Storey, James William; Amsler, Claude; Ariga, Akitaka; Ariga, Tomoko; Ereditato, Antonio; Kawada, Jiro; Kimura, Mitsuhiro; Pistillo, Ciro; Scampoli, Paola (2015). Particle tracking at cryogenic temperatures: the Fast Annihilation Cryogenic Tracking (FACT) detector for the AEgIS antimatter gravity experiment. Journal of instrumentation, 10(2), C02023. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1748-0221/10/02/C02023
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The AEgIS experiment is an interdisciplinary collaboration between atomic, plasma and particle physicists, with the scientific goal of performing the first precision measurement of the Earth's gravitational acceleration on antimatter. The principle of the experiment is as follows: cold antihydrogen atoms are synthesized in a Penning-Malmberg trap and are Stark accelerated towards a moiré deflectometer, the classical counterpart of an atom interferometer, and annihilate on a position sensitive detector. Crucial to the success of the experiment is an antihydrogen detector that will be used to demonstrate the production of antihydrogen and also to measure the temperature of the anti-atoms and the creation of a beam. The operating requirements for the detector are very challenging: it must operate at close to 4 K inside a 1 T solenoid magnetic field and identify the annihilation of the antihydrogen atoms that are produced during the 1 μs period of antihydrogen production. Our solution—called the FACT detector—is based on a novel multi-layer scintillating fiber tracker with SiPM readout and off the shelf FPGA based readout system. This talk will present the design of the FACT detector and detail the operation of the detector in the context of the AEgIS experiment.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Storey, James William, Amsler, Claude, Ariga, Akitaka, Ariga, Tomoko, Ereditato, Antonio, Kawada, Jiro, Kimura, Mitsuhiro, Pistillo, Ciro, Scampoli, Paola |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1748-0221 |
Publisher: |
Institute of Physics Publishing IOP |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Ciro Pistillo |
Date Deposited: |
23 Jun 2016 08:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:56 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1088/1748-0221/10/02/C02023 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration. Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt. |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.82797 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/82797 |
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