Time of flight measurement in heavy-ion collisions with the HADES RPC TOF wall

G. Kornakov, O. Arnold, E. T. Atomssa, C. Behnke, A. Belyaev, J. C. Berger-Chen, J. Biernat, A. Blanco, C. Blume, M. Böhmer, P. Bordalo, S. Chernenko, C. Deveaux, A. Dybczak, E. Epple, L. Fabbietti, O. Fateev, P. Fonte, C. Franco, J. FrieseI. Fröhlich, T. Galatyuk, J. A. Garzón, K. Gill, M. Golubeva, D. González-Díaz, F. Guber, M. Gumberidze, S. Harabasz, T. Hennino, C. Höhne, R. Holzmann, A. Ierusalimov, A. Ivashkin, M. Jurkovic, B. Kämpfer, T. Karavicheva, K. Kardan, I. Koenig, W. Koenig, B. W. Kolb, G. Korcyl, R. Kotte, A. Krása, E. Krebs, F. Krizek, H. Kuc, A. Kugler, T. Kunz, A. Kurepin, A. Kurilkin, P. Kurilkin, V. Ladygin, R. Lalik, S. Lang, K. Lapidus, A. Lebedev, L. Lopes, M. Lorenz, L. Maier, A. Mangiarotti, J. Markert, V. Metag, J. Michel, C. Müntz, R. Münzer, L. Naumann, M. Palka, V. Pechenov, O. Pechenova, V. Petousis, J. Pietraszko, W. Przygoda, B. Ramstein, L. Rehnisch, A. Reshetin, A. Rost, A. Rustamov, A. Sadovsky, P. Salabura, T. Scheib, K. Schmidt-Sommerfeld, H. Schuldes, P. Sellheim, J. Siebenson, L. Silva, Yu G. Sobolev, S. Spataro, H. Ströbele, J. Stroth, P. Strzempek, C. Sturm, O. Svoboda, A. Tarantola, K. Teilab, P. Tlusty, M. Traxler, H. Tsertos, T. Vasiliev, V. Wagner, C. Wendisch, J. Wirth, J. Wüstenfeld, S. Yurevich, Y. Zanevsky

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Abstract

This work presents the analysis of the performance of the RPC ToF wall of the HADES, located at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt. The behavior of the detector is studied in Au+Au collisions at 1.23 AGeV. A main characteristic of the detector is that all the active areas were designed to be electrically shielded in order to operate in high occupancies of the chambers. Here we show the achieved performance regarding efficiency and timing capabilities at different occupancies of this special design after the applied offline corrections to the data. Also the stability of the intrinsic time resolution over time of data taking is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberC11015
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume9
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2014

Keywords

  • Instrumentation and methods for time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy
  • Particle identification methods
  • Resistive-plate chambers

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