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Gianluca Cerminara (CERN)22/07/2011 09:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkFast and efficient methods for the calibration and the alignment of the detector are a key asset to exploit the physics potential of the CMS detector. The CMS experiment has set up a powerful framework for alignment and calibration, which is based on dedicated skims providing a highly compact dedicated input for the various workflows computing the constants. This includes a prompt...Go to contribution page
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Ia Iashvili (SUNY Buffalo), Dr Manfred Krammer (HEPHY, Vienna)22/07/2011 09:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkWe present results on the jet energy calibration and jet transverse momentum resolution at CMS. In-situ measurements are performed using couple of 100/pb of proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV center of mass energy. The transverse momentum balancing in dijet and photon/Z+jet events is used to measure the jet energy response in the CMS detector, as well as the transverse momentum resolution. The...Go to contribution page
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M. Vincent Hedberg (Lund University)22/07/2011 09:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkA precision luminosity measurement is of critical importance for the ATLAS physics program, both for searches for new physics as well as for precision measurements of Standard Model cross-sections. The calibration of the luminosity is based on three so-called van der Meer scans that were performed in 2010. The calibration determines the convolved beam sizes in the vertical and horizontal...Go to contribution page
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Stanley Lai22/07/2011 09:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkTau leptons will play an important role in the physics program at the LHC. They will be used not only in searches for new phenomena like the Higgs boson or Supersymmetry and electroweak measurements but also in detector related studies like the determination of the missing transverse energy scale. Identifying hadronically decaying tau leptons requires good understanding of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Martin van Beuzekom (Nikhef)22/07/2011 10:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe status and performance of the LHCb detector during the physics LHC physics run is described. The detector has a number of notable features including: 13 micron resolution in the transverse plane on 25 track primary vertices, pion and kaon separation from 1 to 100 GeV, and 1 MHz full readout of all sub-systems. The detector is being operating above its design luminosity. The detector is...Go to contribution page
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M. FLORENT LACROIX (UIC/FERMILAB)22/07/2011 10:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkIn this talk we report comprehensive results of studies of missing transverse energy (MET) measured by the CMS detector in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. Three MET reconstruction algorithms are deployed for various physics analyses. The scale and resolution for MET are validated using vector boson and dijet events, and severe mismeasurements due to the detector are studied....Go to contribution page
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Jean-Roch Vlimant22/07/2011 11:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkIn this presentation we will discuss the experience with the CMS computing model during the LHC runs 2010-2011. We will outline how the experiment operations has evolved during the first few months of operations. The current state of the Offline and Computing projects will be presented and we will describe the initial experience with active analysis users and real data. We will include Tier0...Go to contribution page
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Mme Eleanor DOBSON (CERN)22/07/2011 11:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition (TDAQ) system is responsible for reducing the event rate from the design bunch-crossing rate of 40 MHz to an average recording rate of 200 Hz. The ATLAS trigger is designed to select signal-like events from a large background in three levels: a first-level (L1) implemented in custom-built electronics, as well as the two levels of the high level...Go to contribution page
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M. Dario Barberis (Genoa University/INFN)22/07/2011 11:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe ATLAS experiment is taking data steadily since Autumn 2009, collecting close to 1 fb-1 of data (several petabytes of raw and reconstructed data per year of data-taking). Data are calibrated, reconstructed, distributed and analysed at over 100 different sites using the World-wide LHC Computing Grid and the tools produced by the ATLAS Distributed Computing project. In addition to...Go to contribution page
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Dr sara garbolino (INFN)22/07/2011 11:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe Gigatracker (GTK) is a hybrid silicon pixel detector developed for NA62, the experiment studying ultra-rare kaon decays at the CERN SPS. Three GTK stations will provide precise momentum and angular measurements on every track of the high intensity NA62 hadron beam with a time-tagging resolution of 150 ps. Multiple scattering and hadronic interactions of beam particles in the GTK has to be...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paolo VALENTE (INFN Roma1), Riccardo Fantechi (INFN Pisa and Cern)22/07/2011 12:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe NA62 experiment at CERN aims at the very challenging task of measuring with 10% relative error the Branching Ratio of the ultrarare decay of the K+ into pi+ neutrino and antineutrino, which is expected to occur only in about 8 out of 10^11 kaon decays. This will be achieved by means of an intense hadron beam, an accurate kinematical reconstruction and a redundant veto system for...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maurizio Bonesini (INFN Milano Bicocca)22/07/2011 12:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will carry out a systematic investigation of ionization cooling of a muon beam, for the future Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As the emittance measurement will be done on a particle-by-particle basis, a sophisticated beam instrumentation is needed to measure both particle coordinates and timing vs RF in a harsh environment...Go to contribution page
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Collaboration KLOE-2 (LNF-INFN), Dr Dario Moricciani (INFN - Sez. Roma "Tor Vergata")22/07/2011 12:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe KLOE experiment at the DAFNE e+e- collider of the Frascati Laboratories of INFN is about to start a second data-taking campaign (KLOE-2). The interaction region of DAFNE has been modified using a crabbed waist scheme. The KLOE-2 scientific program aims to further improve the precision studies on kaon and low energy hadron physics, e.g. CKM unitarity and lepton universality, CPT...Go to contribution page
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Dr Johan Bregeon (INFN-Pisa)22/07/2011 12:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the main instrument onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an orbital observatory launched in low-Earth orbit on June 11 2008 to survey the high-energy gamma-ray sky. The LAT tracker/converter serves the twofold purpose of converting the incoming gamma-ray into an electron-positron pair and tracking the latter in order to measure the original photon...Go to contribution page
