INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Review on the R&D Activities within the RD51 Collaboration Kondo Gnanvo on Behalf of the RD5 Collaboration
Outline ▪ Introduction to the RD51 Collaboration INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, ▪ Reviews of RD51 Working Groups & Activities ▪ Highlight & Achievements ▪ Future R&D & Flagship Technologies ▪ Conclusion 2
Brief History of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) & the RD51 Collaboration Start ~ 2010 with R&D white paper RD51 INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, renewed for 2009 2014 2019 1988 1996 1997 2000 2002 3rd term MSGC GEM µPIC THGEM µRWELL Micromegas Supported by a collaboration of people & Institutes with the GERN GDD lab at its core MPGD Technologies in HEP, NP experiments and beyond: ❖ GEMs ⇨ COMPASS Trackers, CMS Muon Upgrade, ALICE TPC, KLOE2 CGEM, SBS GEMs (JLab), STAR FGT (BNL). ESS n- Detection … ❖ Micromegas ⇨ COMPASS Trackers, ATLAS Muon Upgrade, CLAS12 MVT (JLab), T2K TPC, Muon Radiography … ❖ THGEMs ⇨ COMPASS RICH upgrade, LBNO-DEMO, AT-TPC (NSCL) 3
Diversity of MPGDs Micro Gap Wire Chamber Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) Micro Mesh Gaseous Structure Micro Wire Chamber INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, NIMA 398 (1997) 195 F. Sauli, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A386(1997)531 Micro Groove Y. Giomataris, NIMA 419 (1998) 239 B. Adeva et al., NIMA 435 (1999) 402 MicroWELL m -PIC Micro Gap Chambers MicroDot R. Bellazzini , NIMA 424 (1999) 444 R. Bellazzini, NIMA 423 (1999) 125 Angelini F., NIMA 335:69 (1993) Ochi et al NIMA 471 (2001) 264 Biagi SF, Jones TJ. NIM A361:72 (1995) 4
RD51 objectives and achievements Advance the technological development and application of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) and contribute to the dissemination of these technologies. INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Development Dissemination Tools and facilities Common infrastructures High-Energy Physics (GDD lab, common test beam) ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, Compass, KLOE, BESIII, SBS, EIC Exploit existing technologies Detectors Large size single-mask GEMs Electronics Resistive Micromegas Fundamental research beyond HEP (Scalable Readout System SRS, instrumentation) LBNO-DEMO, active-target TPCs Develop novel technologies Simulation μPIC , μR -WELL, GRIDPIX Beyond fundamental research (Garfield, Magboltz, Degrad, neBEM) Muon radiography, n-detection, X-ray radiographies 5
RD51 Working Groups WG1: Technologies & New structures ⇨ R&D support for experiments and LHC upgrades WG2: Characterization & Detector physics INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, WG3: Training and dissemination WG4: Software & Simulation Tools WG5: Readout Electronics (RD51 SRS) WG6: MPGD Production & Industrialization WG7: RD51 Lab and Test-Beam Infrastructure 6
RD51 Working Groups & Its Environment Expertise & people Tools & facilities Activities Detector CERN GDD team GDD Lab MPT Workshop Generic R&D physics Thin Film Lab INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Meetings & RD51 groups Test Beams Simulation Tools Industrialization Electronics conferences 7
RD51 Achievements and Highlights ❑ Consolidation of the Collaboration and MPGD community integration (90 Institutes, ~500 members); Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, AIMEs, Schools, Lectures, Trainings ❑ Major progress in the MPGD technologies development in particular large area GEM (single mask), MicroMegas (resistive), THGEM; some picked up by experiments (including LHC upgrades); INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, ❖ ALICE, TPC read-out, ~ 500 m2 of GEM foils ❖ ATLAS, small wheels, 1200 m2 to be instrumented ❖ CMS, GE1/1 forward detectors, 250 m2 of GEM foils ❖ COMPASS RICH, 4.5 m2 to be instrumented, single photon detection ❑ Secured future of the MPGD technologies development through the EP-DT-MPT workshop upgrade and FP7 AIDA & AIDA2020 contribution; ❑ Contacts with industry for large volume production, MPGD industrialization and first industrial runs; ❑ Major improvement of the MPGD simulation software framework for small structures allowing first applications; ❑ Development of common, scalable readout electronics (SRS) (many developers and > 50 user groups); Production (PRISMA company and availability through CERN store); Industrialization (re-design of SRS in ATCA in EISYS); SRS Technology CERN spin-off, APV and VMM interfacing. ❑ Infrastructure for common RD51 test beam and lab facilities (>20 user groups) 8
