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Transparency of a 100 liter liquid xenon scintillation calorimeter prototype and measurement of its energy resolution for 55 MeV photons

  • A. Baldini
  • , C. Bemporad
  • , F. Cei
  • , T. Doke
  • , M. Grassi
  • , T. Haruyama
  • , K. Kasami
  • , P. R. Kettle
  • , A. Maki
  • , S. Mihara
  • , T. Mori
  • , D. Nicole
  • , H. Nishiguchi
  • , W. Ootani
  • , K. Ozone
  • , A. Papa
  • , R. Pazzi
  • , S. Ritt
  • , R. Sawada
  • , M. Schneebeli
  • F. Sergiampietri, G. Signorelli, S. Suzuki, K. Terasawa, M. Yamashita, S. Yamashita, T. Yoshimura, Yu Yuri

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Abstract

We are developing a liquid xenon calorimeter for the MEG experiment. This experiment, to be performed at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen (CH), was designed by an Italian-Japanese-Russian-Swiss collaboration to search for the μ+→e+γ decay, forbidden in the Standard Model of Electro-Weak and Strong Interactions. The photon four momentum is to be measured by an innovative C-shaped 800 litres liquid xenon calorimeter read by more than 800 photo-multiplier tubes. An absorption length for Xe scintillation light larger than 100 cm has been measured. The performance of such a detector has been measured using a large volume prototype (100 litres) in a test beam at PSI, using high energy photons from decays of neutral pions from a charge exchange reaction of negative pions on protons. A resolution of 5% FWHM was obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids, ICDL 2005
Pages337-340
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids, ICDL 2005 - Coimbra, Portugal
Duration: 2005 Jun 26 → 2005 Jul 1

Publication series

Name2005 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids, ICDL 2005

Other

Other2005 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids, ICDL 2005
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityCoimbra
Period05/6/26 → 05/7/1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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