Streamer chamber and calorimeter measurements in relativistic heavy ion research: Final report

The goal of this project is to speed up the analysis of streamer chamber pictures by replacing a human scanner with a computer to the greatest extent possible. A large fraction of the software has been written and tested, the computer hardware has been ordered, and the first results from this analysis are reported below. These results are based on about 75 events which have been analyzed so far. A more complete analysis, including a larger number of events, will soon be available. These results are based on a semi-automatic analysis of the data. Those parts of the analysis which require intervention of a scanner continue to limit the rate at which pictures can be analyzed. The amount of scanner intervention will decrease as the project progresses, but it is not realistic to believe that the scanner will be completely eliminated. This section will give an overview of the existing and planned streamer chamber picture analysis system. Some portions of the analysis system will be described in detail in the following sections. 5 refs., 15 figs