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A Prototype Scintillator Real-Time Beam Monitor for Ultra-high Dose Rate Radiotherapy. Open

Daniel S Levin, Peter S. Friedman, Claudio Ferretti, Nicholas Ristow, M. Tecchio , et al. · 2024

The FBSM is designed to provide real-time beam profile monitoring over a large active area without significantly degrading the beam quality. A prototype device has been staged in particle beams at currents of single particles up to FLASH l…

A prototype scintillator real‐time beam monitor for ultra‐high dose rate radiotherapy Open

Daniel Levin, Peter S. Friedman, Claudio Ferretti, Nicholas Ristow, M. Tecchio , et al. · 2024

Background FLASH Radiotherapy (RT) is an emergent cancer RT modality where an entire therapeutic dose is delivered at more than 1000 times higher dose rate than conventional RT. For clinical trials to be conducted safely, a precise and fas…

Search for Rare Processes: Mu2e and KOTO Open

Myron Campbell, M. Tecchio · 2023

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been very successful in describing the fundamental forces, the properties of elementary particles, and predicting particles prior to their discovery, for example the top quark and the Higgs b…

A Prototype Scintillator Real-Time Beam Monitor for Ultra-high Dose Rate Radiotherapy Open

Daniel Levin, Claudio Ferretti, Nicholas Ristow, M. Tecchio, Peter S. Friedman , et al. · 2023

FLASH Radiotherapy (RT) is a potentially new cancer radiotherapy technique where an entire therapeutic dose is delivered in about 0.1 s and at ~1000 times higher dose rate than in conventional RT. For clinical trials to be conducted safely…

Study of the Decay at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment Open

J. K. Ahn, Brian Beckford, M. Campbell, S. H. Chen, J. Comfort , et al. · 2021

The rare decay K_{L}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] was studied with the dataset taken at the J-PARC KOTO experiment in 2016, 2017, and 2018. With a single event sensitivity of (7.20±0.05_{stat}±0.66_{syst})×10^{-10}, three candidate events were observed…

Search for Rare Processes: Mu2e and KOTO Open

M. Campbell, M. Tecchio · 2021

We are describing our effort on the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab and the conclusion our work on the E14 experiment at J-PARC, also known as the KOTO experiment

Pulse shape discrimination of photons and neutrons in the energy range of 0.1 – 2 GeV with the KOTO un-doped CsI calorimeter Open

Yasuyuki Sugiyama, J. K. Ahn, Satomi Banno, Brian Beckford, M. Campbell , et al. · 2020

First search for Open

N. Shimizu, J. K. Ahn, Brian Beckford, M. Campbell, Shaolin Chen , et al. · 2020

We report the first search for the $K_L \\to \\pi^0 \\gamma$ decay, which is\nforbidden by Lorentz invariance, using the data from 2016 to 2018 at the J-PARC\nKOTO experiment. With a single event sensitivity of $(7.1\\pm 0.3_{\\rm stat.}\n…

CsI calorimeter for the J-PARC KOTO experiment Open

K. Satô, J.W. Lee, Satomi Banno, M. Campbell, J.R. Comfort , et al. · 2020

Final Report for Experimental Study of the Rare Neutral-Kaon Decays at J-PARC Open

M. Campbell, M. Tecchio · 2019

Our proposal was to replace the L2 system, which is currently built in VME format, with new RCE Platform Technology (RPT) boards built by SLAC as part of a DoE supported R&D project.

Search for and Decays at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment Open

J. K. Ahn, Brian Beckford, Jacqueline Beechert, K. Bryant, M. Campbell , et al. · 2019

A search for the rare decay K_{L}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] was performed. With the data collected in 2015, corresponding to 2.2×10^{19} protons on target, a single event sensitivity of (1.30±0.01_{stat}±0.14_{syst})×10^{-9} was achieved and no cand…

Final Report for KOTO Trigger and DAQ Upgrade Open

M. Campbell, M. Tecchio · 2018

Our proposal was a comprehensive upgrade to the Data Acquisition System and Level 2 Trigger of the KOTO experiment which included: an increase in the number of channels processed due to the construction of a new inner main barrel; an incre…

Upgrades of the Data Acquisition System for the KOTO Experiment Open

S. Su, Jon Ameel, L. Beaufore, Brian Beckford, Jacqueline Beechert , et al. · 2017

The KOTO data acquisition system (DAQ) collects detector PMT waveform signals and saves digitized events to permanent storage using frontend ADC modules, two levels of hardware triggers, and a computing farm. The KOTO DAQ system ran stably…

Long-lived neutral-kaon flux measurement for the KOTO experiment Open

Takahiko Masuda, J. K. Ahn, Satomi Banno, M. Campbell, J. Comfort , et al. · 2016

The KOTO ($K^0$ at Tokai) experiment aims to observe the CP-violating rare decay $K_L \\rightarrow \\pi ^0 \\nu \\bar {\\nu }$ by using a long-lived neutral-kaon beam produced by the 30 GeV proton beam at the Japan Proton Accelerator Resea…

The upgrade for the data acquisition system of the KOTO detector Open

M. Tecchio, Jacqueline Beechert, M. Campbell, Margaret Huff, Jessie Micallef , et al. · 2015

The Data Acquisition System for the KOTO detector Open

S. Su, M. Tecchio, J. J. Xu, M. Campbell, Jon Ameel , et al. · 2015

The goal of KOTO experiment at J-PARC is to discover and measure the rate of the rare decay K L → π 0 ν ν, for which the Standard Model predicts a branching ratio of (2.4 ± 0.4)×10 -11 .The

The Data Acquisition System for the KOTO Experiment Open

Yasuyuki Sugiyama, J. J. Xu, M. Tecchio, N. L. Whallon, Duncan McFarland , et al. · 2015

We developed and built a new system of readout and trigger electronics, based\non the waveform digitization and pipeline readout, for the KOTO experiment at\nJ-PARC, Japan. KOTO aims at observing the rare kaon decay\n$K_{L}\\rightarrow\\pi…

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