Physics Behind Precision
This document provides a writeup of contributions to the FCC-ee mini-workshop on "Physics behind precision" held at CERN, on 2-3 February 2016.
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E. Locci
Publications and source records attributed to E. Locci.
Development of Wireless Techniques in Data and Power Transmission - Application for Particle Physics Detectors
Wireless techniques have developed extremely fast over the last decade and using them for data and power transmission in particle physics detectors is not science- fiction any more. During the last years several research groups have independently thought of making it a reality. Wireless techniques became a mature field for research and new developments might have impact on future particle physics experiments. The Instrumentation Frontier was set up as a part of the SnowMass 2013 Community Summer Study [1] to examine the instrumentation R&D for the particle physics research over the coming decades: « To succeed we need to make technical and scientific innovation a priority in the field ». Wireless data transmission was identified as one of the innovations that could revolutionize the transmission of data out of the detector. Power delivery was another challenge mentioned in the same report. We propose a collaboration to identify the specific needs of different projects that might benefit from wireless techniques. The objective is to provide a common platform for research and development in order to optimize effectiveness and cost, with the aim of designing and testing wireless demonstrators for large instrumentation systems.
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ASAHEL (A Simple Apparatus for High Energy LEP)
The TLEP Design Study Working Group published "First Look at the TLEP Physics Case" in December 2013. TLEP, a 90-400 GeV high-luminosity, high precision, e+e- machine, is now part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study, as a possible first step (named FCC-ee) towards a high-energy proton-proton collider (named FCC- hh). The above paper presents an initial assessment of some of the relevant features of the FCC-ee potential, to serve as a starting point for the more extensive design study that is now carried out. FCC-ee will provide the opportunity to make the most sensitive tests of the Standard Model of electroweak interactions. The first requirement of the detector must therefore be to ensure it has the capability to make these precise tests. The detector must have excellent vertexing and tracking performances and a highly granular, homogeneous calorimetric system covering as great a solid angle as possible. Following the ALEPH philosophy of using as few detection techniques as possible, we propose to evaluate the modifications that would be needed for an "ALEPH-like" detector to fulfil the requirements of FCC-ee. We will investigate the use of Micromegas detectors instead of limited-streamer tubes and will adjust the size of the detector and its granularity.
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