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Tagged Neutron, Anti-neutron and K-Long beams in an Upgraded MIPP Spectrometer

The MIPP experiment operating with an upgraded data acquisition system will be capable of acquiring data at the rate of 3000 events per second. Currently we are limited to a rate of 30 Hz due to the bottlenecks in the data acquisition…

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