CDF II Technical Publications


CDF II Technical Publications
Technical publications related to the various CDF dectector subsystems

CDF I Technical Publications

[ Overview] [ Silicon] [ CLC] [ COT] [ TOF] [ Calorimetry] [ Muon] [ Trigger ] [ Electronics ] [ Beam Halo and Losses ]







........ DETECTOR OVERVIEW ........ [Top]

Paper in Preparation
........ LUMINOSITY (CLC) ........ [Top]

The Performance of the CDF Luminosity Monitor by D. Acosta, S. Klimenko, J. Konigsberg, A. Korytov, G. Mitselmakher, V. Necula, A. Nomerotsky, A. Pronko, A. Sukhanov, A. Safonov, D. Tsybychev, S. M. Wang and M. Wong Presented at the 8th International Conference on Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics (INSTR02), Novosibirsk, Russia, 28 Feb - 6 Mar 2002
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A494:57-62,2002

The CDF Luminosity Monitor by D. Acosta, S. Klimenko, J. Konigsberg, A. Korytov, G. Mitselmakher, A. Nguyele, A. Nomerotski, A. Safonov, R. Stanek, D. Tsybychev, R. Vidal, S. M. Wang and M. Wong Presented at the 8th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detector: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 21-25 May 2000
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A461:540-544,2001

........ TRACKING SYSTEM (SILICON) ........ [Top]

L00: Operational Experience and Performance of the CDFII Silicon Detector by C. S. Hill. FERMILAB-CONF-03-412-E, Jan 2004. 9pp. Presented at 6th International Conference on Large Scale Applications and Radiation hardness of Semiconductor Detectors, Florence, Italy, 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2003. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A530:1-6, 2004

SVX-II: CDF Run II Silicon Tracking Projects by A. Sill. 2000. Prepared for 8th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors (Vertex 99), Texel, Netherlands, 20-25 June 1999. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A447:1-8, 2000

ISL: Intermediate Silicon Layers Detector for the CDF Experiment by A. Affolder et al. 2000. Prepared for 7th International Conference on Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics (INSTR99), Hamamatsu, Japan, 15-19 Nov 1999. FERMILAB-CONF-00-399-CD Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A453:84-88, 2000

Conference Proceedings on Silicon Detectors (Published)

A Measurement of the Radiation Environment in the CDF Tracking Volume by R. J. Tesarek, S. D'Auria, A. Hocker, K. Kordas, S. McGimpsey, and S. Worm, Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A514 188-193, 2003

Measurement of the Radiation Field in CDF by S. D'Auria, A. Hocker, S. McGimpsey, K. Kordas, R. Tesarek, and S. Worm, Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A513pp 89-93, 2003

The RASNIK Real-Time Relative Alignment Monitor for the CDF Inner Tracking Detectors by David Goldstein and David Saltzberg, FERMILAB-PUB-02-453-V Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A506: 92-100 (2002)

........ TRACKING SYSTEM (COT) ........ [Top]

COT Central Outer Tracker by T. Affolder, D. Allspach, D. Ambrose, J. Bialek, W. Bokhati, M. Brozovic, M. Binkley, K. Burkett, A. Byon-Wagner, F. Cogswell, N. Dressnandt, Z. Feng, M. Franklin, L. Galtieri, D.W. Gerdes, J. Greenwood, V. Guarino, J. Guimaraes da Costa, R. Haggerty, C. Hall, J. Heinrich, A. Holloway, T. Jacobi, K. Kephart, D. Khazins, Y.K. Kim, M. Kirby, W. Kononenko, A.V. Kotwal, J. Kraus, T.M. liss, N. Lockyer, R. Madrak, T. Miao, A. Mukherjee, C. Neu, M. Newcomer, J.M. Niczyporuk, L. Nodulman, W. Orejudos, T.J. Phillips, K.T. Pitts, W. Reigler, R. Richards, c. Rivetta, W.J. Robertson, R. Roser, L. Sadler, R. Sandberg, S. Sansone, R. Schmitt, K. Schultz, D. shuman, R. Silva, P. Singh, R. Snihur, P. Tamburello, J. Taylor, R. THurman-Keup, D. Tousignant, F. Ukegawa, R. Van Berg, G. Veramendi, T. Vickey, J. Wacker, R.L. Wagner, R. Weindenbach, W.C. Wester III, H.H. Williams, P. Wilson, P. Wittich, A. Yagil, I. Yu, S. Yu, J.C. Yun, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A526: 249, 2004

