Dr
Ignacio Sevilla
(CIEMAT)
16/07/2009, 09:00
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The discovery that the universe is accelerating, not slowing down from the mass it contains, is the surprise that sets the initial research program of 21st Century cosmology. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a next generation sky survey aimed directly at understanding this mystery. DES is designed to measure the dark energy equation of state parameter with four complementary techniques: galaxy...
Dr
Thorsten Lux
(IFAE)
16/07/2009, 09:15
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a double beta experiment aiming to explore the degenerated hierarchy, with a sensitivity better than 100 meV. To do this the NEXT collaboration is planning to build a high pressure xenon TPC of about 100 kg, operated in the underground lab Canfranc. The advantage of a gaseous TPC is that it provides not only a good energy resolution but measuring...
Prof.
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
(UCLouvain)
16/07/2009, 09:30
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
FP420 is an R&D project to assess the feasibility of installing proton detectors at
420m from the ATLAS and/or CMS interaction point(s) at the LHC, allowing the
measurement, in high luminosity environment, of the spatial position and arrival
time of protons scattered at very low angles with fractional momentum loss between 0.2% and 2%. This is expected to open a new program of electroweak,...
Dr
Panos Christakoglou
(NIKHEF - Utrecht University)
16/07/2009, 09:45
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment, consists of six
cylindrical layers of silicon detectors, the Silicon Pixel Detectors (SPD),
the Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) and the Silicon Strip Detectors (SSD). It
covers the central pseudo-rapidity region ($|\eta| < 1.0$) for all vertices
located within the length of the interaction diamond ($\pm 1 \sigma$).
The outer...
Prof.
Themis Bowcock
(CERN)
16/07/2009, 10:00
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The LHCb Vertex Detector, VELO, is a crucial component of the experiment. We describe the preparations for taking data. New results from beam related LHC events are presented togethed with a summary of recent radiation studies on the VELO modules including high rate testsat CERN and testbeam studies at Fermilab. Developments of the online and offline infrastructure are described. Projections...
Bernadette Heyburn
(University of Colorado)
16/07/2009, 10:15
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of two general purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. The CMS experiment prides itself on an ambitious, all silicon based, tracking system. After almost 20 years of design and construction the CMS tracker detector has been installed and commissioned. The tracker detector consists of ten layers of silicon microstrip detectors while three layers...
Dr
Lucia Masetti
(Bonn University)
16/07/2009, 11:00
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has started taking data last autumn with the inauguration of the LHC. Determination of vertex position and charged particle tracks is performed in the Inner Detector which consists of pixel and microstrip Silicon sensors and transition radiation tubes. In this talk construction and commissioning of these three detectors will be...
Dr
Adam Matyja
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN ,ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland)
16/07/2009, 11:15
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC. The detector is
optimised to register heavy ion collisions, up to Pb-Pb, as
well as p-p ones. The main tracking device of the ALICE experiment is the
Time Projection Chamber - TPC. We will present design of the detector and
its performance. The current status of the detector and the capabilities to
underlying physics, based on...
Dr
Toyoko Orimoto
(California Institute of Technology)
16/07/2009, 11:30
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Colider (LHC) is ready for first collisions. The Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of CMS, a high resolution detector comprised of nearly 76000 lead tungstate crystals, will play a crucial role in the coming physics searches undertaken by CMS. The design and performance of the CMS ECAL with test beams, cosmic rays, and first single...
Dr
Giuseppe Tartarelli
(INFN - Sezione di Milano (Italy)), Mr
Julien Labbé
(LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble)
16/07/2009, 11:45
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The Liquid Argon calorimeter (LAr) is one of the main sub-detectors in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It provides precision measurements of electrons, photons, jets and missing transverse energy produced in the LHC pp collisions. The LAr calorimeter has been installed in the ATLAS cavern and filled with liquid argon since 2006. The electronic calibration of the readout system, a critical...
Dr
Marcin Konecki
(Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
16/07/2009, 12:00
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
Muonic final states will provide clean signatures for many physics processes at the LHC. One of the main goals of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) design is thus to ensure efficient and accurate identification and reconstruction of muons. A sophisticated muon system is used for muon identification and stand-alone reconstruction and the inner silicon tracker exploits the high magnetic field to...
Dr
Claudio Ferretti
(University of Michigan)
16/07/2009, 12:15
Detectors (LHC and R&D) and Accelerators
The ATLAS detector has been operated for several months.
Its very large Muon Spectrometer includes four different technology chamber types. It should provide muon trigger up to pseudo-rapidity of 2.4 and track reconstruction with a nominal standalone momentum resolution around 10% for particles of 1 TeV.
The Muon system, while still in completion, has undergone an intense program of...
