BESIIICGEM · An innovative Cylindrical Gas Electron Multiplier Inner Tracker for the BESIII Spectrometer

An innovative Cylindrical Gas Electron Multiplier Inner Tracker for the BESIII Spectrometer

Inner Trackers (IT) are key detectors in Particle Physics experiments; excellent spatial resolution, radiation transparency and hardness, and operability under high occupancies are main requirements. While planar Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors are common in modern spectrometers, only one Cylindrical-GEMs (CGEM) detector has been produced up to now by the KLOE-2 Collaboration and has been only recently commissioned. The BESIII collaboration has built and is operating the BESIII Spectrometer, hosted on the intersection region of the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider II (BEPCII). The BESIIICGEM Consortium (our logo in the picture) is composed of researchers, many junior and some more senior, from four Institutions: the Institute of High Energy Physics of Beijing (IHEP, People’s Republic of China), the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN, Italy), the University of Mainz and the Helmholtz-Institut Mainz (HIM, Germany) and the University of Uppsala (Sweden). We are a subset of the BESIII Collaboration, and we are designing, building, and we are going to install within the end of 2018 and commission within the end of 2019, the CGEM-IT, that should become new IT of the BESIII Spectrometer. While the above described research activities clearly aim to produce a detector whose main use is to reconstruct the trajectories of reaction products to perform Particle Physics studies, the project requires a complex multidisciplinary approach and makes use and can correspondingly improve the state of the art knowledge related to: - engineering one of the most advanced gas detector of its kind; - advanced design of readout and front end electronics and in particular of an ASIC; - distributed and virtualized computing techniques, beyond commercial standards. Exploring new uses of the GEM detectors, a technology fast and reliable, may open new path to cutting-edge applications in medical therapies or in homeland security applications. Last but not least, a project of this kind can significantly enhance an existing collaboration, or give birth to new ones, among the involved European and Chinese Institution, offering precious career opportunities to young researchers in all the involved Countries.

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