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Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Overview
Introduction
Physics Motivation and Historical Background
Chronology of E864
Design Considerations
Experimental Design
Trigger and Backgrounds
Location of E-864 at the AGS
Staging and Funding Plan
Possibilities for Future Growth
Physics Goals
General Orientation
Multi-Strange Clusters
Strangelets: Mass Formula
Production of Strangelets in Heavy Ion Collisions
Weak and Strong Decays of Strangelets: An Example
The
H
-dibaryon and
H
-nuclei
Multiply-Strange Chiral Solitons
Antinuclei
Light Nuclei
Backgrounds, Efficiencies and Analysis
Overview
Monte Carlo Simulations
HIJET/GEANT Simulations
Time of Flight Simulation
Tracking Analysis of Monte Carlo Data
Tracking Analysis Pattern Recognition
Single Particle Acceptance, Efficiency and Resolution
Charged Particle Backgrounds
Calorimeter Analysis and Simulation
Overview
Calorimeter - Charged Particle Analysis
Simulations
Calorimeter Analysis
Single Particle Efficiency
Background Rejection
Summary of Calorimeter Analysis for Charged Particles
Calorimeter Analysis, Neutral Particles
Accidental Backgrounds: Multiple Interactions from Bunched Beam Particles
Other Backgrounds
Summary of Run Plans, Rates and Sensitivities
General
Run A (Z/A
)
Run B (Z/A
)
Run C (Z/A
)
Run D (Z/A
)
Rates and Sensitivities for Neutrals
Analysis
Progress of Detector Development and Prototypes
Overview
Scintillation Counter Hodoscopes
Introduction
Current Development and Prototypes
Future Development and Production Schedule
Straw Tube Chambers
Occupancy, Resolution and Efficiency Design Criteria
Special Considerations for S1 in Vacuum
Prototype Testing
Responsibility
Scintillating Fiber Calorimeter
Calorimeter Requirements
Construction Techniques
Geant Simulation
Scintillating Fiber Tester
R&D and Construction Schedule
Multiplicity Trigger
Introduction
Monte Carlo Simulations
R&D and Prototype Program
Conclusions
Detector Costs
Staging and Funding Plan
E-864 Funding Proposal
Explanatory Comments on Funding Proposal
Hodoscope System
Calorimeter
Straw Tube System
Central Trigger Counter System
Electronics for Central Trigger and Experiment Control
Late Energy Trigger Electronics
Electronics for Photomultiplier Tubes
Electronics for Straw Tube Readout
D/A System
References
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