利用宇宙射线对 STAR 缪子望远镜探测器进行校准与性能评估
仪器与探测器
2015-06-18 v1 天体物理仪器与方法
核实验
摘要
我们报告了安装在 RHIC 的 STAR 实验中的缪子望远镜探测器 (MTD) 的时间分辨率和空间分辨率。穿越 STAR 探测器的宇宙射线缪子平均横向动量为 6 GeV/c。由于其多重散射极小，这些宇宙缪子为校准探测器以及测量其时间和空间分辨率提供了理想工具。获得的数值分别约为 100 ps 和 1-2 cm。这些数值与通过宇宙射线台架测试和测试束流获得的数值相当。
引用
@article{arxiv.1402.1078,
title = {Calibration and performance of the STAR Muon Telescope Detector using cosmic rays},
author = {C. Yang and X. J. Huang and C. M. Du and B. C. Huang and Z. Ahammed and A. Banerjee and P. Bhattarari and S. Biswas and B. Bowen and J. Butterworth and M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez and H. Carson and S. Chattopadhyay and D. Cebra and H. F. Chen and J. P. Cheng and M. Codrington and G. Eppley and C. Flores and F. Geurts and G. W. Hoffmann and A. Jentsch and A. Kesich and C. Li and Y. J. Li and W. J. Llope and S. Mioduszewski and Y. Mohamed and T. Nussbaum and A. Roy and L. Ruan and J. J. Schambach and Y. J. Sun and Y. Wang and K. Xin and Z. Xu and S. Yang and X. L. Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1078},
year = {2015}
}
备注
15 pages, 10 figures