A high dynamic range readout unit for a calorimeter

A high dynamic range readout system, consisting of a multi-dynode readout PMT and a VA32 chip, is presented. An LED system is set up to calibrate the relative gains between the dynodes, and the ADC counts per MIPs from dynode 7 are determined under cosmic-ray calibration. A dynamic range from 0.5 MIPs to 1×10⁵ MIPs is achieved.     

The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter

An overview of the design of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is presented. Some of the technical challenges are described together with the current state of their development.     

An electromagnetic calorimeter for the silicon detector concept

A silicon-tungsten calorimeter for silicon detector (SiD) at the International Linear Collider is under development. Recent progress is summarized.      

CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter

A highly granular electromagnetic calorimeter prototype based on tungsten absorber and sampling units equipped with silicon pads as sensitive devices for signal collection is under construction. The full prototype will have in total 30 layers and be read out by about 10000 Si cells of 1 × 1 cm². A first module consisting of 14 layers and depth of 7.2X ₀ at normal incidence, having in total 3024 channels of 1 cm², was tested recently with e ⁻ beam. We describe the prototype and discuss some preliminary testbeam results on its performance with respect to position resolution, response inhomogeneity and transverse containment.      

Magnetic shielding for DAMPE electromagnetic calorimeter PMTs

The magnetic characteristics of R5610A-01 photomultiplier tubes are studied in this paper. The experimental data shows that the gain of R5610A-01 loses about 53% when the magnetic field is 3 Gs along its +X axis. A cylinder of one-layer permalloy strip is able to reduce the effect of a 3 Gs magnetic field on the PMT gain to less than 1%.     

Correction of PMT position effect for a lead-scintillating fiber electromagnetic calorimeter

The position effect of the photoelectron multiplier tube (PMT) of the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 (AMS-02) has been studied with beam-test data. The reconstructed deposited energy in a layer versus incidence position in the cell can be described by Gaussian distribution, maximum and minimum value can be obtained when the particle passes across the center and the edge of a cell respectively. The distribution can be used to correct the effect of incidence position on energy reconstruction. Much better energy resolution was acquired be got with the correction, for 100 GeV electrons, energy resolution improved from 3% to 2%.     

Prototype of readout electronics for the LHAASO KM2A electromagnetic particle detectors

The KM2A(one kilometer square extensive air shower array) is the largest detector array in the LHAASO(Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory) project. The KM2 A consists of 5242 EDs(Electromagnetic particle Detectors) and 1221 MDs(Muon Detectors). The EDs are distributed and exposed in the wild. Two channels, anode and dynode, are employed for the PMT(photomultiplier tube) signal readout. The readout electronics designed in this paper aims at accurate charge and arrival time measurement of the PMT signals, which cover a large amplitude range from 20 P.E.(photoelectrons) to 2×10~5 P.E. By using a "trigger-less" architecture, we digitize signals close to the PMTs. All digitized data is transmitted to DAQ(Data Acquisition) via a simplified White Rabbit protocol.Compared with traditional high energy experiments, high precision of time measurement over such a large area and suppression of temperature effects in the wild become the key techniques. Experiments show that the design has fulfilled the requirements in this project.     

Angular reconstruction of a lead scintillating-fiber sandwiched electromagnetic calorimeter

The Neighbor Cell Deposited Energy Ratio （NCDER） is a new method that is proposed to reconstruct incidence position in a single layer for a 3-dimensional imaging electromagnetic calorimeter （ECAL）. This method was applied to reconstruct the ECAL test beam data for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 （AMS-02）. The results show that this method can achieve an angular resolution of 7.36±0.08°/√E＋0.28±0.02° in the determination of the photon＇s direction, which is much more precise than that obtained with the commonly-adopted Center of Gravity （COG） method （8.4±0.1°/E＋0.8±0.3°）. Furthermore, since it uses only the properties of electromagnetic showers, this new method could also be used for other type of fine grain sampling calorimeters.     

The design of a module of a new electromagnetic calorimeter for COMPASS II

A new-generation high-granularity Shashlyk EM calorimeter read out by micropixel avalanche photodiodes with thermostabilization based on the Peltier element is designed and constructed.     

Angular reconstruction of a lead scintillating-fiber sandwiched electromagnetic calorimeter

The Neighbor Cell Deposited Energy Ratio(NCDER) is a new method that is proposed to reconstruct incidence position in a single layer for a 3-dimensional imaging electromagnetic calorimeter(ECAL).This method was applied to reconstruct the ECAL test beam data for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02(AMS-02).The results show that this method can achieve an angular resolution of 7.36±0.08°/E~(1/2)(?)0.28±0.02o in the determination of the photon's direction,which is much more precise than that obtained with the commonly-adopted Center of Gravity(COG) method(8.4±0.1°/E~(1/2)(?)0.8±0.3o).Furthermore,since it uses only the properties of electromagnetic showers,this new method could also be used for other type of fine grain sampling calorimeters.     

Dead cell and side leakage correction for a lead-scintillating fiber electromagnetic calorimeter

The electromagnetic calorimeter(ECAL) of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer(AMS-02) is one of the key detectors for dark matter searches. It measures the energies of electrons, positrons and photons and seperates them from hadrons. Currently, there are 5 dead cells in the ECAL, which affect the reconstructed energy of 4.2%of total events in the ECAL acceptance. When an electromagnetic shower axis is close to the ECAL border, due to the side leakage, the reconstructed energy is affected as well. In this paper, methods for dead cells and side leakage corrections for the ECAL energy reconstruction are presented. For events with the shower axis crossing dead cells,applying dead cell correction improves the difference in the reconstructed energy from 12% to 1%, while for events near the ECAL border, with side leakage correction it is improved from 4% to 1%.     

