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Behaviour in Magnetic Fields of Fast Conventional and Fine-Mesh Photomultipliers
The performance of both conventional and fine-mesh Hamamatsu photomultipliers
has been measured inside moderate magnetic fields. This has allowed the test of
effective shielding solutions for photomultipliers, to be used in
time-of-flight detectors based on scintillation counters. Both signal amplitude
reduction or deterioration of the timing properties inside magnetic fields have
been investigated
R&D efforts towards a neutrino factory
The R&D efforts towards a neutrino factory are outlined with special emphasis
on the muon cooling issue and the data collected for target optimization.Comment: contribution to NOW08, Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, 200
The design and commissioning of the MICE upstream time-of-flight system
In the MICE experiment at RAL the upstream time-of-flight detectors are used
for particle identification in the incoming muon beam, for the experiment
trigger and for a precise timing (sigma_t ~ 50 ps) with respect to the
accelerating RF cavities working at 201 MHz. The construction of the upstream
section of the MICE time-of-flight system and the tests done to characterize
its individual components are shown. Detector timing resolutions ~50-60 ps were
achieved. Test beam performance and preliminary results obtained with beam at
RAL are reported.Comment: accepted on Nuclear Instruments and Methods
A laser diode based system for calibration of fast time-of-flight detectors
A system based on commercially available items, such as a laser diode,
emitting in the visible range nm,and multimode fiber patches, fused
fiber splitters and optical switches may be assembled,for time calibration of
multi-channels time-of-flight (TOF) detectors with photomultipliers' (PMTs')
readout. As available laser diode sources have unfortunately limited peak
power, the main experimental problem is the tight light power budget of such a
system. In addition, while the technology for fused fiber splitters is common
in the Telecom wavelength range ( nm), it is not
easily available in the visible one. Therefore, extensive laboratory tests had
to be done on purpose, to qualify the used optical components, and a full scale
timing calibration prototype was built. Obtained results show that with such a
system, a calibration resolution () in the range 20-30 ps may be within
reach. Therefore, fast multi-channels TOF detectors, with timing resolutions in
the range 50-100 ps, may be easily calibrated in time. Results on tested
optical components may be of interest also for time calibration of different
light detection systems based on PMTs, as the ones used for detection of the
vacuum ultraviolet scintillation light emitted by ionizing particles in large
LAr TPCs.Comment: submitted to JINS
Deuteron production in p-Be interactions at 450 GeV/c and the coalescing model
The analysis of the deuteron production in p--Be interactions at 450 GeV/c
taken by the NA56/SPY experiment at CERN SPS is presented. In the framework of
the coalescence model, the coalescence factor is determined as . Our results disfavour the hypothesis that
coalescence be the dominant mechanism for deuteron production in
interactions at low .Comment: EPS Conference HEP 2007, Mancheste
The FAMU experiment at RIKEN RAL for a precise measure of the proton radius
The goal of the FAMU experiment at RIKEN RAL is the measure of the hyperfine
splitting of the ground state of the muonic hydrogen, to allow a determination
of the proton Zemach radius with a precision better than .
The comparison of this measurement with the ones done with ordinary hydrogen
may help to solve the so-called "proton radius puzzle", triggered by the discrepancy in the proton charge radius value as extracted from muonic
Lamb shift and the value based on e-p scattering and ordinary hydrogen
spectroscopy.Comment: European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics -
EPS-HEP2019 -10-17 July, 2019 Ghent, Belgiu
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