Large solid angle tracking of Monte Carlo events of heavy ion collisions in TPC magnetic spectrometers
The collision of 15 GeV/nucleon sulfur and carbon or oxygen ions with various fixed targets such as carbon, sulfur, and gold is to be observed in the MPS magnetic spectrometer with a time projection chamber (TPC) module. This TPC will be placed just downstream of the target and be able to track approximately 50% of all charged particles. The design and construction of the TPC is proceeding, and prototypes of the TPC readout system have been tested and production devices are to be delivered. A TPC track reconstruction program has been developed. Monte Carlo events have been generated and tracked. The track reconstruction program consists of three parts: a local pattern recognition which associates contiguous readouts on adjacent readout wires to form a single hit; a subroutine which positions the hits into slices in the vertical plane; and the track reconstruction section. (LEW)
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); City Coll., New York (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 5387484
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-38229; CONF-860441-4; ON: DE86014137
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions (Quark Matter '86), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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