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Performance study of a prototype pure CsI calorimeter for the KOTO experiment

  • E. Iwai
  • , J. W. Lee
  • , T. Masuda
  • , D. McFarland
  • , Y. Nakaya
  • , Y. D. Ri
  • , K. Sato
  • , K. Shiomi
  • , Y. Sugiyama
  • , Y. Tajima
  • , M. Tecchio
  • , M. Togawa
  • , Y. C. Tung
  • , T. Yamanaka

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Abstract

The performance of the CsI electromagnetic calorimeter to be used for the J-PARC E14 KOTO experiment for a rare decay KL → π0ν ν ¯ was studied by using a positron beam from an accelerator. The energy, timing, and position resolutions for energies up to 800 MeV were measured. We also developed a new method to reconstruct the incident angle of photons based on the shower shape recorded with the calorimeter, and evaluated the method to suppress possible backgrounds for KL → π0ν ν ¯ decay signals.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)135-141
Number of pages7
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume786
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 21 2015

Keywords

  • Electromagnetic calorimeter
  • K → πν ν ¯
  • KOTO experiment
  • Pure CsI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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