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ATHENA detector proposal - a totally hermetic electron nucleus apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider

  • J. Adam
  • , L. Adamczyk
  • , N. Agrawal
  • , C. Aidala
  • , W. Akers
  • , M. Alekseev
  • , M. M. Allen
  • , F. Ameli
  • , A. Angerami
  • , P. Antonioli
  • , N. J. Apadula
  • , A. Aprahamian
  • , W. Armstrong
  • , M. Arratia
  • , J. R. Arrington
  • , A. Asaturyan
  • , E. C. Aschenauer
  • , K. Augsten
  • , S. Aune
  • , K. Bailey
  • C. Baldanza, M. Bansal, F. Barbosa, L. Barion, K. Barish, M. Battaglieri, A. Bazilevsky, N. K. Behera, V. Berdnikov, J. Bernauer, C. Berriaud, A. Bhasin, D. S. Bhattacharya, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, C. Bissolotti, W. Boeglin, M. Bondì, M. Borri, F. Bossù, F. Bouyjou, J. D. Brandenburg, A. Bressan, M. Brooks, S. L. Bültmann, D. Byer, H. Caines, M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, V. Calvelli, A. Camsonne, L. Cappelli, M. Capua, M. Castro, D. Cavazza, D. Cebra, A. Celentano, I. Chakaberia, B. Chan, W. Chang, M. Chartier, C. Chatterjee, D. Chen, J. Chen, K. Chen, Z. Chen, H. Chetri, T. Chiarusi, M. Chiosso, X. Chu, J. J. Chwastowski, G. Cicala, E. Cisbani, E. Cline, I. Cloët, D. Colella, M. Contalbrigo, G. Contin, R. Corliss, Y. Corrales-Morales, J. Crafts, C. Crawford, R. Cruz-Torres, D. D'Ago, A. D'Angelo, N. D'Hose, J. Dainton, S. Dalla Torre, S. S. Dasgupta, S. Dash, N. Dashyan, J. Datta, M. Daugherity, R. De Vita, W. Deconinck, M. Defurne, K. Dehmelt, A. Del Dotto, F. Delcarro, G. Dellacasa, Z. S. Demiroglu, G. W. Deptuch, V. Desai, A. Deshpande, K. Devereaux, R. Dhillon, R. Di Salvo, C. Dilks, D. Dixit, S. Dobbs, X. Dong, J. Drachenberg, A. Drees, R. Dupré, M. Durham, R. Dzhygadlo, L. El Fassi, D. Elia, E. Epple, R. Esha, O. Evdokimov, O. Eyser, D. Falchieri, W. Fan, A. Fantini, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, S. Fegan, A. Filippi, H. Fox, A. Francisco, A. Freeze, S. Furletov, Y. Furletova, C. Gal, S. Gardner, P. Garg, D. Gaskell, K. Gates, M. T.W. Gericke, F. Geurts, C. Ghosh, M. Giacalone, F. Giacomini, S. Gilchrist, D. Glazier, K. Gnanvo, L. Gonella, L. C. Greiner, N. Guerrini, L. Guo, A. Gupta, R. Gupta, W. Guryn, X. He, T. Hemmick, S. Heppelmann, D. Higinbotham, M. Hoballah, A. Hoghmrtsyan, M. Hohlmann, T. Horn, D. Hornidge, H. Z. Huang, C. E. Hyde, P. Iapozzuto, M. Idzik, B. V. Jacak, M. Jadhav, S. Jain, C. Jena, A. Jentsch, Y. Ji, Z. Ji, J. Jia, P. G. Jones, R. W.I. Jones, S. Joosten, S. Joshi, L. Kabir, G. Kalicy, G. Karyan, V. K.S. Kashyap, D. Kawall, H. Ke, M. Kelsey, J. Kim, J. Kiryluk, A. Kiselev, S. R. Klein, H. Klest, V. Kochar, W. Korsch, L. Kosarzewski, A. Kotzinian, F. Krizek, A. Kumar, K. S. Kumar, L. Kumar, R. Kumar, S. Kumar, A. Kunnath, N. Kushawaha, R. Lacey, Y. S. Lai, K. Lalwani, J. Landgraf, L. Lanza, D. Lattuada, M. Lavinsky, J. H. Lee, S. H. Lee, R. Lemmon, A. Lestone, N. Lewis, H. Li, W. Li, W. Li, X. Li, X. Liang, T. Ligonzo, T. Lin, J. Liu, K. Liu, M. Liu, K. Livingston, N. Liyanage, T. Ljubicic, O. Long, N. Lukow, Y. Ma, J. Mammei, F. Mammoliti, K. Mamo, I. Mandjavidze, S. Maple, D. Marchand, A. Margotti, C. Markert, P. Markowitz, T. Marshall, A. Martin, H. Marukyan, A. Mastroserio, S. Mathew, S. Mayilyan, C. Mayri, M. McEneaney, Y. Mei, L. Meng, F. Méot, J. Metcalfe, Z. E. Meziani, P. Mihir, R. Milton, A. Mirabella, M. Mirazita, A. Mkrtchyan, H. Mkrtchyan, B. Mohanty, M. Mondal, A. Morreale, A. Movsisyan, D. Muenstermann, A. Mukherjee, C. Munoz Camacho, M. J. Murray, H. Mustafa, M. Myška, B. P. Nachman, K. Nagai, R. Naik, J. P. Naim, J. Nam, B. Nandi, E. Nappi, Md Nasim, D. Neff, D. Neiret, P. R. Newman, M. Nguyen, S. Niccolai, M. Nie, F. Noferini, J. Norman, F. Noto, A. S. Nunes, T. O'Connor, G. Odyniec, V. A. Okorokov, M. Osipenko, B. Page, C. Palatchi, D. Palmer, P. Palni, S. Pandey, D. Panzieri, S. Park, K. Paschke, C. Pastore, R. N. Patra, A. Paul, S. Paul, C. Pecar, A. Peck, I. Pegg, C. Pellegrino, C. Peng, L. Pentchev, R. Perrino, K. Piotrzkowski, T. Polakovic, M. Płoskoń, M. Posik, S. Prasad, R. Preghenella, S. Priens, E. Prifti, M. Przybycien, P. Pujahari, A. Quintero, M. Radici, S. K. Radhakrishnan, S. Rahman, S. Rathi, B. Raue, R. Reed, P. Reimer, J. Reinhold, E. Renner, L. Rignanese, M. Ripani, A. Rizzo, D. Romanov, A. Roy, N. Rubini, M. Ruspa, L. Ruan, F. Sabatié, S. Sadhukhan, N. Sahoo, P. Sahu, D. Samuel, A. Sarkar, M. Sarsour, W. Schmidke, B. Schmookler, C. Schwarz, J. Schwiening, M. Scott, I. Sedgwick, M. Segreti, S. Sekula, R. Seto, N. Shah, A. Shahinyan, D. Sharma, N. Sharma, E. P. Sichtermann, A. Signori, A. Singh, B. K. Singh, S. N. Singh, N. Smirnov, D. Sokhan, R. Soltz, W. Sondheim, S. Spinali, F. Stacchi, R. Staszewski, P. Stepanov, S. Strazzi, I. R. Stroe, X. Sun, B. Surrow, Z. Sweger, T. J. Symons, V. Tadevosyan, A. Tang, E. Tassi, L. Teodorescu, F. Tessarotto, D. Thomas, J. H. Thomas, T. Toll, L. Tomášek, F. Torales-Acosta, P. Tribedy, Triloki, V. Tripathi, R. Trotta, M. Trzebiński, B. A. Trzeciak, O. Tsai, Z. Tu, R. Turrisi, C. Tuvè, T. Ullrich, G. M. Urciuoli, A. Valentini, S. Vallarino, M. Vandenbroucke, J. Vanek, G. Vino, G. Volpe, H. Voskanyan, A. Vossen, E. Voutier, G. Wang, Y. Wang, D. Watts, N. Wickramaarachchi, F. Wilson, C. P. Wong, X. Wu, Y. Wu, J. Xie, Q. H. Xu, Z. Xu, Z. W. Xu, C. Yang, Q. Yang, Y. Yang, Z. Ye, Z. Ye, L. Yi, Z. Yin, M. Yurov, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Y. X. Zhao, Z. Zhao, L. Zheng, M. Żurek
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • A. Alikhanian Yerevan Institute of Physics
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Dav College
  • Central University of Tamil Nadu
  • Catholic University of America
  • University of Jammu
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Pavia
  • Florida International University
  • Daresbury Laboratory
  • University of Trieste
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Old Dominion University
  • Duke University
  • Yale University
  • University of California at Davis
  • University of Calabria
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Central China Normal University
  • University of Liverpool
  • Fudan University
  • Shandong University
  • Indian Institute of Technology Indore
  • University of Turin
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Stony Brook University
  • Polytechnic University of Bari
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Cockcroft Institute
  • Lancaster University
  • National Institute of Science Education and Research
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Abilene Christian University
  • University of Manitoba
  • Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science
  • Goa University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Florida State University
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Mississippi State University
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of York
  • University of Glasgow
  • Rice University
  • University of Massachusetts
  • Southern Methodist University
  • University of Virginia
  • University of Birmingham
  • STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Georgia State University
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • Mount Allison University
  • Malaviya National Institute of Technology
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati
  • Wayne State University
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Panjab University
  • Central University of Haryana
  • University of Bari
  • Temple University
  • South China Normal University
  • China National Nuclear Corporation
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Foggia
  • University of Kansas
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
  • Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Kent State University
  • Lehigh University
  • Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
  • Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
  • Central University of Karnataka
  • Indian Institute of Technology Patna
  • University of Catania
  • Brunel University London
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • National Cheng Kung University
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • CAS - Institute of Modern Physics
  • China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

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Abstract

ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine tracking and momentum resolution, high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, hadron identification over a wide kinematic range, and near-complete hermeticity. This article describes the detector design and its expected performance in the most relevant physics channels. It includes an evaluation of detector technology choices, the technical challenges to realizing the detector and the R&D required to meet those challenges.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP10019
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume17
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2022

Keywords

  • Calorimeters
  • Cherenkov detectors
  • Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics
  • Particle tracking detectors

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