Studies of relativistic heavy ion collisions at the AGS (Experiment 814): Progress report, 1 May 1988--30 April 1989
During this year, the Pittsburgh group has been working with the collaboration (BNL and CERN) in building the final apparatus for experiment 814 at the Brookhaven AGS. In May 1987, during the heavy ion run at the AGS, we mounted a test setup, which was used to understand the behavior of the modified uranium/scintillator calorimeters, to test the prototype Z-counters, to carry out a set of albedo measurements, and to carry out a measurement of the E/sub T/ spectrum for a 10 GeV/nucleon beam incident upon a variety of nuclear targets. Preliminary results from this run indicate that there is almost complete stopping of the ions at 10 GeV/nucleon, as the limit in E/sub T/ reached seems to depend little on the A of the target nucleus. This paper gives a brief description of the status of the various elements of the experiment and a brief discussion of the expansion of the E814 program to include a search for strange matter. Details on the equipment being built by the Pitt group are also given.
- Research Organization:
- Pittsburgh Univ., PA (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-87ER40363
- OSTI ID:
- 6783543
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/40363-T2; ON: DE89005894
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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