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View SchemaThe PHENIX Muon Trigger Upgrade
| Authors | John Lajoie |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0612018 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612018 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2750827 |
| Journal | AIPConf.Proc.915:490-493,2007 |
Abstract
The PHENIX muon trigger upgrade adds Level-1 trigger detectors to existing forward muon spectrometers and will enhance the ability of the experiment to pursue a rich program of spin physics in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=500GeV. The additional muon trigger detectors and Level-1 trigger electronics will allow the experiment to select high momentum muons from the decay of W-bosons and reject both beam-associated and low-momentum collision background, enabling the study of quark and antiquark polarization in the proton. The muon trigger upgrade will add momentum and timing information to the present muon Level-1 trigger, which only makes use of tracking in the PHENIX muon identifier (MuID) panels. Signals from three new resistive plate chambers (RPC's) and re-instrumented planes in the existing muon tracking (MuTr) chambers will provide momentum and timing information for the new Level-1 trigger. An RPC timing resolution of ~2ns will permit rejection of beam related backgrounds.
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