........ TIME-OF-FLIGHT ........ [Top]

A Time-Of-Flight Detector for CDF by C. Grozis, R. Kephart, R. Stanek, B. Kim, D.H. Kim, S.B. Kim, Y. Oh, I. Yu, W.C. Carithers, Y.K. Kim, K. Anikeev, G. Bauer, I.K. Furic, I. Kravchenko, M. Mulhearn, C. Paus, K. Sumorok, S. Cabrera, J. Fernandez, J. Piedra, T. Rodrigo, A. Ruiz, I. Vila, C. Chen, M. Jones, W. Kononenko, J. Kroll, G.M. Mayers, F.M. Newcomer, D. Usynin, R. Van Berg, G. Bellettini, C. Cerri, A. Menzione, D. De Pedis, C. Dionisi, S. Giagu, M. Rescigno, L. Zanello, A. Kazama, S.H. Kim, H. Matsunaga, S. Motohashi, K. Sato, K. Takikawa, F. Ukegawa, FERMILAB-CONF-01-017-E Int. J.Mod. Phys. A16S1C:1119-1121, 2001


Design and Performance Tests of the CDF Time-Of-Flight System by C. Paus, C. Grozis, R. Kephart, R. Stanek, B. Kim, D.H. Kim, S.B. Kim, Y. Oh, I. Yu, W.C. Carithers, Y.K. Kim, K. Anikeev, G. Bauer, I.K. Furi, A. Korn, I. Kravchenko, M. Mulhearn, S. Pavlon, K. Sumorok, S. Cabrera, T. Rodrigo, A. Ruiz, I. Vila, C. Chen, M. Jones, W. Kononenko, J. Kroll, G.M. Mayers, F.M. Newcomer, D. Usynin, R. Van Berg, G. Bellettini, C. Cerri, A. Menzione, D. De Pedis, C. Dionisi, S. Giagu, M. Rescigno, L. Zanello, A. Kazama, S.H. Kim, H. Matsunaga, S. Motohashi, K. Sato, K. Takikawa, F. Ukegawa, FERMILAB-CONF-01-551 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A461:579-581, 2001


A Time-Of-Flight Detector in CDF-II by D. Acosta, M. Ahn, K. Anikeev, G. Bauer, G. Bellettini, S. Cabrera, C. Cerri, S. De Cecco, D. De Pedis, A. DiGirolamo, C. Dionisi, J. Fernandez, I.K. Furic, C. Chen, I. Cho, S. Giagu, G. Gomez, C. Grozis, M. Jones, H. Kaneko, A. Kazama, R. Kephart, D.H. Kim, B.J. Kim, M.S. Kim, S. Kim, S.B. Kim, Y.K. Kim, J. Konigsberg, W. Kononenko, A. Korn, I. Kravchenko, J. Kroll, J. Lee, J. Lewis, A. Madorsky, G.M. Mayers, A. Menzione, M. Mulhearn, F.M. Newcomer, Y. Oh, R.G.C. Oldeman, C. Paus, S. Pavlon, J. Piedra, M. Rescigno, T. Rodrigo, A. Ruiz, K. Sato, K. Sato, R. Stanek, K. Sumorok, F. Ukegawa, D. Usynin, R. Van Berg, E. Vataga, G. Veramendi, I. Vila, R. Vilar, I. Yu, L. Zanello, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518:605-608, 2004

Front-end Electronics for the CDF-II Time-Of-Flight System by C. Chen, M. Jones, W. Kononenko, J. Kroll, G.M. Mayers, F.M. Newcomer, R.G.C. Oldeman, D. Usynin, R. Van Berg (Pennsylvania U.), IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50:2486-2490, 2003.

