FCC LAB

The lab is committed to the Research and development of an ultralight drift chamber as the main tracking device of an experiment at future leptonic colliders, designed to provide efficient tracking, high precision momentum measurement and excellent particle identification. The activity is supported by the future collider program at INFN, CERN and IHEP, along the path defined by the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Drift chambers prototypes are gas detector designed to cope with high transparency, in terms of radiation lengths, obtained by using a novel approach adopted for the wiring and assembly procedures. Particle identification capabilities are reached by using a cluster counting technique, expected to provide a two-times better particle separation with respect to the traditional method based on energy loss per unit length.
The lab is equipped with instrumentation for powering gas detectors, with gas supply unit and monitoring station, with a soldering station and a wiring machine, with a laser alignment setup and with computers for mechanical design and data analysis.