Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment

Journal Article · Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015· OSTI ID:1025453

Anderson, W; Azmoun, B; Cherlin, A; Chi, C Y; Citron, Z; Connors, M; Dubey, A; Durham, J M; Fraenkel, Z; Hemmick, T; Kamin, J; Kozlov, A; Lewis, B; Makek, M; Milov, A; Naglis, M; Pantuev, V; Pisani, R; Proissl, M; Ravinovich, I ; Rolnick, S; Sakaguchi, T; Sharma, D; Stoll, S; Sun, J; Tserruya, I; Woody, C

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been developed, constructed and successfully operated within the PHENIX detector at RHIC. The HBD is a Cherenkov detector operated with pure CF{sub 4}. It has a 50 cm long radiator directly coupled in a windowless configuration to a readout element consisting of a triple GEM stack, with a CsI photocathode evaporated on the top surface of the top GEM and pad readout at the bottom of the stack. This paper gives a comprehensive account of the construction, operation and in-beam performance of the detector.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - OFFICE OF SCIENCE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 1025453
• Report Number(s): BNL--95307-2011-JA; KB0201021
• Journal Information: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
CHERENKOV COUNTERS
CONFIGURATION
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
HADRONS
PERFORMANCE
PHOTOCATHODES
RADIATORS
relativistic heavy ion collider