TY - JOUR
T1 - The kaon spectrometer at SIS
AU - Senger, P.
AU - Ahner, W.
AU - Baltes, P.
AU - Beckerle, P.
AU - Bormann, Ch
AU - Brill, D.
AU - Cieślak, M.
AU - Grosse, E.
AU - Henning, W.
AU - Koczoń, P.
AU - Kohlmeyer, B.
AU - Konrad, W.
AU - Miśkowiec, D.
AU - Müntz, Ch
AU - Oeschler, H.
AU - Pöppl, H.
AU - Prokopowicz, W.
AU - Pühlhofer, F.
AU - Sartorius, S.
AU - Schicker, R.
AU - Schlei, B.
AU - Schwab, E.
AU - Shin, Y.
AU - Speer, J.
AU - Stein, J.
AU - Stiebing, K.
AU - Stock, R.
AU - Ströbele, H.
AU - Sturm, Ch
AU - Völkel, K.
AU - Wagner, A.
AU - Waluś, W.
N1 - Funding Information:
The work was supported by the German Federal Minister for Research and Technology (BMFT) under contract numbers 06DA461 and 06MR134 and by GSI via Hochschulzusammenarbeitsvereinbarungen under contract numbers DA OES K, FSTF and MR PUR.
PY - 1993/4/1
Y1 - 1993/4/1
N2 - A double-focussing QD magnetic spectrometer has been developed and installed at the SIS heavy-ion facility at GSI in Darmstadt. The spectrometer's primary purpose is to study meson production in energetic nucleus-nucleus collisions in detail. Its compact design is matched to the requirements of kaon detection with short flight path (5-6.5 m), large solid angle (up to 35 msr), wide momentum acceptance ( pmax pmin {reversed tilde equals} 2), maximum momentum 1.6 GeV/c (1.9 GeV/c at reduced solid angle) and reasonable momentum resolution ({reversed tilde equals} 1% without and {reversed tilde equals} 10-3 with ray tracing). A focal-plane length of about 1.5 m allows the efficient use of the detectors necessary for particle identification and ray-tracing, involving wire chambers, time-of-flight scintillators and Cherenkov detectors. Collisions can be characterized by two multiple-module plastic-scintillator hodoscopes detecting reaction fragments in the forward hemisphere. While the primary purpose for the construction of the spectrometer is the measurement of kaons, it can serve as a general purpose magnetic spectrometer. Its large solid angle also allows the study of two-particle correlations.
AB - A double-focussing QD magnetic spectrometer has been developed and installed at the SIS heavy-ion facility at GSI in Darmstadt. The spectrometer's primary purpose is to study meson production in energetic nucleus-nucleus collisions in detail. Its compact design is matched to the requirements of kaon detection with short flight path (5-6.5 m), large solid angle (up to 35 msr), wide momentum acceptance ( pmax pmin {reversed tilde equals} 2), maximum momentum 1.6 GeV/c (1.9 GeV/c at reduced solid angle) and reasonable momentum resolution ({reversed tilde equals} 1% without and {reversed tilde equals} 10-3 with ray tracing). A focal-plane length of about 1.5 m allows the efficient use of the detectors necessary for particle identification and ray-tracing, involving wire chambers, time-of-flight scintillators and Cherenkov detectors. Collisions can be characterized by two multiple-module plastic-scintillator hodoscopes detecting reaction fragments in the forward hemisphere. While the primary purpose for the construction of the spectrometer is the measurement of kaons, it can serve as a general purpose magnetic spectrometer. Its large solid angle also allows the study of two-particle correlations.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0027576674
U2 - 10.1016/0168-9002(93)90706-N
DO - 10.1016/0168-9002(93)90706-N
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027576674
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 327
SP - 393
EP - 411
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 2-3
ER -