TY - JOUR
T1 - TPC tracking inside a Cherenkov detector
AU - Nemethy, P.
AU - Kotcher, J.
AU - Nesic, D.
AU - Edberg, T.
AU - Oddone, P.
AU - Baksay, L.
AU - Magahiz, R.
AU - Egyed, Z.
AU - Kofler, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the entire AGS staff at Brookhaven for its assistance during our test beam runs . We thank G . Smith, W . Karp, O . Pich, L . Schick, T . Meyer, P . Woodell, T . Walsh and B . Bracy for their help in constructing and operating the counter. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, and a grant of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Corporation .
PY - 1989/11/10
Y1 - 1989/11/10
N2 - We describe test results on the operation of a time projection chamber incorporated into a Cherenkov counter to track a particle while it is emitting its Cherenkov light. The common Cherenkov and drift chamber medium is high-pressure hydrogen. The ring-imaging counter detects and digitizes Cherenkov photons by means of an image-intensifier and matrix-camera. The TPC measures the particle trajectory without obscuring the Cherenkov light. In a beam of 5.4 GeV/c pions, the particle direction is determined to within 82 μ rad and the particle velocity to within 9 ppm.
AB - We describe test results on the operation of a time projection chamber incorporated into a Cherenkov counter to track a particle while it is emitting its Cherenkov light. The common Cherenkov and drift chamber medium is high-pressure hydrogen. The ring-imaging counter detects and digitizes Cherenkov photons by means of an image-intensifier and matrix-camera. The TPC measures the particle trajectory without obscuring the Cherenkov light. In a beam of 5.4 GeV/c pions, the particle direction is determined to within 82 μ rad and the particle velocity to within 9 ppm.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-9002(89)91419-8
DO - 10.1016/0168-9002(89)91419-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024766802
VL - 283
SP - 578
EP - 581
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
SN - 0168-9002
IS - 3
ER -