The design and construction of the muon arm in PHENIX. Progress report for the period December 15, 1993--December 1, 1994

The purpose of this report is to describe activities performed by the Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics Group (IENPG) at the Louisiana State University (LSU). The report will cover the period of time between approximately December 15, 1993, and the present. The principal focus of the activities is the muon subgroup of the PHENIX Collaboration. During the preceding year the authors have contributed substantially to the development of hardware for the muon arm of PHENIX and have undertaken an important simulation that will be discussed in the accompanying renewal proposal. The authors are, however, in the process of concluding other activities, most notably their membership in the Di-Lepton Spectrometer (DLS) Collaboration at LBL. During the preceding year the authors have undertaken a major calculation on behalf of the DLS Collaboration. Because of its fundamental nature, its importance to the DLS Collaboration, and its applicability to any other spectrometer, they shall discuss this calculation in considerable detail, both in this progress report and the accompanying renewal proposal. In addition they are members of the E866 Collaboration at Fermilab and the AMY Collaboration at KEK