sPHENIX MAPS tracker discussion

[John Haggerty <haggerty AT bnl.gov>]

Excellent!  Congratulations!

On 3/7/18 2:26 AM, mxliu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Great progress with our first 4-sensor MVTX telescope at Fermilab test 
> beam!
>
> We have successfully taken data at Fermilab test beam with a system 
> consists of the complete sensor + readout chain,
>
> 4 ALPIDE sensors + 1 RU + 1 FELIX + sPHENIX RCDAQ Server
>
> First online data plot of MAPS hit distributions from the 4-sensor 
> telescope (average beam intensity ~ 1 particle per trigger from 120GeV 
> proton beam, trigger rate ~5,000Hz)
>
> https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/mxliu/sPHENIX/LDRD/FermilabTestBeam-032018/data_plot.jpg
>
> and many happy faces from today (background is the sPHENIX MVTX 
> telescope setup),
>
> https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/mxliu/sPHENIX/LDRD/FermilabTestBeam-032018/IMG_0670_Sho_Sanghoon_Alex_Darren.jpg
>
> and, for the first time we can see MVTX + INTT + EMCal + HCal all 
> together …. at Fermilab 😉
>
> https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/mxliu/sPHENIX/LDRD/FermilabTestBeam-032018/IMG_0673_sPHENIX_Overview.jpg
>
> Many people, in particular Sho, Alex, Hubert, Sanghoon, Darren, Kun, 
> Pat, Chris, Walt, Xuan, Andi and Cesar et al, have put tremendous amount 
> of work to make today’s success!
>
> ALICE ITS group also has provided wonderful support to make a few 
> additional sensors at last minute request to fit our test beam schedule, 
> many thanks to Luciano et al for your strong support!
>
> More photos can be found at,
>
> https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/mxliu/sPHENIX/LDRD/FermilabTestBeam-032018/
>
> and earlier ones,
>
> http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~hubert/maps/images/
>
> We continue taking more data for the rest of the week (mostly in the 
> evening) to further evaluate the telescope’s performance for 
> optimization, and detailed offline data analysis is underway.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ming
>
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