LC TPC R&D

Goals: This working group plans to understand how to build a super-high-performance TPC for the linear collider physics up to 1 or 2 TeV cms energy. For more details see:

LCTPC/LP collaboration

MP-TPC prototype drawings (pdf files)

Desy PRC presentations

Tracking Review Beijing 2007 presentations

List of groups in the LCTPC collaboration

• TPC groups as of July 2008

MOA version 23

• ps file

• pdf file

Snowmass talks on various detector related issues

• TPC issues, tasks, plans for EUDET and Large Prototype

MPI/IPN Orsay design study for the LC TPC

• TPC design file no.1 from MPI/INP-Orsay study//
• TPC design file no.2 from MPI/IPN-Orsay study

Some new results, summer 2005

• Version 6 ppt file as of July 12, 2005
• Version 6 pdf file as of July 12, 2005

TPC R&D Workshops at LBNL (2003, 2005, 2006) and Orsay (January 2005)

• TPC Symposium at LBNL on 17 October 2003

• TPC Talks at the TPC R&D workshop at LBNL 23-24 March 2005

• Talks the TPC Applications workshop at LBNL 6-8 April 2006

• TPC Talks at the TPC R&D Miniworkshop at LAL Orsay 12 January and Ecole Polytechnique 14 January 2005

Various Workshop Talks

• TPC R&D (of the Desy PRC) overview talk given at Arlington Texan WS, Tracking Session, January 2003

• Tracking sessions at Amsterdam April 2003. The Amsterdam meeting includes all tracking, in addition to TPC. By clicking on Talks1st session and Talks2nd session, you will find the web pages for those tracking sessions.

• TPC talk (ppt) given by RS at the Cornell LC Workshop July 2003
  TPC talk (pdf) given by RS at the Cornell LC Workshop July 2003

• General DAQ talk (ppt) given by Guenter Eckerlin at the Cornell LC Workshop July 2003

• DAQ talk (ppt) on TPC given by RS at the Cornell LC Workshop July 2003

• Webpage of talks at the TPC R&D occasions at LBNL and Portland Oct. 17-23, 2003

• Tracking session talks at the ECFA Workshop in Montpellier 13-16 November 2003

• ppt version of the TPC talk by RS at the ACFA Workshop in Mumbai 15-17 December 2003
  pdf (long) version of TPC talk by RS at the ACFA Workshop in Mumbai 15-17 December 2003 (the version shown at Mumbai was somewhat shorter).

• Website for the tracking sessions at the ALCPG workshop at SLAC January 2004, where there were several good TPC talks

• Website for the worldwide tracking and muon meeting, held during the SLAC workshop.

• Contributions to the world wide LCWS 2004 meeting in Paris 17-21 April 2004 in Paris. The tracking session contains many TPC talks.

• Contributions to tracking sessions at the ALCPG Victoria Workshop 27-31 July 2004.
  Europe/Asia TPC talk at the tracking session of the Victoria workshop.
  KEK test-beam talk at the Victoria workshop.

  
  

• Contributions to vertex/tracking sessions at LCWS 2005, Stanford, 18-22 March 2005.
  Europe/Asia/Canada TPC talk at the tracking session of the LCWS2005, Stanford 21 March 2004 .

  
  

• TPC R&D Workshop at LBNL on 23-24 March 2005
  LC TPC design/R&D overview at LBNL WS on 23 March 2005 (ppt file)
  LC TPC design/R&D overview at LBNL WS on 23 March 2005 (pdf file)

• Summary of the TPC R&D video meeting on 14 March 2002

• Summary of the TPC R&D video meeting on 6 June 2002

• Summary of the TPC R&D video meeting on 5 July 2002

• Summary of the TPC R&D video meeting on 15 October 2002

• Summary of the TPC reports at the Prague and Arlington workshops, November 2002 and January 2003

• Summary/Talks given at the TPC R&D phone meeting on 26 Feb. 2003

• Summary/Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 19 March 2003

• Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 4 June 2003

• Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 17 September 2003

• Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 11 February 2004

• Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 7 April 2004

• Talks given at the TPC R&D phone/VRVS meeting on 21 July 2004

• Some generalities about the LCTPC R&D (summer 2006)

• pdf file of Werner Wiedenmann's distortions corrections in the Aleph TPC

• gzipped ps file of Werner Wiedenmann's distortion correction in the Aleph TPC

• Design drawing #1 of the TPC prototype being built at MPI for testing in the 5T magnet at Desy.

• Design drawing #2 of the TPC prototype being built at MPI for testing in the 5T magnet at Desy.

• Design drawing #3 of the TPC prototype being built at MPI for testing in the 5T magnet at Desy.

• And, if you are interested, there is also a lot to do at the IR!

Anyone interested in or working on TPC R&D which is of use for the LC detector is kindly invited either to join or to let us know, and we shall be happy to keep you informed of our activities. This includes not only hardware prototyping but also for studies of detector or subdetector optimisation.