Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2000-08-08
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A470:488-499,2001
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
18 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00627-1
High Energy collisions of nuclei usually lead to the emission of evaporation neutrons from both ``beam'' and ``target'' nuclei. At the RHIC heavy ion collider with 100GeV/u beam energy, evaporation neutrons diverge by less than $~2$ milliradians from the beam axis Neutral beam fragments can be detected downstream of RHIC ion collisions (and a large aperture Accelerator dipole magnet) if $\theta\leq$ 4 mr but charged fragments in the same angular range are usually too close to the beam trajectory. In this 'zero degree' region produced particles and other secondaries deposit negligible energy when compared with that of beam fragmentation neutrons. The purpose of the RHIC zero degree calorimeters (ZDC's) is to detect neutrons emitted within this cone along both beam directions and measure their total energy (from which we calculate multiplicity). The ZDC coincidence of the 2 beam directions is a minimal bias selection of heavy ion collisions. This makes it useful as an event trigger and a luminosity monitor\cite{baltz} and for this reason we built identical detectors for all 4 RHIC experiments. The neutron multiplicity is also known to be correlated with event geometry \cite{appel} and will be used to measure collision centrality in mutual beam int eractions.
Adler Clemens
Denisov Alexei
Garcia Edmundo
Murray Michael
Ströbele Herbert
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