Mu2e Crystal Calorimeter Readout Electronics: Design and Characterisation

The Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will search for the charged-lepton flavour-violating neutrinoless conversion of negative muons into electrons in the Coulomb field of an Al nucleus. The conversion electron with a monoenergetic 104.967 MeV signature will be identified by a complementary measurement carried out by a high-resolution tracker and an electromagnetic calorimeter, improving by four orders of magnitude the current single-event sensitivity. The calorimeter—composed of 1348 pure CsI crystals arranged in two annular disks—has a high granularity, 10% energy resolution and 500 ps timing resolution for 100 MeV electrons. The readout, based on large-area UV-extended SiPMs, features a fully custom readout chain, from the analogue front-end electronics to the digitisation boards. The readout electronics design was validated for operation in vacuum and under magnetic fields. An extensive radiation hardness certification campaign certified the FEE design for doses up to 100 krad and 1012 n1MeVeq/cm2 and for single-event effects. A final vertical slice test on the final readout chain was carried out with cosmic rays on a large-scale calorimeter prototype

The Mu2e Crystal Calorimeter: An Overview

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the standard model-forbidden, charged lepton flavour-violating conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminium nucleus. The distinctive signal signature is represented by a mono-energetic electron with an energy near the muon's rest mass. The experiment aims to improve the current single-event sensitivity by four orders of magnitude by means of a high-intensity pulsed muon beam and a high-precision tracking system. The electromagnetic calorimeter complements the tracker by providing high rejection power in muon to electron identification and a seed for track reconstruction while working in vacuum in presence of a 1 T axial magnetic field and in a harsh radiation environment. For 100 MeV electrons, the calorimeter should achieve: (a) a time resolution better than 0.5 ns, (b) an energy resolution <10%, and (c) a position resolution of 1 cm. The calorimeter design consists of two disks, each loaded with 674 undoped CsI crystals read out by two large-area arrays of UV-extended SiPMs and custom analogue and digital electronics. We describe here the status of construction for all calorimeter components and the performance measurements conducted on the large-sized prototype with electron beams and minimum ionizing particles at a cosmic ray test stand. A discussion of the calorimeter's engineering aspects and the on-going assembly is also reported

Management of Germ Cell Tumors During the Outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic:A Survey of International Expertise Centers

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a public health emergency affecting frail populations, including patients with cancer. This poses the question of whether cancer treatments can be postponed or modified without compromising their efficacy, especially for highly curable cancers such as germ cell tumors (GCTs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: To depict the state-of-the-art management of GCTs during the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey including 26 questions was circulated by e-mail among the physicians belonging to three cooperative groups: (a) Italian Germ Cell Cancer Group; (b) European Reference Network-Rare Adult Solid Cancers, Domain G3 (rare male genitourinary cancers); and (c) Genitourinary Medical Oncologists of Canada. Percentages of agreement between Italian respondents (I) versus Canadian respondents (C), I versus European respondents (E), and E versus C were compared by using Fisher's exact tests for dichotomous answers and chi square test for trends for the questions with three or more options. RESULTS: Fifty-three GCT experts responded to the survey: 20 Italian, 6 in other European countries, and 27 from Canada. Telemedicine was broadly used; there was high consensus to interrupt chemotherapy in COVID-19-positive patients (I = 75%, C = 55%, and E = 83.3%) and for use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor primary prophylaxis for neutropenia (I = 65%, C = 62.9%, and E = 50%). The main differences emerged regarding the management of stage I and stage IIA disease, likely because of cultural and geographical differences. CONCLUSION: Our study highlights the common efforts of GCT experts in Europe and Canada to maintain high standards of treatment for patients with GCT with few changes in their management during the COVID-19 pandemic. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Despite the chaos, disruptions, and fears fomented by the COVID-19 illness, oncology care teams in Italy, other European countries, and Canada are delivering the enormous promise of curative management strategies for patients with testicular cancer and other germ cell tumors. At the same time, these teams are applying safe and innovative solutions and sharing best practices to minimize frequency and intensity of patient contacts with thinly stretched health care capacity

Hadronic physics with KLOE

The KLOE experiment has collected 2.5 fb−1 of e+e− collisions at the φ peak and about 300 pb−1 in the center-of-mass energy region 1000–1030MeV. Data taken on peak are used to study the properties of light scalar and pseudoscalar mesons, produced through φ radiative decays, and to precisely measure the pion form factor using Initial State Radiation events. Energy scan data are used to measure the cross-section of the process e+e− → ωπ0 as a function of the center-of-mass energy and to perform a preliminary study of the reaction e+e− → e+e−π0π0

Hadron physics at KLOE: results and prospects

KLOE collected 2.5 fb 1 of data at the peak of the φ 1020 resonance at the e e collider DAΦNE. About 108 η mesons have been produced through the radiative decay φ ηγ . Results on the decay channels η 3π0, η π π γ and η π π e e are presented. Using the 250 pb 1 collected off-peak at s 1 GeV the e e e e γγ e e π0π0 process has been studied looking for the contribution of the σ 600 , and the cross-section of e e e e γγ e e η has been measured. The latest results on the hadronic cross-section measurement that confirm the three standard deviation discrepancy between the experimental and the Standard Model values of the muon magnetic anomaly are reported. Some prospects for the new data-taking of KLOE starting at the beginning of 2011 at the upgraded DAΦNE are also discussed

KLOE Results on Hadron Physics and Perspectives for KLOE-2

Recent results obtained with KLOE data on light meson decays, together with perspectives for the current KLOE-2 run, are reviewed

Osservazione del decadimento radiattivo con il rilevatore KLOE a DAFNE

Dottorato di ricerca in fisica. 12. ciclo. Tutore Armando Reale; Cio-tutore Sergio Bertolucci; Coordinatore Sergio PetreraConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Hadron physics at KLOE and KLOE-2

The KLOE experiment at the Frascati ϕ-factory collected large samples of light mesons, providing precise knowledge of their decay dynamics. The η → π+π−γ decay has been studied to search for a possible contribution from chiral anomaly, while a new preliminary high statistics Dalitz plot analysis of the η → π+π−π0 will increase the accuracy of the light quark mass ratio. Pseudoscalar production associated to internal conversion of the photon into a lepton pair allows the measurement of the form factor Fp(q12 = Mϕ2, q22 > 0) in the kinematical region of interest for the VMD model. Detailed study of such decays has been performed both for ϕ → ηe+e− and ϕ → π0e+e− processes. Moreover, data collected at √s have been used to study hadron production in γγ interactions, providing the most precise measurement of the Γ(η → γγ) partial width