大型强子对撞机LHC上的ALICE实验

 ALICE 大型离子对撞机实验(A Large Ion Collider Experiment)是欧洲核子中心(CERN) 的大型强子对撞机LHC 上的4 个主要国际合作项目之一。合作组包括36 个国家的132 个研究单位的约1200 位物理学家、工程师和技术工人。其中包括约200 多研究生。中国原子能科学研究院、华中师范大学和华中科技大学参与了ALICE国际合作。     

基于单片有源像素传感器的探测模块测试研究

硅像素探测器因具有优异的空间分辨率、极高的耐计数能力和较低的功耗等优点,近年来已被广泛应用于高能对撞机实验的顶点探测器和内径迹探测器.基于MIMOSA28芯片的硅像素探测器研究是北京谱仪Ⅲ漂移室内室的升级预研方案之一,该方案计划建造一个漂移室内室1/10规模的模型.探测模块是该模型的基本探测单元.为了对探测模块的性能进行研究,搭建了实验室测试系统.该系统主要由五层探测模块、读出电子学系统以及数据获取系统组成.本文围绕带有触发标记的连续数据读出方法的实现、探测模块的噪声水平和放射源响应测试以及击中位置重建算法研究展开.测试结果验证了探测模块工作性能良好,触发读出逻辑正确,而且重建算法准确有效,为后续探测模块性能的进一步研究奠定了基础.     

平面型大光敏元InGaAs线列探测器及其应用

采用晶格匹配的平面型InP/In0.53Ga0.47As/InP外延材料,设计了一种大光敏元、带有保护环的InGaAs线列探测器。通过I-V测试、扫描电容显微技术(SCM)测试,研究并确定了线列器件的盲元与保护环结构之间的关系。通过设计改进,解决了器件的盲元问题。24×1 InGaAs线列短波红外探测在室温20 ℃、-10 mV偏压下,暗电流密度约5 nA/cm2。将光敏芯片密封在集成了热电制冷器(TEC)的金属管壳内,组件工作温度5 ℃,探测器响应光谱在1.0 μm~1.67 μm范围,平均峰值电流响应率为1.3 A/W,平均峰值探测率为3.4×1012 cm·Hz1/2/W,响应的非均匀性为1.5%。探测器经历一定条件的可靠性筛选试验后,性能未发生明显变化,并进行了航空机载成像应用,成像图片清晰。     

sTGC前端电子学批量测试系统设计与应用

ATLAS探测器PHASE I升级过程中,将新建NSW探测器用于提高对Muon轨迹的探测效率,从而进一步提高一级触发效率。NSW由768个sTGC探测器模块组成,共计约33万探测通道。中国科学技术大学代表中国合作组承担了全部sTGC前端读出电子学设计和生产任务,开发了用于读出strip信号的sFEB读出板和读出pad与wire信号的pFEB读出板,制定了一套完整的FEB测试方案和测试流程。为了对生产完成的上千块FEB进行批量测试,严格按照sTGC读出系统要求,设计了能够同时测试FEB板704通道的多参数批量测试系统。利用FEB批量测试系统,完成了全部850块pFEB和sFEB板测试,并交付ATLAS合作组安装到了sTGC探测器上。     

在大型强子对撞机上探索物质本源的大型重离子实验

欧洲核子研究中心的大型重离子实验探测器(ALICE),利用2008年开始运行的大型强子对撞机(LHC),将核物质加热到太阳中心温度的几十万倍,研究在高温高密的极端环境下生成的新物质形态(夸克胶子等离子体或夸克物质)的性质.这样的实验有可能从本源上探索:强作用力如何支配物质结构?夸克作为强作用力的基本量子,如何禁闭于质子和中子内部?夸克作为物质的基本组成单元,质量从何而来?文章介绍在大型强子对撞机上探索物质本源的大型重离子实验,内容包括:强作用力与夸克模型、渐进自c由与夸克禁闭、重离子碰撞与夸克物质、LHC上的ALICE实验、连通夸克和宇宙.     

基于VO_2薄膜非致冷红外探测器光电响应研究

VO2 薄膜是非致冷微测辐射热红外探测器热敏电阻材料 .研究中应用微电子工艺制备了VO2 溅射薄膜红外探测器 ,在 2 96K的环境中测试了该探测器在不同的直流偏置、光调制频率下对 873K标准黑体源 8— 12 μm红外辐射的光电响应以及器件的噪声电压 ,在 10和 30Hz的调制频率下其响应率分别大于 17kV/W和接近 10kV/W .该探测器实现了探测率D 大于 1 0× 10 8cmHz/W ,热时间常量为 0 0 11s的 8— 12 μm非致冷红外探测     

CMS探测器升级中的气体——电子放大器

正2009年,经过近二十年的设计、施工和安装调试,位于欧洲核子中心(CERN)的大型强子对撞机(Large Hadron Collider,LHC)终于正式对撞成功,运行于其上的紧凑型缪子螺线管(Compact Muon Solenoid,CMS)~(1)探测器也开始运行取数。三年后,CMS实验与ATLAS实验共同宣布,在质量125 Ge V发现了希格斯玻色子~(2)。这是举世瞩目的高光时刻,意味着粒子物理标准模型预言的基本粒子全部被发现,人类对粒子物理的探索进入了新的领域。     

