A LARGE ACCEPTANCE DETECTOR SYSTEM (LADS) FOR STUDIES OF PION ABSORPTION

Authors
ALTEHOLZ T ANDROIC D BACKENSTOSS G BOSNAR D BREUER H BRKOVIC A DOBBELING H DOOLING T FONG W FURIC M GRAM PAM GREGORY NK HAAS JP HOFFART A INGRAM CHQ KLEIN A KOCH K KOHLER J KOTLINSKI B KROEDEL M KYLE G LEHMANN A LIN ZN MAHL G MATEOS AO MICHAELIAN K MUKHOPADHYAY S PETKOVIC T PLANINIC M REDWINE RP ROWNTREE D SCHUMACHER R SENNHAUSER U SIMICEVIC N SMIT FD VANDERSTEENHOVEN G TIEGER DR TREZECIAK R ULLRICH H WANG M WANG MH WEYER HJ WILDI M WILSON KE
Citation
T. Alteholz et al., A LARGE ACCEPTANCE DETECTOR SYSTEM (LADS) FOR STUDIES OF PION ABSORPTION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 373(3), 1996, pp. 374-386
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
373
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
374 - 386
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1996)373:3<374:ALADS(>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
A Large Acceptance Detector System (LADS) has been designed and built at the Paul Scherrer Institute to study multiparticle final states fol lowing pion-nucleus absorption. It consists of a 28-sector cylinder of plastic scintillators of 1.6 m active length and 1.4 m diameter, two cylindrical wire chambers, and two 14-sector plastic scintillator end- caps which close each end. The nearly 4 pi solid angle coverage of thi s detector minimizes uncertainties associated with extrapolations over unmeasured regions of phase space. The design and the performance of the LADS detector are presented.