Recent progress in silica aerogel Cherenkov radiator

Makoto Tabata; Ichiro Adachi; Hideyuki Kawai; Masato Kubo; Takeshi Sato

doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2012.02.410

Recent progress in silica aerogel Cherenkov radiator

Instrumentation and Detectors 2012-10-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Authors: Makoto Tabata , Ichiro Adachi , Hideyuki Kawai , Masato Kubo , Takeshi Sato

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Abstract

In this paper, we present recent progress in the development of hydrophobic silica aerogel as a Cherenkov radiator. In addition to the conventional method, the recently developed pin-drying method for producing high-refractive-index aerogels with high transparency was studied in detail. Optical qualities and large tile handling for crack-free aerogels were investigated. Sufficient photons were detected from high-performance aerogels in a beam test.

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@article{arxiv.1203.4060,
  title  = {Recent progress in silica aerogel Cherenkov radiator},
  author = {Makoto Tabata and Ichiro Adachi and Hideyuki Kawai and Masato Kubo and Takeshi Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.4060},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP 2011), to be published in Physics Procedia, 8 pages, 7 figures

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