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The China Seismo Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) aims to contribute to the monitoring of earthquakes from space. This space mission will study electromagnetic phenomena and their correlation with the geophysical activity. The satellite will be launched in 2017 and will host several instruments onboard: two magnetometers, an electrical field detector, a plasma analyzer, a Langmiur probe and an High...
SIRIUS is a state-of-the-art detector system for nuclear decay spectroscopy that will be mounted at the focal plane of S3 (Super Separator Spectrometer), which is part of the new SPIRAL2 facility at GANIL, Caen in France. Such a system requires high performance as it is dedicated to the study of very exotic nuclei. It is the result of collaboration between GANIL CSNSM, IRFU, and IPHC It is composed...
The DEPFET collaboration is building a highly granular, ultra-transparent active pixel detector for high-performance vertex reconstruction at the Belle II experiment, KEK, Japan. A complete detector system is being developed, including solutions for ultra-thin sensors and their mechanical support, r/o ASICs, cooling, services, and a DAQ system capable of handling the huge amount of data coming from...
The upgrade of the LHCb experiment, planned for 2019, will transform the experiment in a trigger-less system reading out the full detector at the maximum 40 MHz event rate. This will enable the detector to run at instantaneous luminosities of 2×1033 cm−2s−1 and probe physics beyond the Standard Model in the heavy flavour sector with unprecedented precision. The Vertex Locator (VELO) is the silicon...
We present a computer-farm based data reduction system for the pixel detector of the future Belle II experiment. Belle II is a major upgrade of the Belle detector that is currently ongoing in KEK (Tsukuba, Japan). Belle II will collect data from SuperKEKB, an asymmetric e+ e− collider whose target luminosity (8 × 1035 Hz/cm2) is a factor 40 larger than the present world record currently held by KEKB...
A beam detector with self-triggering capabilities for experiments with secondary pion beams at the HADES1 spectrometer at GSI Darmstadt has been developed. The device should allow for an event-based reconstruction of the momentum of the secondary pion beam that has a momentum spread of about 8%. The pion momentum will be reconstructed from its position in the X-Y plane 18m and 3m upstream from the...
The European X-Ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) will provide ultra short, highly coherent X-ray pulses which will revolutionize scientific experiments in a variety of disciplines spanning physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology.
High energy physics experiments in the intensity frontier push at the limit the detector resolutions. This is the also case for the upgrade of the MEG experiment that requires a design of a new drift chamber to track 52.8 MeV positrons with a single hit resolution of about 100 µm. In order to to compare the tracking performances of various prototypes implementing different cell configurations, a high...
A telescope for a beam test have been developed. The system is intended to measure the spatial resolution performance of different types of silicon detectors. The telescope has four XY measurement as well as trigger planes (XYT board). It can accommodate up to twelve devices under test (DUT board). The DUT board uses two Beetle ASICs for the readout of chilled DUT, microstrip or pixel silicon detectors...
Next generation PET scanners should fulfill very high requirements in terms of spatial, energy and timing resolution. Modern scanner performances are inherently limited by the use of standard photomultiplier tubes. The use of Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) matrices is proposed for the construction of a 4D PET module based on LYSO continuous crystals, which is envisaged to replace the standard PET...
We designed and built a 16-channel NIM module acting as preliminary analog processing of the signals to be converted by sampling ADCs for the CHIMERA 4π multidetector digital pulse shape acquisition system. The main functions of the module are: i) a second order anti-aliasing filter with two programmable cutting frequencies, ii) a programmablegain amplifier to cope with the full dynamic range of the...
The Micro-Vertex-Detector (MVD) of the PANDA experiment has been studied and optimized making use of Monte Carlo simulations. A detailed geometry of active and passive components was implemented in the computing framework. This allows to perform an analysis of the geometrical coverage of the detector as well as of its material budget. The components of the MVD have been studied piece by piece and...
We have built and evaluated a gamma-ray imaging detector for PET and simultaneous PET-MRI with the goal of providing sub-mm spatial resolution in all 3 dimensions. It consists of a solid slab of LYSO coupled to arrays of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) on both sides. The design is relatively cost-effective because it requires minimal mechanical processing of the scintillator, and because the photosensors...
The CALICE collaboration is preparing large scale prototypes for highly granular calorimeters for detectors to be operated at a future linear electron positron collider. During the years 2010-2012 a prototype of a SiW electromagnetic calorimeter will be assembled which in terms of dimensions and layout meets already most of the requirements given by the linear collider physics program and hence the...
PHENIX is one of two large experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The summer shutdown of 2010 marked the begin of the installation of the PHENIX upgrade detectors, the first of which being commissioned for the upcoming Run 11. In order to accommodate the new detectors in the PHENIX data acquisition, we will start to implement significant changes to...
We designed and built a data acquisition module based on the NOVA RENA-3 ASIC that is suitable for readout of multiple detector types, including APDs, PSAPDs, CZT, CdTe, and Si. The module was designed as a repeatable component for a 1 mm3 resolution breast-dedicated PET system that employs LYSO-PSAPD detectors. The PET system is made of 2 panels, each containing 2304 PSAPDs in a 16 cm × 9 cm × 2...
The experiment PANDA (Antiproton Annihilation at Darmstadt) is under development for the future accelerator facility FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany. In the target spectrometer of PANDA a micro-vertex detector (MVD) will be used as the central tracking detector for charged particles. The design of the MVD is based on silicon strip detectors at the outer layer and on silicon pixel detectors at the inner...
PHENIX is one of two large experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At the time of this conference, the Run 10 of RHIC is in progress and has generated about a PetaByte of raw data. The following summer shutdown marks the begin of the installation of the PHENIX upgrade detectors, the first of which will be commissioned for the upcoming Run 11. In order...
Detection and spectroscopy tests of the first functional unit of a self-dependent silicon detection module constructed on the base of micro-cable and TAB technology are presented. The tests were performed using pulse-height analysis of the signals induced by gamma rays in the silicon sensor. Good shapes of the spectra and satisfactory spectroscopy resolution (given by FWHM which is less than 2 keV)...
The paper presents a multichannel digital processor based on a configurable computing (FPGA) device for acquisition and programmable data processing in multi-detector systems. Main features of the processor are reconfigurability, linearity, low noise and processing data rate through hardware and firmware architecture solutions that also allow the system to operate in presence of electromagnetic noise,...
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