Performance of the Soudan II honeycomb drift chambers

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6330792

Ambats, I; Ayres, D; Barrett, W; Dawson, J; Fields, T; Goodman, M C; Lopez, F; May, E; Price, L; Schlereth, J

The Soudan II nucleon decay project is in the process of building 260 identical 5-ton fine grained calorimeter modules for the study of nucleon decay and cosmic ray physics in the Soudan Iron Mine in Minnesota. Several of these modules have been studied on a cosmic ray test stand on the surface at Argonne National Lab. Several have been installed on location in the mine, 700 m under the surface (2200 mwe overburden). In addition, many studies of trigger efficiency, pattern recognition and background rejection have been done using Monte Carlo techniques.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis (USA); Oxford Univ. (UK); Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton (UK); Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6330792
• Report Number(s): ANL-HEP-CP-87-38; CONF-870855-2; ON: DE87011473
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BARYONS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
DECAY
DETECTION
DRIFT CHAMBERS
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
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FERMIONS
HADRONS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IRON 55
IRON ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
MULTIWIRE PROPORTIONAL CHAMBERS
NUCLEI
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE DECAY
PERFORMANCE
PROPORTIONAL COUNTERS
PULSES
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIOISOTOPES
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SHOWER COUNTERS
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES