LYCCA Status Report Fall 2008

							                    LYCCA Status Report Fall 2008

                                         D. Rudolph
                                 for the LYCCA Collaboration

                                      Department of Physics
                                        Lund University


            HISPEC/DESPEC Meeting, Daresbury, October 2008




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LYCCA Collaboration                                  TDR submitted!

                                                        FAIR PAC NUSTAR
                                                        FAIR TAC HISPEC/DESPEC

                         Technical Report, V1.2, June 2008
           LYCCA — the Lund-York-Cologne CAlorimeter
Identification of reaction products in HISPEC-DESPEC@NuSTAR
 D. Rudolph1 , C. Fahlander1 , P. Golubev1 , R. Hoischen1,2 , V. Avdeichikov1 ,
 M.A. Bentley3 , S.P. Fox3 , J. Gerl2 , Ch. Görgen4 , M. Górska2 , G. Pascovici4 ,
  P. Reiter4 , H. Schaffner2 , M.J. Taylor3 , S. Thiel4 , and H.J. Wollersheim2
           1
             Department of Physics, Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
   2
       Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
   3
       Department of Physics, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
         4
           Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany




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LYCCA Collaboration                                  TDR submitted!

                                                        FAIR PAC NUSTAR
                                                        FAIR TAC HISPEC/DESPEC

                         Technical Report, V1.2, June 2008
           LYCCA — the Lund-York-Cologne CAlorimeter
Identification of reaction products in HISPEC-DESPEC@NuSTAR

TDR:
• Two external reviews are due (now).
• (Some) decision expected during next STI-meeting 14/10.


                         http://wwwnsg.nuclear.lu.se/lycca


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LYCCA Environment

                                                              DESPEC−Ge
                         Offices
                                                                    AIDA
                         Laboratories            DESPEC
                                                                n−Dets




                                                        LYCCA
                                                     Pos 1   2   3
                                                       ~4m ~10m FP
                                         HISPEC




                                           AGATA
                                                             Magnetic Spectrometer


           Super−FRS




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Status – CsI detectors



40 pieces of size 19 mm × 19 mm, (13+7) mm thickness.
Photodiode (PD) read-out, tested and READY.

120 pieces of size 19 mm × 19 mm, (33+7) mm thickness.
Ordered 09/2008. To be equipped with PDs and tested during 2009.

220 pieces of size 19 mm × 19 mm, (13+7) mm thickness.
To be ordered 2009 (depending on S-FAIR funding situation)




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Status – Si-DSSSD detectors



6 DSSSD wafers at Lund.
Bonding and mounting scheme established.
Action awaits final design of DSSSD-CsI module mechanics.

15 DSSSD wafers ordered.
(on hold at RADCON due to CBM microstrip development.)

30 wafers to be ordered 2009 (depending on S-FAIR funding situation)




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Status – CVD diamond detectors




Prototyping of 20 mm × 20 mm wafers has started in the UK.


See Mike A. Bentley’s contribution for more details.




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Status – Electronics


∼240 CsI-PD channels:
9 Cologne CSP7-200 32-channel preamps, 18 Mesytec STM16+
shaper, 9 CAEN VME ADCs and TDCs, ESTABLISHED and all
EXISTING within LYCCA collaboration.
∼1700+600 Si-strip signals:
Prototype CSP7-4000 32-ch. preamp ready (Cologne/Lund invest).
Prototype mesytec Si-Fast-Timing preamp ready (GSI/RISING invest).
HISPEC: AIDA ASICs financed via UK-LYCCA grant.
∼ 2 × 9 × 26 ∼ 500(?) diamond timing signals:
32 16-channel TACQUILA-FOPI cards (VME system) are an option.
One set of VME-modules is ready for laboratory testing and is to be
bought by Lund by the end of 2008. In-beam tests foreseen for 2009.



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Status – Mechanics (Cologne)




Main LYCCA chamber designed.
Fabrication starts end of 2008.

Inner mainframe for LYCCA DSSSD-CsI modules pre-designed.
Awaits final decision on module design.
Space for a diamond wall is foreseen.

Final module design to be agreed upon in October 2008
(PG,ST,GP,CG) in a meeting at Cologne.




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