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Muon Identification in ALICE
Andreas MorschCERN PH
Workshop on Muon Detection in the CBM ExperimentGSI Darmstadt 16-18/10/2006
Outline
● The ALICE Experiment at the LHC● Muon Spectrometer overview● Muon Spectrometer components
– Tracking Chambers– Trigger Chambers– Absorbers– Dipole Magnet
● Expected performance
ALICE Collaboration
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ALICE Collaboration statistics
LoI
MoU
TP
TRD
L3 magnet
B ≤ 0.5 T
Total weight : 9,800 tonsOverall diameter : 16 mOverall length : 26 m 130 MCHF CORE
Muon Forward Spectrometer
2.4 < < 4
Highlights
● Large Acceptance Coverage
● Large Momentum Coverage (from 100 MeV/c to > 100 GeV/c)
● High Granularity ( designed for dN/dy ~ 8000, i.e. 15 000 particles in acceptance)
– Spectroscopy and identification of hadrons and leptons
● c-, b- vertex recognition
● Excellent photon detection ( in Δφ =450 and η = 0.1)
● Large acceptance electromagnetic calorimetry added and approved recently. Jet trigger capabilities.
central Pb–Pb
pp
Nuclear collisions at the LHC
• LHC on track for start-up of pp operations in November 2007• Pb-Pb scheduled for end 2008
– Each year several weeks of HI beams (106 s effective running time)• Future includes other ion species and pA collisions.
– LHC is equipped with two separate timing systems.
System L0 [cm-2s-1]sNN max
[TeV] y
Pb+Pb 1 1027 5.5 0
Ar+Ar 6 1028 6.3 0
O+O 2 1029 7.0 0
pPb 1 1030 8.8 0.5
pp 1 1034 14 0
First 5-6 years 2-3y Pb-Pb (highest energy density)2y Ar-Ar (vary energy density)1y p-Pb (nucl. pdf, ref. data)
LHC Official Schedule
● October 2006 Last magnet delivered● March 2007 Last magnet installed● August 2007 Machine closes● November 2007 First collisions s=900 GeV● Spring 2008 Collisions at s=14 TeV
Muon SpectrometerDesign Criteria
● High multiplicity capability: The tracking detectors must be able to handle the high secondary particle multiplicity.
● Large acceptance: As the accuracy of the spectrometer is statistics limited (at least for the Y - family), the geometrical acceptance must be as large as possible.
● Low-pT acceptance: For direct J/ production it is necessary to have a large acceptance at low pT. Mapping out the charmonium suppression as a function of pT is important to distinguish between different models.
● Forward region: Muon identification in a heavy ion environment is only possible for muon momenta above 4 GeV/c because of the large amount of material required to reduce the flux of hadrons.
– Measurement of low-pT charmonia is only possible at low angles where muons are Lorentz boosted.
Design Criteria
● Invariant mass resolution: A resolution of 70 (100) MeV/c2 in the 3 (10) GeV/c2 dimuon invariant mass region is needed to resolve the J/ (’) (Y , Y and Y “) peaks. This requirement determines the – bending strength of the spectrometer magnet– the spatial resolution of the muon tracking system.– It imposes the minimization of multiple scattering and a
careful optimization of the absorber.● Trigger: The spectrometer has to be equipped with
a selective dimuon trigger system to reach the maximum trigger rate of about 1 kHz handled by the DAQ.
Challenge
● High particle multiplicity per event, needs– Optimized absorber design– Optimizes chamber design (segmentation)– Careful simulation
● Different transport code Geant3, C95+G3, FLUKA● Conservative primary particle multiplicity (2x HIJING
multiplicity)
Detector Layout
• Passive Front Absorber to absorb hadrons from the interaction vertex and to reduce the K/ decay background.
• High granularity Tracking System with 10 detection planes (CPCs)• Dipole Magnet, largest warm dipole ever built• Passive Muon Filter wall followed by 4 planes of Trigger Chambers (RPCs)_• Inner Beam Shield to protect the chambers from secondaries produced at large
rapidities.
Acceptance: 2o < < 9o (-4 < y < -2.5)Minimum muon momentum: 4 GeV/cResonance pT: > 0Mass resolution 70 MeV/c2 (100 MeV/c2)
Absorbers
- Suppress /K decay- Shield from secondaries in particular at small radii.
Front absorber design
● Equalize mass resolution contributions from– Multiple scattering – Energy Straggling– Tracking (chamber resolution + bending strength)
● At least 10I are needed to suppress hadron flux.– Angle measurement from hit position in first chamber and
vector measured by the first station.● Branson plane method● ~30 mrad/p
– Angular resolution ~L● Low density material close to the interaction point, high density
material at the rear.
