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23 April 2024
 
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Design, Commissioning and Performance of the PIBETA Detector at PSI
E. Frlez ; D. Pocanic ; K.A. Assamagan ; Yu. Bagaturia ; V.A. Baranov ; W. Bertl ; Ch. Broennimann ; M.A. Bychkov ; J.F. Crawford ; M. Daum ; Th. Fluegel ; R. Frosch ; R. Horisberger ; V.A. Kalinnikov ; V.V. Karpukhin ; N.V. Khomutov ; J.E. Koglin ; A.S. Korenchenko ; S.M. Korenchenko ; T. Kozlowski ; B. Krause ; N.P. Kravchuk ; N.A. Kuchinsky ; W. Li ; D.W. Lawrence ; R.C. Minehart ; D. Mzhavia ; H. Obermeier ; D. Renker ; B.G. Ritchie ; S. Ritt ; T. Sakhelashvili ; R. Schnyder ; V.V. Sidorkin ; P.L. Slocum ; L.C. Smith ; N. Soic ; W.A. Stephens ; I. Supek ; Z. Tsamalaidze ; B.A. VanDevender ; Y. Wang ; H.-P. Wirtz ; K.O.H. Ziock ;
Date 4 Dec 2003
Journal Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A526 (2004) 300-347
Subject High Energy Physics - Experiment; Instrumentation and Detectors | hep-ex physics.ins-det
AbstractWe describe the design, construction and performance of the PIBETA detector built for the precise measurement of the branching ratio of pion beta decay, pi+ -> pi0 e+ nu, at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The central part of the detector is a 240-module spherical pure CsI calorimeter covering 3*pi sr solid angle. The calorimeter is supplemented with an active collimator/beam degrader system, an active segmented plastic target, a pair of low-mass cylindrical wire chambers and a 20-element cylindrical plastic scintillator hodoscope. The whole detector system is housed inside a temperature-controlled lead brick enclosure which in turn is lined with cosmic muon plastic veto counters. Commissioning and calibration data were taken during two three-month beam periods in 1999/2000 with pi+ stopping rates between 1.3*E3 pi+/s and 1.3*E6 pi+/s. We examine the timing, energy and angular detector resolution for photons, positrons and protons in the energy range of 5-150 MeV, as well as the response of the detector to cosmic muons. We illustrate the detector signatures for the assorted rare pion and muon decays and their associated backgrounds.
Source arXiv, hep-ex/0312017
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