S. Boi, A. Dyshkant, D. Hedin, E. Johnson, E. Prebys, P. Rubinov
{"title":"Hamamatsu PMT R7056 study for the extinction monitoring system of the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab","authors":"S. Boi, A. Dyshkant, D. Hedin, E. Johnson, E. Prebys, P. Rubinov","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581871","url":null,"abstract":"The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab proposes to search for the coherent neutrino-less conversion of muons to electrons in the presence of a nucleus. The experimental signature for an aluminum target is an isolated 105 MeV electron exiting the stopping target no earlier than ~700 ns after the pulse of proton beam hits the production target. Any protons that hit the production target in between the pulses can lead to fake conversion electrons during the measurement period. We define the beam extinction as the ratio of the number of protons striking the production target between pulses to the number striking the target during the pulses. It has been established that an extinction of approximately 10-10 is required to reduce the backgrounds to an acceptable level. It would be desirable to measure the extinction of the beam coming out of the accelerator in a minute or less. Studies for the fast extinction monitor based on Hamamatsu PMT R7056 is the subject of this presentation.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123442561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precision electromagnetic calorimetry at the highest energy and intensity proton-proton collider: CMS ECAL performance at LHC Run 2 and prospects for high luminosity LHC","authors":"A. Massironi","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581771","url":null,"abstract":"The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) started operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Spring 2015 with proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy and at a reduced bunch spacing of 25 ns. The instantaneous luminosity during LHC Run 2 is expected to exceed the levels achieved in LHC Run 1 significantly. In this talk we present new reconstruction algorithms and calibration strategies to maintain the superb performance of the CMS ECAL under these challenging conditions. We will show first performance results from the 2015 data taking period and give an outlook on the foreseen performance for Run 2. The current Run 2 of LHC is expected to accumulate a few hundred inverse femtobarn of proton-proton collisions before LHC will be upgraded to provide an even higher instantaneous luminosity, referred to as High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). HL-LHC is expected to provide a few inverse attobarn of integrated luminosity. This will result in even higher rates of simultaneous proton-proton collisions, called pile-up (PU), up to and exceeding 140 PU collisions. Likewise the physics event rates will increase further which requires upgrades to the readout and trigger electronics of the existing ECAL. We will briefly discuss the upgrade plans and present in detail the plans to combat the PU under these conditions. One promising technique is based on the very good time resolution the CMS ECAL provides. We present the current status of timing performance of the CMS ECAL, plans to improve this for the future and examples of how this can be used for PU mitigation.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131512768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Shapoval, M. Clemencic, B. Hegner, Daniel Funke, D. Piparo, P. Mato
{"title":"Graph-based decision making for task scheduling in concurrent Gaudi","authors":"I. Shapoval, M. Clemencic, B. Hegner, Daniel Funke, D. Piparo, P. Mato","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581843","url":null,"abstract":"The modern trend of extensive levels of hardware parallelism and heterogeneity pushes software to evolve through a paradigm shift towards concurrent data processing architectures. One such striking example in the domain of high-energy physics is represented by Gaudi - an experiment independent software framework, used in two of four major experiments of the Large Hadron Collider project, and in several others. The framework is responsible for event processing by means of hundreds of algorithms which have logical and data dependencies between each other. Historically, the framework was designed being inherently sequential, meaning that at any time of data processing there is only one event being processed and only one algorithm being executed on it. This allowed to respect the dependencies of algorithms by just organizing them in a well-defined execution path to be run on CPU. The evolution of the Gaudi framework into its concurrent incarnation, though, implies the necessity to split the execution path dynamically into subsets of algorithms to fill up efficiently the available computing resources. In this work we present a graph-based decision making system as a solution to the problem. The approach allows to form and control dynamically the order of concurrent algorithms' execution, restricted by the topology of their dependencies of any complexity level. Furthermore, we show the system's capability of configuration- and run-time planning for optimal resource usage, and discuss a few concrete scheduling strategies, that this approach exposes.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115598441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Randall, M. Ellis, K. Duroe, A. Jones, M. Joyce, C. Payne, P. Sellin, R. Speller
{"title":"RadICAL stack: A localisation method for dynamic gamma/neutron fields","authors":"G. Randall, M. Ellis, K. Duroe, A. Jones, M. Joyce, C. Payne, P. Sellin, R. Speller","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581900","url":null,"abstract":"A variation of the RadICAL (Radiation Imaging Cylinder Activity Locator) system capable of operating in a dynamic environment, such as that created by active interrogation techniques, has been developed. RadICAL is a novel method for locating a radiological source using a rotating detector element. The detector geometry is that of a thin sheet and is rotated to present a constantly changing surface area to the source; it therefore generates a characteristic temporal response which can be used to determine the source direction. The time required to determine the direction of a source make it unsuitable for dynamic environments and so an alternative method is presented that uses a stack of identical scintillator slabs positioned at fixed horizontal angles around a central axis. By comparing count rates from each slab to a standard response curve, using a specially developed algorithm, the direction of a source can be determined without the need to rotate the detector. EJ-299-33 plastic scintillator was used to allow detection of separate neutron and gamma events in a mixed field through pulse shape discrimination. A four element detector was built and shown to achieve a positional accuracy of approximately 4.4 degrees when exposed to a 1.44MBq 137 Cs source at distances of up to 2m. The same detector was used to discriminate separate neutron and gamma events in a mixed field, which allows for the possibility of locating a neutron source within a gamma rich environment.