Progress on Cherenkov Reconstruction in MICE
Daniel M. Kaplan, Michael Drews, Durga Rajaram, Miles Winter, Lucien, Cremaldi, David Sanders, and Don Summers
TL;DR
This paper reports on the performance of Cherenkov detectors in the MICE beamline, demonstrating effective particle identification and setting limits on pion contamination in the muon beam.
Contribution
It provides new performance metrics for Cherenkov detectors in MICE and establishes an upper limit on pion contamination using real data.
Findings
Effective identification of electrons, muons, and pions
Performance metrics for Cherenkov detectors in MICE
Upper limit on pion contamination in the muon beam
Abstract
Two beamline Cherenkov detectors (Ckov-a,-b) support particle identification in the MICE beamline. Electrons and high-momentum muons and pions can be identified with good efficiency. We report on the Ckov-a,-b performance in detecting pions and muons with MICE Step I data and derive an upper limit on the pion contamination in the standard MICE muon beam.
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Taxonomy
TopicsMedical Imaging Techniques and Applications · Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies · Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research