Muon identification with Muon Telescope Detector at the STAR experiment

Huang, T. C.; Ma, R.; Huang, B.; Huang, X.; Ruan, L.; Todoroki, T.; Xu, Z.; Yang, C.; Yang, S.; Yang, Q.; Yang, Y.; Zha, W.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.024

Title: Muon identification with Muon Telescope Detector at the STAR experiment

Journal Article · Fri Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.024· OSTI ID:1340410

Huang, T. C. ^[1]; Ma, R. ^[2]; Huang, B. ^[3]; Huang, X. ^[4]; Ruan, L. ^[2]; Todoroki, T. ^[2]; Xu, Z. ^[2]; Yang, C. ^[5]; Yang, S. ^[5]; Yang, Q. ^[5]; Yang, Y. ^[1]; Zha, W. ^[5]

National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan City (Taiwan)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL (United States)
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)

The Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) is a newly installed detector in the STAR experiment. It provides an excellent opportunity to study heavy quarkonium physics using the dimuon channel in heavy ion collisions. In this paper, we report the muon identification performance for the MTD using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ =500 GeV with various methods. The result using the Likelihood Ratio method shows that the muon identification efficiency can reach up to ~90% for muons with transverse momenta greater than 3 GeV/c and the significance of the $J / ψ$ signal is improved by a factor of 2 compared to using the basic selection.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-94ER40865; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1340410

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1397721; OSTI ID: 1666262

Report Number(s):: BNL-113221-2016-JA; TRN: US1701782

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 833, Issue C; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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