ADENIUM -- A demonstrator for a next-generation beam telescope at DESY

TL;DR

The paper presents ADENIUM, a next-generation beam telescope prototype using ALPIDE sensors, offering high resolution and compatibility with existing test beam infrastructure, enhancing charged particle tracking capabilities.

Contribution

It introduces the ADENIUM beam telescope as a novel, high-resolution, and compatible prototype for next-generation charged particle tracking at test beam facilities.

Findings

Achieved pointing resolution better than 3 micrometers at 5.6 GeV.

Demonstrated no rate limitations at DESY II test beam.

Compatible with existing DUT implementations and EUDAQ2 data acquisition.

Abstract

High-resolution beam telescopes for charged particle tracking are one of the most important and equally demanding infrastructure items at test beam facilities. The main purpose of beam telescopes is to provide precise reference track information of beam particles to measure the performance of a device under test (DUT). In this report the development of the ADENIUM beam telescope (ALPIDE sensor based DESY Next test beam Instrument) as a demonstrator and prototype for a next-generation beam telescope is presented. The ADENIUM beam telescope features up to six pixelated reference planes framed by plastic scintillators for triggering. ADENIUM is capable of replacing the currently used EUDET-type beam telescopes without impacting existing DUT implementations due to the integration of the telescope DAQ into EUDAQ2. In this report the concept and design of the ADENIUM telescope as well as its performance are discussed. The telescope's pointing resolution is determined in different configurations. For an optimal setup at an momentum of 5.6 GeV with an ALPIDE as DUT, a resolution better than 3 um has been extracted. No rate limitations have been observed at the DESY II test beam.