STAR detector overview

Collaboration
Apr, 2002
13 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 499 (2003) 624-632
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
An introduction to the STAR detector and a brief overview of the physics goals of the experiment are presented.
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  • Relativistic heavy ions
  • Tracking detectors
  • Electromagnetic calorimeters
  • Gas detectors
  • Silicon detectors
  • nucleus nucleus: colliding beam detector
  • semiconductor detector: microstrip
  • drift chamber: time projection
  • zero-degree calorimeter