A spectrometer for study of high mass objects created in relativistic heavy ion reactions

被引:9
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作者
Armstrong, TA
Barish, KN
Batsouli, S
Bennett, MJ
Bennett, SJ
Chikanian, A
Coe, SD
Cormier, TM
Davies, RR
De Cataldo, G
Dee, P
Diebold, GE
Dover, CB
Ewell, LA
Emmet, W
Fachini, P
Fadem, B
Finch, LE
George, NK
Giglietto, N
Greene, SV
Haridas, P
Hill, JC [1 ]
Hirsch, AS
Hoversten, RA
Huang, HZ
Jaradat, H
Kim, B
Kumar, BS
Lajoie, JG
Lainis, T
Lewis, RA
Li, Q
Li, Y
Libby, B
Majka, RD
Miller, TE
Munhoz, MG
Nagle, JL
Petridis, A
Pless, IA
Pope, JK
Porile, NT
Pruneau, C
Rabin, MSZ
Reid, JD
Rimai, A
Riso, J
Rose, A
Rotondo, FS
机构
[1] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[2] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[3] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[4] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[5] Wayne State Univ, Detroit, MI 48201 USA
[6] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[7] Univ Bari, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Bari, Italy
[8] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[9] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[10] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[11] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[12] US Mil Acad, W Point, NY 10996 USA
[13] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[14] Iowa State Univ, Ames Lab, Ames, IA 50011 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
spectrometer; calorimeter; heavy ions; tracking; trigger;
D O I
10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00679-8
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
Experiment E864 at the Brookhaven AGS accelerator uses a high sensitivity, large acceptance spectrometer, designed to search for strangelets and other novel forms of matter produced in high-energy heavy ion collisions. The spectrometer has excellent acceptance and rate capabilities for measuring the production properties of known particles and nuclei such as (p) over bar, (d) over bar and He-6. The experiment uses a magnetic spectrometer and employs redundant time of flight and position detectors and a hadronic calorimeter. In this paper we describe the design and performance of the spectrometer. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:222 / 246
页数:25
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