Feasibility of the detection of D0 mesons in the NA61/SHINE experiment:

Vertex detector for NA61/SHINE

P. Staszel and Yasir AliJagiellonian University

Silicon Detector Workshop, Split, 8-10 October 2012

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Outline

1. Current NA61/SHINE experimental setup

2. Motivations for vertex detector

3. Particle fluxes in Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV

4. Particle density in central Pb+Pb

5. Tentative idea

6. Some results for D0→ K+ π-

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NA61/SHINE detector

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NA61/SHINE detector – top view VTPC2

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Vertex Detector (VD)

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Physics Motivations

1. No rare probes measurement below top SPS (158AGeV) energy

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Int. J. Mod. Phys. E17 1367

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Physics Motivations

2. Measurement of J/Ψ at top SPS energy (NA50,NA60) was performed → anomalous suppression

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Physics Motivations

3. Statistics should allow for differential analysis: spectra, RAA

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4. Measurement of Λ

c and improvement in the multi-strange hyperon

measurement

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Vertex detector in geant4

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VDS1 VDS1VDS2 VDS4

Helium Vessel

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Vertex detector in geant4 – zoom in

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Pb target

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Charged Particle Fluxes

1. Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb interactions. - during spill the anticipated beam intensity is 105 Pb ions per second. - for 200 μm Pb target interaction probability is 0.5% which leads to 500 Hz interaction rate - used AMPT to generate 100k min. bias Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV

2. Delta electrons produced mostly in target - study 10k Pb ions passing through the lead target - soft particles – surrounding material might be important - production threshold cut in geant4: minimum distance that produced particle will travel in a given material → translates to cut on energy If the distance is (too) small – a lot of soft particles is produced (CPU consumption) If the distance is (too) large – important component might not be described

→ the influence of the production threshold cut has to be studied

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AMPT Event: Pb+Pb at 158GeV

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb interactions

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb interactions

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb interactions

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb interactions

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Pb electromagnetic interaction

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Pb electromagnetic interaction – zoom in

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Delta electrons: results (averaged over 10k Pb events)

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Delta electrons: results II

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Hadronic interactions:flux = (105 * 0.005) event/s * 1.6 particles/mm2/event == 800 particles/mm2/s = 800 Hz/mm2

Electromagnetic interactions (δ-electrons):flux = 105 event/s * 0.04 particles/mm2/event == 4000 Hz/mm2

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb 0-10% central interactions

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Charged particles produced in Pb+Pb 0-10% central interactions

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1. Pixels cover area where hits/mm2 > 0.5

2. some overlap between pixels and MicroMegas

3. Inner (pixel) structure is composed of detectors equipped with a single Timepix chip - active dimension 14x14 mm2

Preliminary drawing of the 1-st station

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D0→ K+ π- , 200k 0-10% cent. Pb+Pb at 158 AGeV

S/B=13For 50M events:SNR = 19340k D0+D0bar

S/B=15For 50M events:SNR = 17834k D0+D0bar

S/B=6.6For 50M events:SNR = 16331k D0+D0bar

S/B=9.6For 50M events:SNR = 15526k D0+D0bar

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Backup Slides

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Delta electrons: study effect of production threshold cuts

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Delta electrons: study effect of production threshold cuts

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