Recent results on prototype aerogel threshold counters for particle identification in the region 0.5-4.3 GeV/c

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 379, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 460-464

  Arisaka, K ^a   Borsato, E ^f   Boutigny, D ^b   Buzykaev, A ^c   Dal Corso, F ^f   De Bonis, I ^b   Favier, J ^b   Ferroni, F ^f   Foucher, M ^d   Ganzhur, S ^c   Iacovella, F ^f   Jawahery, H ^d   Karyotakis, Y ^b   Kolachev, G ^c   Kravchenko, E ^c   Lafaye, R ^b   Mazzoni, M A ^f   Mikerov, V ^c   Morandin, M ^f   Morganti, S ^f   Onuchin, A ^c   Oyang, J ^e   Piredda, G ^f   Posocco, M ^f   Santacesaria, R ^f   Shamov, A ^c   Stroili, R ^f   Tayursky, V ^c   Telnov, V ^c   Torassa, E ^f   Voci, C ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOTUBES; READOUT SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA GEL; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AEROGEL THRESHOLD COUNTERS; BABAR EXPERIMENT; CERN BEAM TEST; HYBRID PHOTODIODES; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; SILICA AEROGEL;

RADIATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0030234934     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9002(96)00564-5     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. D. Boutigny et al., BaBar Technical Design Report, SLAC-R-95-457, March 1995.
2. BaBar Aerogel Group, Performances of a prototype aerogel counter read out by fine mesh phototubes, BaBar note 289.
3. BaBar Aerogel Group, Performances of an aerogel threshold particle identification detector read out by Hybrid Photon Detectors, BaBar note 291.
4. BaBar Aerogel Group, Prototype performance of a 4-layer aerogel Cherenkov detector, BaBar note 290.
5. C. D'Ambrosio et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 307 (1991) 430 and references therein.