Manchester Dec Dynamic Alignment of Roman Pots Konstantin Goulianos The Rockefeller University The Future of Forward Physics at the LHC Manchester, UK, Dec 2005
Manchester Dec Run-I,0 ( ) Elastic, single diffractive, and total cross 546 and 1800 GeV Roman Pot Spectrometers Roman Pot Detectors Scintillation trigger counters Wire chamber Double-sided silicon strip detector Results PRD 50 (2004) 5518; 5535; 5550 Total cross section tot ~ s Elastic cross section d /dt ~ exp[2 ’ ln s ] shrinking forward peak Single diffraction Breakdown of Regge factorization T rackers in Roman Pots out to | | = 7 Alignment corrected by using elastic scattering
Manchester Dec CDF-I Run-ICRun-IA,B Forward Detectors BBC 3.2< <5.9 FCAL 2.4< <
Manchester Dec CDF-I Roman Pot Spectrometer 3 trigger counters 3x[2X(20+20)]=240 channels Alignment performed by surveying Hosai Nakada – thesis Fiber width: 800
Manchester Dec CDF Run I results 93(2004)141601
Run-II CDF CDF Forward Detectors MiniPlug calorimeters (3.5< <5.5) Beam Shower Counters (5.5< <7.5) Antiproton Roman Pot Spectrometer 2001-
Manchester Dec Run-II Forward Detectors
Manchester Dec MiniPlug Run -II Data ADC counts in MiniPlug towers in a pbar-p event at 1960 GeV. “jet” indicates an energy cluster and may be just a hadron. Approximately 1000 counts = 1 GeV Multiplicity distribution in SD and ND events MiniPlug tower structure
Manchester Dec Diffractive Dijets ND+SD & SD+MB overlap events ~ 1 SD events Flat region
Manchester Dec Run II Roman Pot Tracking
Manchester Dec Calibration of RP position t=0 t=-0.5 fixed x pbar z xx Method Adjust x to get the steepest t distribution
Manchester Dec Roman Pot Distributions edge effect
Manchester Dec Determining x from data Method: maximize the t=0 value of d /dt
Manchester Dec x and y Alignment maximize the |b|-slope obtain x and y offsets
Manchester Dec HERA &Tevatron->LHC p IP