, together with R{\&}D activities at different laboratories that target different parts of the TileCal electronics.   

Commissioning and Alignment of the Pixel Luminosity Telescope of CMS

The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is one of the newest additions to the CMS detector at the LHC. It consists of 16 3-layer telescopes of silicon pixel detectors pointing toward the interaction point at the center of CMS. The pixel detectors are based on the same technology as the silicon pixel detector of CMS. The chips have an additional output, called a fast-out. This fast-out is sent whenever a hit is detected, and will be used to measure the luminosity. The fast-out can also be used to self trigger the the PLT allowing for measurement of the systematics and beam backgrounds. The PLT is expected to significantly improve the precision of the luminosity measurement that is fundamental for particle searches and cross section measurements with the CMS detector. Furthermore, with reconstructed particle trajectories, measurements of beam backgrounds and the location of the interaction point centroid can be obtained. First experiences with the PLT detector before and after installation are presented and the track reconstruction is discussed.   

Trigger Data Serializer ASIC chip for the ATLAS New Small Wheel sTGC Detector

The small-strip thin-gap chambers (sTGC) will be used as the trigger device for the Phase-I upgrade of the ATLAS new small wheel (nSW) muon detector. An Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip is needed to collect digital signals from both pad and strip detectors and serialize the outputs to the circuitry located on the rim of the nSW. The large number of input channels (128 differential input channels), short time available to prepare and transmit trigger data (<100 ns), high speed output data rate (4.8 Gbps), harsh radiation environment (about 300 kRad), and low power consumption (<1 W) impose great challenges for the design of this ASIC chip using the IBM 130 nm CMOS process. We will present our design and test results based on the prototype chip we build.   

Boosted object hardware trigger development and testing for the Phase I upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment

The Global Feature Extraction (gFEX) module is a Level 1 jet trigger system planned for installation in ATLAS during the Phase 1 upgrade in 2018. The gFEX selects large-radius jets for capturing Lorentz-boosted objects by means of wide-area jet algorithms refined by subjet information. The architecture of the gFEX permits event-by-event local pile-up suppression for these jets using the same subtraction techniques developed for offline analyses. The gFEX architecture is also suitable for other global event algorithms such as missing transverse energy (MET), centrality for heavy ion collisions, and ``jets without jets.'' The gFEX will use 4 processor FPGAs to perform calculations on the incoming data and a Hybrid APU-FPGA for slow control of the module. The gFEX is unique in both design and implementation and substantially enhance the selectivity of the L1 trigger and increases sensitivity to key physics channels.   

Upgrade of the Upstream Tracker at LHCb

The LHCb detector will be upgraded to allow it operate at higher collider luminosity without the need for a hardware trigger stage. Flavor enriched events will be selected in a software based, high level trigger, using fully reconstructed events. This presentation will describe the design, optimization and the expected performance of the Upstream Tracker (UT), which has a critical role in high level trigger scheme.   

Trigger System Upgrades for the SNO+ Experiment

The SNO+ experiment will explore many topics in neutrino physics including neutrino-less double beta decay, low-energy solar neutrinos, antineutrinos from reactors and natural sources, nucleon decay, and potentially supernova neutrinos. The SNO+ trigger and readout system consists of electronics both inherited from the SNO detector and newly created specifically to address the challenges presented by the addition of scintillation light. Addition of new utilities to the SNO+ trigger system will allow for a flexible calibration interface, more sophisticated use of the existing trigger system, and new, more targeted, background cuts that will improve physics sensitivity. These utilities will largely be orchestrated by a MicroZed System on Chip (SoC), micro-controller. Their range of application includes automatic fault detection, upgrades of SNO utilities, noise reduction, and interfacing between components of the trigger system.   

Development of high performance bi-alkali photocathodes for next-generation sensors

Next generation sensors such as microchannel plate based photomultiplier tubes call for robust, low-cost photocathodes with high quantum efficiency and low dark current. Traditional alkali photocathodes grown through a diffusion growth process encounter material challenge and are being investigated using X-ray scattering to optimize their performance. Photocathodes with peak quantum efficiency over 30{\%} at $\sim$ 400 nm wavelength were grown via a newly proposed growth method. A new photocathode growth chamber was built and incorporated into the Argonne photodetector fabrication facility to obtain robust, highly efficiencient bi-alkali photocathodes. The progress on the photocathode study, growth design and experimental results will be reported and discussed.