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Design and construction of the BESIII detector
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 614:345-399
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2010.
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Abstract
- This paper will discuss the design and construction of BESIII, which is designed to study physics in the tau-charm energy region utilizing the new high luminosity BEPCII double ring e+e- collider. The expected performance will be given based on Monte Carlo simulations and results of cosmic ray and beam tests. In BESIII, tracking and momentum measurements for charged particles are made by a cylindrical multilayer drift chamber in a 1 T superconducting solenoid. Charged particles are identified with a time-of-flight system based on plastic scintillators in conjunction with dE/dx (energy loss per unit pathlength) measurements in the drift chamber. Energies of electromagnetic showers are measured by a CsI(Tl) crystal calorimeter located inside the solenoid magnet. Muons are identified by arrays of resistive plate chambers in the steel magnetic flux return. The level 1 trigger system, Data Acquisition system and the event filter system based on networked computers will also be described.<br />57 pages, 75 figures
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Luminosity (scattering theory)
Calorimeter (particle physics)
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Detector
FOS: Physical sciences
Cosmic ray
Solenoid
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Tracking (particle physics)
Charged particle
High Energy Physics - Experiment
law.invention
Nuclear physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
law
Collider
Instrumentation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Volume :
- 614
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....132d59c57b7569aac29d4278893239b6