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Title: Cerenkov ring imaging detector development at SLAC

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OSTI ID:6673192

The imaging of Cerenkov light on to photosensitive detectors promises to be a powerful technique for identifying particles in colliding beam spectrometers. Toward this end two and three dimensional imaging photon detectors are being developed at SLAC. The present techniques involve photon conversion using easily ionized exotic chemicals like tetrakisdimethyl-amino-ethylene (TMAE) in a drift and amplifying gas mixture of methane and isobutane. Single photoelectrons from Cerenkov light are currently being drifted 20 cm and a new device under study will be used to study drifting up to 80 cm along a magnetic field. A short description of a large device currently being designed for the SLD spectrometer at the Stanford Linear Collider will be given.

Research Organization:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
6673192
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-3360; CONF-840396-8; ON: DE84015883
Resource Relation:
Conference: International conference on instrumentation for colliding beam physics, Novosibirsk, USSR, 15 Mar 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English