The NA48 Liquid Krypton Calorimeter Description and Performances

TL;DR

The paper details the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of the Liquid Krypton calorimeter used in the NA48 experiment at CERN, achieving high precision measurements crucial for studying CP violation.

Contribution

It presents the detailed design, construction, and performance analysis of the Liquid Krypton calorimeter tailored for high-precision CP violation experiments at CERN.

Findings

Calorimeter achieved 1% energy resolution in the 5-100 GeV range.

Performance measurements matched the design specifications.

The detector operated successfully during the 1997 data collection period.

Abstract

The NA48 experiment at CERN aims at making a precision study of direct CP violation in the neutral kaons, by measuring $Re(\epsilon'/\epsilon)$ with an accuracy better than 0.02%. To achieve this goal, the experiment requires a neutral detector with fast response, high efficiency in a high-rate environment (\sim MHz), long-term stability, sub-nanosecond time resolution, millimetric space precision, and an excellent energy resolution (1%) in the $5 \to 100$ GeV range. To achieve these performances, a quasi-homogeneous Liquid Krypton calorimeter has been chosen, designed with a projective tower geometry, high transversal segmentation, and fast digital readout. The calorimeter was operative during the '97 data taking period, its performances were thoroughly studied, and found to be in agreement with design requirements. A detector description and performances analysis are here presented.