KLF beamline meeting - October 3, 2024
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Agenda
- Announcements
- Detector rates from GEANT4 simulations (Richard)
- KFM update (Mikhail)
- Any other business
Minutes
Present: Igor, Richard, Hovanes, Vitaly, Pavel, Eugene, Mikhail, Tim, Josh, Beni, Richard, Sean, Marshall, Lubomir
- Mikhail told us that the legal team at University of York will be working on the customs paperwork, probably with some customs broker. This is vacation time for them, so there will be a short delay in this activity.
- Hovanes asked about the equipment for the hypernuclei station at the end of the kaon beamline as the gas systems (and probably some others) will most likely need to be reviewed before ERR-II by the lab for safety. Mikhail said that they need to provide detector cooling using liquid nitrogen.
- Tim confirmed that if the cooling system qualifies as a pressure system, a long review will be needed (this is a standard process for JLAB).
- Josh asked if it was possible to use ~155K nitrogen vapor instead of 77K nitrogen. Mikhail will check if it would be acceptable, but he though liquid nitrogen was necessary.
- Mikhail will prepare some material for discussion.
- Richard presented his studies of the rates in GlueX detector with different thicknesses of the tungsten absorber in KPT. In these studies, the target was empty, meaning that the target cell was present but was filled with "vacuum".
- Richard considered tungsten thicknesses between 10cm and 20cm. The thickness was changed with very small increments using 1000 runs with different thickness of tungsten (L=10cm+n*0.001cm, where n goes from 1 to 10000).
- He simulated 5B gammas which corresponds to 1.2ms or nominal KLF beam time. He used x1000 scaling factor for phi-production, so the plots for kaons (or anything that comes from phi mesons) would correspond to 1.2 seconds of the nominal beam time. In the plots with rates , Richards scaled the rate axis to show the count numbers for 1.2ms.
- Richard found that the K-long rates on the cry-target drops from roughly 2.5KHz to 1KHz when going from 10cm to 20cm tungsten plug. The dependence on the tungsten plug thickness is exponential , with an absorption length of 7.8cm for the plug which is in agreement with Eugene's calculations.
- The kaons at the cryo-target seem to be mostly limited to the inside of the beam-pipe.
- Richard saw decrease of the low energy gamma rates with increasing the tungsten plug. The rate with 10cm plug is 8KHz as he lowered the density of the tungsten plug to 16.5 g/cm^2. The absorption length for these low energy in the tungsten plug is 1.5cm, according to his plots, which which significantly longer than one radiation length for the tungsten-copper compound.
- The thickness of the tungsten plug that will give us the low energy photon rate similar to GlueX-II is about 15.5cm. Lubomir pointed out that the beam diameters of KLF and GlueX are different (~6cm vs ~1cm) while the deadened wires for FDC are present in the diamters between ~2.6cm and 6cm.
- Richard pointed out that the photons are not strongly peak at the center of the beamline, and there was a sharp edge where the beam-pipe starts. Mikhail asked if Richard knew where the "outside" gammas were coming from. Richard did not have a definite answer at that time.
- Richard also estimated that the neutron absorption length in the plug is 8.3cm.
- When looking at the SC rates vs Z, there is a dominant peak at the downstream of the SC indicating that most of the hits come from the bent region of the SC. The SC rates at the 16cm tungsten plug should be acceptable for event reconstruction.
- The SC hit rate falls with the tungsten plug thickness with an "effective absorption length" of 1.5cm, consistent with the absorption length of the low energy photons.