Thermal cooling performances of extremely lightweight mechanical carbon fiber support structures with an integrated liquid cooling system for monolithic silicon pixel detectors have been investigated. The high heat removal efficiency using single-phase liquid flow is shown for a power density up to 0.5 W/cm2. These solutions provide therefore possibility to build a detector with a record radiation length of 0.3% per layer, ensuring considerable extensions of the physical program of investigations of the quark-gluon plasma in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.

Представлены результаты испытаний МАПС монолитных активных пиксельных детекторов, целью которых было измерение порогов и шумов пикселей в каждом из четырех секторов детектора, а также исследование карты откликов пикселей при облучении пиксельной матрицы радиоактивными источниками.

We present the results from testing Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors of the detector ALPIDE (ALICE Pixel Detector). The purpose of these tests was to measure the pixel threshold and noise distributions in each of the four sectors of the detector, as well as the analysis of the hit maps produced by different radioactive sources.

Nuclear reactions using proton beams and tin targets are studied in order to obtain antimony radionuclides. A new target system that includes on-line monitoring of target heating is used. To determine the parameters of proton beams, experimental studies on nuclear reactions are performed using Ti, Cu and stainless steel targets. Using modern model approximations, cross sections are determined for the formation of radionuclides 119Sb and 117Sb in the investigated nuclear reactions.

The performance of new extra lightweight mechanical support structures with the integrated liquid cooling system for monolithic silicon pixel detectors has been investigated. These detectors will be used to upgrade the inner tracking system in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The extra lightweight mechanical support structures, together with the novel pixel detectors, provide a record-breaking total radiation length of 0.3% X-0 per layer, which will make it possible to considerably extend the physical program of investigations of the quark-gluon plasma in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. This is particularly important in measuring the yields of heavy-flavor hadrons and low-mass dileptons with low transverse momenta. The experimental results of the thermal tests and the comparative analysis of five samples of extra lightweight mechanical support structures for monolithic silicon pixel detectors are presented. The high efficiency of heat drain using the liquid cooling system for a power density as high as 0.5 W/cm(2) is shown.