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Progress in Diamond Detector Development
Detectors based on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond have been used successfully in Luminosity and Beam Condition Monitors (BCM) in the highest radiation areas of the LHC. Future experiments at CERN will accumulate an order of magnitude larger fluence. As a result, an enormous effort is underway to identify detector materials that can operate under fluences of 1 · 1016 n cmâ2 and 1 · 1017 n cmâ2. Diamond is one candidate due to its large displacement energy that enhances its radiation tolerance. Over the last 30 years the RD42 collaboration has constructed diamond detectors in CVD diamond with a planar geometry and with a 3D geometry to extend the material's radiation tolerance. The 3D cells in these detectors have a size of 50 ”mĂ50 ”m with columns of 2.6 ”m in diameter and 100 ”mĂ150 ”m with columns of 4.6 ”m in diameter. Here we present the latest beam test results from planar and 3D diamond pixel detectors
Liquid Argon Barrel Presampler - Sector Assembly Sequence
Assembly sequence of a Barrel Presampler sector in ISN-Grenoble institut
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Dark matter directional detection with MIMAC
The MIMAC project aims at the directional detection of dark matter using a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) which enables the measurement of the energy and the track of low energy nuclear recoils. A 5-liter prototype has been developed and operated during several months. In this paper, after a description of the detector and the calibration procedure, we report the first results of the background studies
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MIMAC low energy electron-recoil discrimination measured with fast neutrons
MIMAC (MIcro-TPC MAtrix of Chambers) is a directional WIMP Dark Matter detector project. Direct dark matter experiments need a high level of electron/recoil discrimination to search for nuclear recoils produced by WIMP-nucleus elastic scattering. In this paper, we proposed an original method for electron event rejection based on a multivariate analysis applied to experimental data acquired using monochromatic neutron fields. This analysis shows that a 105 rejection power is reachable for electron/recoil discrimination. Moreover, the efficiency was estimated by a Monte-Carlo simulation showing that a 105 electron rejection power is reached with a 86.49 ± 0.17% nuclear recoil efficiency considering the full energy range and 94.67 ± 0.19% considering a 5 keV lower threshold
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Doping liquid argon with xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: effects on scintillation light
Abstract
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small
concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and
facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation
light. In this paper, we present the results of the first doping
test ever performed in a kiloton-scale LArTPC. From February to May
2020, we carried out this special run in the single-phase DUNE Far
Detector prototype (ProtoDUNE-SP) at CERN, featuring 720 t of total
liquid argon mass with 410 t of fiducial mass. A 5.4 ppm nitrogen
contamination was present during the xenon doping campaign. The goal
of the run was to measure the light and charge response of the
detector to the addition of xenon, up to a concentration of
18.8 ppm. The main purpose was to test the possibility for
reduction of non-uniformities in light collection, caused by
deployment of photon detectors only within the anode planes. Light
collection was analysed as a function of the xenon concentration, by
using the pre-existing photon detection system (PDS) of ProtoDUNE-SP
and an additional smaller set-up installed specifically for this
run. In this paper we first summarize our current understanding of
the argon-xenon energy transfer process and the impact of the
presence of nitrogen in argon with and without xenon dopant. We then
describe the key elements of ProtoDUNE-SP and the injection method
deployed. Two dedicated photon detectors were able to collect the
light produced by xenon and the total light. The ratio of these
components was measured to be about 0.65 as 18.8 ppm of xenon were
injected. We performed studies of the collection efficiency as a
function of the distance between tracks and light detectors,
demonstrating enhanced uniformity of response for the anode-mounted
PDS. We also show that xenon doping can substantially recover light
losses due to contamination of the liquid argon by nitrogen.</jats:p
ALICE: Physics Performance Report, Volume II
ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark\u2013gluon plasma in nucleus\u2013nucleus collisions at the LHC. It currently involves more than 900 physicists and senior engineers, from both the nuclear and high-energy physics sectors, from over 90 institutions in about 30 countries.
The ALICE detector is designed to cope with the highest particle multiplicities above those anticipated for Pb\u2013Pb collisions (dNch/dy up to 8000) and it will be operational at the start-up of the LHC. In addition to heavy systems, the ALICE Collaboration will study collisions of lower-mass ions, which are a means of varying the energy density, and protons (both pp and pA), which primarily provide reference data for the nucleus\u2013nucleus collisions. In addition, the pp data will allow for a number of genuine pp physics studies.
The detailed design of the different detector systems has been laid down in a number of Technical Design Reports issued between mid-1998 and the end of 2004. The experiment is currently under construction and will be ready for data taking with both proton and heavy-ion beams at the start-up of the LHC.
Since the comprehensive information on detector and physics performance was last published in the ALICE Technical Proposal in 1996, the detector, as well as simulation, reconstruction and analysis software have undergone significant development. The Physics Performance Report (PPR) provides an updated and comprehensive summary of the performance of the various ALICE subsystems, including updates to the Technical Design Reports, as appropriate.
The PPR is divided into two volumes. Volume I, published in 2004 (CERN/LHCC 2003-049, ALICE Collaboration 2004 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 30 1517\u20131763), contains in four chapters a short theoretical overview and an extensive reference list concerning the physics topics of interest to ALICE, the experimental conditions at the LHC, a short summary and update of the subsystem designs, and a description of the offline framework and Monte Carlo event generators.
The present volume, Volume II, contains the majority of the information relevant to the physics performance in proton\u2013proton, proton\u2013nucleus, and nucleus\u2013nucleus collisions. Following an introductory overview, Chapter 5 describes the combined detector performance and the event reconstruction procedures, based on detailed simulations of the individual subsystems. Chapter 6 describes the analysis and physics reach for a representative sample of physics observables, from global event characteristics to hard processes