IBF studies of triple and quadruple GEM for the ALICE TPC upgrade
Future Upgrade and Physics Perspectives of the ALICE TPC
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Future Upgrade and Physics Perspectives of the ALICE TPC
Taku GunjiOn behalf of the ALICE Collaboration
Center for Nuclear Study, The University of Tokyo
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Outline
• ALICE upgrade after Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)• ALICE TPC upgrade with micro-pattern gaseous detectors• Status of R&D activities• Summary and Outlook
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http://cds.cern.ch/record/1622286
ALICE TPC Upgrade Technical Design Report
(submitted in 2013)
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ALICE Physics Program in Run3• Detailed characterization of the QGP at the highest LHC energy• Main Physics topics. Uniquely accessible with ALICE after LHC
luminosity and detector upgrade.– Heavy-flavors (charm, beauty):
• Diffusion coefficient – azimuthal anisotropy and RAA
• In-medium thermalization and hadronization – meson-baryon– Low-mass and low–pt di-leptons:
• Chiral symmetry restoration – vector meson spectral function• Space-time evolution and thermodynamical properties – radial and
elliptic flow of emitted radiation – Quarkonia (J/y, y’, U) :
• Charm and bottom thermalization, regeneration – RAA, flow
– Jet quenching and fragmentation:• Energy loss, transport properties vs. Q2 – RAA, flow
– Heavy-nuclei, exotic hadrons:• Confinement, Coalescence, quasi-state in QGP – RAA, flow
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ALICE Upgrade LoI:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1475243
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ALICE Upgrade Strategy• Operate ALICE at high rate, record all MB events
– Goal: 50kHz in Pb-Pb (~10nb-1 in Run3 and Run4)• Upgrade detectors and electronics during Long
Shutdown 2 (2018)– New Inner Tracking Systems
• Improved vertexing, tracking at low pT, and improved rate capability
– GEM TPC with continuous readout• High rate capability, preserve PID and tracking
performance– Muon Forward Tracker– Electronics, Trigger, online-offline upgrade
Talk by S. Siddhanta (172)
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Posters by L. V. Palomo(M-29), A. Uras(F-56)
Posters by R. Romita(M-23), C. Terrevoli(M-27), J. Stiller(M-26)
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Example: Low Mass Di-electrons • High statistics + Dalitz, conversion and charm rejection in
new ITS, TPC+TOF for eID• Reduced systematic uncertainties from charm decay
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ALICE SimulationTPC Current rate
New ITSB= 0.2T
ALICE SimulationTPC High rate
New ITSB=0.2T
dedicated low-field rundedicated low-field run
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ALICE TPC
114cm
50cm
5m
5m
E E
Readout chamber
Central Electrode (-100kV)
• Diameter: 5 m, length: 5 m• Acceptance: |h|<0.9, Df=2p• Readout Chambers: total = 72
– Outer (OROC): 18 x 2– Inner (IROC): 18 x 2– Pad size
• Inner: 4×7.5 mm2, Outer: 6×10&15 mm2
– Pad channel number = 557,568
• Gas: Ne-CO2 (90-10) (in Run1)at drift field = 400V/cm
– sT~sL ~0.2mm /√cm, vd~2.7cm/ms
• Total drift time: 92ms• MWPC + Gating Grid Operation
– Rate limitation < 3.5kHz
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OROC
IROC
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GEM TPC upgrade• Operation of MWPC w/o Gating Grid in 50 kHz Pb-Pb
would lead to massive space-charge distortion due to back-drifting ions.
• Continuous readout with GEMs– GEM has advantages in:
• Reduction of ion backflow (IBF)• High rate capability• No ion tail
– Requirement• IBF < 1% at Gain =2000• dE/dx resolution < 12% for 55Fe• Stable operation under LHC condition
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Standard GEMPitch=140mmHole f=70mm
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Space Charge Distortions • Ions from 8000 events pile up in the drift volume in
50kHz Pb-Pb collisions (tion=160ms)• 1% of IBF at Gain = 2000 (e=20)
– At small r and z, dr=20cm and drf = 8cm• For the largest part of drift volume, dr<10 cm
– Corrections to a few 10-3 are required for final resolution (s(rf) ~ 200um)
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GEM TPC R&D Program• Extensive studies started in 2012.
– Technology choice• Baseline: GEM stacks of standard (S) and large-pitch (LP)• COBRA-GEM• 2 GEM + MicroMegas(MMG)
– Ion backflow – Gain stability – Discharge probability – Large-size prototype
• Single mask technology– Electronics R&D– Garfield simulations– Physics and Performance simulations
• Collaboration with RD51 at CERN
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280um
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4 GEM setup with S and LP foils • IBF and Resolution studies for baseline solution
– Different foil configurations, VGEM, transfer field ET
• IBF optimized setting = high ET1 & ET2, and low ET3, VGEM1~VGEM2~VGEM3<<VGEM4
– 0.6-0.8% IBF at s(5.9keV)~12%
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4 GEMS-LP-LP-S
140um pitch 280um pitch
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Garfield Simulations• Garfield++/Magboltz simulations
– Field calculation by ANSYS– IBF quantitatively well described by simulations
based on Garfield++.
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GEM1(S)
GEM2(LP)
GEM3(LP)
GEM4(S)
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dE/dx studies with 3 GEM Prototype12
G=1000 6000
• Prototype IROC was built in 2012.• With 3 single-mask GEMs• Beam test at PS (e/p/p) in 2012
• Good e/p separation• sdE/dx/<dE/dx> ~ 10.5%
• Comparable to the current TPC resolution (~9.5% with IROC)
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Alternative: 2 GEM + MicroMegas• IBF and Resolution studies
– VMesh, VGEM, transfer field ET
– It is possible to reach < 0.2% IBF at s(5.9keV)~12%.
