Behavior of TPCs in a high particle flux environment

Author

Etkin, A. ; Eiseman, S.E. ; Foley, K.J. ; Hackenburg, R.W. ; Longacre, R.S. ; Love, W.A. ; Morris, T.W. ; Platner, E.D. ; Saulys, A.C. ; Lindenbaum, S.J. ; Chan, C.S. ; Kramer, M.A. ; Zhao, K.H. ; Zhu, Y. ; Hallman, T.J. ; Madansky, L. ; Ahmad, S. ; Bonne

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

39

Issue

4

fYear

1992

fDate

8/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

696

Lastpage

700

Abstract

TPCs (time projection chambers) used in E-810 at the AGS (alternating gradient synchrotron) were exposed to fluxes equivalent to more than 10⁷ minimum ionizing particles per second to find if such high fluxes cause high changes or distortions of the electric field. Initial results of these and other tests are presented and the consequences for the RHIC (relativistic heavy ion collider) TPC-based experiments are discussed. Measurements of distortions due to ion loading in the E-810 TPCs have been measured to be small even at very high effective particle fluxes. This results supports the use of TPCs at RHIC, even at the highest planned luminosity. In addition, measurement of two-vertex resolution and reconstruction efficiency at high track density showed that a TPC is an excellent detector for the RHIC

Keywords

position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; E-810 TPCs; RHIC; TPC-based experiments; high particle flux environment; high track density; luminosity; reconstruction efficiency; time projection chambers; two-vertex resolution; Cities and towns; Counting circuits; Educational institutions; Electrodes; Ion beams; Laboratories; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Position measurement; Synchrotrons; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.159690

Filename

159690