Towards Dual-Readout Calorimetry For Redtop Experiment

Abstract

By virtue of peculiar properties of the eta (η) Goldstone boson, the study of it’s de- cays is very important. The rare decays of this meson can provide unique opportunities to probe several fundamental invariance principles of physics world. The REDTOP experi- ment aims at searching for Physics Beyond Standard Model (BSM) by studying such decays at a sensitivity of 10^ (−10) or below, which requires 10^ (12) or more η mesons. The REDTOP collaboration has designed a detector to produce and reconstruct such a large number of η mesons, which will make REDTOP a rare decay factory. The detector is designed to be minimally sensitive to the background and only records the processes of interest. One of the REDTOP sub-detector is the ADRIANO calorimeter which is a specific version of an optimized dual-readout calorimeter. This calorimeter consists of two active regions: optical standard lead-glass which generates exclusively Cerenkov photons, and scintillating plastic which generates scintillating signals. Present work is concentrated around prototyping of Cerenkov radiators and measuring the light output from those radiators using a test beam at Fermilab

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