The aim of this study was to determine the physiological effects of the audiological test procedure on individuals and the changes in Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). GSR data from 39 volunteers at rest ...and during the audiological testing were analyzed and the effects of the audiological testing procedure were evaluated. It was observed that the audiological test showed significant differences according to the resting status in terms of mean value, mean power, Root Mean Square (RMS), Kurtosis, and Skewness. The results obtained in the study show that these differences in GSR can be evaluated according to the physiological effect reflections of the emotional changes created on individuals by the audiological test.
Due to the individual behaviors and characteristics of composites, the usage areas of composites have expanded owing to the development of material science in recent years. In this study, ...electromagnetic shielding efficiency of carbon fiber composite fabrics, which are the one of the most widely used worldwide composite materials due to their electrical and mechanical properties, have been studied. Material samples were chosen as plain woven, twill woven and unidirectional polyacrylonitrile (PAN) based carbon fiber composites. The chosen carbon fiber fabric samples were investigated as both single layer and multilayer structure. Electromagnetic shielding measurements were carried out through vector network analyzer (VNA) in the frequency range of 3.3-4.9 GHz (S-C band). Single layer carbon fiber composite fabric samples were evaluated according to woven type, thickness and orientation. As a result of the evaluations, it was observed that different types of mesh structure caused a change in electromagnetic shielding efficiency. In order to investigate the effect of thickness for electromagnetic shielding efficiency, twill woven with the thicknesses of both 0.327 mm and 0.65 mm was measured. Electromagnetic shielding efficiency was increased while the thickness of the sample was increase, as it was expected. It was observed that the orientation did not affect significantly electromagnetic shielding efficiency of the plain woven and the twill woven samples. But, orientation was a substantial factor for the electromagnetic shielding efficiency of unidirectional structure. In multilayer structures, double and triple layered models of plain woven, twill woven and unidirectional woven fabrics, whose thicknesses are 0.327 mm, 0.327 mm and 0.48 mm respectively, were examined. The results showed that double and triple layered structures exhibited more than 80 dB and 90 dB electromagnetic shielding efficiency respectively.
The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II experiment Wang, Z.; Adamczyk, K.; Aggarwal, L. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
04/2024, Letnik:
1061
Journal Article
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The Belle II experiment located at KEK, Japan takes data from asymmetric e+e− collision provided by the SuperKEKB accelerator. The Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD), which is part of the Belle II Vertex ...Detector (VXD), has been operating smoothly and reliably since the start of data taking in March 2019. In this article, we report on the performance of the SVD in terms of the large signal-to-noise ratio, the good hit position resolution as well as the good hit-time resolution. New algorithms based on hit-time information are under development to improve robustness of tracking performance within the anticipated high background environment. The Background situation of the SVD has been constantly monitored and no degradation in performance is observed so far. To investigate the SVD performance at high luminosity runs in the future, simulation as well as an irradiation campaign are launched and their results are summarized. During the first long shutdown of the Belle II experiment, which starts from June 2022, the VXD has been refurbished with a new two-layer DEPFET pixel detector located inside the SVD. All the delicate phases of the disassembly, re-assembly and installation of the new VXD have been successfully completed. The new VXD commissioning phase began in Sept 2023 to get ready for beam operation starting in early 2024.
Abstract
The Silicon Vertex Detector of Belle II is a
state-of-the-art tracking and vertexing system based on double-sided
silicon strip sensors, designed and fabricated by a large
international ...collaboration in the period 2012–2018. Since 2019 it
has been in operation providing high quality data with a small
number of defective channels (<1%), a large hit-finding
efficiency (>99%), a good signal-to-noise ratio (well in excess
of 10 for all sensor configurations and tracks). Together with the
good control over the alignment, these are all essential factors to
achieve good tracking reconstruction and physics performance. In
this extended paper we try to document all the aspects of the SVD
challenges and achievements, in the spirit of providing information
to the broader community and help the development of high quality
detector systems, which are essential tools to carry out physics
research.
The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II experiment Uematsu, Y.; Adamczyk, K.; Aggarwal, L. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
06/2022, Letnik:
1033
Journal Article
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The Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) is a part of the vertex detector in the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider (KEK, Japan). Since the start of data taking in spring 2019, the SVD has been ...operating stably and reliably with a high signal-to-noise ratio and hit efficiency, achieving good spatial resolution and high track reconstruction efficiency. The hit occupancy, which mostly comes from the beam-related background, is currently about 0.5% in the innermost layer, causing no impact on the SVD performance. In anticipation of the operation at higher luminosity in the following years, two strategies to sustain the tracking performance in future high beam background conditions have been developed and tested on data. One is to reduce the number of signal waveform samples to decrease dead time, data size, and occupancy. The other is to utilize the good hit-time resolution to reject the beam background hits. We also measured the radiation effects on the full depletion voltage, sensor current, and strip noise caused during the first two and a half years of operation. The results show no detrimental effect on the SVD performance.
