The GlueX DIRC detector

Journal Article · Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.01.054· OSTI ID:1343558

Barbosa, F. ^[1]; Bessuille, J. ^[2]; Chudakov, E. ^[1]; Dzhygadlo, R. ^[3]; Fanelli, C. ^[2]; Frye, J. ^[2]; Hardin, J. ^[2]; Kelsey, J. ^[4]; Patsyuk, M. ^[2]; Schwarz, C. ^[3]; Schwiening, J. ^[3]; Stevens, J. ^[5]; Shepherd, M. ^[4]; Whitlatch, T. ^[4]; Williams, M. ^[2]

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1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
4. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
5. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)

We present the GlueX DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detector that is being developed to upgrade the particle identification capabilities in the forward region of the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab. The GlueX DIRC will utilize four existing decommissioned BaBar DIRC bar boxes, which will be oriented to form a plane roughly 4 m away from the fixed target of the experiment. A new photon camera has been designed that is based on the SuperB FDIRC prototype. The full GlueX DIRC system will consist of two such cameras, with the first planned to be built and installed in 2017. In addition, we present the current status of the design and R&D, along with the future plans of the GlueX DIRC detector.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1343558
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-17-2418; DOE/OR/23177-4073; PII: S0168900217301122
• Journal Information: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 876; ISSN 0168-9002
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Particle identification
Cherenkov counter
Ring imaging
DIRC