The BaBar detector
Collaboration
119 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 479 (2002) 1-116
e-Print:
- hep-ex/0105044 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- SLAC-PUB-8569,
- BABAR-PUB-01-08
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Abstract: (arXiv)
BABAR, the detector for the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric e+e- B Factory operating at the upsilon 4S resonance, was designed to allow comprehensive studies of CP-violation in B-meson decays. Charged particle tracks are measured in a multi-layer silicon vertex tracker surrounded by a cylindrical wire drift chamber. Electromagentic showers from electrons and photons are detected in an array of CsI crystals located just inside the solenoidal coil of a superconducting magnet. Muons and neutral hadrons are identified by arrays of resistive plate chambers inserted into gaps in the steel flux return of the magnet. Charged hadrons are identified by dE/dx measurements in the tracking detectors and in a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector surrounding the drift chamber. The trigger, data acquisition and data-monitoring systems, VME- and network-based, are controlled by custom-designed online software. Details of the layout and performance of the detector components and their associated electronics and software are presented.Note:
- 118 pages, 94 figure files, to be published in Nucl. Inst. and Methods Report-no: SLAC-PUB-8569
- electron positron: colliding beam detector
- semiconductor detector: vertex
- drift chamber: wire
- scintillation counter: crystal
- cesium: iodine
- particle identification
- drift chamber: gas
- electrode: impedance
- tracks: energy loss
- RICH
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