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Marco-Hernandez, R.; Bau, M.; Ferrari, M.; Ferrari, V.; Pedersen, F.; Soby, L. |
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A Low-Noise Charge Amplifier for the ELENA Trajectory, Orbit, and Intensity Measurement System |
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2017 |
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
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IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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9 |
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Beam position monitor (BPM); charge sensitive amplifier; instrumentation for accelerators; low-noise amplifier; particle accelerators; printed circuits |
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A low-noise head amplifier has been developed for the extra low energy antiproton ring beam trajectory, orbit, and intensity measurement system at CERN. This system is based on 24 double-electrode electrostatic beam position monitors installed around the ring. A head amplifier is placed close to each beam position monitor to amplify the electrode signals and generate a difference and a sum signal. These signals are sent to the digital acquisition system, about 50 m away from the ring, where they are digitized and further processed. The beam position can be measured by dividing the difference signal by the sum signal while the sum signal gives information relative to the beam intensity. The head amplifier consists of two discrete charge preamplifiers with junction field effect transistor (JFET) inputs, a sum and a difference stage, and two cable drivers. Special attention has been paid to the amplifier printed circuit board design to minimize the parasitic capacitances and inductances at the charge amplifier stages to meet the gain and noise requirements. The measurements carried out on the head amplifier showed a gain of 40.5 and 46.5 dB for the sum and difference outputs with a bandwidth from 200 Hz to 75 MHz and an input voltage noise density lower than 400 pV/v Hz. Twenty head amplifiers have been already installed in the ring and they have been used to detect the first beam signals during the first commissioning stage in November 2016. |
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[Marco-Hernandez, Ricardo; Pedersen, Flemming; Soby, Lars] CERN, CH-1217 Meyrin, Switzerland, Email: rmarco@ific.uv.es |
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Briz, J.A.; Nerio, A.N.; Ballesteros, C.; Borge, M.J.G.; Martinez, P.; Perea, A.; Tavora, V.G.; Tengblad, O.; Ciemala, M.; Maj, A.; Olko, P.; Parol, W.; Pedracka, A.; Sowicki, B.; Zieblinski, M.; Nacher, E. |
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Proton Radiographs Using Position-Sensitive Silicon Detectors and High-Resolution Scintillators |
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2022 |
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
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IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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69 |
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4 |
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696-702 |
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LaBr3; particle tracking; proton computed tomography (pCT); proton radiograph; proton therapy; scintillation detectors; silicon detectors |
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Proton therapy is a cancer treatment technique currently in growth since it offers advantages with respect to conventional X-ray and gamma-ray radiotherapy. In particular, better control of the dose deposition allowing to reach higher conformity in the treatments causing less secondary effects. However, in order to take full advantage of its potential, improvements in treatment planning and dose verification are required. A new prototype of proton computed tomography scanner is proposed to design more accurate and precise treatment plans for proton therapy. Our prototype is formed by double-sided silicon strip detectors and scintillators of LaBr3(Ce) with high energy resolution and fast response. Here, the results obtained from an experiment performed using a 100-MeV proton beam are presented. Proton radiographs of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) samples of 50-mm thickness with spatial patterns in aluminum were taken. Their properties were studied, including reproduction of the dimensions, spatial resolution, and sensitivity to different materials. Structures of up to 2 mm are well resolved and the sensitivity of the system was enough to distinguish the thicknesses of 10 mm of aluminum or PMMA. The spatial resolution of the images was 0.3 line pairs per mm (MTF-10%). This constitutes the first step to validate the device as a proton radiography scanner. |
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[Briz, J. A.; Nerio, A. N.; Ballesteros, C.; Borge, M. J. G.; Martinez, P.; Perea, A.; Tavora, V. G.; Tengblad, O.] Inst Estruct Mat CSIC, Madrid 28006, Spain, Email: jose.briz@csic.es |
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Millar, W.L. et al; Bañon Caballero, D. |
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High-Power Test of Two Prototype X-Band Accelerating Structures Based on SwissFEL Fabrication Technology |
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2023 |
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
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IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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70 |
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1 |
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1-19 |
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Radio frequency; Life estimation; Temperature measurement; Wires; Electric breakdown; Brazing; Rendering (computer graphics); Acceleration; breakdown; high gradient; linear accelerator cavity (LINAC); radio frequency (RF); test facilities; vacuum arc; X-band |
