Conceptual design of a Robotic Arm for the maintenance of the Read-Out Units of the Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter

Conceptual design of a Robotic Arm for the maintenance of the Read-Out Units of the Mu2e electromagnetic calorimeter

The Calorimeter of the Mu2e experiment is a complicated detector made of crystal scintillators with dedicated read-out electronics per crystals. The compactness of the Front-End Units matrix, the complexity of the necessary services, and the limited space available after detector installation in the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2023-01, Vol.1046, p.167733, Article 167733
Hauptverfasser: Atanov, N., Baranov, V., Borrel, L., Bloise, C., Budagov, J., Ceravolo, S., Cervelli, F., Colao, F., Cordelli, M., Davydov, Y.I., Di Falco, S., Diociaiuti, E., Donati, S., D’Agliano, A., Echenard, B., Ferrari, C., Gioiosa, A., Giovannella, S., Giusti, V., Glagolev, V., Hampai, D., Happacher, F., Hitlin, D., Lin, D., Martini, M., Middleton, S., Miscetti, S., Morescalchi, L., Paesani, D., Pasciuto, D., Pedreschi, E., Porter, F., Raffaelli, F., Saputi, A., Sarra, I., Spinella, F., Taffara, A., Tassielli, G.F., Tereshchenko, V., Usubov, Z., Vasilyev, I.I., Zanetti, A., Zhu, R.Y.
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Sprache:eng
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Calorimeter
Engineering
Maintenance
Particle physics
Robot
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Zusammenfassung:The Calorimeter of the Mu2e experiment is a complicated detector made of crystal scintillators with dedicated read-out electronics per crystals. The compactness of the Front-End Units matrix, the complexity of the necessary services, and the limited space available after detector installation in the experimental hall make access, manipulation and maintenance of the Front-End Units very hard. This paper reports on the conceptual mechanical design of a robotic arm composed of a gantry structure for xyz positioning on the desired Front-End Unit and equipped with custom-designed grippers to perform the necessary maintenance operations. This includes the optimization of the Front-End Units cables routing.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167733