GRK 1039:  Development and Application of Intelligent Detectors

• Subject Area: Particles, Nuclei and Fields
• Term: from 2004 to 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 374897

• Final Report Year: 2014

Final Report Abstract

The IRTG “Development and Application of Intelligent Detectors” aimed at making significant contributions to current and future large scale particle and nuclear physics experiments by combining and enhancing the interaction among the various specialists that are needed to design, build, operate and analyze the data of these experiments. The IRTG in particular fostered work on the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS and LHCb as well as on experiments at GSI facilities like FOPI. In addition, several detector R&D programs for future particle and nuclear physics experiments were initiated and put forward during the time of the IRTG; these include work within the CALICE collaboration on the design of a high-granular imaging hadron calorimeter, research for the new Mu3e experiment at PSI and the development of timing detector for the future CBM experiment at FAIR. During the nine years of funding the IRTG was operated very smoothly and effective and reached all its main goals as stated in the application, i.e.: • The IRTG provided the framework to connect the different cultures involved in the design and operation of modern detection systems. In brought together people specialized in detector design, analog and digital electronics, data taking, data handling and data analysis. • Within the framework of the IRTG important contributions to major detector systems of several particle physics experiments were made. Among these are: – the first level calorimeter trigger of ATLAS, – the Level 1 Track Trigger for ATLAS, – the outer tracker of LHCb, – the transition radiation detector of ALICE, – the high level trigger of ALICE, – the time-of-flight system of CBM. • IRTG students centrally participated in a wealth of analyses studying the data taken with the above detectors and experiments. • The IRTG identified ways to enhance the knowledge transfer among the participants and optimize the mutual education. • The IRTG provided a network that allows to easily find experts at the interface of experimental particle and nuclear physics to information technologies. • The IRTG fostered participation in new R&D projects and helped to combine the existing experience to initiate new ideas and experiments (e.g. Mu3e) The IRTG has clearly demonstrated its supporting and integrating role by helping the participating communities to foster their communication and to gain from each others expertise. In addition, it helped to identify strategies to optimize this sometimes very difficult process, something which is of particular interest also for future activities. One of the most efficient tools emerging from the IRTG are the so called “hands-on” courses introduced during the second funding period. By allowing students to directly work with the tools and materials (detectors, readout components, analysis tools) of other involved groups many of the abstract concepts become much clearer and are much easier understood. At the same time, also many supposedly trivial problems that never show up in any of the standard lectures are addressed and help to generate the awareness for the complexity of detector technologies. Last but not least, the common work in small groups results in a much improved communication among the participants of the courses.

Publications

• “Application of MPPC to positron emission tomography,” PoS PD 07 (2006) 006
  N. D’Ascenzo, E. Garutti and A. Tadday,
  
• “Application of novel silicon-based photo-detector to calorimetry and medical physics,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2007 (2007), Vol. 3, 2019
  E. Garutti, N. D. Ascenzo, M. Gottlich, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and A. Tadday
  
• “Application of the Micro Pixel Photon Counter to Calorimetry and PET,” Workshop on New Developments in Photodetection (NDIP07), Perugia, Italien (2007)
  N. D’Ascenzo, E. Garutti, M. Gottlich, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and A. Tadday
  
• “Study of Micro Pixel Photon Counter for the Application to Positron Emission Tomography,” DESY 08-047
  N. D’Ascenzo, E. Garutti, M. Goettlich, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and A. Tadday
  
• “A Low-cost Multi-channel Analogue Signal Generator,” CERN-2009-006.566
  F. Mueller
  
• “An approach to system-wide fault tolerance for FPGAs,” FPL09 conference, Pages 467-471, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009, ISBN: 978- 1-4244-3892-1
  J. Gebelein, H. Engel and U. Kebschull
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2009.5272477)
• “Application of Multi-Pixel Photon Counter to Positron Emission Tomography,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2008 (2008) 3119
  M. Gottlich, E. Garutti, V. Kozlov, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, A. Tadday and A. Terkulov
  
• “ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger: Timing Calibration with 2009 LHC Beam Splashes,” ATL-DAQ-PUB-2010-001
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• “Beam test results of two kinds of high-rate multi-gap resistive plate chambers,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2009 (2009) 684
  Y. Wang, J. Wang, X. Zhu, Y. Li, J. Cheng, N. Herrmann, I. Deppner and Y. Zhang et al.
  