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132776378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breakdown voltage and triggering probability of SiPM from IV curves","authors":"A. Nagai, N. Dinu, A. Para","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581735","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a model describing the IV characteristics of SiPM detectors allowing to easily determine important physical parameters like breakdown voltage VBD and triggering probability PGeiger. The proposed model provides a good description of experimental data taken with SiPMs of different technologies (i.e. Hamamatsu HPK, KETEK) and geometries. Good agreement over a very wide range of current (i.e. 10-11A up to 10-4A) was observed between the experimental and calculated values. Silvaco TCAD simulation tool was used to acquire further insights into the physics behind the IV current and to identify the different components of DC current (i.e. Shockley-Read-Hall thermal generated carriers, trap-assisted and band-to-band tunneling). The results of our model are shown to be in good agreement with VBD and PGeiger determined from AC measurements.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128051147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hamonet, M. Dupont, T. Fabiani, F. Cassol, Y. Boursier, A. Bonissent, F. Debarbieux, G. Pottier, L. Bidaut, C. Morel
{"title":"The ClearPET/XPAD prototype: Development of a simultaneous PET/CT scanner for mice","authors":"M. Hamonet, M. Dupont, T. Fabiani, F. Cassol, Y. Boursier, A. Bonissent, F. Debarbieux, G. Pottier, L. Bidaut, C. Morel","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582074","url":null,"abstract":"We developed the ClearPET/XPAD prototype: the first simultaneous PET/CT mouse scanner combining on the same rotating gantry ClearPET modules and the hybrid pixel camera XPAD3 facing an X-ray source. To demonstrate the capabilities of the new machine, we present the first simultaneous PET/CT scans of 68Ge and 22Na point sources, of a micro Derenzo phantom and of a live mouse injected in the tail vein with [18F]FDG.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115574891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Payne, P. Sellin, M. Ellis, K. Duroe, A. Jones, M. Joyce, G. Randall, R. Speller
{"title":"Neutron/gamma pulse shape discrimination in EJ-299-34 at high flux","authors":"C. Payne, P. Sellin, M. Ellis, K. Duroe, A. Jones, M. Joyce, G. Randall, R. Speller","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581994","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of scintillator geometry on the quality of neutron/γ pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in EJ-299 plastic scintillator, using a digital charge integration PSD algorithm has been studied. It is shown that the PSD Figure of Merit (FOM) reduces as the geometry of the scintillator moves from a cube-like shape towards a flat panel shape. The PSD performance in this material at high flux irradiation is investigated with performance deteriorating at rates of ~107 photons/s. The use of EJ-299 for security applications, with a focus on active interrogation environments is explored in conjunction with a system capable of neutron/γ separation and localisation.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127543266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Bettelli, G. Benassi, L. Nasi, N. Zambelli, A. Zappettini, E. Gombia, L. Abbene, F. Principato, D. Calestani
{"title":"Mechanically stable metal layers for ohmic and blocking contacts on CdZnTe detectors by electroless deposition","authors":"M. Bettelli, G. Benassi, L. Nasi, N. Zambelli, A. Zappettini, E. Gombia, L. Abbene, F. Principato, D. Calestani","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7582259","url":null,"abstract":"CdZnTe detectors are commonly exploited for the detection of gamma rays. However, obtaining mechanical stable, low noise contacts on CdZnTe is still an issue. In particular, ohmic contacts would be preferable for high flux applications. In this work, we show that it is possible to obtain mechanical stable gold contacts by electroless deposition in methanol solution. Moreover, we show that electroless deposited nickel contacts are also mechanical stable and are good candidates for the realization of ohmic contacts on high resistivity CdZnTe crystals.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123055012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstruction of the spatial distribution of radioactive contamination from aerial survey and from a stationary array of directional detectors","authors":"Laurel E. Sinclair, F. A. Marshall, R. Fortin","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581989","url":null,"abstract":"Natural Resources Canada has responsibility for mobile survey in response to radiological emergencies in Canada. The team maintains both aerial and truckborne survey systems based on large volume NaI(Tl) gamma detectors integrated with instrumentation for position detection and for environmental monitoring. The team must be able to map the activity concentration of an extended source, whether arising from the detonation of a radiological dispersal device, or a nuclear power plant accident. We have developed novel methods to treat both aerial and truckborne mobile survey datasets. A deconvolution method applied to aerial survey data results in a finer spatial resolution of the measurement. In the truckborne setup, four detectors are oriented vertically in a self-shielding configuration to provide an azimuthal direction reading. In a first step toward development of a method for spatial inversion of truckborne survey results, we have treated a mobile traverse with one system in different locations at different times as a stationary array of multiple systems in different locations at one time. A spatial inversion method then allows for extrapolation of the activity concentration measurement to positions a distance from the traverse. Here, we present these two new methods for spatial reconstruction, and show results for distributed radioactivity from synthetic data.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121019788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of event topology for a new fast primary vertex finder for the ATLAS trigger","authors":"R. Langenberg","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2015.7581919","url":null,"abstract":"This document presents a transform-based approach to primary signal vertex finding feasibility analysis. An algorithm to find primary vertices has been developed using only Inner Detector measurements. Based on the information available to the algorithm, a metric has been developed to identify the signal vertex. The feasibility analysis demonstrates the theoretical distinguishability of different signal events and pileup with this metric. The results show that the majority of event types are easily distinguished. The algorithm can be used in the high level trigger. At this stage of computation, event types can be identified with the trigger information, such that this algorithm can be chosen only for appropriate events. An implementation of the algorithm is used to run simulations with increasingly realistic scenarios. This allows the quantification of the algorithm performance and to attribute inefficiencies to specific effects. In the most realistic scenario, the distinction rate reduces only by a small margin, remaining higher than 90% for events with good results in the feasibility analysis, also for high pileup scenarios. Countermeasures are presented for the effects reducing efficiency.","PeriodicalId":106811,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121058592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}