Focusing DIRC Design for Super B

[摘要] In this paper we present a new design of the Focusing DIRC for the Barrel PID to be used at the proposed Super-B factory. The new imaging optics is made of a solid Fused Silica block with a double folded optics using two mirrors, one cylindrical and one flat, focusing photons on a detector plane conveniently accessible for the detector access. The design assumes that the BaBar bar boxes are re-used without any modification, including the wedges and windows. Each bar box will have its own focusing block, which will contain 40 H-9500 (or H-8500) MaPMTs according to present thinking. There are 12 bar boxes in the entire detector, so the entire SuperB FDIRC system would have 480 MaPMTs. The design is very compact and therefore reduces sensitivity to the background. The chosen MaPMTs are fast enough to be able both to reject the background and to perform the chromatic correction. The 3D optics simulation is coded with the Mathematica program. The work in this paper was a basis of the LDRD proposal made to SLAC in 2009 [1].

[发布日期] 2009-12-17

[学科分类] 核物理和高能物理

[关键词] DESIGN;FOCUSING;MIRRORS;OPTICS;PHOTONS;SENSITIVITY;SILICA;SIMULATION;STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER;WINDOWS Instrumentation;HEPEX;OPTICS