Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

Re-run · record.json Download PDF Read on arXiv ↗

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1307.0162 v2 pith:XAJSKB2B submitted 2013-06-29 physics.ins-det astro-ph.IMhep-ex

Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector

K. Abe , Y. Hayato , T. Iida , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , Y. Koshio , Ll. Marti
show 125 more authors
M. Miura S. Moriyama M. Nakahata Y. Nakano S. Nakayama Y. Obayashi H. Sekiya M. Shiozawa Y. Suzuki A.Takeda Y. Takenaga H. Tanaka T. Tomura K. Ueno R. A. Wendell T. Yokozawa T. J. Irvine H. Kaji T. Kajita K. Kaneyuki K. P. Lee Y. Nishimura K. Okumura T. McLachlan L. Labarga E. Kearns J. L. Raaf J. L. Stone L. R. Sulak S. Berkman H. A. Tanaka S. Tobayama M. Goldhaber K. Bays G. Carminati W. R. Kropp S. Mine A. Renshaw M. B. Smy H. W. Sobel K. S. Ganezer J. Hill W. E. Keig J. S. Jang J. Y. Kim I. T. Lim N. Hong T. Akiri J. B. Albert A. Himmel K. Scholberg C. W. Walter T. Wongjirad T. Ishizuka S. Tasaka J. G. Learned S. Matsuno S. N. Smith T. Hasegawa T. Ishida T. Ishii T. Kobayashi T. Nakadaira K. Nakamura K. Nishikawa Y. Oyama K. Sakashita T. Sekiguchi T. Tsukamoto A. T. Suzuki Y. Takeuchi K. Huang K. Ieki M. Ikeda T. Kikawa H. Kubo A. Minamino A. Murakami T. Nakaya M. Otani K. Suzuki S. Takahashi Y. Fukuda K. Choi Y. Itow G. Mitsuka M. Miyake P. Mijakowski R. Tacik J. Hignight J. Imber C. K. Jung I. Taylor C. Yanagisawa Y. Idehara H. Ishino A. Kibayashi T. Mori M. Sakuda R. Yamaguchi T. Yano Y. Kuno S. B. Kim B. S. Yang H. Okazawa Y. Choi K. Nishijima M. Koshiba Y. Totsuka M. Yokoyama K. Martens M. R. Vagins J. F. Martin P. de Perio A. Konaka M. J. Wilking S. Chen Y. Heng H. Sui Z. Yang H. Zhang Y. Zhenwei K. Connolly M. Dziomba R. J. Wilkes
This is my paper
classification physics.ins-det astro-ph.IMhep-ex
keywords detectorlevelcalibrationchargedescribesdeterminationelectronicsnsec
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

Procedures and results on hardware level detector calibration in Super-Kamiokande (SK) are presented in this paper. In particular, we report improvements made in our calibration methods for the experimental phase IV in which new readout electronics have been operating since 2008. The topics are separated into two parts. The first part describes the determination of constants needed to interpret the digitized output of our electronics so that we can obtain physical numbers such as photon counts and their arrival times for each photomultiplier tube (PMT). In this context, we developed an in-situ procedure to determine high-voltage settings for PMTs in large detectors like SK, as well as a new method for measuring PMT quantum efficiency and gain in such a detector. The second part describes the modeling of the detector in our Monte Carlo simulation, including in particular the optical properties of its water target and their variability over time. Detailed studies on the water quality are also presented. As a result of this work, we achieved a precision sufficient for physics analysis over a wide energy range (from a few MeV to above a TeV). For example, the charge determination was understood at the 1% level, and the timing resolution was 2.1 nsec at the one-photoelectron charge level and 0.5 nsec at the 100-photoelectron charge level.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Echoes of Nucleon Decay from Long-Lived Particles

    hep-ph 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Introduces echo signatures from vector long-lived particles in nucleon decay, showing high geometric acceptance up to 80% in Super-K, Hyper-K and JUNO for a range of decay lengths.