........ CALORYMETRY ........ [Top]

Test of 2000 Phototubes for the CDF Endplug Calorimeter Upgrade by L. Breccia, S.W. DelChamps, I. Fiori, G. Farinelli, J. Freeman, T. Jaffrey, W. Kinney, W. Koska, P. Limon, M. Mishima, G. Pauletta, J. Strait ans S. Zucchelli, FERMILAB-PUB-04-090-E Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A532:575-610, 2004.


Shower Maximum Detector for the CDF Plug Upgrade Calorimeter, By G. Apollinari, Konstantin Goulianos, P. Melese (Rockefeller U.), M. Lindgren (UCLA), FERMILAB-PUB-98-466 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A412:515-526, 1998.

The CDF Miniplug Calorimeters, by S. Lami (Rockefeller U.) FERMILAB-CONF-02-127-E,

The CDF Miniplug Calorimeters at the Tevatron, by K. Goulianos, M. Gallinaro, K. Hatakeyama, S. Lami, C. Mesropian, K. Terashi (Rockefeller U.), FERMILAB-CONF-03-542 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518:42-44, 2004

The CDF Miniplug Calorimeters by K. Goulianos, M. Gallinaro, K. Hatakeyama, S. Lami, C. Mesropian, A. Solodsky (Rockefeller U.), FERMILAB-PUB-03-543-V Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A496:333-346, 2003

Performance of the CDF Miniplug Calorimeters by Michele Gallinaro, FERMILAB-CONF-03-061-E Nucl. Phys. B 125C:128-132, 2003

Performance of a Prototype Position Sensitive Towerless Calorimeter By Konstantin Goulianos, S. Lami (Rockefeller U.), FERMILAB-PUB-99-484-V Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A430:34-47, 1999

Calorimetry in CDF Run 2, Robin Erbacher, Pub. Proceedings 31st International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2002), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 24-31, 2002. FERMILAB-CONF-02/251-E.

The CDF Calorimetry Upgrade for Run IIb by S. Kuhlmann, H. Frisch, M. Cordelli, J. Huston, R. Miller, S. Lami, R. Paoletti, N. Turini, M. Iori, D. Toback, F. Ukegawa, FERMILAB-CONF-03-544-V Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518:39-41, 2004

The CDF plug upgrade electromagnetic calorimeter: test beam results by M. Albrow, S. Aota, G. Apollinari, T. Asakawa, M. Bailey, P. de Barbaro, V. Barnes, K. Biery, A. Bodek, L. Breccia et al, FERMILAB-PUB-01-045-E Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A480:524-546, 2002.

Intercalibration of the longitudinal segments of a calorimeter system by M. Albrow, S. Aota, G. Apollinari, T. Asakawa, M. Bailey, P. de Barbaro, V. Barnes, D. Benjamin, S. Blusk, A. Bodek et al, FERMILAB-PUB-02-454 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A487:381-395, 2002.

A preshower detector for the CDF Plug Upgrade: test beam results by M. Albrow, S. Aota, G. Apollinari, T. Asakawa, M. Bailey, P. de Barbaro, V. Barnes, D. Benjamin, K. Biery, S. Blusk et al, FERMILAB-PUB-99-485 Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A431:101-111, 1999.

Automatization of the Monitoring and Control of the Muon Scintillation Counters at CDF II by O. Pukhov, A. Artikov, F. Prokoshin, D. Chokheli, G. Pauletta, G. Gomez, I. Vila, C. Bromberg (Dubna, JINR & Udine U. & INFN, Udine & Cantabria Inst. of Phys. & Michigan State U.), Part. Nucl. Lett. 5:72-81, 2002.

