Heavy Gas Cherenkov Detector Construction for Hall C at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1993950

Wenliang, Li ^[1]

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1. University of Regina

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) has undertaken the 12 GeV Upgrade to double the accelerating energy of its electron beam. This attracts many interesting proposals to probe the quark-gluon nature of nuclear matter at higher energy, therefore a new set of equipment is required. Experimental Hall C of JLab has planned to construct a new Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) to replace the existing Short Orbit Spectrometer (SOS). The University of Regina is assigned to construct the Heavy Gas Cerenkov (HGC) Detector as part of the SHMS focal plane detectors. This detector will be used as critical component to provide reliable pion/kaon separation between 3-11 GeV/c central momenta in the SHMS experimental program. In this thesis, we will report the design, quality control studies and simulated expected performances of the HGC detector.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1993950
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-12-1697; DOE/OR/23177-2698
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English