Performance evaluation of the aerogel RICH counter for the Belle II spectrometer using early beam collision data

Autor: G. Nazaryan, P. Križan, Y. Lai, Hidekazu Kakuno, H. Kitamura, S. Nishida, R. Pestotnik, H. Kawai, Tomoyuki Konno, Makoto Tabata, M. Nishimura, T. Kumita, L. Burmistrov, F. Le Diberder, K. Ogawa, H. Kindo, Takeo Kawasaki, Samo Korpar, Takashi Kohriki, Y. Yusa, Masayoshi Shoji, S. Kakimoto, A. Seljak, L. Santelj, Shuichi Iwata, K. Kuze, S. Ogawa, M. Mrvar, Masakazu Kobayashi, M. Yonenaga, S. Tamechika, G. Karyan, Iki Adachi, T. Sumiyoshi, Toru Iijima
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Photon
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
measurement methods
aerogel
General Physics and Astronomy
FOS: Physical sciences
BELLE
01 natural sciences
Particle identification
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear physics
K: particle identification
03 medical and health sciences
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
0302 clinical medicine
Pion
0103 physical sciences
[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
H14 Particle identification
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Nuclear Experiment
RICH
Cherenkov radiation
Physics
Spectrometer
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Detector
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
detector: alignment
calibration
efficiency
High Energy Physics::Experiment
pi: particle identification
Event (particle physics)
Beam (structure)
performance
Zdroj: PTEP
PTEP, 2020, 2020 (9), pp.093H01. ⟨10.1093/ptep/ptaa090⟩
Popis: The Aerogel Ring Imaging Cherenkov (ARICH) counter serves as a particle identification device in the forward end-cap region of the Belle II spectrometer. It is capable of identifying pions and kaons with momenta up to $4 \, {\rm GeV}/c$ by detecting Cherenkov photons emitted in the silica aerogel radiator. After the detector alignment and calibration of the probability density function, we evaluate the performance of the ARICH counter using early beam collision data. Event samples of $D^{\ast +} \to D^0 \pi^+ (D^0 \to K^-\pi^+)$ were used to determine the $\pi(K)$ efficiency and the $K(\pi)$ misidentification probability. We found that the ARICH counter is capable of separating kaons from pions with an identification efficiency of $93.5 \pm 0.6 \, \%$ at a pion misidentification probability of $10.9 \pm 0.9 \, \%$. This paper describes the identification method of the counter and the evaluation of the performance during its early operation.
Comment: To be published in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys
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