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Title: The SπRIT time projection chamber

Abstract

The SAMURAI Pion Reconstruction and Ion-Tracker Time Projection Chamber (SπRIT TPC) was designed to enable measurements of heavy ion collisions with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and provide constraints on the Equation of State of neutron-rich nuclear matter. The SπRIT TPC has a 50.5 cm drift length and an 86.4 cm × 134.4 cm2 pad plane with 12,096 pads that are equipped with the Generic Electronics for TPCs. The SπRIT TPC allows excellent reconstruction of particles and provides isotopic resolution for pions and other light charged particles across a wide range of energy losses and momenta. Here, details of the SπRIT TPC are presented, along with discussion of the TPC performance based on cosmic ray and charged particles emitted in heavy ion collisions.

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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab.
  2. Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako (Japan)
  3. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  4. Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
  5. Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako (Japan); Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
  6. Korea Univ., Seoul, (Korea, Republic of)
  7. Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo MI (United States)
  8. Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
  9. Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Krakow (Poland)
  10. National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), L'Aquila (Italy). Gran Sasso National Lab. (INFN-LNGS)
  11. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Polish National Science Centre (NCN); Robert A. Welch Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1797552
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1786245; OSTI ID: 1957889
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0021235; SC0014530; NA0003908; FG02-93ER40773; PHY-1565546; 24105004; 2016K1A3A7A09005578; 2018R1A5A1025563; UMO-2013/09/B/ST2/04064; UMO-2013/-10/M/ST2/00624; 11375094; A-1266; NA0002923
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Time Projection Chamber; Nuclear Equation of State; Heavy-ion collisions; Proportional counters

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Barney, J., Estee, J., Lynch, W. G., Isobe, T., Jhang, G., Kurata-Nishimura, M., McIntosh, A. B., Murakami, T., Shane, R., Tangwancharoen, S., Tsang, M. B., Cerizza, G., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., Tsang, C. Y., Wang, R., Anderson, C., Baba, H., Chajecki, Z., Famiano, M., Hodges-Showalter, R., Hong, B., Kobayashi, T., Lasko, P., Łukasik, J., Nakatsuka, N., Olsen, R., Otsu, H., Pawłowski, P., Pelczar, K., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Setiawan, H., Taketani, A., Winkelbauer, J. R., Xiao, Z., Yennello, S. J., Yurkon, J., and Zhang, Y. The SπRIT time projection chamber. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1063/5.0041191.
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Barney, J., Estee, J., Lynch, W. G., Isobe, T., Jhang, G., Kurata-Nishimura, M., McIntosh, A. B., Murakami, T., Shane, R., Tangwancharoen, S., Tsang, M. B., Cerizza, G., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., Tsang, C. Y., Wang, R., Anderson, C., Baba, H., Chajecki, Z., Famiano, M., Hodges-Showalter, R., Hong, B., Kobayashi, T., Lasko, P., Łukasik, J., Nakatsuka, N., Olsen, R., Otsu, H., Pawłowski, P., Pelczar, K., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Setiawan, H., Taketani, A., Winkelbauer, J. R., Xiao, Z., Yennello, S. J., Yurkon, J., & Zhang, Y. The SπRIT time projection chamber. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0041191
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Barney, J., Estee, J., Lynch, W. G., Isobe, T., Jhang, G., Kurata-Nishimura, M., McIntosh, A. B., Murakami, T., Shane, R., Tangwancharoen, S., Tsang, M. B., Cerizza, G., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., Tsang, C. Y., Wang, R., Anderson, C., Baba, H., Chajecki, Z., Famiano, M., Hodges-Showalter, R., Hong, B., Kobayashi, T., Lasko, P., Łukasik, J., Nakatsuka, N., Olsen, R., Otsu, H., Pawłowski, P., Pelczar, K., Sakurai, H., Santamaria, C., Setiawan, H., Taketani, A., Winkelbauer, J. R., Xiao, Z., Yennello, S. J., Yurkon, J., and Zhang, Y. Fri . "The SπRIT time projection chamber". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0041191. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1797552.
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@article{osti_1797552,
title = {The SπRIT time projection chamber},
author = {Barney, J. and Estee, J. and Lynch, W. G. and Isobe, T. and Jhang, G. and Kurata-Nishimura, M. and McIntosh, A. B. and Murakami, T. and Shane, R. and Tangwancharoen, S. and Tsang, M. B. and Cerizza, G. and Kaneko, M. and Lee, J. W. and Tsang, C. Y. and Wang, R. and Anderson, C. and Baba, H. and Chajecki, Z. and Famiano, M. and Hodges-Showalter, R. and Hong, B. and Kobayashi, T. and Lasko, P. and Łukasik, J. and Nakatsuka, N. and Olsen, R. and Otsu, H. and Pawłowski, P. and Pelczar, K. and Sakurai, H. and Santamaria, C. and Setiawan, H. and Taketani, A. and Winkelbauer, J. R. and Xiao, Z. and Yennello, S. J. and Yurkon, J. and Zhang, Y.},
abstractNote = {The SAMURAI Pion Reconstruction and Ion-Tracker Time Projection Chamber (SπRIT TPC) was designed to enable measurements of heavy ion collisions with the SAMURAI spectrometer at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and provide constraints on the Equation of State of neutron-rich nuclear matter. The SπRIT TPC has a 50.5 cm drift length and an 86.4 cm × 134.4 cm2 pad plane with 12,096 pads that are equipped with the Generic Electronics for TPCs. The SπRIT TPC allows excellent reconstruction of particles and provides isotopic resolution for pions and other light charged particles across a wide range of energy losses and momenta. Here, details of the SπRIT TPC are presented, along with discussion of the TPC performance based on cosmic ray and charged particles emitted in heavy ion collisions.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0041191},
journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
number = 6,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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