1. HyperCP: A high-rate spectrometer for the study of charged hyperon and kaon decays
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Michael J. Longo, W. Luebke, K. S. Nelson, S.L. White, Kam-Biu Luk, F. Lopez, M. Huang, N. Leros, Christopher G. White, T. Holmstrom, H.A. Rubin, C. Durandet, T.D. Jones, J. P. Perroud, C. James, G. Gidal, H. R. Gustafson, H. K. Park, Daniel M. Kaplan, C. Ho, E. C. Dukes, L.M. Lederman, A. Chan, B. Turko, R. A. Burnstein, P. K. Teng, Yi-Chun Chen, J. Volk, P. Zyla, K. Clark, R. Fuzesy, P. Gu, C. M. Jenkins, Juan C. Felix, W. S. Choong, L. C. Lu, D. Rajaram, and A. Chakravorty
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Calorimeter (particle physics) ,Spectrometer ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Hadron ,Hyperon ,FOS: Physical sciences ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Momentum ,Nuclear physics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,Magnet ,CP violation ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Fermilab ,Nuclear Experiment ,Instrumentation - Abstract
The HyperCP experiment (Fermilab E871) was designed to search for rare phenomena in the decays of charged strange particles, in particular CP violation in $\Xi$ and $\Lambda$ hyperon decays with a sensitivity of $10^{-4}$. Intense charged secondary beams were produced by 800 GeV/c protons and momentum-selected by a magnetic channel. Decay products were detected in a large-acceptance, high-rate magnetic spectrometer using multiwire proportional chambers, trigger hodoscopes, a hadronic calorimeter, and a muon-detection system. Nearly identical acceptances and efficiencies for hyperons and antihyperons decaying within an evacuated volume were achieved by reversing the polarities of the channel and spectrometer magnets. A high-rate data-acquisition system enabled 231 billion events to be recorded in twelve months of data-taking., Comment: 107 pages, 45 Postscript figures, 14 tables, Elsevier LaTeX, submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A
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- 2005