The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC

Details The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC

2003-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0301015v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A499:659-678,2003

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

28 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01964-2

The STAR Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is used to record collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The TPC is the central element in a suite of detectors that surrounds the interaction vertex. The TPC provides complete coverage around the beam-line, and provides complete tracking for charged particles within +- 1.8 units of pseudo-rapidity of the center-of-mass frame. Charged particles with momenta greater than 100 MeV/c are recorded. Multiplicities in excess of 3,000 tracks per event are routinely reconstructed in the software. The TPC measures 4 m in diameter by 4.2 m long, making it the largest TPC in the world.

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