Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 1 Improving MuCal Design o Why we need an improved design o Improvement Principle o Quick Simulation, Analysis & Results o Pros & Cons
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 2 Why an improved design CKOV2 funding is uncertain EmCal mu+/e+ is not straightforward Using many parameters with Complicate (Neural Net) Analysis Stability vs MICE configuration ? Systematics ? Separation Requires P and TOF measurement -> How do we do in Stage I ? (No P measurement !) Precise Energy Measurement -> ADC Problem EmCal (Kloe) design is optimized for higher energy muons 200 MeV/c muons are stopped in the middle Inhomogeneous material -> spread in muon range -> spread in visible energy
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 3 Improvement Principle Start with a rather thin high Z material layer Stop primary positrons and convert them into gammas and soft e+/e- Several layers of plastic scintillators (low Z) Large Muon range -> long tracks with large energy deposit/layer Soft e+/e- -> scattered hits with small energy deposit Nearly Transparent to gammas (low Z) Problem with low energy muons (<120 MeV/c) They stop in the first (high Z) layer Maybe TOF can help e+e+e+e+ µ+µ+µ+µ+
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 4 Quick Simulation First layer (Converter) = 1 Kloe layer (4 cm thick, 8 cm wide) 11 Layers of scintillator, 2 cm thick, 8 cm wide (15 slabs/layer) A passive plastic layer has been introduced : bad idea ! This kills the muon detection efficiency below 150 MeV/c Mu Efficiency is estimated only above this threshold Many thanks to Rikard 162 MeV/c Muon Kloe 4 cm Passive 6 cm
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 5 Simulated Beam Using an old Turtle beam (small divergence) Same as Rikard used 3 month ago Small number of positrons 256 e +, only 199 reach MuCal in a 20 ns time window µ+ over 150 MeV/c
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 6 Low thr: 200 keV High thr: 2.5 MeV Quick Analysis No realistic digitization yet Using True Visible Energy with 10% resolution No charge measurement: Only two level discriminator: low/high signal No clustering, signal sharing ignored. - Muons - Positrons
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 7 Quick Analysis Looking at Track Length Counting only high level hits Taking the maximum length of continuous track X,Y Segmentation not used, the highest hit in the layer is taken Looking at low level hits Just count the layers where there is a low level hit and no high level hit Again X,Y Segmentation not used Rem: X,Y Segmentation is used only for digitization, not for analysis Muons have long tracks and no low level hits e + have short tracks and many low level hits
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 8 Quick results This can be reduced to one single parameter Continuous intense track length index = High level track length divided by the number of sparse low level hits Cut at 1
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 9 Results Summary Muon efficiency (over 150 MeV/c): 99.7 % Positron rejection efficiency (all energies): 98.4 % Purity of the muon sample: % Main Losses: mu decay either in flight or in the time window (20 ns)
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 10 Background study Main background: Coincidence with muon decay Either the one just arriving or a previous one Main effect: The continuity of the track is affected; a muon is misidentified as a positron Small bias (decay in flight probability slightly depends on the momentum) Higher order effect: The decay product piles up with a positron, producing a fake track. Highly suppressed by geometric factor if segmentation is used in the calculation of the track length Case studied: A muon piles up with its own decay product Studied by increasing the time window at the digitization level: 20 ns -> 100 ns Results: Mu Efficiency drops to 97 %
Dec 2005Jean-Sébastien GraulichSlide 11 Pros and Cons Easy mu/e separation 1 parameter with physics signification No need for CKOV2 Simple, “cheap” technology No need for good energy resolution Similar design can do mu/pi separation in Stage I (ask Rikard) Allow triggering on high P muons (in phase w RF) Need more Pmts Who can build it? Need help to find more cons…