The PANDA DIRCs
Abstract
The PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility adresses open questions in hadron physics with antiproton beams in the momentum range of 1.5-15 GeV/c. The antiprotons are stored and cooled in a High Energy Storage RING (HESR) with a momentum spread down to Dp/p = 4*10^-5. A high luminosity of up to 2*10^32 cm-2 s-1 can be achieved. An excellent hadronic particle identification (PID) will be provided by two Cherenkov detectors using the priciple of Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC). In the forward direction from polar angles of 5 degree to 22 degree, the Endcap Disc DIRC (EDD) separates pions from kaons up to momenta of 4 GeV/c. Between 22 degree and 140 degree the Barrel DIRC cleanly separates pions from kaons for momenta up to 3.5 GeV/c. This article describes the design of the Barrel DIRC and of the Endcap Disc DIRC and the validation of their designs in particle beams at the CERN PS.
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@article{arxiv.2101.10930,
title = {The PANDA DIRCs},
author = {C. Schwarz and A. Ali and A. Belias and R. Dzhygadlo and A. Gerhardt and M. Krebs and D. Lehmann and K. Peters and G. Schepers and J. Schwiening and M. Traxler and L. Schmitt and M. Böhm and A. Lehmann and M. Pfaffinger and S. Stelter and M. Düren and E. Etzelmüller and K. Föhl and A. Hayrapetyan and I. Köseoglu and K. Kreutzfeld and M. Schmidt and T. Wasem and C. Sfienti and A. Barnyakov and K. Beloborodov and V. Blinov and S. Kononov and E. Kravchenko and I. Kuyanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10930},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages, 8 figures