Proceedings of the 1986 summer workshop on antiproton beams in the 2-10 GeV/c range

Conference · Thu May 07 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6132312

Lazarus, D ^[1]

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1. ed.

The possibilities for building a facility for the formation spectroscopy of ''charmonium'' and the study of ''exotics'' at the AGS with high intensity antiproton beams of good resolution and enhanced purity are explored. The performance potential of a number of long beams and the AGS booster are evaluated and costs are estimated. Fluxes of several 10/sup 7/ antiprotons per pulse with purities of 5% to 99% are possible with conventional long beams. A similar total antiproton flux would be available with the Booster with no beam contamination. This could effectively be enhanced by two orders of magnitude by reducing the momentum spread in order to scan very narrow (less than 1 MeV) resonances. The maximum momentum attainable with the present Booster magnet design is 5.6 GeV/c which only reaches the Chi/sub 0/ (3415) charmonium state. Modifications are possible which would raise the maximum momentum to 6.3 GeV/c to include all states up to and including eta'/sub c/ (3590) in its range. The performance potential for this physics at the AGS is found to compare favorably with that at other laboratories with more antiprotons delivered annually, running in the post-Booster era, than at FNAL or Super-Lear with ACOL under typical scheduling conditions. A high resolution purified source of antiprotons in the 2-10 GeV/c range at BNL would cost $3.0M - $4.1M including an experimental hall. There are contributed papers in the appendices.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6132312
• Report Number(s): BNL-52082; CONF-8608192-; AGS/EP/S-87-1; ON: DE87012851; TRN: 87-033840
• Resource Relation: Conference: Summer workshop on antiproton beams in the 2-10 GeV/c range, Upton, NY, USA, 18 Aug 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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