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V. Martinez Outschoorn

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arXiv2026

Comment for the SCAC Facilities Subcommittee from the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society

The Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society would like to thank SCAC for providing an opportunity for input to the SCAC facilities subpanel. The DPF represents scientists working at U.S. Universities and DOE Laboratories on understanding fundamental particles and forces. We are focused on Discovery Physics. The subpanel has been asked to consider two proposed DPF-related projects, the DUNE Phase II Detectors and supporting infrastructure and U.S. contributions to a future Higgs Factory. In this note, we briefly describe the questions driving our field and the P5 strategic plan and other community prioritization documents that form the backbone of our comment. The following sections provide short descriptions of the two projects, highlighting information relevant to your charge, answers to your specific questions, and a description of the process that produced this note.

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arXiv2025

A High-Precision, Fast, Robust, and Cost-Effective Muon Detector Concept for the FCC-ee

We propose a high-precision, fast, robust and cost-effective muon detector concept for an FCC-ee experiment. This design combines precision drift tubes with fast plastic scintillator strips to enable both spatial and timing measurements. The drift tubes deliver two-dimensional position measurements perpendicular to the tubes with a resolution around 100~$μ$m. Meanwhile, the scintillator strips, read out with the wavelength-shifting fibers and silicon photomultipliers, provide fast timing information with a precision of 200~ps or better and measure the third coordinate along the tubes with a resolution of about 1~mm.

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arXiv2024

Analysis Facilities White Paper

This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an analysis facility.

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arXiv2019

The Apollo ATCA Platform

We have developed a novel and generic open-source platform - Apollo - which simplifies the design of custom Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) blades by factoring the design into generic infrastructure and application-specific parts. The Apollo "Service Module" provides the required ATCA Intelligent Platform Management Controller, power entry and conditioning, a powerful system-on-module (SoM) computer, and flexible clock and communications infrastructure. The Apollo "Command Module" is customized for each application and typically includes two large field-programmable gate arrays, several hundred optical fiber interfaces operating at speeds up to 28 Gbps, memories, and other supporting infrastructure. The command and service module boards can be operated together or independently on the bench without need for an ATCA shelf.

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arXiv2010

W and Z Production in pp Collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC

The observation of W and Z bosons and a measurement of the production cross sections in proton proton collisions at E_CM = 7 TeV are presented using data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Results are based on 118 W -> lnu and 125 Z/gamma* -> ll (l=e,mu) candidate events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 17 nb^-1 and 225 nb^-1 respectively. The measured values of sigma_W x BR(W -> lnu) = 9.3 \pm 0.9 (stat) \pm 0.6 (syst) \pm 1.0 (lumi) nb and sigma_Z/gamma* x BR(Z/gamma* -> ll, 66<m_ll<116) = 0.83 \pm 0.07 (stat) \pm 0.06 (syst) \pm 0.09 (lumi) nb. A measurement of the W lepton charge asymmetry is also reported. A comparison with theoretical predictions based on NNLO QCD calculations shows agreement with the measurements.

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