TY - JOUR
T1 - The HARP detector at the CERN PS
AU - HARP Collaboration
AU - Catanesi, M. G.
AU - Muciaccia, M. T.
AU - Radicioni, E.
AU - Simone, S.
AU - Edgecock, R.
AU - Ellis, M.
AU - Robbins, S.
AU - Soler, F. J.P.
AU - Gößling, C.
AU - Mass, M.
AU - Bunyatov, S.
AU - Chukanov, A.
AU - Klimov, O.
AU - Krasin, I.
AU - Krasnoperov, A.
AU - Kustov, D.
AU - Popov, B.
AU - Serdiouk, V.
AU - Tereshchenko, V.
AU - Carassiti, V.
AU - Di Capua, E.
AU - Evangelisti, F.
AU - Vidal-Sitjes, G.
AU - Artamonov, A.
AU - Arce, P.
AU - Brocard, R.
AU - Decreuse, G.
AU - Friend, B.
AU - Giani, S.
AU - Gilardoni, S.
AU - Gorbunov, P.
AU - Grant, A.
AU - Grossheim, A.
AU - Gruber, P.
AU - Ivanchenko, V.
AU - Legrand, J. C.
AU - Kayis-Topaksu, A.
AU - Panman, J.
AU - Papadopoulos, I.
AU - Pasternak, J.
AU - Tcherniaev, E.
AU - Tsukerman, I.
AU - van der Vlugt, R.
AU - Veenhof, R.
AU - Wiebusch, C.
AU - Zucchelli, P.
AU - Blondel, A.
AU - Borghi, S.
AU - Campanelli, M.
AU - Cervera-Villanueva, A.
PY - 2007/2/11
Y1 - 2007/2/11
N2 - HARP is a high-statistics, large solid angle experiment to measure hadron production using proton and pion beams with momenta between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c impinging on many different solid and liquid targets from low to high Z. The experiment, located in the T9 beam of the CERN PS, took data in 2001 and 2002. For the measurement of momenta of produced particles and for the identification of particle types, the experiment includes a large-angle spectrometer, based on a Time Projection Chamber and a system of Resistive Plate Chambers, and a forward spectrometer equipped with a set of large drift chambers, a threshold Cherenkov detector, a time-of-flight wall and an electromagnetic calorimeter. The large angle system uses a solenoidal magnet, while the forward spectrometer is based on a dipole magnet. Redundancy in particle identification has been sought, to enable the cross-calibration of efficiencies and to obtain a few percent overall accuracy in the cross-section measurements. Detector construction, operation and initial physics performances are reported. In addition, the full chain for data recording and analysis, from trigger to the software framework, is described.
AB - HARP is a high-statistics, large solid angle experiment to measure hadron production using proton and pion beams with momenta between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c impinging on many different solid and liquid targets from low to high Z. The experiment, located in the T9 beam of the CERN PS, took data in 2001 and 2002. For the measurement of momenta of produced particles and for the identification of particle types, the experiment includes a large-angle spectrometer, based on a Time Projection Chamber and a system of Resistive Plate Chambers, and a forward spectrometer equipped with a set of large drift chambers, a threshold Cherenkov detector, a time-of-flight wall and an electromagnetic calorimeter. The large angle system uses a solenoidal magnet, while the forward spectrometer is based on a dipole magnet. Redundancy in particle identification has been sought, to enable the cross-calibration of efficiencies and to obtain a few percent overall accuracy in the cross-section measurements. Detector construction, operation and initial physics performances are reported. In addition, the full chain for data recording and analysis, from trigger to the software framework, is described.
KW - Particle detectors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33846612002&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.132
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.132
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33846612002
VL - 571
SP - 527
EP - 561
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
SN - 0168-9002
IS - 3
ER -