The Main Injector Particle Physics Experiment (MIPP FNAL E-907) at Fermilab - status and plans

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements

Volumn 175-176, Issue SUPPL.: COMPLETE, 2008, Pages 17-24

  Raja, Rajendran ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 37749035675     PISSN: 09205632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.10.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. The main MIPP web page is at. http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/ Information on the MIPP collaboration may be found using links there
2. The MIPP proposal and Addendum to the proposal may be found at. http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/Proposal/E907_Proposal.html
3. The Time of Flight detector was fabricated by MIPP and consists of an array of 10 cm × 10 cm scintillators and 5 cm × 5 cm scintillators. See http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/TOF/TOF.html for a detailed description of the detector.
4. The multi-cell Čerenkov detector was first used in BNL experiment E766, then in Fermilab experiment E690 followed by other BNL experiments.
5. 2 gas as the radiator for the RICH
6. NuMI stands for Neutrinos at the Main Injector and refers to the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam. MINOS is the first experiment to utilize this beam MINOS proposal may be found at "P-875: A long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab", E. Ables et al.; FERMILAB-PROPOSAL-P875, (1995). See also their website at http://www-numi.fnal.gov/.
7. The TPC was built by the BEVALAC group at Berkeley in the 1990's and used effectively at several Brookhaven experiments (e.g. E910) and then donated to Fermilab by LBNL for use in MIPP. See. Rai G., et al. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 37 (1990) 56 LBL-28141
8. "Beamline design for particle production Experiment, E907 at FNAL", C. Johnstone et al., Proceedings of the PAC03 conference. So successful has the performance of this beamline been that the design has been adopted for use in the M-Test beamline upgrade for providing testbeams at Fermilab.
9. For more details on the beam Čerenkov system, see. http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/Beam/BeamCerenkov/BeamCerenkov.html
10. In 2004, we lost 20% of the phototubes in the RICH due to a fire in one of the phototube bases. This does not impact adversely on our pattern recognition, since the Čerenkov angle is large and there is plenty of light over most of our momentum range.
11. The EM calorimeter was fabricated by MIPP and uses lead as the radiator and an array of proportional tubes with 2.54 cm wire spacing as the readout. It has 10 radiation lengths and has 10 longitudinal segments.
12. Theiron/scintillator fiber hadron calorimeter is recycled from the HyperCP collaboration. It has 9.7 interaction lengths and has 4 longitudinal and 2 transverse segmentations.
13. We have reused beam and drift chambers from the E690 collaboration. Christian D.C., et al. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 345 (1994) 62
14. The large proportional chambers straddling the RICH find their use again after having been used by numerous previous experiments. De Palma M., et al. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. 216 (1983) 393-397
15. A. Malensek, Fermilab Technical Memo FN-341, 1981. (unpublished)
16. "Muon production in extensive air showers and its relation to hadronic interactions", C. Meurer et. al., to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Interconnection between High Energy Physics and Astroparticle Physics: From Colliders to Cosmics Rays, Prague, Czech Republic, 7-13 Sep 2005. astro-ph/0512536.
17. The details of the MIPP upgrade Proposal (P-960) can be found at. http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/notes/MIPPnotes/public/pdf/MIPP0138 /MIPP0138.pdf