A simulation study of the time measurement accuracy for the SPACAL type ECAL Module for LHCb Upgrade phase 2

The Spaghetti type Calorimeter (SPACAL) with fibers parallel to the beam direction is considered as an option for the inner part of the future LHCb Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) for the Upgrade Phase 2 [1]. In this work a simulation study of the time measurement precision has been performed for the electron and photon beams with energies of 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10 GeV

Upgrade of the monitoring system of LHCb ECAL

The LHCb ECAL is a shashlik calorimeter of 6016 cells, covering 7.686.24 m2 area. To monitor the readout chain of each ECAL cell, the LHCb ECAL is equipped with a LED based monitoring system. During the LHC Run I (2009-2012) it was found that the precision of the monitoring suffers from the radiation degradation of transparency of polystyrene clear fibers used to transport the LED light to the ECAL photomultipliers. In order to improve the performance of the monitoring system, and especially in view of significant increase of LHCb working luminosity foreseen after 2018, the present plastic fibers have been replaced by radiation hard quartz fibers. The design of the upgraded version of the LHCb ECAL monitoring system is described here. The usage and performance of the new system for the ECAL calibration during the LHCb Run II are discussed

Probe for LUminosity MEasurement in LHCb

A new detector capable of measuring the luminosity and beam conditions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is proposed at the interaction point of the LHCb experiment. It will enable real time monitoring of beam parameters, which is of paramount importance in order to safely operate the LHC and its experiments in the beam conditions foreseen for Run 3, starting in 2021, and beyond, towards the High-Luminosity (HL) phase. The detector will provide both online and offline measurements with a feedback at the scale of a fraction of a second, to ensure a luminosity-leveling procedure and a real-time alarm to the LHC