The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is undergoing a major upgrade during the CERN Long Shutdown 2 period (2019-2021). The upgrade is essential to fulfill the requirements of the new open charm ...and neutrino programs. In these programs the NA61/SHINE will operate with the data acquisition rate increased by a factor of 10, which requires an upgrade of current Beam Position Detectors (BPDs). New detectors should monitor beam particle positions with a frequency up to 10
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This paper presents an overview of the new BPD design, as well as discusses current state of development and prototype production of BPD, including: mechanical design, front-end electronics design and integration with experiment’s data aquisition system.
Forward Hadron Calorimeter is a part of MPD experiment setup at NICA beam facility. FHCal structure and purpose are presented in this proceedings. Methods of collision centrality and event plane ...reconstruction are discussed. Simulation, beam test results and production status are presented.
The BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the fixed target experiment at NICA-Nuclotron (JINR, Dubna, Russia) accelerator complex. The main goal of the experiment is studying the properties of dense ...nuclear matter produced in ion-ion collisions at the energies of up to 4 AGeV. New Forward Hadron Calorimeter (FHCal) with modular structure and a beam hole in the center has been developed and constructed to measure the collision centrality after the BM@N upgrade. The transverse and longitudinal segmentation of the FHCal allows to perform calibration of the calorimeter with cosmic muons.
FHCal modules have lead/scintillator sampling structure with longitudinal segmentation. Light signals from the sections are collected with MPPCs, amplified and read-out by ADC boards. Fast analog signals are collected for trigger system.
The status of development and construction of the new FHCal calorimeter for the BM@N experiment is presented. Performance of FHCal front-end and readout systems is discussed.
The forward hadron calorimeter (FHCal) is one of the sub-detectors of the BM@N experimental setup at JINR, Dubna. It consists of 54 lead-scintillator "sandwich" type modules of two types with the ...transverse sizes 20 × 20 cm2 and 15 × 15 cm2. These two types of modules are subdivided into 10 and 7 individual longitudinal sections, respectively. Each section provides the independent light and amplitude signal readout with one silicon photomultiplier (MPPC). High signal to noise ratio of MPPC allows to detect cosmic rays with low energy depositions in FHCal longitudinal sections. A method for cosmic muon track reconstruction is discussed. A procedure for energy calibration based on muon track length and energy deposition in each section is proposed. Experimental results of FHCal cosmic calibration are presented.
Abstract
Forward hadron calorimeters in heavy ion experiments are used to determine the centrality and orientation of reaction plane in nucleus-nucleus collisions. In BM@N and MPD@NICA experiments ...hadron calorimeters with a beam hole in the center will be used, which is motivated by high radiation doses at the BM@N and by the design of the MPD collider experiment. This feature makes it impossible to determine centrality from only the total energy deposition in the calorimeters. Therefore, an approach using machine learning methods was developed to solve the centrality problem. This approach uses information on the energy distribution of particles over the calorimeter surface. The report is dedicated to the description of the new approach for centrality determination. The results of applying the approach to the simulation data of the BM@N and MPD@NICA experiments will be shown.
The Forward Wall (FWall) detector is a segmented scintillation forward hodoscope with PMT readout. The FWall is one of the detector subsystems in the HADES experimental setup at SIS18 (GSI, ...Darmstadt, Germany) used for determination of the collision centrality and event plane orientation in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The quality of the FWall calibration is a crucial point for these tasks. The HADES experiment on particles production in Ag+Ag reaction at 1.23 and 1.58AGeV has been performed in 2019. FWall calibration was performed for both data sets. In this work the results of the FWall calibration at 1.58AGeV are presented.
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS is undergoing a major upgrade during the LHC Long Shutdown 2 period (2019-2021). The upgrade is essential to fulfil the requirements of the new open charm ...measurement program. In this program detector will operate at a beam intensity increased by a factor of 10, which requires an upgrade of current Beam Position Detectors (BPDs). New BPDs should monitor lead and proton beam intensities with up to 105 Hz rate. In this paper, progress on design and development of the new BPDs based on Si strip detectors, its front-end and readout electronics, as well as integration with the NA61/SHINE DAQ is presented.
The experimental setup to study the difference between Compton scattering of entangled and decoherent annihilation photons is discussed. The pairs of entangled gammas are born in electron-positron ...annihilation at rest. The polarization state of each photon in such a pair is not definite and represents the superposition of horizontal and vertical polarizations, while the relative polarizations of the photons are orthogonal. After interaction with the environment (for example, via the Compton scattering) the entangled pair of photons is broken and the pair becomes decoherent with determined polarizations of both gammas. Since the Compton scattering depends on the polarization of the initial photon, the scattering kinematics of entangled and decoherent photons might be quite different. At present, there is no experimental comparison of the Compton scattering kinematics for entangled and decoherent gammas.
Forward hadron calorimeters with transverse and longitudinal segmentation are developed for upgraded NA61/SHINE BM@N and future CBM experiments at CERN, JINR and FAIR respectively. The main purpose ...of these calorimeters is to provide an event-by-event measurements of centrality and reaction plane orientation in ion collisions. Hadron calorimeters in all these experiments are composed of sampling lead/scintillator modules. The light collection from longitudinal sections in modules is provided by Wave-Length Shifting (WLS) fibers embedded in scintillator plates. Micropixel photodetectors MPPCs are used for light detection. The light yield measured at muons beam for these modules is about 8 - 10 ph.el./MeV. Performance of the supermodule composed of these modules has been studied at proton beam energies 1.5 - 150 GeV at CERN. Radiation conditions at high heavy ion beam rates are studied by FLUKA simulations for calorimeters geometry optimization aimed to get acceptable radiation doses and neutron fluence both for the scintillator plates and for photodetectors in these experiments.
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A new compact time-of-flight neutron detector is being planned for the identification and energy measurement of neutrons produced in nucleus-nucleus interactions at energies up to 4 AGeV at the ...BM@N experiment, located at the Nuclotron (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia). This detector will be used to measure neutron yields and azimuthal flows, which should be sensitive to the equation of state of dense nuclear matter, as shown in various theoretical models It is proposed to use plastic scintillators produced at JINR and IFTP and silicon photomultipliers with a sensitive area of 6 × 6 mm
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for photon registration, one for each scintillation cell. To achieve the required neutron energy resolution (of the order of several percent) in the energy range up to 4 GeV, the time resolution of scintillation detectors should be 100−150 ps. The concept of a time-of-flight neutron detector is discussed. The results of measurements of the light yield and time resolution of several scintillation detector specimens of various sizes and two types of silicon photomultipliers are presented.
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