Publications (26)
Preliminary results of Resistive Plate Chambers operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures for application in the CMS experiment
M. Abbrescia, P. Van Auwegem, L. Benussi +11
The operations of Resistive Plate Chambers in LHC experiments require Fluorine based (F-based) gases for optimal performance. Recent European regulations demand the use of environm…
Fiber Bragg Grating sensors for deformation monitoring of GEM foils in HEP detectors
L. Benussi, S. Bianco, M. Caponero +7
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors have been so far mainly used in high energy physics (HEP) as high precision positioning and re-positioning sensors and as low cost, easy to mount,…
Performance of the gas gain monitoring system of the CMS RPC muon detector
L. Benussi, S. Bianco, L. Passamonti +82
The RPC muon detector of the CMS experiment at the LHC (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) is equipped with a Gas Gain Monitoring (GGM) system. A report on the stability of the system duri…
CMS RPC Non-Physics Event Data Automation Ideology
A. Dimitrov, M. Tytgat, K. Mota Amarilo +101
This paper presents a streamlined framework for real-time processing and analysis of condition data from the CMS experiment Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC). Leveraging data streamin…
High Rate RPC detector for LHC
F. Lagarde, A. Fagot, M. Gul +99
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) phase is designed to increase by an order of magnitude the amount of data to be collected by the LHC experiments. The foreseen gradual increase of…
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors as flatness and mechanical stretching sensors
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153
A novel approach which uses Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors has been utilised to assess and monitor the flatness of Gaseous Electron Multipliers (GEM) foils. The setup layout and…
Performance of a Large-Area GEM Detector Prototype for the Upgrade of the CMS Muon Endcap System
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +134
Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology is being considered for the forward muon upgrade of the CMS experiment in Phase 2 of the CERN LHC. Its first implementation is planned for…
Efficiency measurements of GEM GE1/1 chambers in the upgraded CMS Endcap Muon System using 2023 collision data at TeV
M. Abbas, S. Abbott, M. Abbrescia +184
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider employs Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, a technology based on gaseous ionization, as one of the muon detectors. The muon sp…
RPC based tracking system at CERN GIF++ facility
K. Mota Amarilo, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +105
With the HL-LHC upgrade of the LHC machine, an increase of the instantaneous luminosity by a factor of five is expected and the current detection systems need to be validated for s…
Performance of a Triple-GEM Demonstrator in Collisions at the CMS Detector
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +178
After the Phase-2 high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the collision rate and therefore the background rate will significantly increase, particularly in the…
Eco-friendly gas mixtures for Resistive Plate Chambers based on Tetrafluoropropene and Helium
M. Abbrescia, L. Benussi, S. Bianco +8
Due to the recent restrictions deriving from the application of the Kyoto protocol, the main components of the gas mixtures presently used in the Resistive Plate Chambers systems o…
Machine Learning based tool for CMS RPC currents quality monitoring
E. Shumka, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +105
The muon system of the CERN Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment includes more than a thousand Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC). They are gaseous detectors operated in the hostile…
Modeling the triple-GEM detector response to background particles for the CMS Experiment
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +186
An estimate of environmental background hit rate on triple-GEM chambers is performed using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and compared to data taken by test chambers installed in the…
Quality Control of Mass-Produced GEM Detectors for the CMS GE1/1 Muon Upgrade
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +179
The series of upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider, culminating in the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, will enable a significant expansion of the physics program of the CMS…
CMS RPC Background -- Studies and Measurements
R. Hadjiiska, A. Samalan, M. Tytgat +106
The expected radiation background in the CMS RPC system has been studied using the MC prediction with the CMS FLUKA simulation of the detector and the cavern. The MC geometry used…
R&D towards the CMS RPC Phase-2 upgrade
A. Fagot, A. Cimmino, S. Crucy +93
The high pseudo-rapidity region of the CMS muon system is covered by Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC) only and lacks redundant coverage despite the fact that it is a challenging region…
Experimental demonstration of full network nonlocality in the bilocal scenario
E. HÃ¥kansson, A. Piveteau, S. Muhammad +1
Quantum correlation between nodes in a network which consist of several independent sources of entanglement and in multipartite entanglement systems are important for general under…
High rate, fast timing Glass RPC for the high η CMS muon detectors
F. Lagarde, M. Gouzevitch, I. Laktineh +108
The HL-LHC phase is designed to increase by an order of magnitude the amount of data to be collected by the LHC experiments. To achieve this goal in a reasonable time scale the ins…
Candidate eco-friendly gas mixtures for MPGDs
L. Benussi, S. Bianco, G. Saviano +13
Modern gas detectors for detection of particles require F-based gases for optimal performance. Recent regulations demand the use of environmentally unfriendly F-based gases to be l…
Interstrip Capacitances of the Readout Board used in Large Triple-GEM Detectors for the CMS Muon Upgrade
M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia, H. Abdalla +178
We present analytical calculations, Finite Element Analysis modeling, and physical measurements of the interstrip capacitances for different potential strip geometries and dimensio…
Upgrade of the CMS Resistive Plate Chambers for the High Luminosity LHC
A. Samalan, M. Tytgat, G. A. Alves +108
During the upcoming High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the integrated luminosity of the accelerator will increase to 3000 fb. The expected experime…
Performance of Resistive Plate Chambers installed during the first long shutdown of the CMS experiment
M. Shopova, A. Aleksandrov, R. Hadjiiska +93
The CMS experiment, located at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, has a redundant muon system composed by three different detector technologies: Cathode Strip Chambers (in the forward…
Characterization of the GEM foil materials
L. Benussi, S. Bianco, G. Saviano +19
Systematic studies on the GEM foil material are performed to measure the moisture diffusion rate and saturation level. These studies are important because the presence of this comp…
Quantum bidding in Bridge
S. Muhammad, A. Tavakoli, M. Kurant +3
Quantum methods allow to reduce communication complexity of some computational tasks, with several separated partners, beyond classical constraints. Nevertheless, experimental demo…
Estimation of Radio Refractivity from a Decade Satellite Derived Meteorological Data for West Africa
O. J. Abimbola, E. Bada, A. O. Falaiye +2
Radio refractivity, which is the bending of radio signal as it propagates through media, is very important in works involving terrestrial atmospheric electromagnetic propagation su…
A novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in MPGD
D. Abbaneo, M. Abbas, M. Abbrescia +153
We present a novel application of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in the construction and characterisation of Micro Pattern Gaseous Detector (MPGD), with particular attention to…