• “Measurement of the in-medium K0 inclusive cross section in pi-induced reactions at 1.15-GeV/c,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 182501
  M. L. Benabderrahmane et al. [FOPI Collaboration]
  
• “Multi-strip MRPCs for FOPI,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 602 (2009) 679
  A. Schuttauf, M. Ciobanu, K. D. Hildenbrand, M. Kis, I. Deppner, N. Herrmann, Y. J. Kim and T. I. Kang et al.
  
• “Overview of Studies on the SPIROC Chip Characterisation
  R. Fabbri, B. Lutz and W. Shen
  
• “Silicon Photomultiplier integrated readout chip (SPIROC) for the ILC: Measurements and possible further development,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2009 (2009) 42
  S. Callier, F. Dulucq, R. Fabbri, C. de La Taille, B. Lutz, G. Martin-Chassard, L. Raux and W. Shen
  
• “STIC - A Current Mode Constant Fraction Discriminator for Positron Emission Tomography using SiPMs (MPPC),” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2009 (2009) 364
  W. Shen and H.C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “Time based readout of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) for time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET),” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2009 (2009) 1212
  P. Jarron, E. Auffray, S. E. Brunner, M. Despeisse, E. Garutti, M. Goettlich, H. Hillemanns and P. Lecoq et al.
  
• “Verbesserung der Strahlentoleranz von FPGAs für Experimente der Hochenergiephysik,” ZuE 2009 (Zuverlässigkeit und Entwurf) 3. GMM/GI/ITG-Symposium, GMM-Fachbericht 61, Pages 37-44, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009
  J. Gebelein, H. Engel and U. Kebschull
  
• "Influence of the calorimeter granularity on the dijet mass resolution", ATL-COM-PHYS-2010-206
  T. Dietzsch, V. Lendermann, F. Rühr, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “A fast track trigger for ATLAS at Super-LHC,” JINST 5 (2010) C07013
  S. Schmitt and A. Schöning
  
• “Application of silicon photomultipliers to calorimetry and positron emission tomography,” PoS PD 09 (2010) 009
  M. Gottlich, E. Garutti, A. Tadday and H. -C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “Characterisation studies of silicon photomultipliers for a calorimeter for the ILC,” PoS PD 09 (2010)
  A. Tadday, P. Eckert, W. Shen, H. -C. Schultz-Coulon, R. Stamen, K. Prothmann, F. Simon and C. Kiesling et al.
  
• “Characterisation Studies of Silicon Photomultipliers,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 620 (2010) 217
  P. Eckert, H. -C. Schultz-Coulon, W. Shen, R. Stamen and A. Tadday
  
• “Development of multi-gap resistive plate chambers with low-resistive silicate glass electrodes for operation at high particle fluxes and large transported charges,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 621 (2010) 151
  J. -B. Wang, Y. Wang, X. Zhu, W. -C. Ding, Y. Li, J. Cheng, N. Herrmann and I. Deppner et al.
  
