The trigger system of the COMPASS experiment

In the following article the trigger system of the CERN COMPASS experiment is presented. Special emphasis is put on the so called Quasi Real Photon Trigger which was designed to select muon scattering events with a relative energy loss in excess of a certain threshold y/sub min/ over the full range...

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Main Authors: Leberig, M., Bravar, A., Hannappel, J., von Harrach, D., Kabuss, E., Klein, F., Korzenev, A., Ostrick, M., Pretz, J., Zhao, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Electromagnetic scattering
Energy loss
Kinematics
Mesons
Nuclear physics
Particle scattering
Plastics
Polarization
Production
Protons
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Summary:In the following article the trigger system of the CERN COMPASS experiment is presented. Special emphasis is put on the so called Quasi Real Photon Trigger which was designed to select muon scattering events with a relative energy loss in excess of a certain threshold y/sub min/ over the full range of momentum transfers (Q/sup 2/) down to the quasi real limit (Q/sup 2/ /spl ap/ 0). This trigger system consists of two stages to achieve high selectivity. The first stage is composed of pairs of plastic scintillator hodoscopes which select the scattered muons by measuring their energy. The second stage comprises a hadron trigger based on the two hadron calorimeters of COMPASS. This system detects hadrons in coincidence with the scattered muon to reduce background stemming from radiative and/spl mu/-e-scattering events. The Quasi Real Photon Trigger which can be considered as a tagger for quasi real photon events is complemented by larger standard trigger hodoscope systems covering the region of (Q/sup 2/ > 1 GeV/sup 2/).
ISSN:1082-3654
2577-0829
DOI:10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352050