ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting

Monday 14 Jun 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

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Frank Geurts (Rice University), Roberto Preghenella (INFN Bologna), Thomas Hemmick (Stony Brook University)

ATHENA Particle Identification Working Group

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1 Weekly news

Conveners briefly update with news, comments and new directions from the Steering Committee (if any).

Roundtable updates

Updates from the main efforts with details about the progress in the activity. Please, be short and prepare a few (maximum three) slides focusing on what has been achieved since the last meeting.

2 DIRC

Advice on design, simulation, performance issues

Speakers: Grzegorz Kalicy (CUA), Joe Schwiening (GSI)

3 mRICH

Simulation & performance studies

Speaker: Murad Sarsour (Georgia State University)

Silvia: to me projective geometry increases effective dead area

understand the separation plot

PID group decide one method to compare, which is the same for all PID detectors.

there is something in beween projective and flat

4 dRICH

5 Low momentum PID with GridPix

Speaker: Prakhar Garg (Stony Brook University)

GridPIX_Update-20210614.pdf

Nsigma stays large beyond 500 MeV, does it mean you can make it shorter?
in principle, but need to look into detailed calculations.

in the 500 MeV dEdx device, what is the advantage wrt. TOF? 
what we need to evaluate.

size of the beyond 6 GeV device? 40-50 cm in active gas.

Elke: it should be a RICH in the barrel

 

6 Low momentum PID with TOF

Speaker: Wenqing Fan

210614_LGAD_ATHENA_PID.pdf

7 B field impact on forward RICH

Speaker: Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste (IT))

chchatte_20210614.pdf

8 DAQ

Gathering DAQ requirements from PID WG

Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB)

9 LGADs for TOF-PID

simulation & performance studies, design, cost estimate etc.

Speakers: Shuai Yang (Rice University), Prof. Wei Li (Rice University)

10 SiPM for RICH optical readout

R&D on SiPM as an option for the readout of the forward RICH

Speaker: Roberto Preghenella (INFN Bologna)

11 Pressurised argon for the gaseous RICH

mechanical studies and simulations for a pressurised argon vessel for the forward gas RICH

first meeting with safety guy at BNL (Michael).

high-p RICH request has to be followed with care, but it is not a dramatic one.

need help from engineers from the lab for initial design of the object.

people are happy to continue helping

12 LAPPD option for photon readout

R&D on LAPPD detectors must not be forgotten

Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)

starting with new post-doc in november.

getting basic electronics

13 Barrel eCal with tracking and timing capability

Speakers: Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

SiWCalo-PIDMeeting-06142021.pdf

hybrid digital imaging calo with timing layers.

asking for pixellisation, timing resolution, ...

have you considered this in the e-arm?

AstroPix able to stream? don't think so.

Presentations

This is time devoted to a longer discussion with a presentation of work done or to be done, if there is any and if there is the need for that.

14 AoB

In case there is any other business to discuss, we can take it here. If discussion takes longer than 5 minutes, it means that it needs a proper space and will be point for next week.