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Upgrade of the proximity focusing RICH at Jlab

Description

The Hall A RICH at Jefferson Lab is undergoing an upgrade to adapt to the higher momentum kinematics of the neutron spin structure Transversity experiments planned to run in 2008. The JLab RICH is a proximity focusing detector using liquid C6F14 as Cherenkov radiator, a thin layer of CsI as photon converter, evaporated on segmented pad panels of a proportional chamber. The original RICH had a superior hadron identification up to 2 GeV/c with pion/kaon rejection at the level of 1:1000 at ∼90% intrinsic efficiency. The upgrade will extend this performance above 2.4 GeV/c by means of a larger photon detector (a multiwire-multipad proportional chamber) and a longer proximity gap which will improve the photon detection geometrical efficiency and the angular resolution, respectively.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
vp.
Report number
JLAB-PHY--08-886

Conference

Title
6. International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counters
Acronym
RICH 2007
Dates
15-20 Oct 2007
Place
Trieste (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
41097388
Subject category
S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CEBAF ACCELERATOR; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; DETECTION; EFFICIENCY; FOCUSING; HADRONS; NEUTRONS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTONS; RESOLUTION; SPIN
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BARYONS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; RADIATION DETECTORS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC05-060R23177
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)
Secondary number(s)
DOE/OR--23177-0586