STAR TPC at RHIC

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3 PART 1, 1997, Pages 671-678

  Wieman, H ^a   Anderssen, E ^a   Banerjee, A ^b   Betts, W ^b   Bossingham, R ^a   Ghazikhanian, V ^c   Gong, W ^a,d   Greiner, D ^a   Harper, G ^e   Huang, H ^c   Hjort, E ^f   Kotchenda, L ^g   Lebedev, A ^g   Sakrejda, I ^a   Shuman, D ^a   Smith, M ^a,h   Sobel, A ^a,i   Stone, N ^a   Stringfellow, B ^f   Trainor, T ^e   Trentalange, S ^c   Wells, R ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000702195     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.603731     Document Type: Article

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