Conveners
Cherenkov light imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
- Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB))
Cherenkov light imaging in particle and nuclear physics experiments
- Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB))
The NA62 experiment is designed to measure the very rare kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nubar at the CERN SPS with 10% statistical precision. One of the challenging aspects of the experiment is the suppression of the K+ -> mu+ nu_mu decay whose branching ratio is 10 orders of magnitude higher than the one of the K+ -> pi+ nu nubar decay. Kinematics cuts and the use of the very different stopping...
The CLAS12 deep-inelastic scattering experiment at the upgraded 12 GeV continuous electron beam accelerator facility of Jefferson Lab conjugates luminosity and wide acceptance to study the 3D nucleon structure in the yet poorly explored valence region, and to perform precision measurements in hadron spectroscopy.
A large area ring-imaging Cherenkov detector has been designed to achieve the...
During the second LHC long shutdown, the LHCb experiment underwent a major upgrade in order to be able to operate at the instantaneous luminosity of 2 × 10−33 cm−2 s−1, reading data at a rate of 40 MHz, with a fully software-based trigger.
The RICH system of LHCb has been completely refurbished installing new photon detectors (Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes) equipped with a custom...
The High Momentum Particle IDentification (HMPID) detector successfully participated to the LHC Run 1 (2009-2013) and Run 2 (2015-2018) data taking periods, providing the expected contribution to the ALICE physics program. The detector showed so far very stable PID performance, ensured by the stability of its different condition parameters, i.e., MWPCs gain, photocathode quantum efficiency,...
The ring imaging Cherenkov detector of the High Acceptance Dielectron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI Darmstadt, Germany, has been upgraded with a new photon detection device based on 428 multianode photo electron multipliers (Hamamatsu H12700) partly coated with \textit{p}-Terphenyl as a wavelength shifter.
It is the key component for efficient identification of electrons and positrons emitted...
The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider is a B factory experiment to study rare decays with high precision such as $B\to\rho(\to\pi\pi)\gamma$ and $B\to K^{*}(\to K\pi)\gamma$. In order to study these processes, particle identification, especially the separation of charged kaons and pions is very important. In the Belle II detector, a proximity focusing...
The GlueX experiment is located in experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab) and provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in high-energy photoproduction, utilizing a ~9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam. Phase II of the GlueX experiment began in 2020 with the installation of a Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC), utilizing components from the...
The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany, will address fundamental questions of hadron physics using $\bar{p}p$ annihilations. Excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a large range of solid angles and particle momenta will be essential to meet the objectives of the rich physics program. Charged PID...
