The BEAST

Beam Exorcism for A STable BELLE Experiment

The BEAST experiment: a background detector for the commissioning of the BELLE experiment at the KEK B-factory in Tsukuba, Japan


BEAST Project Phases

  • Apres BEAST, Background Studies with BELLE 9/20/99
  • Summary of the BEAST run 6/9/99
  • Dust Gallery (Dust Trapping in the HER during the BEAST run) 6/13/99
  • Updated BEAST t-shirt design. 5/25/99
  • Dependence of LER Background on Fill Pattern 4/19/99
  • Last LER BEAST fill 4/19/99
  • Last HER BEAST fill 4/19/99
  • Azimuthal Dose Distribution (drift tubes) 4/19/99
  • Vacuum and Baking Status 4/19/99
  • Evidence for Bhabha Production at KEK-B 4/19/99
  • Recent dedicated HER, LER runs and improvement of LER injection 4/12/99
  • Collimator Studies for HER and LER 4/2/99
  • Analysis of early BEAST dedicated runs 2/16/99
  • First Data Analysis and Extrapolations 12/28/98
  • First BEAST data 12/11/98
  • Installation 11/17/98
  • Structure 3/20/99
  • SVD 3/15/99
  • Photodiodes 4/13/99
  • MOSFETS 8/28/98
  • Drift Tubes 9/4/98
  • CsI(Tl) 4/9/99
  • EFC 4/19/99
  • DAQ 10/1/98

  • Minutes of Meetings

    BEAST Simulation

  • Background simulation 4/1/99
  • KEK-B Technical Design Report (TDR) 4/14/99
  • KEK-B Lattice Parameters

    BEAST Operation

  • Beast Operation Manuals
  • BEAST Shift Schedule
  • Commissioning operations home page

    BEAST Results, Talks and Articles

  • Results from the SVD BEAST ladder 5/23/99
  • Results/simulation for the BEAST and BELLE CsI(Tl) crystals 5/23/99
  • Plan for Tunnel Shield 4/14/99
  • Improvement of LER injection and results on SVD occupancy 4/14/99
  • BEAST CsI(Tl) Results 4/2/99
  • Collimator Studies for HER and LER 4/2/99
  • Evidence for Bhabha Production at KEK-B 3/26/99
  • Background Simulation for BEAST and BELLE (BELLE plenary talk) 3/24/99
  • Review of Experimental Measurements from BEAST (BELLE plenary talk) 3/24/99
  • First Collimator Study and SVD occupancy versus beam current 3/15/99
  • External Review of BEAST (KEK-B Accelerator Review) 3/8/99
  • BEAST Experimental Results (KEK-B Accelerator Review) 3/8/99
  • Backgrounds from Injection and the Dust Problem 2/22/99
  • Transparencies from Joint Meeting of KEKB-BEAST 2/16/99
  • Talk at Monday 1/18/99 Meeting
  • Explaining the Front/Back Ratio in Diodes 1/6/99
  • First Data 12/28/98
  • Article on BEAST for the Japanese High Energy News Issue on KEK-B

    Useful Links

  • BELLE at KEK
  • BELLE at the University of Hawaii
  • Background studies at other experiments
  • Workshop on Backgrounds at Machine-Detector Interface @ Hawaii
  • TDR - Commissioning Detector for the KEK B-Factory 4/1/98 -
  • Image Index
    Created by Casey Law and Saroj Sahu
    Maintained by Tom Browder