Today, researchers from around Europe arrived at the Institute of Space Science (ISS) on the Măgurele Physics Platform, in order to participate at the 24th FCAL Collaboration Workshop. FCAL is an international detector Research & Development (R&D) collaboration that twice a year brings together the scientific community involved in detector design, construction and testing of the very forward calorimeters for the experiments from future electron-positron linear colliders, CLIC (Compact Linear Collider)/ILC (International Linear Collider).
At this year’s edition, 25 scientists are participating, coming from Germany, Poland, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Serbia, Israel and Romania.
„It is a great honor for us to welcome our international guests at the Institute of Space Science. For almost two days ISS will host top researchers that will address the latest topics on the very forward detectors for experiments from the future electron-positron colliders. The hosting of the 24th edition of the FCAL Collaboration Workshop in Bucharest is proving the institute’s commitment in high scientific technologies for the future, with a great potential for application in space sciences”, said Dr. Preda, Head of the High Energy Astrophysics and Advanced Technology Group.
Since September 2011 a group from the Institute of Space Science, led by Dr. Titi Preda, is a member of the FCAL collaboration, being involved in the experimental study of the BeamCal calorimeter. The purpose of the BeamCal is to diagnose the fascicle electron-positron beam, constructed from GaAs pad sensors and layers of Tungsten. The BeamCal will be placed in a very high radiation background, being the closest detector to the fascicle beam.
„By entering the FCAL collaboration, members of the ISS group have been integrated in a high performant scientific environment, successfully working and performing at the well-known DESYII accelerator from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany, and using advanced tracking infrastructures developed by AIDA (Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators). Harsh radiation conditions where the BeamCal calorimeter is placed resemble those in space; moreover GaAs sensors are, together with diamond sensors, good candidates for use in hard radiation conditions in space”, explains Dr. Titi Preda.
The research of FCAL aims to develop future technologies for the construction of special calorimeters — LumiCal and BeamCal — in the very forward region of future detectors at electron-positron linear colliders, for measuring the luminosity with unprecedented precision. They have to be very compact, placed very near to fascicle beams with high spatial accuracy, and equipped with very fast electronics.
More details about the workshop can be found here and about the FCAL collaboration here.
