Basic instrumentation for Hall A at Jefferson Lab

被引:241
作者
Alcorn, J
Anderson, BD
Aniol, KA
Annand, JRM
Auerbach, L
Arrington, J
Averett, T
Baker, FT
Baylac, M
Beise, EJ
Berthot, J
Bertin, PY
Bertozzi, W
Bimbot, L
Black, T
Boeglin, WU
Boykin, DV
Brash, EJ
Breton, V
Breuer, H
Brindza, P
Brown, D
Burtin, E
Calarco, JR
Cardman, LS
Carr, R
Cates, GD
Cavata, C
Chai, Z
Chang, CC
Chant, NS
Chen, JP
Choi, S
Chudakov, E
Churchwell, S
Coman, M
Cisbani, E
Colilli, S
Colombel, N
Crateri, R
Dale, DS
Degrande, N
de Jager, CW [1 ]
De Leo, R
Deur, A
Dezern, G
Diederich, B
Dieterich, S
di Salvo, R
Djawotho, P
机构
[1] Thomas Jefferson Natl Accelerator Facil, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[2] Kent State Univ, Kent, OH 44242 USA
[3] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
[4] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[5] Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
[6] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[7] Coll William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
[8] Univ Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA
[9] CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[10] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[11] Univ Clermont Ferrand, IN2P3, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[12] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[13] Inst Phys Nucl, F-91406 Orsay, France
[14] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA
[15] Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[16] Univ Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
[17] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[18] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[19] Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 USA
[20] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27706 USA
[21] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Sanita, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[22] Ist Super Sanita, Fis Lab, I-00161 Rome, Italy
[23] Univ Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[24] Univ Ghent, Nucl Phys Lab, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[25] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[26] Univ Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[27] Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[28] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
[29] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[30] Lund Univ, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[31] Hampton Univ, Hampton, VA 23668 USA
[32] Kharkov Phys & Technol Inst, UA-61108 Kharkov, Ukraine
[33] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[34] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma 3, I-00146 Rome, Italy
[35] Yamagata Univ, Yamagata 990, Japan
[36] Norfolk State Univ, Norfolk, VA 23504 USA
[37] Tohoku Univ, Sendai, Miyagi 980, Japan
[38] Lab Phys Subatom & Cosmol, F-38026 Grenoble, France
[39] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
[41] SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[42] Renaissance Technol Corp, Setauket, NY 11733 USA
[43] Eastern Kentucky Univ, Richmond, KY 40475 USA
[44] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[45] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[46] St Marys Univ, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
[47] N Carolina Cent Univ, Durham, NC 27707 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Jefferson lab; Hall A; instrumentation;
D O I
10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.415
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The instrumentation in Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility was designed to study electro-and photo-induced reactions at very high luminosity and good momentum and angular resolution for at least one of the reaction products. The central components of Hall A are two identical high resolution spectrometers, which allow the vertical drift chambers in the focal plane to provide a momentum resolution of better than 2 x 10(-4). A variety of Cherenkov counters, scintillators and lead-glass calorimeters provide excellent particle identification. The facility has been operated successfully at a luminosity well in excess of 10(38) CM-2 s(-1). The research program is aimed at a variety of subjects, including nucleon structure functions, nucleon form factors and properties of the nuclear medium. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:294 / 346
页数:53
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