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Burkhard Schmidt22/07/2011 14:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe Letter of Intent of the LHCb upgrade has recently been submitted. Flavour physics probes beyond the energy frontier (a few TeV at the LHC), since it is sensitive to the effects of virtual quantum loop diagrams associated with particles that can be far heavier than those which can be produced directly. To exploit fully the flavour-physics potential of the LHC will require an LHCb upgrade....Go to contribution page
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Raffaello D'Alessandro (Università di Firenze INFN-Firenze)22/07/2011 14:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkCMS started a campaign to identify the future silicon sensor technology baseline for a new Tracker for the high-luminosity phase of LHC, coupled to a new effective way of providing tracking information to the experiment trigger. To this end a large variety of 6” wafers was acquired in different thickness's and technologies at HPK and new detector module designs were investigated. Detector...Go to contribution page
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M. Alessandro La Rosa (University of Wisconsin)22/07/2011 15:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkWith the LHC collecting data at 7 TeV, plans are already advancing for a series of upgrades leading eventually to about five times the LHC design luminosity some 10 years from now in the high luminosity LHC (HI-LHC) project. The upgrades for the ATLAS detector will be staged in preparation for HI-LHC. The first upgrade for the pixel detector will be the construction of a new pixel layer...Go to contribution page
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Christian Kiesling (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)22/07/2011 15:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkWith the completion of the first-generation experiments at asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ colliders (BaBar and Belle) studying CP violation in the B-meson system, a new era of high luminosity machines is at the horizon. We report here on the plans for future experiments on CP violation and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the upgraded KEKB machine in Japan (``SuperKEKB''), providing an...Go to contribution page
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Dr auguste besson (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)22/07/2011 15:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkCMOS Pixel Sensors (CPS) are foreseen to equip vertex detectors where priority is given to granularity, material budget and power consumption, potentially at the expense of read-out speed and radiation tolerance. Being initially developed for an experiment at the ILC, the sensors came out to be well suited to Heavy Ion Collision experiments (STAR at RHIC, CBM at FAIR, ...) and...Go to contribution page
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Harris Kagan (The Ohio State University), William Trischuk (University of Toronto)22/07/2011 15:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkProgress in experimental particle physics in the coming decade depends crucially upon the ability to carry out experiments at high energies and high luminosities. These two conditions imply that future experiments will take place in very high radiation areas. In order to perform these complex and perhaps expensive experiments new radiation hard technologies will have to be developed. ...Go to contribution page
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Vasily Mochalov (IHEP,Protvino)22/07/2011 16:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkPANDA is an experiment designed for the future FAIR facility at GSI to challenge our understanding of the strong interact ion and of hadronic matter. Exploiting the high luminosity and good quality of the cooled antiproton beam, PANDA will search for new forms of matter, namely for precise measurements of possible exotic states, such as glueballs, hybrids, pentaquarks etc. in the quark...Go to contribution page
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M. Mikhail Danilov (ITEP-Moscow)22/07/2011 16:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe CALICE collaboration has developed highly granular calorimeter prototypes to evaluate technologies for experiments at a future lepton collider, and evaluated their performance in test beams. One important use of these data is the validation of the physics models in GEANT4, especially those related to hadronic showers. This validation is crucial if Monte Carlo simulations are to...Go to contribution page
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M. Lei Xia (Argonne)22/07/2011 17:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkFor several years, CALICE has been testing highly granular calorimeter prototypes using analogue readout. These devices are envisaged for particle flow application in a future linear collider detector. A novel alternative, especially interesting for the hadron calorimeter, is to use digital readout, with a very small cell size. In the past year the first large scale (1m³) digital...Go to contribution page
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Dr Francesco Lacava (Dep. Physics University "Sapienza - Roma / INFN - Roma)22/07/2011 17:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe energy resolution of the hadronic calorimeters is determined by fluctuations in the development of the shower. In non compensating calorimeters the dominant contribution comes from the fluctuation of the electromagnetic shower fraction. The dual readout technique proposed by DREAM aims to correct event by event for the fluctuations of the e.m. component measuring at the same time...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ivanka Bozovic-Jelisavcic (VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences)22/07/2011 17:30Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talk[On behalf of the FCAL Collaboration] Detectors at future e+e- collider need special calorimeters in the very forward region for a fast estimate and precise measurement of the luminosity, to improve the hermeticity and mask the central tracking detectors from back-scattered particles. Using Monte Carlo simulations, designs optimized for the ILC and CLIC colliders are presented. Sensor...Go to contribution page
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Georgios Tsipolitis (National Technical University of Athens)22/07/2011 17:45Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (sLHC) foresees a luminosity increase by a factor five compared to the LHC. To cope with the corresponding increase in background rates, the Muon System of the ATLAS experiment at CERN will likely need major changes in the very forward/backward regions. The Muon ATLAS MicroMegas Activity (MAMMA) is focused on the development and...Go to contribution page
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M. Salvatore Alessandro Tupputi (Politecnico di Bari and INFN Sezione di Bari)22/07/2011 18:00Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe RPC muon system of the CMS detector at the CERN LHC remains uninstrumented in the pseudorapidity region 1.6<|eta|<2.4. An ongoing project aims at covering the region of the muon endcaps with large-area triple- GEM detectors whose features are suited to enhance muon tracking and preserve triggering capabilities for the CMS detector upgrade. The design and assembling of small (10cm×10cm) and...Go to contribution page
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Christian Grefe (CERN)22/07/2011 18:15Detector R & D and data handlingParallel session talkThe expected results from the LHC experiments will give us an idea of the physics at the TeV scale. A lepton-collider at these energies will then be required to complement the information from the LHC, and to fully understand the physics. The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) with a center of mas energy of up to 3 TeV is a suitable concept for such a future e^{+}-e^{-}-linear-collider. The...Go to contribution page
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