The ALCOR day in Torino 2024 brought 15 among physicists and engineers in the renowned Gleb Wataghin room of the Physics Department of the University of Torino. They discussed about the ALCOR chip for the ePIC-dRICH detector in a fruitful meeting.
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The joint 2024 Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG) meeting and 5th semi-annual meeting of the ePIC Collaboration will take place at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from July 22nd to 28th, 2024.
The “Giornate Nazionali EIC_NET 2024” in Bologna are the sixth edition of a series of annual meetings, where the INFN groups interested in future experimentation at the Electron-Ion Collider discuss the current status and prospects of the Italian involvement in the international scientific project. Since the first meeting in Bari in 2019 the situation has evolved significantly. The ePIC Collaboration, responsible for the design, construction and operation of the main experiment at the EIC, was established in 2022. In February 2023 John Lajoie (Iowa University) and Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN Trieste) have been elected spokesperson and deputy spokesperson, respectively. By the end…
L’Electron Ion Collider è un futuro acceleratore di particelle che approfondir`a la nostra conoscenza riguardo l’interazione forte tramite la collisione di elettroni con nuclei e protoni. Uno dei progetti attualmente considerati per la costruzione del rivelatore, il dual-radiator RICH, prevede l’impiego di due radiatori Cherenkov, sui quali verranno montati dei fotorivelatori per rilevare l’emissione della luce Cherenkov e risalire alla massa delle particelle. L’opzione di base per questi rivelatori sono i sensori al silicio SiPM. Questo lavoro di tesi ha riguardato lo studio del trattamento termico per annealing di SiPM irraggiati precedentemente andando a studiare l’andamento della corrente di buio.
L’Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) è un acceleratore di particelle grazie al quale si studierà l’interazione forte tramite la collisione di elettroni con ioni e protoni. Uno dei rivelatori di Particle Identification (PID) che sarà installato, il dual-radiator RICH (dRICH), userà per la rivelazione di fotoni Cerenkov dei fotomoltiplicatori al silicio (SiPM). In questo lavoro di tesi si è studiato il danno da radiazioni subito da diversi SiPM dopo irraggiamento con protoni con un livello di irraggiamento pari a 109 MeV neq studiando la loro tensione di breakdown (VBD ) e il dark count rate (DCR) e come tali valori variano a…
The 4th semi-annual meeting of the ePIC Collaboration is scheduled to take place from January 9th to 13th, 2024, at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. The meeting will primarily be conducted in person, with broadcasts available over Zoom. The meeting agenda will include plenary sessions that provide status reports on the collaboration and the EIC project, parallel ‘workfest’ sessions, and a guided tour of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) facility and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne. The meeting’s overarching focus will revolve around planning for 2024, the Technical Design Report, and CD-2/3 preparations.
The Electron Ion Collider is a future particle accelerator that will be constructed in the United States. Its primary objective is to deepen our understanding of the strong interaction through collisions between highly polarized beams of electrons and atomic nuclei. The structure of the future detector includes a particle identification system based on Cherenkov light emission, a phenomenon that can be used to distinguish particles. For this specific detection task, a dual radiator ring imaging Cerenkov (dRICH) apparatus has been chosen, consisting of two radiators surrounded by silicon photomultipliers. The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an initial characterization…
Il futuro acceleratore di particelle EIC (Electron Ion Collider) approfondirà le nostre conoscenze riguardo l’interazione forte, analizzando collisioni di elettroni con nuclei e protoni. Il rivelatore dell’esperimento ePIC presso EIC prevede un sistema d’identificazione di particelle, per il quale è stato preso in considerazione il rivelatore dual-radiator RICH. Quest’ultimo impiega due radiatori e integrerà appositi fotosensori per rilevare l’emissione di luce Cherenkov e risalire alla massa delle particelle. I sensori al silicio SiPM sono i principali candidati come fotorivelatori. L’obiettivo di questo lavoro di tesi è la preparazione, la messa in funzione e la caratterizzazione di un set-up sperimentale per…
The 2023 Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG) meeting will take place in Warsaw, July 24th – 31st 2023. The meeting will be run in a hybrid mode with the in-person meeting at the University of Warsaw and remotely on Zoom. It will feature recent advances in the Electron-Ion Collider project, ePIC collaboration meeting, discussions on the second Detector, and a dedicated Early Career workshop.