The PHENIX Muon Trigger Upgrade
| dc.creator | Lajoie, John | |
| dc.date | 2006-12-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:38:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:38:44Z | |
| dc.description | The PHENIX muon trigger upgrade adds Level-1 trigger detectors to existing forward muon spectrometers and will enhance the ability of the experiment to pursue a rich program of spin physics in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=500GeV. The additional muon trigger detectors and Level-1 trigger electronics will allow the experiment to select high momentum muons from the decay of W-bosons and reject both beam-associated and low-momentum collision background, enabling the study of quark and antiquark polarization in the proton. The muon trigger upgrade will add momentum and timing information to the present muon Level-1 trigger, which only makes use of tracking in the PHENIX muon identifier (MuID) panels. Signals from three new resistive plate chambers (RPC's) and re-instrumented planes in the existing muon tracking (MuTr) chambers will provide momentum and timing information for the new Level-1 trigger. An RPC timing resolution of ~2ns will permit rejection of beam related backgrounds. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, 4 figures; contribution to proceedings of Spin 2006 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612018 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612018 | |
| dc.identifier | AIPConf.Proc.915:490-493,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1063/1.2750827 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/180829 | |
| dc.subject | Instrumentation and Detectors | |
| dc.subject | Nuclear Experiment | |
| dc.title | The PHENIX Muon Trigger Upgrade | |
| dc.type | text |