A many particle-tracking detector with drift planes and segmented cathode readout

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5168495

Fischer, J; Lissauer, D; Ludlam, T; Makowiecki, D; O'Brien, E; Radeka, V; Rescia, S; Rogers, L; Smith, G C; Stephani, D; Yu, B ^[1]; Greene, S V; Hemmick, T K; Mitchell, J T; Shivakumar, B ^[2]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
2. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (USA)

We describe the design and performance of a detector system for tracking charged particles in an environment of high track density and rates up to 1 MHz. The system operates in the forward spectrometer of the BNL Heavy Ion experiment E814 and uses principles of general interest in high rate, high multiplicity applications such as at RHIC or SSC. We require our system to perform over a large dynamic range, detecting singly charged particles as well as fully ionized relativistic {sup 28}Si. Results on gas gain saturation, {delta}-ray suppression, and overall detector performance in the presence of a 14.6 GeV/nucleon {sup 28}Si beam and a 14 GeV proton beam are presented. 6 refs., 9 figs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5168495
• Report Number(s): BNL-43698; CONF-900143-9; OG-2001; ON: DE90005574; TRN: 90-004390
• Resource Relation: Conference: Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium, San Francisco, CA (USA), 22-26 Jan 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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