• “FPGA Fault Tolerance in Particle Physics Experiments,” it - Information Technology 52 (2010) Heft 4 Schwerpunktthema, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Pages 195-200
  J. Gebelein, H. Engel and U. Kebschull
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1524/itit.2010.0591)
• “FPGA fault tolerance in radiation susceptible environments,” RADECS 2010, Proceedings Paper S7-2, Austria, 2010
  J. Gebelein, H. Engel and U. Kebschull
  
• “Lepton-independent search strategy for semi-classical black holes at the LHC,” ATLAS internal note, ATL-COM- PHYS-2010-252
  G. Heuermann, M. Henke, V. Lendermann, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “Search for new physics in multi-body final states at high invariant masses with ATLAS,” ATLAS-CONF-2010-088
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• “Virtual machine scheduling in special-purpose clusters,” SNA+MC Proceedings, Tokio, Japan, 2010
  S. Boettger, T. Breitner, C. Lara, U. Kebschull and V. Lindenstruth
  
• "Impact of Non-Factorisation Effects on the Absolute Luminosity Calibration for the March 2011 van der Meer-Scans", ATL-COM-LUM-2013-001
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• , “Search for New Phenomena in Monojet plus Missing Transverse Momentum Final States using 1 fb^−1 of pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector,” ATLAS-CONF-2011-096
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• Search for new phenomena with the monojet and √ missing transverse momentum signature using the ATLAS detector in √s = 7 TeV protonproton collisions,” Phys. Lett. B 705 (2011) 294
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  
• “A multi-strip multi-gap RPC barrel for time-of-flight measurements,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 646 (2011) 27
  M. Kis, M. Ciobanu, I. Deppner, K. D. Hildenbrand, N. Herrmann, T. I. Kang, Y. J. Kim and P. Koczon et al.
  
• “Autonomous system management for the ALICE high-level-trigger cluster using the SysMES framework,” J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 331 (2011) 052003
  S. Boettger et al. [ALICE HLT Collaboration]
  
• “Exploiting the ALICE HLT for PROOF by scheduling of virtual machines,” J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 331 (2011) 072054
  M. Meoni, S. Boettger, P. Zelnicek, V. Lindenstruth and U. Kebschull
  
• “Jet production measurement with the ATLAS detectorÂt’Ât’, Physics at the LHC, Perugia, 2011
  Felix Müller
  
• “Measurement of D∗± meson production and determination of F2cc¯ at low Q2 in deep-inelastic scattering at HERA”
  A. W. Jung, E. Hennekemper, M. Herbst, K. Krüger, V. Lendermann, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, K. Urban
  
• “Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector,” Eur. Phys. J. C 71 (2011) 1512
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  
• “Search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in p p collisions at √s = 7 T eV measured with the ATLAS detector,” PoS EPS -HEP2011 (2011) 430
  T. Dietzsch [ATLAS Collaboration]
  
• “Search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in p p collisions at √s = 7 T eV measured with the ATLAS detector,” XXV International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies, Mumbai, India, 2011, ATL-PHYS-PROC-2011-257
  T. Dietzsch [ATLAS Collaboration]
  
• “Search for squarks and gluinos using final states with jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in s√ = 7 TeV protonproton collisions,” Phys. Lett. B 701 (2011) 186
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  
• PoS PhotoDet 2012 (2012) 004
  P. Eckert, R. Stamen and H. -C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “A Free-Streaming Readout for the CBM Time of Flight wall,” PoS RPC 2012 (2012) 082
  P. A. Loizeau and N. Herrmann
  
• “A glass type Multistrip-MRPC prototype for the low rate region of the CBM Time-of-Flight wall,” JINST 7 (2012) P10008 [PoS RPC 2012 (2012) 016]
  I. Deppner, N. Herrmann, M. Ciobanu, J. Fruhauf, M. Kis, P. A. Loizeau, K. Wisniewski and C. Xiang
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/10/P10008)
• “Determination of the strange quark density of the proton from ATLAS measurements of the W → lν and Z → ll cross sections,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 012001
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.012001)
• “High counting rate, two-dimensional position sensitive timing RPC,” JINST 7 (2012) P11003 [PoS RPC 2012 (2012) 067]
  M. Petrovici, M. Petris, V. Simion, D. Bartos, G. Caragheorgheopol, F. Constantin, L. Radulescu and J. Adamczewski-Musch et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/11/P11003)
• “KLauS - A Charge Readout and Fast Discrimination Readout ASIC for Silicon Photomultipliers,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2012 (2012) 1469
  T. Harion, W. Shen, G. Sidlauskas, K. Briggl, M. Dorn and H. C. Schultz-Coulon
  
