Design and Expected Performance of the BTeV RICH

TL;DR

The paper details the design and expected performance of the BTeV RICH detector, a key component for particle identification in the BTeV experiment aimed at studying CP violation and rare decays involving bottom and charm hadrons.

Contribution

It introduces the design and expected performance metrics of the BTeV RICH detector for the first time.

Findings

Expected particle identification capabilities are outlined.

Design specifications meet the requirements for BTeV physics goals.

Performance simulations indicate effective separation of particle types.

Abstract

The BTeV experiment is a b-physics experiment designed to conduct precision tests of the CKM description of CP violation and study rare processes involving bottom and charm hadrons. The experiment will be located in the C0 interaction region at the Fermilab Tevatron, and is intended to begin data-taking around 2007-2008. One of the most important elements of the BTeV spectrometer is the ring-imaging Cerenkov detector (RICH) which is used for particle identification. In this article we describe the BTeV RICH and present its expected performance.