Neutron sensitivity of the endcap RPC modules in Belle detector
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Abe, K.; Hoshi, Y.; Nagamine, T.; Neichi, K.; Onodera, K.; Takahashi, T.; Yamaguchi, A.; Yuta, H.
- Source
- 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record Nuclear science symposium Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2002 IEEE. 1:171-175 vol.1 2002
- Subject
- Nuclear Engineering
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Neutrons
Detectors
Physics
Production facilities
Mesons
Particle beams
Concrete
Iron
Counting circuits
Electron accelerators
- Language
In recent Belle experiment at KEK B factory, an increase in noise rate due to beam backgrounds is observed in the endcap KLM detector. Accompanying the increased noise rate, lower detection efficiency was also observed. To study what the sources of noises in the endcap KLM detector are, we performed simulations of sensitivities of neutrons and /spl gamma/s as the sources of noises in the endcap KLM detector using a Geant4 simulation toolkit. We present comparisons of the simulations with the experimental data and propose a candidate for the noise source in the endcap KLM detector.