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