BELLE AEROGEL CHERENKOV COUNTER – A DETECTOR FOR PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION

Md. Harunor Rashid  Khan

doi:10.53808/KUS.2000.2.2.0105-se

Authors

Md. Harunor Rashid Khan Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2000.2.2.0105-se

Keywords:

CP violation; B-factory experiment; Particle identification; Aerogel Cherenkov counter; Monte Carlo simulation

Abstract

Particle identification, in particular the identification of charged pions and kaons, plays an important role for the studies of CP violation in B Factory experiments. For the BELLE detector at the KEK B-Factory in Japan, a threshold aerogel Cherenkov counter (ACC) has been used to separate pions and kaons in the momentum range between 1.0 GeV/c and 3.5 GeV/c. This paper gives a brief description of the ACC design, construction, monitoring system and its performance of the beam test and Monte-Carlo simulation.

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