Triggered streamer chamber for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6642484

Kiernan, G P

Design studies and tests have been carried out to develop the streamer chamber into a powerful facility for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. The streamer chamber is a visual detector which is triggerable and sensitive to charged particles over a 4..pi.. geometry, with a high efficiency for large multiparticle events. The developmental work has encompassed both hardware and software systems for the streamer chamber facility, and has been focused in three areas: (1) target design, in particular, optimization of the target thickness to effectively study collisions with heavy high charge projectile nuclei; (2) design of a trigger system to provide selection between peripheral and central collisions between nuclei; and (3) development of a one view geometric fitting program to reconstruct interaction events having a high particle multiplicity. Results are presented of an exploratory experiment of relativistic heavy ion collisions. Total charged particle multiplicity spectra are presented over a range of energy for several combinations of projectile and target nuclei. From these spectra particle production cross-sections are derived. Also presented here are the multiplicity and cross-section of pions produced in these collisions, together with momentum and angular distributions.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Riverside (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ER70107
• OSTI ID: 6642484
• Report Number(s): UCR-34-P107-253
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ARGON 40
ARGON ISOTOPES
CARBON 12
CARBON ISOTOPES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DATA
DATA ANALYSIS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ENERGY RANGE
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GAS TRACK DETECTORS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INFORMATION
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MULTIPLICITY
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE
PULSE CIRCUITS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
SCATTERING
SPARK CHAMBERS
SPECIFICATIONS
STABLE ISOTOPES
STREAMER SPARK CHAMBERS
TRIGGER CIRCUITS