Methods for Optical Calibration of the BigBite Hadron Spectrometer

Details Methods for Optical Calibration of the BigBite Hadron Spectrometer Methods for Optical Calibration of the BigBite Hadron Spectrometer

2012-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1442v2

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

26 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

The techniques for optical calibration of Jefferson Lab's large-acceptance magnetic hadron spectrometer, BigBite, have been examined. The most consistent and stable results were obtained by using a method based on singular value decomposition. In spite of the complexity of the optics, the particles' positions and momenta at the target have been precisely reconstructed from the coordinates measured in the detectors by means of a single back-tracing matrix. The technique is applicable to any similar magnetic spectrometer and any particle type. For 0.55 GeV/c protons, we have established the vertex resolution of 1.2 cm, angular resolutions of 7 mrad and 16 mrad (in-plane and out-of-plane, respectively), and a relative momentum resolution of 1.6%.

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