• “Letter of Intent for the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment,” CERN-LHCC-2012-022; LHCC-I-023 (2012)
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• “Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 014022
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.014022)
• “Measurement of the B0s − B'0s oscillation frequency ∆ms 0 − in B0s → D's (3)π decays,” Phys. Lett. B 709 (2012) 177
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  
• “Measurement of the CP-violating phase φs in the decay B0s → J/ψφ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 101803
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  
• “Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in pp collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV and comparison to the inclusive jet cross section at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector,” ATLAS-CONF-2012-128
  ATLAS Collaboration
  
• “STiC - A Mixed Mode Chip for SiPM ToF Applications,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2012 (2012) 877
  W. Shen, K. Briggl, H. Chen, P. Fischer, A. Gil, T. Harion, M. Ritzert and H. C. Schultz- Coulon
  
• “Study of the Response and Photon- Counting Resolution of Silicon Photomultipliers using a Generic Simulation Framework,” JINST 7 (2012) P08011
  P. Eckert, R. Stamen and H. C. Schultz-Coulon
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/08/P08011)
• “The ATLAS Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger: PreProcessor implementation and performance,” JINST 7 (2012) P12008
  B. Asman, R. Achenbach, B. M. M. Allbrooke, G. Anders, V. Andrei, V. Buscher, H. S. Bansil and B. M. Barnett et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/7/12/P12008)
• “The CBM time-of-flight wall,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 661 (2012) S121
  I. Deppner, N. Herrmann, D. Gonzalez-Diaz, V. Ammosov, J. Cheng, M. Ciobanu, V. Gapienko and K. D. Hildenbrand et al.
  
• “The upgrade of the PreProcessor system of the ATLAS level-1 calorimeter trigger,” JINST 7 (2012) C12026
  V. Andrei, P. Hanke, J. Jongmanns, A. Khomich, K. Meier, K. Schmitt, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and R. Stamen et al.
  
• “Toward a high granularity and high counting rate, differential readout timing MRPC,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 661 (2012) S129
  M. Petris, M. Petrovici, V. Simion, D. Bartos, G. Caragheorgheopol, I. Deppner, K. Doroud and N. Herrmann et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.162)
• "Standard Model Measurements with ATLAS", HEP-MAD 13, Antananarivo, Madagaskar, September 2013
  J. Hofmann
  
• Gain calibration of the ALICE TRD using the decay of 83m Kr by internal conversion,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 706 (2013)
  J. Stiller [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “D meson elliptic flow in non-central Pb-Pb collisions at √sN N = 2.76TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 102301
  B. Abelev et al. [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “Energy Loss Signals in the ALICE TRD,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 706 (2013) 16
  X. -G. Lu [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “Jet Measurements with ATLASÂt’Ât’, Low-X Workshop, Rehovot, Israel, Juni 2013
  F. Müller
  
• “Luminosity Determination in p+p Collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector in 2011Ât’Ât’, ATL-COM-LUM-2013-004
  
  
• “Measurement of CP violation and the B_s^0 meson decay width difference with B_s^0\to J/ψK^+ K^- and B_s^0\to J/ψπ^+π^- decays”, Phys. Rev. D 87 (2013)
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  
• “Measurement of Direct Photons in pp and Pb-Pb Collisions with ALICE,” Nucl. Phys. A 904-905 (2013) 573c
  M. Wilde [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “Measurement of Direct-Photon Elliptic Flow in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sN N = 2.76 TeV,” J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 446 (2013) 012028
  D. Lohner [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV and comparison to the inclusive jet cross section at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector,” Eur. Phys. J. C 73 (2013) 2509
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2509-4)
• “Measurement of the polarization amplitudes in B^0 → J/ψK^∗ (892)^0 decays,” Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 052002
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  
• “Performance of jet substructure techniques for large-R jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector,” JHEP 1309 (2013) 076
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2013)076)
• “Physics performance studies for the ALICE inner tracker upgrade,” J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 446 (2013) 012052
  J. Stiller [ALICE Collaboration]
  
