Orateur
Dr
Andrew Powell
(University of Oxford)
Description
The LHCb experiment will search for new physics in CP violation and rare decays
of b hadrons at the LHC. Particle identification is provided
by two RICH detectors, RICH-1 and RICH-2, equipped with 484 Hybrid Photon
Detectors to read the Cherenkov light.
The RICH detectors are located in the fringe field of the LHCb dipole magnet,
and fields as large as 2.5 mT have been measured in some regions occupied by
the RICH 1 photodetectors. Hence it is necessary to make corrections for the
distortion of the ring-images measured by the HPDs. RICH 1 incorporates a
magnetic calibration system comprising a series of collimated LEDs mounted on
x-y stages which scan over the front-faces of the HPD arrays. The system
allows mapping of the magnetic distortions to a precision better than 1 mm at
each HPD photocathode level. The magnetic calibration procedure is performed in
dedicated LED scans with dipole field on and off for both RICHes.
Parameterizations for RICH-1 and RICH-2 are then computed and corrections applied to the LHC
collision data. Cherenkov angular resolutions before and after magnetic
corrections will be presented.
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Auteur principal
M.
Funai Xing
(University of Oxford, UK)
