Development of the kaon tagging system for the NA62 experiment at CERN
Instrumentation and Detectors
2015-09-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The NA62 experiment at CERN aims to make a precision measurement of the ultra-rare decay , and relies on a differential Cherenkov detector (KTAG) to identify charged kaons at an average rate of 50 MHz in a 750 MHz unseparated hadron beam. The experimental sensitivity of NA62 to K-decay branching ratios (BR) of requires a time resolution for the KTAG of better than 100 ps, an efficiency better than 95% and a contamination of the kaon sample that is smaller than . A prototype version of the detector was tested in 2012, during the first NA62 technical run, in which the required resolution of 100 ps was achieved and the necessary functionality of the light collection system and electronics was demonstrated.
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@article{arxiv.1509.03773,
title = {Development of the kaon tagging system for the NA62 experiment at CERN},
author = {Evgueni Goudzovski and Marian Krivda and Cristina Lazzeroni and Karim Massri and Francis O. Newson and Simon Pyatt and Angela Romano and Xen Serghi and Antonino Sergi and Richard J. Staley and Helen F. Heath and Ryan F. Page and Antonio Cassese and Peter A. Cooke and John B. Dainton and John R. Fry and Liam D. J. Fulton and Emlyn Jones and Tim J. Jones and Kevin J. McCormick and Peter Sutcliffe and Bozydar Wrona},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03773},
year = {2015}
}