镀膜型nMCP探测效率和位置分辨优化的蒙特卡罗模拟研究

中子敏感微通道板(Neutron sensitive microchannel plate,nMCP)因其具有高探测效率和位置分辨,配合先进的读出电子学可作为能量分辨中子成像探测器的优先选择。相比于基体掺杂型的nMCP,基于原子层沉积技术(Atomic Layer Deposition,ALD)的nMCP具有原材料消耗少、通道内壁具有高的二次电子发射系数等优势。首先,通过实验对掺杂natGd型nMCP的典型中子和伽马信号进行研究。然后,采用Geant4模拟和理论计算对镀膜10B₂O₃型nMCP的孔径、壁厚、倾角和镀膜厚度进行优化。计算结果表明,当nMCP的几何参数选择为镀膜厚度1 μm、孔径10 μm、壁厚1 μm以及倾角3°时,nMCP性能达到约56%的热中子探测效率和约22 μm的位置分辨。计算结果对CSNS能量选择中子成像探测器nMCP的几何参数设计具有重要意义。     

CdZnTe像素探测器的电输运性能

碲锌镉(CdZnTe)是一种性能优异的室温核辐射半导体探测器材料,广泛应用于核安全、核医学以及空间科学等领域.然而,传统的CdZnTe平面探测器受制于"空穴拖尾"效应的影响,探测性能有待改善.采用改进的垂直布里奇曼法生长的In掺杂Cd_(0.9)Zn_(0.1)Te单晶制备出单载流子收集的4×4像素阵列探测器,通过电流-电压(I-V)测试和γ射线能谱响应测试,研究了像素探测器的电学性能和载流子电输运性能,随之与相应的CdZnTe平面探测器进行了性能对比.结果表明,CdZnTe像素探测器的电阻率约为1.73×10~(10)?·cm,且施加100 V偏压后单像素点的最大漏电流小于2.2 nA;当施加偏压升高至300 V时,单像素点对~(241)Am@59.5 keV的γ射线的最佳能量分辨率可达5.78%,探测性能优于相同条件下制备的CdZnTe平面探测器.     

T9型窄间隙室探测器的研制与探测效率测试

山东大学承担了ATLAS实验中400个T9型窄间隙室(TGC)探测器的研制生产任务. 本文首先介绍了T9型TGC探测器的研制过程,然后对TGC探测器进行探测效率测试的方法进行了描述. 测试结果表明目前已经完成探测效率测试的288个T9型TGC探测器均表现出优于设计要求的高品质.     

ALICE FIT Data Processing and Performance during LHC Run 3

Physics of Atomic Nuclei - During the upcoming Run 3 and Run 4 at the LHC the upgraded ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) will operate at a significantly higher luminosity and will collect two...     

Heavy ions with the Large Hadron Collider and the ALICE detector

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at CERN is also planned as a heavy ion collider with lead ions colliding at an energy of 2.7+2.7 ATeV. This corresponds to collisions of matter with cosmic rays of the utmost energies observed so far promising the study of new and exciting aspects of physics. Minor improvements of the newly commissioned lead ion source at the CERN SPS are necessary in order to provide a luminosity of L=2×10²⁷ cm^?2s^?1. The detector ALICE has been chosen as the third detector for the LHC and will be dedicated to the physics of these nuclear collisions and also to the large cross section physics in p+p collisions.     

Beam test performance of prototype assemblies for the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector

The silicon pixel detector (SPD) comprises the two innermost layers of the inner tracking system oft he ALICE experiment at LHC. Prototype SPD assemblies have been tested in high-energy proton and pion beams at the CERN SPS. The method used for data analysis and the most relevant results in relation to detector performance are presented. Presented in the Poster Session “Future Experiments and Facilities” at the 18th International Conference “Quark Matter 2005”, Budapest, Hungary, 4–9 August 2005. On behalf of the Silicon Pixel Detector project in the ALICE Collaboration     

LHC能区ALICE实验及其PHOS触发选判

综述了CERN/LHC能区的大型重离子碰撞实验(ALICE)的现状, 并对ALICE实验中的光子谱仪(PHOS)的触发选判机制进行了模拟研究.     

Simulations of the PHOS detector in the ALICE experiment at CERN

In 2005 the ALICE experiment will start at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It will investigate hot and dense strongly interacting matter formed in heavy ion collisions. The photon spectrometer of the ALICE detector will be designed to identify direct photons. To optimize the detector, simulations will be carried out.     

Investigations of the new generation pixel detectors for ALICE experiment at LHC

We present the results from testing Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors of the detector ALPIDE (ALICE Pixel Detector). The purpose of these tests was to measure the pixel threshold and noise distributions in each of the four sectors of the detector, as well as the analysis of the hit maps produced by different radioactive sources.     

High-p t and jet physics from RHIC to LHC

The observation of the strong suppression of high-p t hadrons in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL has motivated a large experimental program using hard probes to characterize the deconfined medium created. However, what can be denoted as “leading particle” physics accessible at RHIC presents some limitations which motivate at higher energy the study of much more penetrating objects: jets. The gain in center-of-mass energy expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will definitively improve our understanding on how the energy is lost in the system, opening a major new window of study: the physics of jets on an event-by-event basis. We will concentrate on the expected performance for jet reconstruction in ALICE using the EMCal calorimeter. (for the ALICE Collaboration) The text was submitted by the author in English.     

The Time Of Flight (TOF) system of the ALICE experiment

The European Physical Journal C - The double-stack Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) is the detector chosen for the large Time-Of-Flight system of the ALICE experiment at CERN LHC. The TOF...     

Recent results from CERN SPS experiments and the future heavy ion programme

We describe the important results from the recent experiments using lead beams at the CERN SPS. The results of the WA98 experiment, which has substantial Indian participation along with the photon multiplicity detector is described in some detail. Combining the preliminary results from various experiments looking at different signals of phase transition, one finds enough evidences to suggest that phase transition has taken place in nuclear collisions at the SPS. Future programme of heavy ion physics at the LHC is being greared around the ALICE experiment. This will comprise of detector subsystems capable of studying almost all the signals in the same event. The photon multiplicity detector will be an important component of the ALICE experiment, being a totally Indian contribution to ALICE.