Gil, EC, Albarran, EM, Minucci, E et al. (293 more authors) (2017) The beam and detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN. Journal of Instrumentation, 12. ISSN 1748-0221
Abstract
NA62 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS dedicated to measurements of rare kaon decays. Such measurements, like the branching fraction of the K+ → π+ ν bar nu decay, have the potential to bring significant insights into new physics processes when comparison is made with precise theoretical predictions. For this purpose, innovative techniques have been developed, in particular, in the domain of low-mass tracking devices. Detector construction spanned several years from 2009 to 2014. The collaboration started detector commissioning in 2014 and will collect data until the end of 2018. The beam line and detector components are described together with their early performance obtained from 2014 and 2015 data.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © CERN 2017, published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) by IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation and DOI. |
Keywords: | Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; Calorimeters; Cherenkov detectors; Particle tracking detectors |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2019 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2019 08:41 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1748-0221/12/05/P05025 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150262 |