The Miniskirt Counter Array at CDF-II by A. Artikov et al., FERMILAB-PUB-02-455-VPart. Nucl. Lett. 114:25-39, 2002.

Evaluation of candidate photomultiplier tubes for the upgrade of the CDF End Plug calorimeter by W. Koska, S. W. Delchamps, W. Kinney, D. C. Lewis, P. J. Limon, A. Ronzhin, J. Strait, I. Fiori, M. Gallinaro, Y. Pischalnikov and Q. Shen, FERMILAB-PUB-97-092 Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A406:103, 1998.

........ MUON SYSTEM ........ [Top]

Design and construction of new central and forward muon counters for CDF II by A. Artikov, J. Budagov, I. Chirikov-Zorin, D. Chokheli, V. Kolomoets, M. Lyablin, O. Pukhov, A. Sissakian, G. Bellettini, F. Cervelli et al., FERMILAB-PUB-04-569-V submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. (available online Oct. 12, 2004)

Making the most of aging scintillator by S. Cabrera, D. Cauz, D. Dreossi, K. Ebina, M. Iori, M. Incagli, G. Introzzi, A. Menzione, G. Pauletta , T. Ogawa et al, FERMILAB-CONF-00-424-V Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A453:245-248, 2000.

........ TRIGGERS and DAQ ........ [Top]

Track Extrapolation and Distribution for the CDF-II Trigger System
By Robert Downing, Nathan Eddy, Lee Holloway, Mike Kasten, Hyunsoo Kim, James Kraus, Christopher Marino, Kevin Pitts, John Strologas, and Anyes Taffard, FERMILAB-PUB-06-622-V Nucl.Instum.Meth. A570:36-50, 2007

A VLSI Processor for Fast Track Finding Based on Content Addressable Memories
By A. Annovi, A. Bardi, M. Bitossi, S. Chiozzi, C. Damiani, M. Dell'Orso, P. Giannetti, P. Giovacchini, G. Marchiori, I. Pedron, M. Piendibene, L. Sartori, F. Schifano, F. Spinella, S. Torre, R. Tripiccione, FERMILAB-CONF-06-623-V IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Science, 53, 2428, (2006)

Online Track Processor for the CDF Upgrade
By E.J. Thomson et al.
Presented at IEEE 2001 Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), San Diego, California, 4-10 Nov 2001. FERMILAB-CONF-02-144-E IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Science, 49, 1063 (2003)

The CDF Silicon Vertex Tracker
By B. Ashmanskas et al.
Presented at the 9th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, May 25-31, 2003. FERMILAB-CONF-03-168-E Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 518:532-536, 2004

The CDF Online Silicon Vertex Tracker
By A. Bardi, A. Belloni, R. Carosi, G. Chlachidze, M. Dell'Orso, S. Donati, S. Galeotti, P. Giannetti, V. Glagolev, E. Meschi, F. Morsani, D. Passuello, G. Punzi, L. Ristori, A. Semenov, F. Spinella (INFN, Pisa & Pisa U. & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), A. Barchiesi, M. Rescigno, S. Sarkar, L. Zanello (Rome U. & INFN, Rome), M. Bari, S. Belforte, A.M. Zanetti (INFN, Trieste), I. Fiori (Padua U. & INFN, Padua), W. Ashmanskas, M. Baumgart, J.W. Berryhill, M. Bogdan, R. Culbertson, H. Frisch, T. Nakaya, H. Sanders, M. Shochet, U. Yang (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.), A. Cerri (LBL, Berkeley), Y. Liu, L. Moneta, T. Speer, X. Wu (Geneva U.). FERMILAB-CONF-01-376-E, Dec 2001. 7pp.
Prepared for 7th International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 15-19 Oct 2001.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A485:178-182,2002

