Title of article :
Performance tests of a full scale prototype of the Belle II TOP counter with cosmic muons and 2.1 GeV/c positron beam
Author/Authors :
Hayakawa، نويسنده , , Tomokatsu، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
A time-of-propagation detector named TOP is a hadronic particle identification system for the Belle II experiment. We have produced a full scale prototype of the Belle II TOP counter and tested with cosmic muons at KEK and the 2.1 GeV/c positrons at SPring-8 LEPS beamline. The procedures for the quartz acceptance test and assembly worked well and the first quartz radiator was successfully fabricated. The obtained test data shows good agreement with Monte Carlo expectation.
Keywords :
TOP counter , Cherenkov radiation , Particle identification
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics