May 20 – 25, 2018
University of Oregon
US/Pacific timezone

Design and test of the Mu2e undoped CsI crystal calorimeter

May 22, 2018, 8:30 AM
20m
Ballroom, Erb Memorial Union (University of Oregon)

Ballroom, Erb Memorial Union

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon USA

Speaker

Luca Morescalchi (INFN - Pisa)

Description

The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the charged-lepton flavour violating
neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus.
The Mu2e detector is composed of a tracker and an electromagnetic
calorimeter and an external veto for cosmic rays.
The calorimeter plays an important role in providing excellent particle identification capabilities,
a fast online trigger filter while aiding the track reconstruction capabilities.
The calorimeter requirements are to provide a large acceptance for ~100 MeV electrons and reach:
1) a time resolution better than 0.5 ns @ 100 MeV;
2) an energy resolution O(10\%) @ 100 MeV;
3) a position resolution of 1 cm.

The calorimeter consists of two disks, each one made of 674 undoped CsI
crystals readout by two large area $2\times3$ array of UV-extended
SiPMs of 6x6 mm$^2$ dimensions.
A large scale prototype has also been constructed and tested at the beam test facility in Frascati.
It consists of 51 pre-production crystals readout by two Mu2e SiPM.
We present the progresses done to complete the calorimeter design as well as
a summary of results obtained in the production of components and on the test beam
of the prototype.

Secondary topics

Silicon photosensors, radiation hardness, calorimeter systems

Applications Design concepts for future calorimeter at the intensity frontier
Primary topic Crystals

Author

Dr Stefano Miscetti (LNF INFN)

Presentation materials