Summary and Conclusions of the 'JRA Beam Telescope 2025'-Forum at the 6th Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop

TL;DR

This paper summarizes a 2018 forum discussing future developments of a common beam telescope, emphasizing hardware/software improvements, higher trigger rates, and a new reconstruction framework to enhance test beam capabilities.

Contribution

It reports community consensus and proposals for advancing beam telescope hardware, software, and reconstruction frameworks for future test beam experiments.

Findings

Agreement on improving EUDET-type telescopes with higher trigger rates

Development of a common top-level DAQ system (EUDAQ)

Identification of requirements for a new reconstruction framework

Abstract

On January 17th 2018, a forum on a possible Joint Research Activity on a future common Beam Telescope was held during the 6th Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop (BTTB) in Zurich, Switzerland. The BTTB workshop aims at bringing together the community involved in beam tests. It therefore offers a suitable platform to induce community-wide discussions. The forum and its discussions were well received and the participants concluded that appropriate actions should be undertaken promptly. Specific hardware and software proposals were discussed, with an emphasis on improving current common EUDET-type telescopes based on Mimosa26 sensors towards higher trigger rate capabilities in convolution with considerably improved time resolution. EUDAQ as a common top level DAQ and its modular structure is ready for future hardware. EUTelescope fulfils many requirements of a common reconstruction framework, but has also various drawbacks. Thus, requirements for a new common reconstruction framework were collected. A new common beam telescope evolves with the sensor decision and the whole package including a reconstruction framework depends on that decision.