the star heavy flavor tracker in 10 slides or less jim thomas lawrence berkeley laboratory
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The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker in 10 slides or less Jim Thomas Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 19 - January - 2007. “Heavy Flavor” is the Final Frontier. The QGP is the universally accepted hypothesis at RHIC - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker
in 10 slides or less
Jim ThomasLawrence Berkeley Laboratory
19 - January - 2007
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“Heavy Flavor” is the Final Frontier
• The QGP is the universally accepted hypothesis at RHIC
• The next step in confirming this hypothesis is the proof of thermalization of the light quarks in RHIC collisions
• The key element in proving this assertion is to observe the flow of charm … because charm and beauty are unique in their mass structure
• If heavy quarks flow– frequent interactions among all quarks
– light quarks (u,d,s) likely to be thermalized
Current quark: a bare quark whose mass is due to electroweak symmetry breaking
Constituent quark: a bare quark that has been dressed by fluctuations in the QCD sea
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How many c c-bar pairs per collision?
Theory: NN (c ) = 289 - 445 µb
Exp: NN (c ) = 900 - 1400 µb
20 - 30 c pairs per central Au+Au collision at √sNN = 200 GeV
Theory: NN (b) = 1.64 - 2.16 µb
Exp: NN (b) = ??
0.04 - 0.06 b pairs per central Au+Au collision at √sNN = 200 GeV
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Direct Topological Identification of Open Charm
The STAR Inner Tracking Upgrades will identify the daughters in the decay and do a direct topological
reconstruction of the open charm hadrons.
No Mixed events, no random background subtraction.
Goal: Put a high precision detector near the IP to extend the TPC tracks to small radius
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• A new detector– 30 m silicon pixels
to yield 10 m space point resolution
• Direct Topological reconstruction of Charm
– Detect charm decays with small c, including D0 K
• New physics– Charm collectivity and
flow to test thermalization at RHIC
– Charm Energy Loss to test pQCD in a hot and dense medium at RHIC
• R&D with HFT + SSD
• A proposal has been submitted and a TDR is in preparation
The Heavy Flavor Tracker
The HFT: 2 layers of Si at mid rapidity
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R&D is Driven by the Fabrication Schedule
Driven by the availability of CMOS Active Pixel Sensors
Fab-1999 Fab-2001 Fab-2003 Fab-2004 Fab-2005 Fab-2006 Fab-2007 Fab-2009
Mimosa-1 Mimosa-4 Mimosa-8 MimoSTAR-1 MimoSTAR-2 MimoSTAR-3 MimoSTAR-4 UltraSTAR
Build a full detector with each
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Surround the Vertex with Si
The HFT is a thin detector using 50 m Si to finesse the limitations imposed by MCS
Add the IST, and SSD to form the STAR Inner Tracking Upgrade ( ITUp )
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~ 1 m
Inside the IFC– Goal: graded resolution
from the outside – in
– TPC – SSD – IST – HFT
– TPC pointing resolution at the SSD is ~ 1 mm
– SSD pointing at the IST is ~ 300 m
– IST pointing at the HFT is ~ 150 m
– HFT pointing at the VTX is better than 50 m
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The Heavy Flavor Tracker
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Keep the SSD, it is a beautiful detector!
• The SSD is thin– 1% - double sided Si
• The SSD lies at an ideal radius– 23 cm - midway between IP and IFC
• The SSD has excellent resolution – (rumor says better than design)
• The SSD is too large to be replaced– The money is better spent, elsewhere
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Summary
• The STAR Inner Tracking Upgrade will explore the Charm sector
• We will do direct-topological-reconstruction of open Charm
• Our measurements will be unique at RHIC
• The key measurements include– V2
– Energy Loss
– Charm Spectra, RAA & Rcp
– Vector mesons
– Angular Correlations
• The technology is available on an appropriate schedule
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HFT R&D and Installation Timeline
Install MimoSTAR II
Telescope
06 07 08 09 10
X XX X X
Install MimoSTAR IV
Prototype Detector
Install MimoSTAR III
LadderInstall a
nd run
MimoSTAR IV
Detector (Full)
Install Ultra
STAR
Detector (Full)
Install and test Prototype detector.
Reduced diameter BP is required.
X marks the installation dates. Running comes after installation.
Proposed HFT Timeline – the IST comes about 1 year later
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R&D in Run 7
A Three Layer Telescope with MimoSTAR II Chips.
A full system test from pixel to DAQ using an extension of one TPC sector trigger line.
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SSD
~ 60 cm
– Double sided Si wafers 300 m thick with 95 m x 4.2 cm strips
– Crossed at 35 mrad – effectively 30 m x 900 m
– One layer at 23 cm radius
– 20 ladders, 67 cm long
– air cooled
< 1.2
– 1 % radiation length @ = 0
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IST
~ 36 cm
– Singled sided Si wafers 300 m thick with 60 m x 4.0 cm strips
– Si pads ~ 1 mm**2 on the other side of each ladder
– Two layers at 17 & 12 cm radius
– 27 ladders, 52 cm long
– 19 ladders, 40 cm long
– air cooled
< 1.2
– 1.5 % per layer @ = 0
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HFT
~ 17 cm
– Active Pixel Sensors, thinned to 50 m thickness
– 30 m x 30 m pixels
– Two layers at 7 & 2.5 cm radius
– 24 ladders, 19.2 cm long
– 9 ladders, 19.2 cm long
– air cooled
< 1.2
– 0.28 % radiation length @ = 0
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Selected Parameters and Specifications
Min I efficiency 98%
Accidental rate < 100 /cm2
Position resolution < 10 m
Number of pixels 135,168,000
Pixel dimension 30 m 30 m
Detector chip active area 19.2 mm 19.2 mm
Detector chip pixel array 640 640
Number of ladders 33
Ladder active area 192 mm 19.2 mm
Number of barrels 2
Inner barrel (9 ladders) r = 2.5 cm
Outer barrel (24 ladders) r = 7.0 cm