Dr
Paolo Martinengo
(CERN)
03/05/2010 11:00
Cherenkov imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
Oral presentation
The ALICE High Momentum Particle Identification RICH detector (HMPID), with its 10 m2 of Cesium Iodide (CsI) photo-cathodes is installed, in the ALICE solenoid since fall 2006.
Since then, it has been thoroughly commissioned, together with its auxiliary
systems, with cosmic rays and beam dump/splash events during various LHC injections tests in 2008 and 2009.
Finally, the HMPID has...
Prof.
Franz Muheim
(University of Edinburgh)
03/05/2010 11:30
Cherenkov imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
Oral presentation
Particle identification is one of the fundamental requirement of the LHCb experiment. Hadron identification is performed by two Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors, comprising three radiators and 484 Hybrid Photon Detectors (HPDs) providing 500,000 channels of data.
The particle identification system covers the full angular acceptance of the LHCb spectrometer and is designed to give...
Dr
Fulvio Tessarotto
(INFN - Trieste)
03/05/2010 12:00
Cherenkov imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
Oral presentation
COMPASS RICH-1 is a large gaseous Imaging Cherenkov Detector providing high quality hadron identification in the range from 3 to 60 GeV/c, in the wide acceptance spectrometer of the COMPASS Experiment at CERN SPS.
It has been successfully operated since 2002 and its performances have increased in time thanks to progressive optimization and mostly to a major upgrade which was implemented in...
Prof.
Itzhak Tserruya
(Weizmann Institute of Science)
03/05/2010 12:30
Cherenkov imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
Oral presentation
A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been developed for an upgrade of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. The detector installed in 2008 was successfully operated during the p+p run of 2009 and is presently taking Au+Au data at sNN = 200 GeV. The HBD is a windowless Cherenkov detector, operated with pure CF4 in a special proximity focus configuration. The detector consists of a 50 cm long radiator...
Dr
Massimo Lenti
(INFN)
03/05/2010 14:30
Cherenkov imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
Oral presentation
The CERN NA62 experiment aims at a 10% measurement of the BR of the K+ into a pi+ and two neutrinos. The main background is the K+ decay into a muon and a neutrino, so pion-muon separation is a crucial ingredient. The RICH detector must separate pions from muons at 3 sigma level between 15 and 35 GeV/c momentum. The RICH must also measure the pion crossing time with a 100 ps resolution to...
