Accelerators and detectors

SLAC - PUB - 7780 Accelerators and Detectors

AIDA - PUB - 2012 - 021 AIDA Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators

The performance of planar silicon pixel sensors, in development for the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer and High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrades, has been examined in a series of beam tests at the CERN SPS facilities since 2009. Salient results are reported on the key parameters, including the spatial resolution, the charge collection and the charge sharing between adjacent cells, for different bulk ...

Plasma Accelerators *

In this paper we discuss plasma accelerators which might provide high gradient accelerating fields suitable for TeV linear colliders. In particular we discuss two types of plasma accelerators which have been proposed, the Plasma Beat Wave Accelerator and the Plasma Wake Field Accelerator. We show that the electric fields in the plasma for both schemes are very similar, and thus the dynamics of ...

Cosmic Accelerators

Relativistic Astrophysics generates a number of problems where plasma physics plays an essential role. The acceleration of cosmic rays, and of the nonthermal particle distributions present in astrophysical sources of synchrotron radiation, are famous and long standing examples. The acceleration, transport and termination of magnetized relativistic flows emerging from compact objects is an almos...

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