Title :
The NA62 RICH detector
Author_Institution :
Sezione di Perugia, INFN, Perugia, Italy
fDate :
Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009
Abstract :
The CERN NA62 experiment aims to measure the ultra-rare charged kaon decay K+ ¿ ¿+¿¿¿ with a 10% accuracy. For the reduction of the background from the decay of the K+ ¿ ¿+¿, a Neon-filled RICH detector is being built, to have a good ¿-¿ separation between 15 and 35 GeV/c. The final detector is described and the preliminary results from a test of a prototype equipped with 414 photomultipliers are presented.
Keywords :
Cherenkov counters; kaon decay; photomultipliers; CERN NA62 experiment; NA62 RICH detector; kaon+ decay into muon++neutrino; kaon+ decay into pion++neutrino+antineutrino; neon-filled RICH detector; photomultipliers; ultrarare charged kaon decay; Detectors; Large Hadron Collider; Mesons; Particle beams; Particle tracking; Physics; Predictive models; Samarium; Target tracking; Testing; NA62; RICH; rare kaon decays;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3961-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402084
