The Straw Tube Tracker of the PANDA experiment

Author

Braghieri, A. ; Boca, G.L. ; Costanza, S. ; Genova, P. ; Gianotti, P. ; Gillitzer, A. ; Kozlov, V. ; Kulessa, P. ; Lavezzi, L. ; Lucherini, V. ; Montagna, P. ; Ohm, H. ; Orfanitski, S. ; Orecchini, D. ; Pierluigi, D. ; Pysz, K. ; Ritman, J. ; Roeder, M. ;

Author_Institution

sezione di Pavia, INFN, Pavia, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009

Firstpage

1013

Lastpage

1018

Abstract

The PANDA experiment will investigate many aspects of particle and nuclear physics. This will be done by using the excellent quality antiproton beam that will be provided at the HESR storage ring, under construction as a part of the FAIR facility at Darmstadt, Germany. The experimental apparatus will be a fixed target detector with a central and a forward spectrometer. The PANDA central tracker is a key element of the experiment; it will provide information about decay vertices, momenta and charged particle species emitted after antiproton annihilation. Two possibilities are presently under study for this detector. The Straw Tube Tracker option will be illustrated together with experimental results of the R&D phase.

Keywords

position sensitive particle detectors; research and development; storage rings; FAIR facility; HESR storage ring; PANDA central tracker; PANDA experiment; antiproton annihilation; antiproton beam; central spectrometer; charged particle species; decay vertices; fixed target detector; forward spectrometer; nuclear physics; particle physics; research and development phase; straw tube tracker; Detectors; Helium; Ion accelerators; Nuclear physics; Particle tracking; Spectroscopy; Storage rings; Structural beams; Synchrotrons; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3961-4

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402435

Filename

5402435