TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a liquid xenon scintillation detector for a new experiment to search for μ → eγ decays
AU - Doke, T.
AU - Haruyama, T.
AU - Ishida, T.
AU - Maki, A.
AU - Mashimo, T.
AU - Mihara, S.
AU - Mitsuhashi, T.
AU - Mori, T.
AU - Nishiguchi, H.
AU - Ootani, W.
AU - Orito, S.
AU - Ozone, K.
AU - Sawada, R.
AU - Suzuki, S.
AU - Terasawa, K.
AU - Yamashita, M.
AU - Yashima, J.
AU - Yoshimura, T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is in part supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A) provided by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. We would like to thank the staff at TERAS including Dr. H. Toyokawa and H. Ohgaki for their support.
PY - 2003/6/1
Y1 - 2003/6/1
N2 - A novel gamma-ray detector based on a liquid xenon scintillator is under development for a new experiment to search for the lepton flavor violating process μ+ → e+γ at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The experiment is designed to have a sensitivity down to 10-14 branching ratio. We constructed a prototype detector with an active volume of 69l to demonstrate the performance of the proposed detector for high-energy gamma rays of around 50 MeV. After a test of the cryogenic system for the prototype detector, we have begun studies with the prototype using a gamma-beam up to 40 MeV from the laser Compton backscattering facility at the TERAS electron storage ring of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
AB - A novel gamma-ray detector based on a liquid xenon scintillator is under development for a new experiment to search for the lepton flavor violating process μ+ → e+γ at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). The experiment is designed to have a sensitivity down to 10-14 branching ratio. We constructed a prototype detector with an active volume of 69l to demonstrate the performance of the proposed detector for high-energy gamma rays of around 50 MeV. After a test of the cryogenic system for the prototype detector, we have begun studies with the prototype using a gamma-beam up to 40 MeV from the laser Compton backscattering facility at the TERAS electron storage ring of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
KW - Calorimeter
KW - GUT
KW - LFV
KW - Liquid xenon
KW - PMT
KW - SUSY
KW - Scintillator
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U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01051-9
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01051-9
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0037680239
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 505
SP - 199
EP - 202
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 1-2
T2 - Proceedings of the tenth Symposium on Radiation
Y2 - 21 May 2002 through 23 May 2002
ER -