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Particle identification with the OPAL jet chamber in the region of the relativistic rise

Abstract

An important goal of the OPAL jet chamber is particle identification at high momenta by exploiting the relativistic rise of the energy loss. Extensive tests have been performed with the full scale prototype of the OPAL jet chamber to measure the energy loss in an argon-methane-isobutane mixture as function of momentum and particle species. The measurements were done under various operating conditions in order to optimise the operationg point, to investigate sources of systematic errors, to monitor the stability of the energy loss measurement and to develop calibration procedures. The particle separation capability in the region of relativistic rise has been studied at gas pressures of 3 and 4 bar. The adopted operation point represents a reasonable compromise between the requirements for particle identification and tracking accuracy.
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 1987
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
AIX-19-023969; EDB-88-051691
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A.; (Netherlands); Journal Volume: 260:2/3
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; GAS TRACK DETECTORS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; ENERGY LOSSES; GASES; MIXTURES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE TRACKS; PERFORMANCE; STABILITY; BEAMS; DISPERSIONS; FLUIDS; LOSSES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; 440104* - Radiation Instrumentation- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
OSTI ID:
5549599
Research Organizations:
Bonn Univ., Germany, F.R.. Physikalisches Inst.
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: NIMAE
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
Pages: 329-342
Announcement Date:
Mar 01, 1988

Citation Formats

Breuker, H, Fischer, H M, Hauschild, M, Hartmann, H, Wuensch, B, Boerner, H, Burckhart, H J, Dittmar, M, Hammarstroem, R, and Heuer, R D. Particle identification with the OPAL jet chamber in the region of the relativistic rise. Netherlands: N. p., 1987. Web. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(87)90097-0.
Breuker, H, Fischer, H M, Hauschild, M, Hartmann, H, Wuensch, B, Boerner, H, Burckhart, H J, Dittmar, M, Hammarstroem, R, & Heuer, R D. Particle identification with the OPAL jet chamber in the region of the relativistic rise. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(87)90097-0
Breuker, H, Fischer, H M, Hauschild, M, Hartmann, H, Wuensch, B, Boerner, H, Burckhart, H J, Dittmar, M, Hammarstroem, R, and Heuer, R D. 1987. "Particle identification with the OPAL jet chamber in the region of the relativistic rise." Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(87)90097-0.
@misc{etde_5549599,
title = {Particle identification with the OPAL jet chamber in the region of the relativistic rise}
author = {Breuker, H, Fischer, H M, Hauschild, M, Hartmann, H, Wuensch, B, Boerner, H, Burckhart, H J, Dittmar, M, Hammarstroem, R, and Heuer, R D}
abstractNote = {An important goal of the OPAL jet chamber is particle identification at high momenta by exploiting the relativistic rise of the energy loss. Extensive tests have been performed with the full scale prototype of the OPAL jet chamber to measure the energy loss in an argon-methane-isobutane mixture as function of momentum and particle species. The measurements were done under various operating conditions in order to optimise the operationg point, to investigate sources of systematic errors, to monitor the stability of the energy loss measurement and to develop calibration procedures. The particle separation capability in the region of relativistic rise has been studied at gas pressures of 3 and 4 bar. The adopted operation point represents a reasonable compromise between the requirements for particle identification and tracking accuracy.}
doi = {10.1016/0168-9002(87)90097-0}
journal = []
volume = {260:2/3}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Netherlands}
year = {1987}
month = {Oct}
}