Proposal of a new Hcal geometry avoiding cracks in the calorimeter

The classical geometry of a calorimeter consists most of the time in several modules, whose edges are pointing on the beam axis. Thus, detection discontinuities between two consecutive modules induce cracks in the calorimeter, and consequently a loss of precious information. This paper describes two new possible Hcal geometries avoiding such cracks in the detection. Then it deals with the internal layout and assembly procedure

D0 Collider Detector LINDE, East Chicago (LAr Contractor) Trip Report

East Chicago is capable of processing air at a 6-7E6 SCFH rate. They can produce as much as 1.2E6 SCFH 02 and 4.5 SCFH N2 (not coincidently) with a peak product efficiency of 85-86% (product to total Intake). The general area demand has been as high as 10E6, as low as 4.5E6, and is currently 8E6 SCFH totaI product. The plant is really four plants in one. At anyone time one or more plants can be down for maintenance and the others online and delivering to the pipe line that distributes their product to nearby steel plants, and to the liquid reservoirs (perlite insulated tanks) of 160, 160 and 200 E6 SCF. At the time of our visit two plants were down and two were on line. The following describes the characteristics of one of the four plants. The cycle requires a base compressor (Brown Boveri, 22,600 hp) that pumps to 90-100 psig, and a booster compressor (Clark, 14,000 hp) that pumps to 300 psig. Filter houses (ca. 20-ft x 20-ft) feed the suctions and the discharge is scrubbed by dual, molecular sieve, beds 0 300 psi (6-8 hour cycle time). The beds are provided with dust blow down and down stream filter provisions. The scrubbers remove CO2, the heavy HC, and water. The effectiveness of the scrubbers is measured by the record 6 years one of the plants ran w/o the need for thawing. The thaw operation takes about 4 days. It was interesting to learn that a plant can be brought on line in two and one half hours from a warm start. Major swings from N2 rich to O2 rich production take about an hour. Argon is a small constituent in air (0.61) and thus not a major product. It comes off the main column at 761 Ar balance air components and is further purified in another column to 2% N2, 2% O2. The stream is then warmed, H2 added, and run though a palladium deoxo to combine the O2 to water. The water is removed in a dryer and the product reliquified to seperate the nitrogen. The final product is either drawn off and pumped to storage, or, in the case of case of the high purity product, pressure transfered directly from the final column to a properly cooled and purged truck backed right up to the column. The high purity product can be as low as 0.3 ppm 02 by proper application of these procedures. Liquid Argon is the only product for which standing, loaded, trailers are provided vent recovery lines. The recovered gas is fed back to the crude Ar stream. The local O2 monitoring equipment is a Teledyne 306WA with ranges of 1, 10, 100 and 1000 PPM full scale. The wet cell unit is available from ENPRO for an estimated $3,500. The N2 in Ar is measured by a special in-house Linde instrument

DECam integration tests on telescope simulator

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation optical survey aimed at measuring the expansion history of the universe using four probes: weak gravitational lensing, galaxy cluster counts, baryon acoustic oscillations, and Type Ia supernovae. To perform the survey, the DES Collaboration is building the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), a 3 square degree, 570 Megapixel CCD camera which will be mounted at the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory. DES will survey 5000 square degrees of the southern galactic cap in 5 filters (g, r, i, z, Y). DECam will be comprised of 74 250 micron thick fully depleted CCDs: 62 2k x 4k CCDs for imaging and 12 2k x 2k CCDs for guiding and focus. Construction of DECam is nearing completion. In order to verify that the camera meets technical specifications for DES and to reduce the time required to commission the instrument, we have constructed a full sized telescope simulator and performed full system testing and integration prior to shipping. To complete this comprehensive test phase we have simulated a DES observing run in which we have collected 4 nights worth of data. We report on the results of these unique tests performed for the DECam and its impact on the experiments progress.Comment: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2011). To appear in Physics Procedia. 8 pages, 3 figure

The Layer 0 Inner Silicon Detector of the D0 Experiment

This paper describes the design, fabrication, installation and performance of the new inner layer called Layer 0 (L0) that was inserted in the existing Run IIa Silicon Micro-Strip Tracker (SMT) of the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. L0 provides tracking information from two layers of sensors, which are mounted with center lines at a radial distance of 16.1 mm and 17.6 mm respectively from the beam axis. The sensors and readout electronics are mounted on a specially designed and fabricated carbon fiber structure that includes cooling for sensor and readout electronics. The structure has a thin polyimide circuit bonded to it so that the circuit couples electrically to the carbon fiber allowing the support structure to be used both for detector grounding and a low impedance connection between the remotely mounted hybrids and the sensors.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figure

Mu2e Technical Design Report

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for charged lepton flavor violation via the coherent conversion process mu- N --> e- N with a sensitivity approximately four orders of magnitude better than the current world's best limits for this process. The experiment's sensitivity offers discovery potential over a wide array of new physics models and probes mass scales well beyond the reach of the LHC. We describe herein the preliminary design of the proposed Mu2e experiment. This document was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements necessary to obtain DOE CD-2 approval.Comment: compressed file, 888 pages, 621 figures, 126 tables; full resolution available at http://mu2e.fnal.gov; corrected typo in background summary, Table 3.

Endcap Calorimeter/Vessel Calculations

The end cap calorimeters's cryostate is composed of two vessels; one nested inside the other. Figure 1 shows a simplified sketch of the nested vessels. Drawings 3740.220-MD-222076 Rev. A shows the details of the inner vessel. Drawing 3740.220-MD-222075 Rev. A shows the details of the outer vessel. As shown in figure 1, the cryostate consists of ten different geometric parts. The parts labeled 1-4 are cylindrical shells, the parts labeled 5 and 6 are common torispherical heads and the parts labeled 7-10 are unique heads

Conceptual Design of a 2 Tesla Superconducting Solenoid for the Fermilab D{O} Detector Upgrade

This paper presents a conceptual design of a superconducting solenoid to be part of a proposed upgrade for the D0 detector. This detector was completed in 1992, and has been taking data since then. The Fermilab Tevatron had scheduled a series of luminosity enhancements prior to the startup of this detector. In response to this accelerator upgrade, efforts have been underway to design upgrades for D0 to take advantage of the new luminosity, and improvements in detector technology. This magnet is conceived as part of the new central tracking system for D0, providing a radiation-hard high-precision magnetic tracking system with excellent electron identification

Proposal of a new Hcal forward geometry without crack

This paper deals with a proposal of a new Hcal forward design. The calorimeter described below is not projective with respect to the beam axis. Consequently there is no crack in the detection, and then no loss of information. LAPP-TECH-2008-07 I