Test-beam measurements of instrumented sensor planes for a highly compact and granular electromagnetic calorimeter
The LUXE experiment is designed to explore the strong-field QED regime in interactions of high-energy electrons from the European XFEL in a powerful laser field. One of the crucial aims of this experiment is to measure the production of electron-positron pairs as a function of the laser field streng...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2024-01-01
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| Series: | EPJ Web of Conferences |
| Online Access: | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2024/25/epjconf_lcws2024_03004.pdf |
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| Summary: | The LUXE experiment is designed to explore the strong-field QED regime in interactions of high-energy electrons from the European XFEL in a powerful laser field. One of the crucial aims of this experiment is to measure the production of electron-positron pairs as a function of the laser field strength where non-perturbative effects are expected to kick in above the Schwinger limit. For the positron energy measurements and multiplicity spectra, a tracker and an electromagnetic calorimeter are foreseen. Since the expected number of positrons varies over five orders of magnitude, and has to be measured over a widely spread low energy background, the calorimeter must be compact and finely segmented. The concept of a sandwich calorimeter made of tungsten absorber plates interspersed with thin sensor planes is developed. The sensor planes comprise a silicon pad sensor, flexible kapton printed circuit planes for bias voltage supply and signal transport to the sensor edge, all embedded in a carbon fibre support. The thickness of a sensor plane is less than 1 mm. As an alternative, gallium arsenide sensors are considered with integrated readout strips. Prototypes of both sensor planes were studied in an electron beam of 5 GeV at DESY. Results from this test beam are presented on the sensor response homogeneity, edge effects, signal sharing and embedded trace effect. |
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| ISSN: | 2100-014X |