Front Absorber (FA)
Concrete
Steel
Carbon
Tungsten
● ~10 I (Carbon – Concrete – Steel)
FASS
FA Installation
Small Angle Absorber Design
● Complex integration issues:– Inner interface
● Vacuum system, bake-out, bellows, flanges– Outer interface
● Tracking chambers, recesses● Complex cost optimisation
– W ideal but expensive– Optimise W-Pb distribution
Small Angle Absorber (SAA)
Tungsten
Lead
2°
0.8°
Hit rates
Dipole Magnet
• 3 Tm, resistive coil, 4 MW• Distance to IP 7 m• Bnom = 0.7 T• Gap l x h x w = 5 m x 5.1m x (2.5 – 4.1) m • Weight: 850 t
Dipole Installed
Tracking Chambers
● All stations with cathode segmentation varying with distance to beam axis – Higher hit density close to the beam-pipe, keep occupancy
– Both cathodes segmented
– Bending plane resolution <100 m
– Transparent: X/X0 ~ 3%
– Total area 100 m2
● 5 Tracking stations each made of 2 chambers
– 2 before dipole, 1 inside, and 2 behind dipole
– 1st station as close as possible to front absorber
– Robust combined angle-angle and sagita measurement
– Total number of channels ~106
● Muon stations 1-2
– Quadrants
– “Frameless” chambers ● Muon stations 3-5
– Slat design similar for all stations
– Production shared between several labs
Chamber segmentation
Stations 1st zone 2nd zone 3rd zone Max. hit
density
1 4x6 mm2 4x12 mm2 4x24 mm2 0.07 cm-2
2 5x7.5 mm2 5x15 mm2 5x30 mm2 0.03 cm-2
3,4,5 5x25 mm2 5x50 mm2 5x100 mm2 0.007 cm-2
Occupancies
Station 1 Station 2
Station 1
• 1999 Prototype– Anode-cathode gap: 2.5 mm
– Pad size 5 x 7.5 mm2
– Spatial resolution 43 m
– Efficiency 95%
– Gain homogeneity ± 12%
● New requirements (2000)– Suppression of the Al frames of Stations 1, 2 (+7% acceptance)– Decrease of the occupancy of Station 1
● Decrease of the pad sizes ( 4.2 x 6.3 mm2)● Decrease of anode-cathode gap (2.1 mm)
Station 1
● Mechanical prototype (fall 2001)
– Max. deformation 80 m
● Full quadrant (June 2002)
– 0.7 m2 frameless structure– 14000 channels per cathode – Gas : 80% Ar + 20 % CO2
– 3 zones with different pad sizes
Test Beam Results
Resolution 65 m
Stations 3-5
Rounded shape
Trigger Requirements
● In central Pb-Pb collisions ~8 per collision from /K decays.
● To reduce rate of muons not accompanied by high pT muon, pT cut is needed on the trigger level
– > 1 GeV/c (J/)
– > 2 GeV/c (Y family)
● Required resolution: 1 cm
Trigger
● Principle:– Transverse momentum cut using correlation of position and angle
● Deflection in dipole + vertex constraint● 4 RPC planes 6x6 m2
● Maximum counting rates – 3 Hz/cm2 in Pb-Pb– 40 Hz/cm2 in Ar-Ar– 10 Hz/cm2 in pp
● important contribution from beam gas● The chambers
– Single gap RPC, low resistivity bakelite (3 109 cm), streamer mode
– Electrode surface smoothened with linseed-oil– Gas mixture: Ar-C2H2F4-C4H10-SF6 @ 50.5-41.3-7.2-1%
Trigger Chamber Installed
Expected Performance
J/
Acceptance down to pT = 0Geometrical acceptance 5%
Low-mass Vector Mesons
Gray area: geometrical acceptanceBlue area: pT > 1 GeV/c
Mass Resolution
Design values
Contribution from front absorber higher- Non-Gaussian straggling- Electrons produced close to muons
Current value after full simulation and reconstruction:90 MeV (goal < 100 MeV)
Robustness of tracking
● Hit reconstruction– Maximum Likelihood - Expectation Maximization algorithm
● Tracking– Kalman filter
Reduced dependence on background level !
Expected mass resolution
dNch
/dy=2x6000 @ y=0
Quarkonia in HI Collisions
• Still more questions than answers– Melting of ’ and at SPS and RHIC, and melting of J/ at LHC?
– Magic cancellation between J/ suppression and J/ regeneration?
SPS
H. Satz, CERN Heavy Ion Forum, 09/06/05
RHIC
LHC
J/ Regeneration
J/ Melting
What will happen next ?
Y productionY production
RHICRHIC LHCLHC
R. Vogt, hep-ph/0205330
Quarkonia at LHC: New perspectives
(2S) (1S)
(3S)b(1P)b(2P)
SPS RHIC LHC
PRD64,094015
Y(1S) only melts at LHC.However important feed-down fromhigher resonances.
Y d/dy @ LHC ~20 x RHIC
Quarkonia at LHC: New challenges
● Important contribution to Charmonium production from B→J/(’) X – 22% of J/– 39% of ’
● Normalisation – Correlated continuum dominated by semileptonic heavy flavor decays.
● Drell-Yan not available for normalisation● Probes qq instead of gg
– W,Z ?● Different Q2, x
– Heavy Flavor● Energy loss ?● Thermal charm production ?
– Alternatives● MB method (NA50)● RAA (PHENIX)
Quarkonia ee
• (1S) & (2S) : 0-8 GeV/c• J/ high statistics: 0-20 GeV/c• ’ poor S/B at low pT
• ’’ difficult with one run
Yields for 0.5 fm-1 (~1 month)
State S[103] B[103] S/B S/(S+B)1/2
J/ 130 680 0.20 150
’ 3.7 300 0.01 6.7
(1S) 1.3 0.8 1.7 29
(2S) 0.35 0.54 0.65 12
(3S) 0.20 0.42 0.48 8.1
Pb-Pb cent, 0 fm<b<3 fm
Suppression scenario
• Suppression-1 Tc =270 MeV D/Tc=1.7 for J/ D/Tc= 4.0 for .
• Suppression-2 Tc=190 MeV D/Tc=1.21 for J/ D/Tc= 2.9 for .PRC72 034906(2005)
Hep-ph/0507084(2005)
Good sensitivity J/, (1S) & (2S)