The HERA-B ring imaging Cherenkov counter

I. Ariño; J. Bastos; D. Broemmelsiek; J. Carvalho; M. Chmeissani; P. Conde; J. Davila; D. Dujmić; R. Eckmann; L. Garrido; D. Gascon; T. Hamacher; A. Gorišek; I. Ivaniouchenkov; M. Ispirian; S. Karabekian; M. Kim; S. Korpar; P. Križan; S. Kupper; K. Lau; P. Maas; J. McGill; R. Miquel; N. Murthy; D. Peralta; R. Pestotnik; J. Pyrlik; S. Ramachandran; K. Reeves; J. Rosen; W. Schmidt-Parzefall; A. Schwarz; R. F. Schwitters; X. Siero; M. Starič; A. Stanovnik; D. Škrk; T. Živko

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2003.08.173

The HERA-B ring imaging Cherenkov counter

I. Ariño
, J. Bastos
, D. Broemmelsiek
, J. Carvalho
, M. Chmeissani
, P. Conde
, J. Davila
, D. Dujmić
, R. Eckmann
, L. Garrido
, D. Gascon
, T. Hamacher
, A. Gorišek
, I. Ivaniouchenkov
, M. Ispirian
, S. Karabekian
, M. Kim
, S. Korpar
, P. Križan
, S. Kupper

K. Lau, P. Maas, J. McGill, R. Miquel, N. Murthy, D. Peralta, R. Pestotnik, J. Pyrlik, S. Ramachandran, K. Reeves, J. Rosen, W. Schmidt-Parzefall, A. Schwarz, R. F. Schwitters, X. Siero, M. Starič, A. Stanovnik, D. Škrk, T. Živko

Universitat de Barcelona
LIP-Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas
Northwestern University
University of Houston
University of Texas at Austin
Stanford University
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Jožef Stefan Institute
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
University of Rostock
University of Maribor
Univ. of Ljubljana
Slovenian Scientific Institute
General Atomics
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Universität Hamburg

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Abstract

The HERA-B RICH uses a radiation path length of 2.8 m in C ₄F₁₀ gas and a large 24 m² spherical mirror for imaging Cherenkov rings. The photon detector consists of 2240 Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultipliers with about 27000 channels. A 2:1 reducing two-lens telescope in front of each photomultiplier tube increases the sensitive area at the expense of increased pixel size, resulting in a contribution to the resolution which roughly matches that of dispersion. The counter was completed in January of 1999, and its performance has been steady and reliable over the years it has been in operation. The design performance of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov counter was fully reached: the average number of detected photons in the RICH for a β = 1 particle was found to be 33 with a single-hit resolution of 0.7 and 1 mrad in the fine and coarse granularity regions, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	445-461
Number of pages	17
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	516
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2003.08.173
State	Published - 11 Jan 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

HERA-B
Photomultiplier tubes
Ring imaging Cherenkov detectors

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Ariño, I., Bastos, J., Broemmelsiek, D., Carvalho, J., Chmeissani, M., Conde, P., Davila, J., Dujmić, D., Eckmann, R., Garrido, L., Gascon, D., Hamacher, T., Gorišek, A., Ivaniouchenkov, I., Ispirian, M., Karabekian, S., Kim, M., Korpar, S., Križan, P., ... Živko, T. (2004). The HERA-B ring imaging Cherenkov counter. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 516(2-3), 445-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2003.08.173

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