CsI calorimeter for the J-PARC KOTO experiment

Abstract An electromagnetic calorimeter made of undoped CsI crystals is used in the J-PARC KOTO experiment to search for new physics beyond the standard model with the K L → π 0 ν ν  decay. The calorimeter is designed to operate in vacuum of 0.1 Pa and in a high-rate environment where the counting rate due to K L decays is O ( 100 ) kHz. A special method to calibrate the calorimeter during the data taking without using a tracking system for charged particles is reported. The energy, position, and timing resolutions of the calorimeter were evaluated in several beam tests, and the resolutions satisfy the required performance. The energy resolution with the total energy E is 0 . 66 ⊕ 1 . 81 ∕ E [ GeV ] % in the inner region of the calorimeter.