Published March 22, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

The slow proton position-sensitive time of flight detector of the GAMS NA 12/2 experiment at CERN

  • 1. Chiba Univ. (Japan)
  • 2. Miyazaki Univ. (Japan)
  • 3. Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
  • 4. KEK, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken (Japan)
  • 5. INFN, Pisa Univ. (Italy)
  • 6. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 7. Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
  • 8. LAPP-IN2P3, 74 -Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
  • 9. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
  • 10. Inst. Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucleaires, Brussels (Belgium)
  • 11. Inst. for High Energy Physics, Protvino (Russian Federation)

Description

A large time-of-flight detector has been built by the GAMS NA12/2 experiment at CERN. It surrounds a 60 cm long liquid hydrogen target. With a time resolution better than σ = 350 ps, pion/proton separation is achieved up to a 800 MeV/c momentum. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
342
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 389-397.
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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