The CDF-II time-of-flight detector
A Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector, based on plastic scintillator and fine-mesh photomultiplier tubes, has been added to the CDF-II experiment. Since August 2001, the TOF system has been fully instrumented and integrated into the CDF-II data acquisition system. The TOF system will provide particle identification of low momentum charged pions, kaons and protons in -collisions. With a design resolution goal of about 100 ps, separation between charged kaons and pions is expected at the 2 sigma level for momenta below 1.6 GeV/c, which enhances CDF's b-flavor tagging capabilities. They describe the design of the TOF detector and discuss its on-line and off-line calibration. Some performance benchmarks using proton-antiproton collision data are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 795922
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-Conf-02/128-E; TRN: US0201379
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 8th International Conference on Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics (INSTR02), Novosibirsk (RU), 02/28/2002--03/06/2002; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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