Since the entry to the precision era for the nuclear and high-energy physics communities, excellent particle detection capability is highly demanded for each part of the detection system. A homogeneous EM-Calorimeter could provide excellent energy resolution for electrons and photons in a wide dynamic range allowing rapidity coverage, particle containment and granularity. However, concerns of...
Many physics analyses use some form of AI/ML to identify physics objects such as jets and electrons and/or for whole event classification. However, such an approach has generally been taken a long time after the detector was designed and constructed. It is therefore relevant to question whether a proposed design of a future calorimeter is optimal for the application of AI/ML techniques. This...
Fermilab is one of the largest producers of organic scintillator in the world. Its scintillator has been used in a wide variety of applications including archeology, volcanology, mining exploration, agriculture, national security, as well as more traditional applications in HEP and Astro-particle physics. We will describe the scintillator extrusion facility and injection molding facility. We...
The Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) detector will serve as the first experiment of the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose primary purpose is to perform comprehensive studies of nuclear structure via electron-ion and electron-proton collisions. In order to investigate the gluon saturation regime at small values of the momentum fraction \textit{x}, as well...
Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) is an innovative material for constructing large-scale detectors in neutrino and dark matter research. The tunable light yield, enabled by an inline circulation system, allows for flexible detector optimization for different physics searches. With adequate photosensor coverage, detecting low-intensity light can reconstruct the momentum of energetic...
The CalVision project seeks to develop high resolution calorimetry for future lepton colliders with state-of-the-art performance for both electromagnetic and hadronic signatures using the dual readout technique. We seek to improve the hadronic energy resolution of homogeneous scintillating calorimeters through the measurement and separation of the scintillation and Cherenkov light in hadronic...
The Higgs physics goals of the future Higgs factories demand unprecedented precision. Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology applied to tracking and electromagnetic calorimetry (ECal) has excellent potential to achieve this precision. This technology offers high granularity, thin sensors, fast responses ($<$nsec), and small dead areas. Colliders with low duty cycles enable gaseous...
The Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) of the ePIC detector is designed to meet the unique challenges presented by the physics of the Electron-Ion Collider. For energy measurements of showers, the BIC employs scintillating fibers aligned parallel to the beam axis, utilizing lead absorbers and silicon photomultipliers for readout. The challenging requirements for separating electrons from pions,...
The LHCb experiment is planning its Upgrade II to align with the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) era, aiming to enhance its discovery potential through a combination of higher luminosity and increased detection efficiency for photons, $\pi^0$, electrons, and positrons. This powerful synergy promises to unlock new physics opportunities. Key to the success of this upgrade are three critical...
Dual readout calorimeters and noble gas time projection chambers require accurate modelling of Cerenkov photons to determine energy resolution and timing uncertainty of the detectors. Due to the high multiplicity of optical photons in a single event, fast parameterizations are often used to improve computational throughput at the cost of precision. Leveraging GPU hardware can make full optical...
The Longitudinally Segmented Forward Hadronic Calorimeter (LFHCal) is being designed for the ePIC detector at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). One of its main motivations is to reconstruct jet energies with high precision in the 1.2 < η < 3.5 rapidity range. The current design plans to use ~83k machined and ~480k injection molded scintillator tiles with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs)...
A Micromachined Radiation-Resistant Dense High Rate Calorimeter Sensor Prototype Using Secondary Emission
Burak Bilki3, Jace Beavers2,4, Daniel Cronin1, Aliko Mestvirishili3, Yasar Onel3, Christopher Sanzeni2, Elie Track2, James Wetzel3, David R Winn1,2,*
- Fairfield University, 2. nVizix LLC, 3. University of Iowa, 4. Los Alamos National Lab
- Corresponding Author:...
The High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) at CERN will provide unprecedented instantaneous and integrated luminosities of around 5 x 10^34 cm-2 s-1 and 3000/fb, respectively. The expected average of 140 to 200 collisions per bunch-crossing (pileup) represents a severe challenge for the detectors. In the barrel region of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), the lead tungstate...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a leading international project in neutrino science, aiming to address key questions in particle physics, including neutrino mass ordering, CP violation in the lepton sector, and searches for proton decay and supernova neutrinos. Neutron capture in argon releases a cascade of gamma rays, totaling 6.1 MeV, providing a "standard candle" for...
The Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) is a new sub-detector for ALICE to be installed during CERN LS3, optimized for measurements in the forward region. FoCal-H, the hadronic calorimeter component of this upgrade, is designed as a scintillating-fiber calorimeter. Its front-end electronics are based on the H2GCROC ASIC, which was originally developed for the CMS HGCAL collaboration to read out SiPM...
The Longitudinal Forward Hadronic Calorimeter (LFHCal) is a sampling hadronic calorimeter which will cover the forward (hadron-going) region from $1.2<\eta<3.5$ in the ePIC detector at the EIC. The physics goals of the EIC demand strong jet reconstruction performance in this region to investigate small momentum-fraction $x$ phenomena. To achieve this, the LFHCal is constructed from...
We present results from a parasitic test of a SiPM-on-tile calorimeter prototype conducted during the 2024 proton-proton (pp) run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. The prototype, measuring 20 x 20 cm² and comprising 400 channels, serves as a critical testbed for the design of the Electron-Ion Collider's (EIC) Zero-Degree Calorimeter (η > 6)...
Hadron calorimetry in collider experiments has long faced challenges due to significant fluctuations in the electromagnetic and neutral components of hadronic showers. To tackle these issues, a novel high-granularity, triple-readout calorimeter with fast timing capabilities—ADRIANO3—was developed. ADRIANO3 consists of a layered structure of heavy-glass tiles, plastic scintillator tiles, and...
Electromagnetic calorimetry in high-radiation environments presents significant challenges, particularly in forward regions of lepton and hadron collider detectors. The conventional solution is to construct a sampling calorimeter using radiation-hard active media, though this often compromises energy resolution. To address this issue, we developed a novel approach: secondary emission...
This project aims to advance the design of high-performance electromagnetic (EM) calorimeters for future particle physics experiments, particularly in high-luminosity environments with intense radiation and pileup conditions.The research builds on the RADiCAL (Radiation-hard and Compact) modular sampling calorimeter approach, which employs dense materials like LYSO:Ce scintillator plates...
Calorimeters with dual readout measure both scintillation and Cherenkov light produced in their active media. They offer improvements in energy resolution and, therefore, have become increasingly interesting due to the need for precision jet measurements at Higgs factories. We present GEANT4 simulations of single-particle responses in sampling and homogeneous calorimeters, and demonstrate the...
