 |
 |
Home
FCAL Collaboration
FCAL is a worldwide detector Research & Development collaboration. About 40 physicists join their efforts to develop the technologies of special calorimeters. These calorimeters must be compact, precisely positioned, and read out very fast. The initial applications of these compact calorimeters are currently being studied: the LUXE experiment and the very forward region of future detectors at an e+e- collider.
The FCAL collaboration and its organizational structure are described in a Memorandum of Cooperation MoC., signed by 8 institutes.
The research of FCAL is focused on:
- optimization of the design of the detectors using Monte Carlo simulations
- radiation hard solid state sensors
- fast front-end and ADC ASICs
- performance tests of prototype detectors in the beam
In LUXE, the FCAL collaboration is in charge of the emitted positron detection using a compact electromagnetic calorimeter as shown in the picture.
For future e+e- colliders, the instrumentation of the very forward region could comprise up to three subdetectors, as shown in the picture below. At small polar angles, adjacent to the beam pipe, the Pair Monitor and BeamCal measure remnants of beamstrahlung to assist beam tuning. BeamCal in addition will measure high-energy single electrons. LumiCal, at larger polar angles, will be the luminometer of the experiment using Bhabha scattering as the gauge process.
FCAL collaborates with the Detector Concepts ILD and SiD of the International Linear Collider and works together with CLICdp, the CLIC detector, and physics collaboration, and is also involved in the FCCe+e- studies.
FCAL is supported by national funding agencies and the FP7 and H2020 programs of the European Community. It is now supported by the AIDAInnova program and is part of the DRD6 and DRD7.
 Detectors |
 FCAL LUXE |
|---|---|
