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AGS silicon gold collisions measured in the E-810 TPC [Time Projection Chamber]

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The tracking detector of AGS Experiment 810 is a three-piece Time Projection Chamber (TPC) intended to measure all charged tracks in the forward hemisphere of the nucleon-nucleon center of mass system, i.e. forward of an angle of about 20 degrees in the lab. Each module of the TPC contains twelve rows of short anode wires which give 3-D space points on each track, but no dE/dx information useable for particle identification. The TPC was operated in a beam of silicon ions at the end of June 1989 and this talk reports the results of analysis of the data taken with a thin gold target in that run. We have gathered a similar amount of data from thin copper and silicon targets, the analysis of which is in a less advanced state. The results of our investigation of the neutral strange particle decays appear in a separate contribution by Al Saulys. This paper presents the current state of the analysis of the charged tracks from the silicon gold collisions. 1 ref., 15 figs

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; NTIS, PC A03/MF A01 as DE90010015; OSTI; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Imprint Pagination
12 p.
Report number
BNL--44431

Conference

Title
Heavy ion physics at the alternating gradient synchrotron.
Dates
5-7 Mar 1990.
Place
Upton, NY (USA).

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