Scintillator Calibration for MUSE
Abstract
The MUon Proton Scattering Experiment (MUSE) at the Paul Scherrer Institute will measure the muon-proton and electron-proton elastic cross sections in the same experiment. The experimental setup of MUSE includes various plastic scintillation detectors for triggering, particle and reaction identification, monitoring, and time-of-flight measurements. The larger elements of these detectors are made of organic plastic scintillators (EJ-204) and are read out with Hamamatsu R13435 photomultiplier tubes. The precise knowledge of the detection threshold and efficiencies, as well as quantitative comparisons with Monte Carlo simulations, require an absolute energy calibration of the scintillators. In this presentation, we will discuss the gamma-calibration methods for the MUSE scintillation detectors.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1812382. The MUSE experiment is supported by the Binational Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, NSF and PSI.- Publication:
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APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020APS..DNP.KN005F