NA62 Pilot Run Completed

After 3 months of hard work, the 2014 NA62 pilot run was successfully completed at 6am on Monday 15 December. The kaon identification detector, which is a UK responsibility, was the first detector to be ready and worked beautifully from day one. The detector as a whole performed very well and after time for commissioning, data were taken with a minimum bias trigger and the first "physics" trigger, which will be analysed in the coming months.

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Part of the Birmingham team next to the CEDAR/KTAG detector.
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The NA62 experiment