GEM Technical Design Report
The GEM collaboration was formed in June 1991 to develop a major detector for the SSC. The primary physics objectives of GEM are those central to the motivation for the SSC, to study high p{sub T} physics - exemplified by the search for Higgs bosons - and to search for new physics beyond the standard model. The authors present in this Technical Design Report (TDR) a detector with broad capabilities for the discovery and subsequent study of electroweak symmetry breaking, the origin of mass and flavor, and other physics requiring precise measurements of gammas, electrons, and muons - hence the name, GEM. In addition, as a design goal, they have taken care to provide the robustness needed to do the physics that requires high luminosity. Finally, good coverage and hermeticity allow the detection of missing transverse energy, E{sub T}. The GEM design emphasizes clean identification and high resolution measurement of the primary physics signatures for high p{sub T} physics. The approach is to make precise energy measurements that maximize the sensitivity to rare narrow resonances, to detect the elementary interaction products (quarks, leptons, and photons), and to build in the features required to reduce backgrounds.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); GEM Collaboration (United States); Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016; AC35-89ER40486
- OSTI ID:
- 10124115
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-60020; SSCL-SR-1219; ON: DE94006740; IN: GEM-TN-93-262; TRN: 94:004559
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 31 Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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