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Final design and plan for LMRPC production

Outline:• LMRPC structure• Material• Production procedure and QC• Performance test• Time schedule

Wang Yi on behalf of Tsinghua and USTC

Department of Engineering Physics,Tsinghua University

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A large area of muon telescope detector (MTD) at mid-rapidity, allows for the detection of•di-muon pairs from QGP thermal radiation, quarkonia, light vector mesons, possible correlations of quarks and gluons as resonances in QGP, and Drell-Yan production

•single muon from the semi- leptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons

•advantages over electrons: no conversion, much less Dalitz decay contribution, less affected by radiation losses in the detector materials, trigger capability in Au+Au

•trigger capability for low to high pT J/ in central Au+Au collisions excellent mass resolution, separate different upsilon states e-muon correlation to distinguish heavy flavor production from initial lepton pair production

STAR Muon Telescope Detector

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Concept of Design of the STAR-MTD

A detector with long-MRPCs covers thewhole iron bars and leave the gaps in- between uncovered. Acceptance: 45% at ||<0.5

117 modules, 1404 readout strips, 2808 readout channels

Long-MRPC detector technology, HPTDCelectronics (same as STAR-TOF)

Inner glass: 549 mm × 870 mm

Licron electrode: 549 mm × 880 mmOuter glass: 559 mm × 890 mm

Mylar layer: 564 mm × 895 mmHoneycomb: 559 mm × 890 mm

PC board: 580 mm × 915 mm

Strip: 38 mm × 870 mmInterval: 6 mm

Spacer: fishing lineGas gap: 0.25 mm

Inner glass: 0.7 mmOuter glass: 1.1 mm

PC board: 0.9 mm honeycomb: 10 mm

Mylar: 0.15 mm Strip: 0.035 mm

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MTD requirements:

• Time resolution less than 100 ps, spatial resolution ~ 1 cm.

• The mechanics design must allow a convenient replacement of

individual MTD box and access to the BEMC box.

• The system must be able to operate in the fringe field from 0.5 Tesla

STAR magnet field.

• The system must operate at low noise rate. The total noise rate should

be less than 0.5 M Hz, 1 Hz/cm2.

• The system must be safe, meet all BNL safely requirements.

• The system must not impair the performance of other STAR detectors.

MTD System Requirement

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Inner glass: 549 mm × 870 mm

Licron electrode: 549 mm × 880 mmOuter glass: 559 mm × 890 mm

Mylar layer: 564 mm × 895 mmHoneycomb: 559 mm × 890 mm

PC board: 580 mm × 915 mm

Strip: 38 mm × 870 mmInterval: 6 mm

Spacer: fishing lineGas gap: 0.25 mm

Inner glass: 0.7 mmOuter glass: 1.1 mm

PC board: 0.9 mm honeycomb: 10 mm

Mylar: 0.15 mm Strip: 0.035 mm

Structure of LMRPC module

For assuring the stable performance, we will compare the performance between 5 and 6 gaps modules.

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Structure of LMRPC module

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Performance of LMRPC

Cosmic ray test Beam test

Time resolution ~ 70ps, efficiency> 95%

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94%Freon/5%iso-butane/1% SF695%Freon/5%iso-butane

Noise < 0.6 Hz/cm^2 @ 7200V Noise < 0.4 Hz/cm^2 @ 7200V

Noise level @different gas mixture

LMRPC meets the MTD requirement!

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Material Type and manufacturer Dimension (mm) Tolerance (mm) Quantity

Outer glass Beijing 8905591.1 ±0.5, ±0.5 ,±0.02 2

Inner glass Bejing 8705490.7 ±0.5, ±0.5, ±0.02 5

Graphite electrode Colloidal graphiteSR~4 Mohm/

888×557×0.1 -0.5 2

Mylar film Dupont Corp. 895×564×0.15 ±0.1 2

Honeycomb board Aoxing Corp. 890×559×10 ±1.0, ±1.0 2

PCB ShengYi Corp.G10

915×580×0.912strips, 38×870/strip

±0.5 2

L-shaped and cylinder supporter

Weishi Corp.Polycarbonate

height:4.8 -0.05 12

Nylon wire Japan Diameter 0.25 ±0.005

RTV CAF4, France

HV lead 15kV, USA 60cm ±1 2

Signal lead 34 ribbon cable, USA 60cm ±1 4

The materials for one LMRPC module

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Chinese LMRPC production

• The LMRPC production is the same as STAR-TOF MRPC production, we have two production sites in China.

Tsinghua University (60%) University of Science and Technology of China (40%)

• Facilities and tools ensure quality.

• Each site with QA and testing facility.

• Web-based module-data-base accessible at the assembly sites.

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1/2 3/4 5/6 7/89/1011/121/2 3/45/6 7/8 9/1011/12

Plan 2011 2012

Start20 LMRPCs40 LMRPCs60 LMRPCs80 LMRPCs

100 LMRPCs115 LMRPCs

LMRPC manufacture milestones

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VECC will produce 10% (15 ) modules

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Inner glass

outer glass

Mylar Honeycombboard

PCB Graphite Nylonwire

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Material procurement

CheckElectrodeassembly

Yes

LMRPCassembly

Check distanceBetween PCBSolder signal

cable

Yes

No

Check continuity

No

Final check

Test amplitude and time

LabelYes Yes

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Procedures of construction and QC

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Quality control on the material

• Glass– Measure the dimensions – Check the surface quality

• Pcb– Dimensions, – the scratch on the strips

• Honeycomb – Dimensions, surface quality

• Mylar foil: thickness, holes

• Fishing line– Dimension check of each coil

• Support block: thickness

Material with faults will be returned back to factory.

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HV cables and signal connection

• Rice and UT Austin will provide us HV and signal cables

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MRPC put in box

Exercise time: 10 hoursHV:±7200V

Measure current & noise rate

Measure QDC & TDC 24×3 hours

Flushing with gas 48 hours, 100ml/min

LMRPC Testing Procedure

For the first batch of

LMRPC modules (about 20

modules), 100% strips will

be tested for efficiency and

time resolution.

Later, 33% strips will be

tested.

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Nominal Minimum Maximum

Length 915mm 914.2mm 915.8mm

Width 580mm 579.2mm 580.8mm

Thickness 30mm 28.5mm 31.5mm

LMRPC mechanical specifications

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Testing conditions Specifications

Working gas: 95% F134A+5% iso-butane

Leakage current: < 40 nA

HV: 14.4kV Noise rate: < 1Hz/cm2

FEE threshold: 30mV Efficiency : > 90%

Timing resolution < 120 ps for 90% strips

MRPC performance requirement

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Time schedule• 2011.4 – 2011.6 finalizing the design

Design modules with 5 and 6 gaps, test performance, detailed comparison.

Make a conclusion on the performance of different structure

with/without glue.

Help VECC to establish test system, production tools and some materials…

Module production:

• 2011.6 – 2011.12 20%

• 2012.1 – 2012.6 40%

• 2012.7 – 2012.12 40%

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