The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC
Nuclear Experiment
2008-11-26 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The STAR Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is used to record collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The TPC is the central element in a suite of detectors that surrounds the interaction vertex. The TPC provides complete coverage around the beam-line, and provides complete tracking for charged particles within +- 1.8 units of pseudo-rapidity of the center-of-mass frame. Charged particles with momenta greater than 100 MeV/c are recorded. Multiplicities in excess of 3,000 tracks per event are routinely reconstructed in the software. The TPC measures 4 m in diameter by 4.2 m long, making it the largest TPC in the world.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0301015,
title = {The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC},
author = {M. Anderson and J. Berkovitz and W. Betts and R. Bossingham and F. Bieser and R. Brown and M. Burkes and M. Calderon de la Barca Sanchez and D. Cebra and M. Cherney and J. Chrin and W. R. Edwards and V. Ghazikhanian and D. Greiner and M. Gilkes and D. Hardtke and G. Harper and E. Hjort and H. Huang and G. Igo and S. Jacobson and D. Keane and S. R. Klein and G. Koehler and L. Kotchenda and B. Lasiuk and A. Lebedev and J. Lin and M. Lisa and H. S. Matis and J. Nystrand and S. Panitkin and D. Reichold and F. Retiere and I. Sakrejda and K. Schweda and D. Shuman and R. Snellings and N. Stone and B. Stringfellow and J. H. Thomas and T. Trainor and S. Trentalange and R. Wells and C. Whitten and H. Wieman and E. Yamamoto and W. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0301015},
year = {2008}
}
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28 pages, 11 figures