SVT: An Online Silicon Vertex Tracker For The CDF Upgrade
By A. Bardi, S. Belforte, J.W. Berryhill, A. Cerri, A.G. Clark, R. Culbertson, M. Dell'Orso, S. Donati, J. Dusatko, H.J. Frisch, S. Galeotti, P. Giannetti, A. Leger, E. Meschi, F. Morsani, T. Nakaya, G. Punzi, L. Ristori, H. Sanders, M. Shochet, T. Speer, F. Spinella, P. Wilson, X. Wu, A.M. Zanetti (Chicago U. & Geneva U. & Pisa U. & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN, Pisa & INFN, Trieste). FERMILAB-CONF-97-244-E, CDF-NOTE-4246, May 1997. 4pp.
Presented at 7th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detector: Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 25-31 May 1997.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A409:658-661,1998

  Additional publications about SVT

Event Builder and Level 3 at the CDF Experiment by G. Gomez-Ceballos, A. Belloni, A. Bolshov, B. Iyutin, I. Kravchenko, N. Leonardo, B. Knuteson, C. Paus, S. Tether, J. Tseng, F. Wurthwein (MIT), FERMILAB-CONF-03-172-E Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518:522-524, 2004

Selection of Tau Leptons with the CDF II Trigger System by A. Anastassov, S. Baroiant, M. Chertok, M. Goncharov, T. Kamon, V. Khotilovich, R. Lander, P. Murat, T. Ogawa, C. Pagliarone, G.M. Piacentino, F. Ratnikov, A.Safonov, A. Savoy-Navarro, J.R. Smith, D. Toback, S. Tourneur, E. Vataga, FERMILAB-CONF-03-182-E Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A518: 609, 2004

Conference Proceedings on DAQ and Level 3 (Published)

........ ELECTRONICS ........ [Top]

The Design of the CDF Run 2 Calorimetry Readout Module, Theresa Shaw, Charles Nelson, Thomas Wesson. FERMILAB-CONF-99-319 IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.47:1834-1838,2000.

The Shower Maximum Front-End Electronics for the CDF Upgrade A.Byon-Wagner, K.Byrum, J.W.Dawson, G.Drake, C.Drennan, G.W.Foster, W.N.Haberichter, J. Hoff, S.Kuhlmann, M.Lindgren, L.J.Nodulman, J.Proudfoot, J.L.Schlereth, J.Y.Wu, FERMILAB-PUB-02-456
Published in IEEE Trans. on Nucl.Sci., 49 2002, 2567-2573.�

The CDF calorimeter upgrade for Run IIb, by S.Kuhlmann, H.Frisch, M.Cordelli, J.Huston, R.Miller, S.Lami, R.Paoletti, N.Turini, M.Iori, D.Toback, T.Ukegawa, FERMILAB-CONF-03-544-V Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A518, 39 (2004)

........ BEAM HALO and LOSSES ........ [Top]

Beam Halo Monitoring at CDF by Muge Karagoz Unel and Richard J. Tesarek, FERMILAB-PUB-02-304-E,
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A506 (2003) 7-19


........ ONLINE MONITORING ........ [Top]

Online Monitoring in the CDF II Experiment by W. Wagner, H. Stadie (Karlsruhe U.), T. Arisawa, K. Ikado (Waseda U., Cosmic Ray Div.), K. Maeshima, H. Wenzel (Fermilab), G. Veramendi (LBL, Berkeley), FERMILAB-CONF-02-269-E

........ COMPUTING ........ [Top]

Computing for Run II at CDF by M. Neubauer (MIT) FERMILAB-CONF-03-545, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A502:386-390, 2002

Design and first tests of the CDF Run 2 farms by J. Antos, M. Breitung, T. Chan, P. Chang, Y.C. Chen, T. Dawson, J. Fromm, L. Giacchetti, T. Levshina, I. Mandrichenko, R. Pasetes, M. Schweitzer, K. Shepelak, M. Siket, D. Skow, S. Wolbers, G.P. Yeh, P. Yeh, FERMILAB-CONF-00-095-E Comput. Phys. Comm. 140, 239 (2001)

Conference Proceedings on Computing (Published)

Conference Proceedings on The SAMGrid Project