- Collaboration with the LHC’s Alice experiment, which aims to study matter in extreme high-temperature and high-density conditions through heavy-ion collisions. For the LHC’s run 3, luminosity in heavy-ion collisions will considerably increase (a number of collisions per second of ~50 kHz) with the intention of increasing the statistic of QGP’s (Quark-Gluon Plasma) rare tests. To make the most out of the scientific potential in these conditions, ALICE will improve its detectors. In the main tracking detector and hadron identification, TPC (Time-Projection Chamber), the current MWPC (Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber) will be replaced by GEM (Gas-Electron Multiplier) detectors. Together with BUAP (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla) researchers, the Detector Laboratory develops a current meter for the GEM detectors that will be used in the said upgrade.
- Together with professors from the National Preparatory School, we are developing a cosmic ray detection kit for teaching high-energy physics at an upper-secondary level.
- Collaboration with the DAMIC experiments in the underground laboratory SNOLAB, in Canada, and CONNIE, in the Angra Nuclear Power Plant, in Brazil. Both use detectors based on CCD devices of scientific quality which are operated at high vacuum at temperatures of around ~140 Kelvin in an environment low in radioactive contaminants. DAMIC uses this detection technology to carry out a search of light dark matter (masses of 1-10 GeV/c2), while CONNIE’s objective is to detect the process of coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos with nucleus (DECNN) using a nuclear reactor’s antineutrinos. Something crucial for the use of CDD as particle detectors is to understand their response to different types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron). An assembly is currently being installed at the Detector Laboratory to carry out CCD samples and characterizations. There’s also a high-purity germanium detector (HPGE) that will be used to carry out measurements of the level of radioactive contaminants in materials used for the detector.
- We are working on the development of a prototype of a detector for antineutrinos produced by nuclear reactors. The detector consists of a segmented volume of plastic scintillators wrapped in gadolinium sheets, coupled with photomultiplier tubes.
- Group of Space Instrumentation: The Group of Space Instrumentation is dedicated to the development of scientific instrumentation, both stratospheric and orbital. The projects currently in development are:
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