Operational experience and commissioning of theBelle II vertex detector

Abstract

PoS(VERTEX2018)006The construction of the new accelerator at the Super Flavor Factory in Tsukuba, Japan, has been finalized and the commissioning of its detector (Belle II) has started. This new e + e − machine (SuperKEKB) will deliver an instantaneous luminosity of 8 × 10 35 cm −2 s −1 , which is 40 times higher than the world record set by KEKB. In order to be able to fully exploit the increased number of events and provide high precision measurements of the decay vertex of the B meson systems in such a harsh environment, the Belle II detector will include a new 6 layer silicon vertex detector. Close to the beam pipe, 2 pixel and 4 double-sided strip detector layers will be installed. During its first data taking period in 2018, the inner volume of the Belle II detector was only partially equipped with the final vertex detector technologies. The remaining volume was covered with dedicated radiation monitors, collectively called BEAST II, in order to investigate the particle and synchrotron radiation backgrounds near the interaction point. In this note, the milestones of the commissioning of the Belle II vertex detector and BEAST II are reviewed and the detector performance and selected background measurements will be presented.

Operation of a double-sided CMOS pixelated detector at a high intensity e+e− particle collider

“…For the Phase 2 run, the Belle II detector was placed at the collision point and commissioned, and the final focus magnet was in place. However only one sector in the φ acceptance of the Belle II vertex detector was installed, the rest of the inner tracker volume being equipped with dedicated BEAST II Phase 2 detectors [6]. The main goal of the BEAST II effort was to study and minimise the parasitic particle rate produced by the collider during the machine parameter tuning, to validate the simulation of this background and to check whether it was safe to install the full inner tracker in Belle II.…”