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This article presents the design, construction, and high-power test of two $X$ -band radio frequency (RF) accelerating structures built as part of a collaboration between CERN and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) for the compact linear collider (CLIC) study. The structures are a modified “tuning-free ” variant of an existing CERN design and were assembled using Swiss free electron laser (SwissFEL) production methods. The purpose of the study is two-fold. The first objective is to validate the RF properties and high-power performance of the tuning-free, vacuum brazed PSI technology. The second objective is to study the structures' high-gradient behavior to provide insight into the breakdown and conditioning phenomena as they apply to high-field devices in general. Low-power RF measurements showed that the structure field profiles were close to the design values, and both structures were conditioned to accelerating gradients in excess of 100 MV/m in CERN's high-gradient test facility. Measurements performed during the second structure test suggest that the breakdown rate (BDR) scales strongly with the accelerating gradient, with the best fit being a power law relation with an exponent of 31.14. In both cases, the test results indicate that stable, high-gradient operation is possible with tuning-free, vacuum brazed structures of this kind. |
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[Millar, William L. L.; Grudiev, Alexej; Wuensch, Walter; Lasheras, Nuria Catalan; McMonagle, Gerard; Volpi, Matteo; Paszkiewicz, Jan; Edwards, Amelia; Wegner, Rolf; Bursali, Hikmet; Woolley, Benjamin; Magazinik, Anastasiya; Syratchev, Igor; Vnuchenko, Anna; Pitman, Samantha; del Pozo Romano, Veronica; Caballero, David Banon] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, Email: lee.millar@cern.ch |
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Miñano, M. |
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Radiation Hard Silicon Strips Detectors for the SLHC |
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2011 |
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
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IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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58 |
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3 |
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1135-1140 |
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High energy physics; microstrip; radiation detectors; silicon; SLHC |
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While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began taking data in 2009, scenarios for a machine upgrade to achieve a much higher luminosity are being developed. In the current planning, it is foreseen to increase the luminosity of the LHC at CERN around 2018. As radiation damage scales with integrated luminosity, the particle physics experiments will need to be equipped with a new generation of radiation hard detectors. This article reports on the status of the R&D projects on radiation hard silicon strips detectors for particle physics, linked to the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, super-LHC (sLHC) of the ATLAS microstrip detector. The primary focus of this report is on measuring the radiation hardness of the silicon materials and the detectors under study. This involves designing silicon detectors, irradiating them to the sLHC radiation levels and studying their performance as particle detectors. The most promising silicon detector for the different radiation levels in the different regions of the ATLAS microstrip detector will be presented. Important challenges related to engineering layout, powering, cooling and reading out a very large strip detector are presented. Ideas on possible schemes for the layout and support mechanics will be shown. |
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IFIC UV CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: mercedes.minano@ific.uv.es |
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Carrio, F.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Ferrer, A.; Gonzalez, V.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Marin, C.; Moreno, P.; Sanchis, E.; Solans, C.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A. |
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Optical Link Card Design for the Phase II Upgrade of TileCal Experiment |
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2011 |
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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
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IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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High energy physics instrumentation computing; optical-fiber communication high-speed electronics; programmable logic devices |
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This paper presents the design of an optical link card developed in the frame of the R&D activities for the phase 2 upgrade of the TileCal experiment. This board, that is part of the evaluation of different technologies for the final choice in the next years, is designed as a mezzanine that can work independently or be plugged in the optical multiplexer board of the TileCal backend electronics. It includes two SNAP 12 optical connectors able to transmit and receive up to 75 Gb/s and one SFP optical connector for lower speeds and compatibility with existing hardware as the read out driver. All processing is done in a Stratix II GX field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Details are given on the hardware design, including signal and power integrity analysis, needed when working with these high data rates and on firmware development to obtain the best performance of the FPGA signal transceivers and for the use of the GBT protocol. |
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[Carrio, F; Gonzalez, V; Marin, C; Sanchis, E] Univ Valencia, Dept Elect Engn, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: vicente.gonzalez@uv.es |
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