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Large-scale solution and operational stability still to be verified
Ne-CO2 (90-10)Gain~1850-2150
UMMG
UGEM
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Electronics• New ASIC “SAMPA”
– Integration of the functionality of the present preamp/shaper and ALTRO ADC+DSP
• Both polarity, Continuous/Triggered RO• SAR ADC (10M or 20MSPS)
– First MWP submission in April
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Upgrade of ALICE Electronics & Trigger System(Technical Design Report)
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1603472
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Reconstruction Scheme
• Two stage reconstruction scheme:– Cluster finding and cluster-to-track association in the TPC
• Data compression by x20 : 1 TB/s 50 GB/s• Scaled average space-charge distortion map
– Full tracking with ITS-TRD matching • High resolution space-charge map (time interval~5ms) for full distortion
calibration
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Expected Performance • Space charge fluctuations (~3%) are taken into account.(Nevt,dNch/dh,etc)
• ITS-TPC track matching and pT resolution are practically recovered after 2nd reconstruction stage.
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Summary and Outlook• The ALICE program after LS2 requires an upgrade of
the TPC.• MWPC-based readout chambers will be replaced by
detectors employing micro-pattern detectors including GEMs to allow TPC operation in continuous mode.
• Extensive R&D of the GEM TPC upgrade– 4 GEMs, 2GEM+MMG
• IBF<1%, Resolution for 55Fe<12%– Performance of the present TPC will be maintained in 50kHz Pb-Pb collisions.– Stability, discharge probability under study– Beam test of IROCs at PS and SPS in 2014
• Construction (GEM, FEE) from 2015
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Backup slides
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IBF with conventional GEMs• Measurement at CERN(RD51)/TUM/FRA/Tokyo.
– 3 or 4 standard GEM settings– standard and/or large pitch foils– X-ray from top or side, – current readout from each electrode
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Other options• COBRA-GEM
– SciEnergy, 400um pitch• 2 GEM + MicroMegas
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Calculator• Parameterization of collection, extraction, gain,
resolution, and IBF vs. VGEM, Ed, Et, Eind, S/LP
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Collection vs. Ed/UGEM1 Extraction vs. ET/UGEM2
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Calculator• Parameterization of collection, extraction, gain,
resolution, and IBF vs. VGEM, Ed, Et, Eind, S/LP
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RMS/Gain vs. Total Multiplication*sqrt(collection)
# of ions in drift/Effective Gain vs. Ed/UGEM1
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Space-charge fluctuation• Source of space-charge fluctuations
– The number of pile up events, Multiplicity– Charge of the tracks, Granularity
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At 8000 ion pile up events,space-charge fluctuation is 2-3%.Dominant source:
• Nevt fluctuation • Multiplicity fluctuation
Need take into account thesefluctuations for distortion corrections.
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Space-charge map• Study of space-charge distortions based on real
Pb-Pb data
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50kHz Pb-Pb collisions.8000 pileup events in ion drift time=160msec
Overlapped 130k events are used to estimate time-averaged space-charge distortion.
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Space-charge fluctuation• Time shifted space-charge map
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Simulation inputs:Use fluctuating space-charge map for track distortion and
Correction Use time-shifted map
~5msec is the time-scale to update the space-charge map during the online-calibration procedure
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Distortion correction in 2nd stage• Simulate statistics of typical calibration interval
(~5msec. 250Hz)– Pre-reconstruct by scaled average SC map
• Then, use ITS-TRD track interpolation– Map residual local distortions and 2-D correction
analysis to get (dr, drf)
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Spatial Patterns of dr and drf are well reproduced.
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IROC Prototype• Large-size GEM foils by CERN using single mask
technology. 3 standard GEM foils in prototype
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TPC Operation without GG
• MWPC without GG– Best estimate: ion back
flow (IBF) rate of ~5% at gain = 6000
– Simulation shows a large distortion in electric field impossible
• Tolerable limit– IBF rate of 1% at gain
2000; ~20 back flow ions per electron
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Front-end Electronics
Comparison of FEE parameters for RUN 1 and 3
Data rates and bandwidth requirements
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Current TPC Performance• 98% tracking efficiency in pp. 1-3% lower for
central Pb-Pb• Momentum resolution ~ 1% at 1GeV, 5% at 50GeV• dE/dx resolution= 5.5% in pp and 7% in Pb-Pb
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Gating Grid Operation31
• GG close 100us after collisions• GG closed for 180us (ion arrival time
to the GG)• IBF<10-4 but event rate < 3.5kHz• GG open results in 5-8% IBF
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Gain Stability• 3 stacked GEMs with 90Sr for Ne/CO2 (90/10)
– Single-wire chamber as a reference for correction of the gain fluctuation due to P/T
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Gain Variation within 0.5%at gain=1800
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Prototype Beamtest at PS in 2012• IROC Prototype (3 standard GEMs) beamtest at
CERN-PS T10– e, p, p: 1-3 GeV for negative, 1&6 GeV for positive– PCA16 + ALTRO Readout from LCTPC collaboration– dE/dx resolution for standard and IBF setting
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Garfield Simulations• Garfield++ simulations
– Field calculation by ANSYS– Mis-alignment of GEMs– Measurements are understood.
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IBF and Energy Resolution• Systematic studies for 4 GEM
– different foil configurations, VGEM, transfer field ET
• IBF optimized setting = high ET1 & ET2, and low ET3, VGEM1<VGEM2<VGEM3<VGEM4
– 0.6-0.8% IBF and s(5.9keV)=11-12%
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4 GEMS-LP-LP-S
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Space-charge distortion correction36
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Occupancy • Average pileup = 5 MB events
– 2500 tracks in average – ~7500 tracks is maximum
• Maximum occupancy : 70% at IROC
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