The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II experiment Zani, L.; Adamczyk, K.; Aggarwal, L. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
09/2022, Letnik:
1038
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
Since the start of data taking in spring 2019 at the SuperKEKB collider (KEK, Japan) the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) has been operating reliably and with high efficiency, while providing ...high quality data: high signal-to-noise ratio, greater than 99% hit efficiency, and precise spatial resolution. These attributes, combined with stability over time, result in good tracking efficiency. Currently the occupancy, dominated by beam-background hits, is quite low (about 0.5 % in the innermost layer), causing no problems to the SVD data reconstruction. In view of the operation at higher luminosity foreseen in the next years, specific strategies aiming to preserve the tracking performance have been developed and tested on data. The time stability of the trigger allows reducing sampling of the strip-amplifier waveform. The good hit-time resolution can be exploited to further improve the robustness against the higher level of beam background. First effects of radiation damage on strip noise, sensor currents and depletion voltage have been measured: they do not have any detrimental effect on the performance of the detector. Furthermore, no damage to the SVD is observed after sudden and intense bursts of radiation due to beam losses.
The Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD), with its four double-sided silicon strip sensor layers, is one of the two vertex sub-detectors of Belle II operating at SuperKEKB collider (KEK, Japan). Since 2019 ...and the start of the data taking, the SVD has demonstrated a reliable and highly efficient operation, even running in an environment with harsh beam backgrounds that are induced by the world’s highest instantaneous luminosity.
In order to provide the best quality track reconstruction with an efficient pattern recognition and track fit, and to correctly propagate the uncertainty on the hit’s position to the track parameters, it is crucial to precisely estimate the resolution of the cluster position measurement. Several methods for estimating the position resolution directly from the data will be discussed.
The silicon vertex detector of the Belle II experiment Irmler, C.; Adamczyk, K.; Aggarwal, L. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
01/2023, Letnik:
1045
Journal Article
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The Belle II experiment is taking data at the asymmetric SuperKEKB collider (KEK, Japan), which operates at the Υ(4S) resonance. The vertex detector is composed of an inner two-layer pixel detector ...(PXD) and the silicon vertex detector (SVD), made of four layers of double-sided silicon strip detectors. A deep knowledge of the system has been gained since the start of operations in 2019 by assessing the high-quality and stable reconstruction performance of the detector. The very high hit efficiency and large signal-to-noise ratio are monitored via online data-quality plots. The good cluster-position resolution is estimated using the unbiased residual with respect to the track, and it is in reasonable agreement with the expectations. The SVD dose is estimated by the correlation of the SVD occupancy with the dose measured by the diamond sensors of the radiation-monitoring and beam-abort system. First radiation damage effects are measured on the sensor current and strip noise are shown not to affect the performance. Six samples of the shaped particle signal are recorded utilizing the multi-peak mode of the APV25 front-end chip and used to determine the hit timing with a precision of 2 to 3 ns. Recently a method to compute the time of collision from SVD hit time information has been implemented and verified with simulations and on data.
Simulation of the Belle II silicon vertex detector Kaleta, M.; Adamczyk, K.; Aggarwal, L. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
06/2022, Letnik:
1032
Journal Article
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Belle II is the next generation B Factory experiment operating at the SuperKEKB accelerator complex at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan. It is expected to collect 50 ab−1 of data, with a target instantaneous ...luminosity of 6.5 × 1035 cm−2s−1, which is about 30 times larger than its predecessor, Belle. In view of the ever increasing Belle II data sample, accurate simulation of the detector is growing in importance. This poses a challenging task of compromising between the realistic modeling of the response of individual detector components and reasonable performance in terms of CPU time of the simulation. In this paper we describe the simulation of the silicon vertex detector, its performance against collision data and optimization.
Abstract
The silicon vertex detector (SVD) is installed at the heart of the Belle II experiment,
taking data at the high-luminosity B-Factory SuperKEKB since 2019. The SVD is a four-layer
...double-sided strip detector with tracking and particle-identification capabilities. In this paper,
we report on the performance of the reconstruction of SVD hits. The detector has shown a stable
and above-99% hit efficiency, with a large signal-to-noise in all sensors since the beginning of
data taking. Cluster position and time resolution have been measured with 2020 and 2022 data and
show excellent performance and stability. In particular, the cluster-position resolution is
between 7 and 12 μm for the small-pitch sensors, in reasonable agreement with the
expectations, while the cluster time resolution is measured to be below 3 ns. The effect of
radiation damage is visible, but not affecting the performance. As the luminosity increases,
higher machine backgrounds are expected and the excellent hit-time information in SVD can be
exploited for background rejection. In particular, we have recently developed a novel procedure to
select hits by grouping them event-by-event based on their time. This new procedure allows a
significant reduction of the fake rate, while preserving the tracking efficiency, and it has
therefore replaced the previous cut-based procedure. We have developed a method that uses the SVD
hits to estimate the track time (previously unavailable) and the collision time. It has a similar
precision to the estimate based on the drift chamber readout but its execution time is three
orders of magnitude smaller, allowing a faster online reconstruction that is crucial in a high
luminosity regime. The track time is a powerful information that allows, together with the
aforementioned grouping selection, to raise the occupancy limit above that expected at nominal
luminosity, leaving room for a safety factor. Finally, in June 2022 the data taking of the Belle
II experiment was stopped to install a new two-layer DEPFET detector (PXD) and upgrade components
of the accelerator. The whole silicon tracker (PXD+SVD) has been extracted from Belle II, the new
PXD installed, the detector closed and commissioned. We briefly describe the SVD results of this
upgrade.