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Operation and performance of MEG II detector
MEG II Collaboration, K. Afanaciev, A. M. Baldini +82
The MEG II experiment, located at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland, is the successor to the MEG experiment, which completed data taking in 2013. MEG II started fully…
Study on degradation of VUV-sensitivity of MPPC for liquid xenon scintillation detector by radiation damage in MEG II experiment
K. Ieki, T. Iwamoto, S. Kobayashi +6
In the MEG II experiment, the liquid xenon gamma-ray detector uses Multi-Pixel Photon Counters (MPPC) which are sensitive to vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light under a high-intensity m…
Development of ultra-low mass and high-rate capable RPC based on Diamond-Like Carbon electrodes for MEG II experiment
Kensuke Yamamoto, Sei Ban, Kei Ieki +5
A new type of resistive plate chamber with thin-film electrodes based on diamond-like carbon is under development for background identification in the MEG II experiment. Installed…
Design, Construction and Commissioning of a Technological Prototype of a Highly Granular SiPM-on-tile Scintillator-Steel Hadronic Calorimeter
CALICE Collaboration
The CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for detectors at future energy frontier electron-positron colliders. After successf…
Development of high-rate capable and ultra-low mass Resistive Plate Chamber with Diamond-Like Carbon
Atsushi Oya, Kei Ieki, Atsuhiko Ochi +3
A new type of resistive plate chamber (RPC) is under development using thin-film resistive electrodes based on diamond-like carbon (DLC). Planned to be put on the path of high-inte…
Timing resolution of a plastic scintillator counter read out by radiation damaged SiPMs connected in series
G. Boca, P. W. Cattaneo, M. De Gerone +8
This paper discusses the effects of radiation damage to SiPMs on the performances of plastic scintillator counters with series-connected SiPM readout, focusing on timing measuremen…
Optimization study of scintillator shape of electromagnetic calorimeter for Higgs factories
Takanori Mogi, Tomohiko Tanabe, Wataru Ootani +5
Scintillator-based calorimeters for experiments at Higgs factories (e.g. ILC) demand scintillator designs that can detect sufficient number of photons and have good light yield uni…
The laser-based time calibration system for the MEG II pixelated Timing Counter
G. Boca, P. W. Cattaneo, M. De Gerone +12
We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for highly segmented scintillator counters like the MEG II pixelated Timing Counter (pTC), consisting of 512-centimeter…
A Laser-based Time Calibration System for the MEG II Timing Counter
M. Nakao, G. Boca, P. W. Cattaneo +8
We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for the MEG II timing counter dedicated to timing measurement of positrons. The detector requires precise timing alignme…
Large-Area MPPC with Enhanced VUV Sensitivity for Liquid Xenon Scintillation Detector
K. Ieki, T. Iwamoto, D. Kaneko +9
A large-area Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC) sensitive to vacuum ultra violet (VUV) light has been developed for the liquid xenon (LXe) scintillation detector of the MEG II exper…
Results from Pilot Run for MEG II Positron Timing Counter
M. Nakao, A. De Bari, M. Biasotti +15
The MEG II experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland will search for the lepton flavour violating muon decay, , with a sensitivity of impro…
The design of the MEG II experiment
A. M. Baldini, E. Baracchini, C. Bemporad +72
The MEG experiment, designed to search for the mu+->e+ gamma decay at a 10^-13 sensitivity level, completed data taking in 2013. In order to increase the sensitivity reach of the e…
Construction and Response of a Highly Granular Scintillator-based Electromagnetic Calorimeter
CALICE collaboration, J. Repond, L. Xia +78
A highly granular electromagnetic calorimeter with scintillator strip readout is being developed for future lepton collider experiments. A prototype of 21.5 depth and $180 \t…
Hadron shower decomposition in the highly granular CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter
The CALICE Collaboration, G. Eigen, T. Price +157
The spatial development of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter is studied using test beam data collected at CERN and FNAL for single posit…
DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons
The CALICE Collaboration, B. Freund, C. Neubüser +99
In special tests, the active layers of the CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype, the DHCAL, were exposed to low energy particle beams, without being interleaved by absorber…
Shower development of particles with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the CALICE scintillator-tungsten hadronic calorimeter
The CALICE collaboration, M. Chefdeville, Y. Karyotakis +178
We present a study of showers initiated by electrons, pions, kaons, and protons with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-tungsten analogue had…
Development of High Precision Timing Counter Based on Plastic Scintillator with SiPM Readout
Paolo W. Cattaneo, Matteo De Gerone, Flavio Gatti +4
High-time-resolution counters based on plastic scintillator with silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) readout have been developed for applications to high energy physics experiments for…
Design and test of an extremely high resolution Timing Counter for the MEG II experiment: preliminary results
M. De Gerone, F. Gatti, W. Ootani +5
The design and tests of Timing Counter elements for the upgrade of the MEG experiment, MEG II,is presented. The detector is based on several small plates of scintillator with a Sil…
The MEG detector for decay search
J. Adam, X. Bai, A. M. Baldini +73
The MEG (Mu to Electron Gamma) experiment has been running at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland since 2008 to search for the decay \meg\ by using one of the most intens…
MEG Upgrade Proposal
A. M. Baldini, F. Cei, C. Cerri +65
We propose the continuation of the MEG experiment to search for the charged lepton flavour violating decay (cLFV) μ\to e γ, based on an upgrade of the experiment, which aims for a…
Absorption of Scintillation Light in a 100 Liquid Xenon Ray Detector and Expected Detector Performance
A. Baldini, C. Bemporad, F. Cei +28
An 800L liquid xenon scintillation ray detector is being developed for the MEG experiment which will search for decay at the Paul Scherrer Institut. Absor…
Liquid Xe scintillation calorimetry and Xe optical properties
A. Baldini, C. Bemporad, F. Cei +16
The optical properties of LXe in the vacuum ultra violet (VUV), determining the performance of a scintillation calorimeter, are discussed in detail. The available data, measured in…