ILC activity at JINR

JINR is an active participant in the massive new international project ILC. JINR physicists are taking part in several fields of activity in the International Linear Collider (ILC), such as work on the photo injector prototype, the design and construction of cryomodules, laser metrology, cryodiagnostics, etc. The Joint Institute is one of the potential candidates for hosting the ILC, near Dubna, Russia. The status and progress of the above topics are discussed in the report. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

A gas calorimeter for use at 10.6 μm

An SF₆ gas calorimeter has been developed and used operationally in a large aperture, multijoule, short-pulse, CO₂ laser system. Pressure rises rather than temperature rises are measured in the absorbing cell. Measured pressure sensitivities of 20 pascal/joule are in good agreement with the calculated values.     

NLO event generation for chargino production at the ILC

We present a Monte Carlo event generator for simulating chargino pair production at the International Linear Collider (ILC) at next-to-leading order in the electroweak couplings. By properly resumming photons in the soft and collinear regions, we avoid negative event weights, so the program can simulate physical (unweighted) event samples. Photons are explicitly generated throughout the range where they can be experimentally resolved. Inspecting the dependence on the cutoffs separating the soft and collinear regions, we evaluate the systematic errors due to soft and collinear approximations. In the resummation approach, the residual uncertainty can be brought down to the per-mil level, coinciding with the expected statistical uncertainty at the ILC. PACS 12.15.Lk; 13.40.Ks; 13.66.Hk; 14.80.Ly     

Studying very light gravitino at the ILC

A collider signal with a stable gravitino of O(10) eV mass at the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiment is investigated. Such a light gravitino is generally predicted in the low-scale gauge mediation scenario of the supersymmetry breaking. We particularly focus on the case that the next lightest supersymmetric particle is stau, which eventually decays into a gravitino and a τ-lepton. With such a small gravitino mass, the lifetime of the stau is ¹⁰−15-¹⁰−11 s, and the produced stau decays before reaching the first layer of the inner detector of the ILC. It is shown, however, that the lifetime can be determined from the distribution of the impact parameter, which is obtained by observing charged tracks caused by decay products of the τ-lepton. This measurement also enables us to estimate the mass of the gravitino and determine the scale of the supersymmetry breaking. Based on a simulation study, we found that the lifetime can be measured when it is longer than ∼¹⁰−14 s and the stau mass is about 100 GeV.     

Method for identifying low-energy antiprotons using the electromagnetic position-sensitive calorimeter of the PAMELA spectrometer

The PAMELA experiment on the study of cosmic rays in a wide energy range was performed onboard the Resurs-DK1 spacecraft from June 2006 to February 2016. The data on antiproton fluxes in the near-Earth space play an important role for this field of physics. Their detection by the PAMELA spectrometer is possible using two independent detectors: the track system in a magnetic field and the position-sensitive calorimeter (in the low-energy region, <1 GeV). The presented technique for identifying antiprotons is based on the analysis of tracks of the antiproton and secondary charged mesons produced during its annihilation in the calorimeter. This technique allows identification of antiprotons with energies of 200–800 MeV, independently confirming the data of a magnetic analysis and increasing the statistics due to the larger geometrical factor of the calorimeter in comparison with a track system.     

Signals of leptophilic dark matter at the ILC

Adopting a model independent approach, we constrain the various effective interactions of leptophilic DM particles with the visible world from the WMAP and Planck data. The thermally averaged indirect DM annihilation cross section and the DM–electron direct-detection cross section for such a DM candidate are observed to be consistent with the respective experimental data. We study the production of cosmologically allowed leptophilic DM in association with \(Z\, (Z\rightarrow f\bar{f})\), \(f\equiv q,\,e^-,\, \mu ^-\) at the ILC. We perform the \(\chi ^2\) analysis and compute the 99% C.L. acceptance contours in the \(m_\chi \) and \(\varLambda \) plane from the two-dimensional differential distributions of various kinematic observables obtained after employing parton showering and hadronisation to the simulated data. We observe that the dominant hadronic channel provides the best kinematic reach of 2.62 TeV (\(m_\chi \) = 25 GeV), which further improves to \(\sim \)3 TeV for polarised beams at \(\sqrt{s} = 1\) TeV and an integrated luminosity of 1 ab\(^{-1}\).     

Detecting metastable staus and gravitinos at the ILC

A study of various SUSY scenarios is presented in which the lightest supersymmetric particle is the gravitino and the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle is a scalar tau with lifetimes ranging from seconds to years. Gravitinos are interesting dark matter candidates which can be produced in decays of heavier sparticles at the International Linear Collider (ILC), but remain undetected in direct searches of astrophysical experiments. We investigate the detection and measurement of metastable staus, which may be copiously produced at the ILC either directly or via cascade decays. A proper choice of the experimental conditions will allow one to collect large samples of s coming to rest in the calorimeters of the ILC detector and to study the subsequent decays . Detailed simulations show that the properties of the stau and the gravitino, such as mass and lifetime and mass, can be accurately determined at a future ILC and may provide direct access to the gravitational coupling, respectively Planck scale.