A PHOSWICH ARRAY FOR RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS

Authors
COSTALES JB BRITT HC NAMBOODIRI MN SANGSTER TC THOMAS JH WEGNER HE
Citation
Jb. Costales et al., A PHOSWICH ARRAY FOR RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 330(1-2), 1993, pp. 183-194
Citations number
15
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
330
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
183 - 194
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1993)330:1-2<183:APAFRH>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A phoswich array consisting of 42 DELTAE-E scintillator telescopes is described. The array was used for the measurement of charged pions, pr otons, deuterons and tritons produced near target rapidity in relativi stic collisions of 14.6 A GeV/c Si-28 nuclei with targets ranging in m ass from aluminum to gold. The present paper describes the array, its operation and performance, its response to protons, deuterons and trit ons, and the means by which the detector has been calibrated. Intrinsi c energy resolutions on the order of 2-3% have been obtained.