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The NA49 large acceptance hadron detector

The NA49 detector is a wide acceptance spectrometer for the study of hadron production in p+p, p+A, and A+A collisions at the CERN SPS. The main components are 4 large-volume TPCs for tracking and particle identification via d E/d x. TOF scintillator arrays complement particle identification. Calori...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 1999-07, Vol.430 (2), p.210-244
Main Authors: Afanasiev, S., Alber, T., Appelshäuser, H., Bartke, J., Bieser, F., Billmeier, A., Blyth, C.O., Bock, R., Bormann, C., Brady, F.P., Brockmann, R., Brun, R., Caines, H.L., Cebra, D., Cooper, G.E., Cramer, J.G., Csato, P., Cyprian, M., Eschke, J., Ferguson, M.I., Fessler, H., Fischer, H.G., Fodor, Z., Foka, P., Friese, V., Ftacnik, J., Fuchs, M., Gal, J., Ganz, R., Gładysz, E., Grebieszkow, J., Günther, J., Hegyi, S., Henkel, T., Hill, L.A., Huang, I., Ivanov, M., Janik, R., Jones, P.G., Kolesnikov, V.I., Kowalski, M., Lévai, P., Liebicher, K., Lynen, U., Malakhov, A.I., Margetis, S., Markert, C., Marks, C., Mayes, B., Mock, A., Molnár, J., Nelson, J.M., Oldenburg, M., Panagiotou, A.D., Pikna, M., Pimpl, W., Pinsky, L., Piper, A., Porter, R.J., Poskanzer, A.M., Poziombka, S., Prindle, D.J., Pühlhofer, F., Rauch, W., Ritter, H.G., Röhrich, D., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rudolph, H., Rybicki, A., Sammer, T., Sandoval, A., Sann, H., Schmischke, D., Schönfelder, S., Semenov, A.Yu, Seyboth, J., Seyboth, P., Squier, G.T.A., Stock, R., Strmen, P., Ströbele, H., Struck, C., Szarka, I., Szentpetery, I., Szymański, P., Sziklai, J., Trainor, T.A., Vassiliou, M., Veres, G., Wang, F.Q., Weerasundara, D.D., Wenig, S., Whitten, C., Wieman, H., Wood, L., Yates, T.A., Zimanyi, J., Zhu, X.-Z., Zybert, R.
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Summary:The NA49 detector is a wide acceptance spectrometer for the study of hadron production in p+p, p+A, and A+A collisions at the CERN SPS. The main components are 4 large-volume TPCs for tracking and particle identification via d E/d x. TOF scintillator arrays complement particle identification. Calorimeters for transverse energy determination and triggering, a detector for centrality selection in p+A collisions, and beam definition detectors complete the set-up. A description of all detector components is given with emphasis on new technical realizations. Performance and operational experience are discussed in particular with respect to the high track density environment of central Pb+Pb collisions.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00239-9