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Collimation and tagging
instrumentation
for the GlueX photon beamline
Richard Jones
Igor Senderovich, Anne-Marie Carroll
University of Connecticut
Beamline Overview
Radiator
Counting
House
Coherent Bremsstrahlung
photon beam
Pair
Spectrometer
Top View
Tagging
Spectrometer
Photon
Beam dump
75 m
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Collimator
intensity (/GeV)
Electron beam / dump
SolenoidBased detector
Tagger
Area
Beam
contains
both coherent and
Collimator Cave Experimental
no collimator
incoherent components.
with collimator
Hall
D
Only the coherent component is
polarized.
Collimation suppresses incoherent part.
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Eg (GeV)
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Tagging spectrometer
focal plane
hododscope
post-bremsstrahlung
12 GeV
electrons
electrons
crystal radiator
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• 500 scint. fibers
• 2mm x 2mm
• SiPM readout
• 3MHz rate/fiber
• st = 200ps
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Photon collimator
photon beam collimator
(75m downstream)
12 GeV
electrons
crystal radiator
• 3.4mm aperture
• photon “spot”
~5mm RMS
• 15% power
transmission
• shielded alcove
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Collimator requirements
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dynamic range
0.5 nA – 5mA
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resolution
200 mm RMS
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bandwidth
> 60 Hz
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dx < 200 mm
robustness
• radiation hard
• stable gain
• reliable
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Collimator design
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tungsten plates
Tungsten pin-cushion design
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Miller and Walz, NIM 117
(1974) 33-37
measures current due to knockons in EM showers
tungsten pins
charge asymmetry comes from
high-energy delta rays
“knock-ons”
ee+
incident
gamma
beam
tungsten
pin cushion
insulating
support
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12 cm
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Beam test – April 2011
Brendan
Pratt
prototype detector
installed in Hall B
photon dump area
James
McIntyre
Igor Senderovich
+Alex Somov, Hovanes Egyan
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Run conditions
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beam energy: 3.36 GeV
current: 15 nA, 60 nA
precollimator: 2.6 mm
radiator: 10-4 radiation lengths, gold
stability – very good
sampling frequency 333kHz
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Active collimator data
sweep collimator horizontally across beam, observe raw currents on wedges
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Active collimator data
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near the aperture
centered at 14.28 cm
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look at asymmetry
Vright– Vleft
Vleft + Vright
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raw offsets not
removed
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gain ~ 15% / mm
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Active collimator data
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electronic
noise is
negligible
raw asymmetry signal:
• moving through beam
• out of beam
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Active collimator data
results @ 60nA
amplifier bandwidth
• beam noise floor:
18 mm @ 600Hz
• readout noise floor
3 mm @ 600Hz
beam noise floor
scaling to 0.6nA
• readout noise floor
digitization noise floor
130 mm @ 120Hz
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