Closer Look At Challenges Before Building DIRC Detector

Grzegorz Kalicy
Assistant Professor
The Catholic University of America 
Department of Physics 

Wed, September 18, 2019 - 4:00 PM
Karl Herzfeld Auditorium of Hannan Hall - Rm 108

The GlueX experiment was designed to search for and study the pattern of gluonic excitations in the meson spectrum produced through photoproduction reactions at a new tagged photon beam facility in Hall D at Jefferson Laboratory. The particle identification capabilities of the GlueX experiment was recently enhanced by constructing a DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detector, utilizing components of the decommissioned BaBar DIRC. Details of that upgrade, first experiences and two other DIRC R&D programs will be used to present interesting challenges of DIRC technology but also to show great example of exploring synergies between different Nuclear Physics experiments and collaborations.

Refreshments served at 3:45 PM

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