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Verification of a novel calorimeter concept for studies of charmonium states

(2011) Guliyev, Elmaddin

Particle physics has revealed the fundamental and elementary constituents of matter, quarks and
leptons. However, it remains a challenge to understand how composite particles like nucleons, the
building blocks of atomic nuclei, can gain their mass from massless constituents. Insight is best
obtained by studying composite systems containing a heavy “charm” quark, or by demonstrating a
predicted new “exotic” type of composite systems with yet unobserved quark combinations. Such
systems can be produced through intense antimatter annihilations at the new accelerator complex FAIR
(Germany) in the near future. The systems of interest have to be studied with high-precision particle
beams but also with detectors of ultimate accuracy. Photons of high energy, which are among the most
abundant decay products of the short-lived charm- or exotic particles, will be measured in a large
crystal spectrometer. Essential electronic components of such a detector and the corresponding analysis
techniques have been developed and studied in this thesis. A new approach to precisely evaluate the
large amount of measured signals in programmed chip-arrays and to exactly determine their
characteristic features has been verified in various experiments using accelerated particles and cosmic
rays. The results presented in this thesis demonstrate that a large data rate can be reliably and precisely
processed, which is mandatory to investigate a huge amount of annihilation events. The logic
components and program elements have been fitted to commercially available devices. Interest in our
developments has been shown from a commercial company and foreign experimental groups.

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	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Outlook
	Bibliography
	List of abbreviations
	English summary
	Dutch summary
	Acknowledgements
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Institute	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Place of publication	University of Groningen
Research institute	Nuclear-physics accelerator institute(KVI)
Graduation date	2011-10-31
Date available	2011-11-01
Title	Verification of a novel calorimeter concept for studies of charmonium states
Title order	Verification of a novel calorimeter concept for studies of charmonium states
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Exchangeable	no
Printing on demand	yes
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Number of pages	115
Year issued	2011
Language	en
Type	Dissertation
Abstract NL	De fysica van elementaire deeltjes heeft aangetoond dat quarks en leptonen tot de fundamentele bouwstenen der materie behoren. Het blijft een uitdaging om de onderliggende mechanismen te begrijpen, die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de massa van samengestelde deeltjes zoals nucleonen, de bouwstenen van atoomkernen, ondanks dat de quark bouwstenen nagenoeg geen massa hebben. Inzicht kan worden verkregen door systemen te bestuderen, die een relatief zwaar ‘charm’ quark bevatten. Ook het aanwijzen van nieuwe “exotische” deeltjes met nog niet geobserveerde quark combinaties zou de geheimen van de sterke wisselwerking kunnen onthullen. Dit soort deeltjes kan worden geproduceerd door annihilatie van intense bundels van antimaterie in de toekomstige FAIR faciliteit in Duitsland. Hiervoor is een versneller met hoge precieze vereist, maar ook een detector met ongekende nauwkeurigheid en snelheid in data verwerking. Hoog energetische fotonen, afkomstig van kort levende charm- of exotische deeltjes, zullen worden geregistreerd in een groot kristal spectrometer. Hiervoor werden in het kader van dit proefschrift essentiële elektronische componenten en bijhorende analyse technieken ontwikkeld. Een innovatieve methode voor de snelle en precieze verwerking van de gemeten signalen werd geverifieerd in een aantal systematische experimenten, waarbij deeltjes uit versnellers en kosmische deeltjes werden gebruikt. De gepresenteerde resultaten laten zien, dat een grote hoeveelheid data snel en betrouwbaar kan worden geanalyseerd. Dit is een belangrijke voorwaarde voor de geambieerde zoektocht naar zeldzame exotische deeltjes. De ontwikkelde logische bouwstenen en programma componenten werden toegesneden voor commerciële hardware producten. Hierdoor werd de interesse aangewakkerd van commerciële bedrijven en onderzoeksgroepen in de deeltjesfysica.
Abstract EN	Particle physics has revealed the fundamental and elementary constituents of matter, quarks and leptons. However, it remains a challenge to understand how composite particles like nucleons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, can gain their mass from massless constituents. Insight is best obtained by studying composite systems containing a heavy “charm” quark, or by demonstrating a predicted new “exotic” type of composite systems with yet unobserved quark combinations. Such systems can be produced through intense antimatter annihilations at the new accelerator complex FAIR (Germany) in the near future. The systems of interest have to be studied with high-precision particle beams but also with detectors of ultimate accuracy. Photons of high energy, which are among the most abundant decay products of the short-lived charm- or exotic particles, will be measured in a large crystal spectrometer. Essential electronic components of such a detector and the corresponding analysis techniques have been developed and studied in this thesis. A new approach to precisely evaluate the large amount of measured signals in programmed chip-arrays and to exactly determine their characteristic features has been verified in various experiments using accelerated particles and cosmic rays. The results presented in this thesis demonstrate that a large data rate can be reliably and precisely processed, which is mandatory to investigate a huge amount of annihilation events. The logic components and program elements have been fitted to commercially available devices. Interest in our developments has been shown from a commercial company and foreign experimental groups.
Publisher	University of Groningen
Relation URI	http://www.rug.nl/
Rights	Elmaddin Guliyev
PPN	338351671
ISBN	9789036750998 (ISBN elektronische versie); 9789036750998(ISBN gedrukte versie);
Subject GOO	Calorimetrie; Hadronen; Large Hadron Collider; Kwantumchromodynamica; Detectoren; Proefschriften (vorm);
Subject NBC	speciale theorieèen bij extreem hoge energieèen;
Author	Guliyev, Elmaddin;
Tutors	Löhner, H.; Kavatsyuk, M.;

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