• “Search for direct chargino production in anomalymediated supersymmetry breaking models based on a disappearing-track signature in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” JHEP 1301 (2013) 131
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)131)
• “Search for resonances decaying into top-quark pairs using fully hadronic decays in pp collisions with ATLAS at √s = 7 TeV,” JHEP 1301 (2013) 116
  G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)116)
• “Searches for violation of lepton flavour and baryon number in tau lepton decays at LHCb,” Phys. Lett. B 724 (2013) 36
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.05.063)
• “STiC2 - characterization results of a SiPM readout ASIC for time-of-flight applications,” IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. 2013 (2013) 1
  63] W. Shen, K. Briggl, H. Chen, P. Fischer, A. Gil, T. Harion, M. Ritzert, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and V. Stankova
  
• “The online data pre-processing for CBM-TOF,” JINST 8 (2013) P02002
  C. Z. Xiang, N. Herrmann, I. Deppner, P. A. Loizeau, K. Wisniewski, Y. P. Zhang, D. C. Zhou and J. Frühauf et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/02/P02002)
• “Benchmarking an Even Better HEPTopTagger,” Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 074047
  C. Anders, C. Bernaciak, G. Kasieczka, T. Plehn and T. Schell
  
• “First measurement of dE/dx with a GEM-based TPC,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 737 (2014) 214
  Böhmer, F. V. ; Ball, M. ; Dørheim, S. ; Eckstein, K. ; Hönle, A. ; Höppner, C. ; Ketzer, B. ; Konorov, I. et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.094)
• “KLauS: an ASIC for silicon photomultiplier readout and its application in a setup for production testing of scintillating tiles,” JINST 9 (2014) C02013
  K. Briggl, M. Dorn, R. Hagdorn, T. Harion, H. C. Schultz-Coulon and W. Shen
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/C02013)
• “Measurement of the track reconstruction efficiency at LHCb”
  R. Aaij et al. [LHCb Collaboration]
  
• “Neutral pion production at midrapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √sN N = 2.76 TeV”
  B. B. Abelev et al. [ALICE Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3108-8)
• “PADI, an Ultrafast Preamplifier - Discriminator ASIC for Time-of- Flight Measurements,” Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on , vol.61 (2014), no.2, pp.1015-1023
  M. Ciobanu, N. Herrmann, K.D. Hildenbrand, M. Kis, A. Schuttauf, H. Flemming, H. Deppe and S. Lochner et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2014.2305999)
• “Performance of the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC”
  B. B. Abelev et al. [ALICE Collaboration]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X14300440)
• “Performance of the LHCb Outer Tracker,” JINST 9 (2014) P01002
  R. Arink et al. [LHCb Outer Tracker group]
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/01/P01002)
• “SiΛvio: A trigger for Λ-hyperons,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 745 (2014) 38
  R. Münzer, M. Berger, L. Fabbietti, R. Averbeck, A. Andronic, V. Barret, Z. Basrak and N. Bastid et al.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.050)
• “STiC âĂŤ a mixed mode silicon photomultiplier readout ASIC for time-of-flight applications,” JINST 9 (2014) C02003
  T. Harion, K. Briggl, H. Chen, P. Fischer, A. Gil, V. Kiworra, M. Ritzert, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, W. Shen and V. Stankova
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/9/02/C02003)
• “Technical Design Report for the Upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System,” J. Phys. G 41 (2014) 087002
  ALICE Collaboration
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/41/8/087002)
• "Measurements of W±Z production cross sections in pp collisions at √s=8  TeV with the ATLAS detector and limits on anomalous gauge boson self-couplings". Phys. Rev. D 93, 092004 – Published 13 May 2016, 36 S.
  G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.092004)