WG1: Technologies & New Structures Development of large area detectors driven by RD51 & LHC Experiments Upgrades Large GEM ⇨ single masks; Large & spark-resistant Micromegas ⇨ Resistive; single photon Detector THGEM + Micromegas ⇨ Hybrid MPGDs; CMS Muon system upgrade ALICE TPC upgrade ATLAS NSW upgrade COMPASS RICH upgrade INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, GEM GEM Micromegas THGEM + Micromegas 9
WG1: Technologies & New Structures New Large Area Thin Detectors Calorimetry with MPGD New Materials (Glass GEM) INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, The Latest Results of Crystalized Glass GEM, Y. Mitsuia, RD51 miniweek (GDD/RD51 lab) Fast Timing Resistive Material Neutrons Detection B10 ≈50phe ≈50phe Gd A. Ochi 10
WG2: Common characterization & Detector Physics ALICE TPC IBF INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Discharge studies ALICE/CMS 11
WG3: Training & dissemination INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, 12
WG4: Modelling of Physics Processes and Software Tools INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, 13
WG5: Electronics - Scalable Readout System (SRS) A multi-purpose Scalable Readout INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, System with different front-end chips is developed and maintained in the RD51 collaboration. This simplifies detector R&D and can be scaled from small • prototypes to operational Dedicated community built around FE Hybrids: APV25, experiments. detector electronics VMM3, VFAT, SAMPA … • Fully supported by RD51 collaboration H. Müller, Development of multi-channel readout system optimized for gaseous detectors https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/7435/material/1/4.pdf 14
WG5: Wide deployment of the SRS SRS+SiPM (NEXT TPC) SRS & APV25 (PRad JLab) SRS for R&D on Detectors PRad e-p scattering experiment in Summer 2016 @ JLab (HallB) INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, ▪ PRad GEMs with APV25-SRS SRS-FEC+TOTEM DAQ (9k strip read out) ▪ Large scale SRS to run in an experiment ⇨ > 9k e- Ch, ▪ @ a trigger rate = 4 kHz ▪ Untold success story of SRS SRS for experiments (ATCA) SRS crate / SRU combo SRS+Timepix (LC-TPC) – Bonn/Desy 2015 15
WG5: Lab Equipment developed by The RD51 community INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, 16
WG6: Production - MPT Workshop ❑ State-of-the-art facility pioneering MPGD technologies through advanced manufacturing techniques ❑ Contributing to generic R&D and large volume production for upgrades of LHC experiments INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, New building with advanced capabilities Rui De Oliveira et al., Micro-Pattern Technologies https://ep-dep-dt.web.cern.ch/micro-pattern-technologies 17
WG6: Industrialization INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, 18
WG7: Common Facilities - GDD Lab INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Hosting groups from RD51 and providing access to facilities ❑ MPGD Detectors ❑ Gas system and services ❑ Readout electronics (std and custom RD51 SRS&APV) ❑ Radioactive Sources & X-ray tubes ❑ Cosmic stand ❑ Interface with CERN services (RP, gas, metrology, irradiation facilities,…) Clean Rooms Acting as interface to Thin Film Lab & MPT workshop at CERN 19
WG7: Common Facilities - Test beam Facilities Control Room Storage Area INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, Gaz Area ▪ Test beam periods at EHN1-H4 North Area ▪ shared between RD51 groups Experimental Area (H4) ▪ Typically 3 periods of 2 weeks / per year Examples of the test beam user teams ~ 30 groups in total with several running in parallel CMS (GEM) WIS/A/C (WELL, THGEM) ATLAS NSW (mm) BESS III & SHIP (GEM) LAPP/DEM/IRFU(µm) ALICE TPC (GEM & µm) 20
RD51 Breakthrough: Single Mask GEMs & NS2 Assembly Single Mask Techniques for large GEM foils production NS2 Triple GEM assembly technique ❖ Allow for the production of large GEM foils (> 50 cm x 50 cm) ❖ Mechanical stretching with small frames with the use of a ❖ Require single photo lithography mask on one side of the GEM foil set of screws, fittings for the stretching Progress on large area GEMs Serge Duarte Pinto et al., Jinst, November 26, 2009 during the different etching processes ❖ Control of the stretching and the flatness of the GEMs pioneered by CMS GEM Muon Upgrade collaboration & RD51 Cool ❖ Big step forward for current and future GEM project like CMS ❖ No glue involved: Chamber can be re-opened Muon detector upgrade, SBS and SoLID @ JLab, Muon Chamber ❖ No need for spacers in active area INSTR20 - February 24-28, BINP Novosibirsk, for PANDA @ FAIR ❖ BUT: Lots of screws and rigid supports to hold tension Rui De Oliveira, CERN PCB workshop [http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.5039v2.pdf] Limitation from mask alignment No alignment required ➩ max active area ~ 40 × 40 cm 2 ➩ Very large GEM foil 21
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