SSC detector muon sub-system beam tests

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10171240· OSTI ID:10171240

Downing, R; Errede, S; Gauthier, A; Haney, M; Karliner, I; Liss, T; O`Halloran, T; Sheldon, P; Simiatis, V; Thaler, J; Wiss, J ^[1]; Green, D; Martin, P; Morfin, J ^[2]; Kunori, S; Skuja, A ^[3]; Okusawa, T; Takahashi, T; Teramoto, Y; Yoshida, T ^[4] ; Asano, Y ^[5]; Mann, T ^[6]; Davisson, R; Liang, G; Lubatti, H; Wilkes, R; Zhao, T ^[7]; Carlsmith, D ^[8]

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1. Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (United States)
3. Maryland Univ., College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
4. Osaka City Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Physics
5. Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki (Japan). Inst. of Physics
6. Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (United States)
7. Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
8. Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics

We propose to start a test-beam experiment at Fermilab studying the problems associated with tracking extremely high energy muons through absorbers. We anticipate that in this energy range the observation of the muons will be complicated by associated electromagnetic radiation Monte Carlo simulations of this background need to be tuned by direct observations. These beam tests are essential to determine important design parameters of a SSC muon detector, such as the choice of the tracking, geometry, hardware triggering schemes, the number of measuring stations, the amount of iron between measuring stations, etc. We intend to begin the first phase of this program in November of 1990 utilizing the Tevatron muon beam. We plan to measure the multiplicity, direction, and separation of secondary particles associated with the primary muon track as it emerges from an absorber. The second phase of beam test in 1992 or later will be a full scale test for the final design chosen in our muon subsystem proposal.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG06-90ER40541
• OSTI ID: 10171240
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40541-1; ON: DE93018415
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: [1993]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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