Author/Authors :
Bellaiche، نويسنده , , F. and Cheynis، نويسنده , , B. and Contardo، نويسنده , , D. and Drapier، نويسنده , , O. and Grossiord، نويسنده , , J.Y. and Guichard، نويسنده , , A. and Haroutunian، نويسنده , , R. and Jacquin، نويسنده , , M. and Ohlsson-Malek، نويسنده , , F. and Pizzi، نويسنده , , J.R.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The NA50 segmented target and vertex recognition system is described. The segmented target consists of 7 sub-targets of 1–2 mm thickness. The vertex recognition system used to determine the sub-target where an interaction has occured is based upon quartz elements which produce Čerenkov light when traversed by charged particles from the interaction. The geometrical arrangement of the quartz elements has been optimized for vertex recognition in 208PbPb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon. A simple algorithm provides a vertex recognition efficiency of better than 85% for dimuon trigger events collected with a 1 mm sub-target set-up. A method for recognizing interactions of projectile fragments (nuclei and/or groups of nucleons) is presented. The segmented target allows a large target thickness which together with a high beam intensity (≈ 107 ions/s) enables high statistics measurements.
