sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

[Xin Dong <xdong AT lbl.gov>]

Dear All,

To address this question more explicitly for the pre-proposal preparation, I did some calculations using the tool developed for STAR HFT based on the Billoir linearized Kalman filter method (see a bit detail in the Santa Fe presentation, and it shows consistent pointing resolutions w.r.t to the sPHENIX full GEANT simulation too

https://indico.bnl.gov/getFile.py/access?contribId=7&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=2641

- courtesy of Jim Thomas and Howard Wiemann)

I tried the following two cases

1) TPC+MAPS vs. TPC+Hybrid

    both are three silicon layers at r = 2.3, 3.2, 3.9cm    
    Hybrid       1%X0, 50x425um per layer
    MAPS         0.3%X0, 20x20um per layer  

  Then compare the pointing resolution from both cases.

2) TPC+MAPS         0.3%X0, 20x20um per layer
    two configurations,  20 micro-second and 200 micro-second integration time

   Then compare the efficiency (good hit probability) for both cases under luminosity 100e26.

Please find the results here

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9JxjGItnv5uSHZJQU1SWmVkQkU  

I believe we can certainly do full GEANT simulation to verify too (takes some longer time). We can iterate with different choices with this method very quickly. Furthermore It should be able to guide us to set the requirement on detector performance parameters for the proposal.

Your comments are appreciated. Best Regards

/xin

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Xin Dong
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