1. The high-acceptance dielectron spectrometer HADES
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Hutsch, J., Krücken, R., Agakichiev, G., Agodi, C., Alvarez-Poll, H., Atkin, E., Badura, Eugen, Bałanda, A., Bassi, A., Bassini, R., Bellia, G., Belver, D., Belyaev, A. V., Benovic, M., Bertini, D., Bielčík, Jaroslav, Böhmer, M., Boiano, C., Bokemeyer, H., Bartolotti, A., Boyard, J. L., Brambilla, S., Braun-Munzinger, P., Cabanelas, Pablo, Castro, E., Chepurnov, V., Chernenko, S., Christ, T., Coniglione, R., Cosentino, L., Dahlinger, M., Daues, H. W., Destefanis, M., Diáz, J., Dohrmann, F., Dressler, R., Durán, I., Dybczak, A., Eberl, T., Enghardt, W., Fabbietti, L., Fateev, O. V., Fernández, C., Finocchiaro, P., Friese, J., Fröhlich, I., Fuentes, B., Galatyuk, T., Garabatos, Chilo, Garzón, J. A., Genolini, B., Gernhäuser, R., Gilardi, C., Gilg, H., Golubeva, M., González-Díaz, D., Grosse, E., Guber, F., Hehner, J., Heidel, K., Heinz, T., Hennino, T., Hlavac, S., Hoffmann, J., Holzmann, R., Homolka, J., Ierusalimov, A. P., Iori, I., Ivashkin, A., Jaskula, M., Jourdain, J. C., Jurkovic, M., Kämpfer, B., Kajetanowicz, M., Kanaki, K., Karavicheva, T., Kastenmüller, A., Kidon, L., Kienle, P., Kirschner, D., Koenig, I., Koenig, W., Körner, H. J., Kolb, B. W., Kopf, U., Korcyl, K., Kotte, R., Kozuch, A., Krizek, F., Kühn, W., Kugler, A., Kulessa, R., Kurepin, A., Kurtukian-Nieto, T., Lang, S., Lange, J. S., Lapidus, K., Lehnert, J., Leinberger, U., Lichtblau, C., Lins, E., Lippmann, C., Lorenz, M., Magestro, D., Maier, L., Maier-Komor, P., Maiolino, C., Malarz, A., Marek, T., Markert, J., Metag, V., Michalska, B., Michel, J., Migneco, E., Mishra, D., Morinière, E., Mousa, J., Münch, M., Müntz, C., Naumann, L., Nekhaev, A., Niebur, W., Novotny, J., Novotny, R., Ott, W., Otwinowski, J., Pachmayer, Y. C., Palka, M., Parpottas, Yiannis, Pechenov, V., Pechenova, O., Cavalcanti, T. P., Petri, M., Piattelli, P., Pietraszko, J., Pleskac, R., Ploskon, M., Pospísil, V., Pouthas, J., Prokopowicz, W., Przygoda, W., Ramstein, B., Reshetin, A., Ritman, J., Roche, G., Rodriguez-Prieto, G., Rosenkranz, K., Rosier, P., Roy-Stephan, M., Rustamov, A., Sabin-Fernandez, J., Sadovsky, A., Sailer, B., Salabura, P., Salz, C., Sánchez, M., Sapienza, P., Schäfer, D., Schicker, R. M., Schmah, A., Schön, H., Schön, W., Schroeder, C., Schroeder, S., Schwab, E., Senger, P., Shileev, K., Simon, R. S., Skoda, M., Smolyankin, V., Smykov, L., Sobiella, M., Sobolev, Y. G., Spataro, S., Spruck, B., Stelzer, H., Ströbele, H., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Sudoł, M., Suk, M., Szczybura, M., Taranenko, A., Tarantola, A., Teilab, K., Tiflov, V., Tikhonov, A., Tlusty, P., Toia, A., Traxler, M., Trebacz, R., Troyan, A. Y., Tsertos, Haralambos, Turzo, I., Ulrich, A., Vassiliev, D., Vázquez, A., Volkov, Y., Wagner, V., Wallner, C., Walus, W., Wang, Y., Weber, M., Wieser, J., Winkler, S., Wisniowski, M., Wojcik, T., Wüstenfeld, J., Yurevich, S., Zanevsky, Y. V., Zeitelhack, K., Zentek, A., Zhou, P., Zovinec, D., Zumbruch, P., and Tsertos, Haralambos [0000-0001-5966-343X]
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Proton ,data acquisition ,Cherenkov detector ,electron hadron ,Hadron ,Nuclear Theory ,Mesons in nuclear matter ,Photon lepton and heavy quark production in relativistic heavy ion collisions ,Spectrometers and spectroscopic techniques ,Data acquisition and sorting ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Electron ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,Pion ,scattering [heavy ion] ,law ,ddc:530 ,tracking detector ,interaction [hadron nucleus] ,pair production [electron] ,Vector meson ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,performance [magnetic spectrometer] ,Nuclear Experiment ,25.75.Cj Photon, lepton, and heavy quark production in relativistic heavy ion collisions ,trigger [electron] ,RICH ,Darmstadt SIS ,leptonic decay [vector meson] ,Physics ,superconductivity [coil] ,Spectrometer ,track data analysis ,Detector ,time-of-flight [detector] ,29.30.-h Spectrometers and spectroscopic techniques ,drift chamber ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,particle identification ,29.85.Ca Data acquisition and sorting ,21.65.Jk Mesons in nuclear matter ,mass spectrum [electron positron] ,hadronic [matter] - Abstract
HADES is a versatile magnetic spectrometer aimed at studying dielectron production in pion, proton and heavy-ion-induced collisions. Its main features include a ring imaging gas Cherenkov detector for electron-hadron discrimination, a tracking system consisting of a set of 6 superconducting coils producing a toroidal field and drift chambers and a multiplicity and electron trigger array for additional electron-hadron discrimination and event characterization. A two-stage trigger system enhances events containing electrons. The physics program is focused on the investigation of hadron properties in nuclei and in the hot and dense hadronic matter. The detector system is characterized by an 85% azimuthal coverage over a polar angle interval from 18° to 85°, a single electron efficiency of 50% and a vector meson mass resolution of 2.5%. Identification of pions, kaons and protons is achieved combining time-of-flight and energy loss measurements over a large momentum range (0.1 < p < 1.0 GeV/c). This paper describes the main features and the performance of the detector system. © Società Italiana di Fisica / Springer-Verlag 2009. 41 2 243 277
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- 2009
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