Calibration of Aerogel Tiles for the HELIX-RICH Detector
S. O'Brien*
on behalf of the HELIX Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
July 05, 2021
Published on:
March 18, 2022
Abstract
HELIX (High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the chemical and isotopic abundances of light cosmic-ray nuclei. In particular, HELIX is optimized to measure 10Be and 9Be in the range 0.2 GeV/n to beyond 3 GeV/n. To achieve this, HELIX utilizes a 1 Tesla superconducting magnet with a high-resolution gas drift tracking system, time-of-flight detector, and a ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detector. The RICH detector consists of aerogel tile radiators (refractive index ~1.15) with a silicon photomultiplier detector plane. To adequately discriminate between 10Be and 9Be isotopes, the refractive index of the aerogel tiles must be known to a precision of 0.1%. In this contribution, detailed mapping of the refractive index across the aerogel tiles is presented and the methodology used to obtain these measurements is discussed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0090
How to cite
Metadata are provided both in
article format (very
similar to INSPIRE)
as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which
can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in
proceeding format which
is more detailed and complete.