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David Silvermyr

David Silvermyr

Senior lecturer

David Silvermyr

Aspects of Hadron Production in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Physics

Author

  • David Silvermyr

Summary, in English

High-energy heavy-ion collisions provide a unique tool for the study of nuclear matter as a function of temperature and density. WA98 at the CERN SPS recorded data with a 158 A GeV Pb beam on a Pb target in 1996. To cope with the high charged-particle density, a tracking system based on high granularity multi-step avalanche detectors was developed. The results from the first measurement of Delta++ production at this) energy are presented.



The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC, took its first data at unprecedented energies during the summer of 2000. The Pad Chamber detector system, designed to provide space points along each track in the spectrometer arms at midrapidity, performed extremely well. Two very different PHENIX analysis topics, based on Pad Chamber data, are presented: charged-particle multiplicity and coherent peripheral interactions.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Publication/Series

Cosmic and Subatomic Physics Dissertation

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

Department of Physics, Lund University

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • RHIC
  • pad readout
  • electronic
  • chip-on-board
  • tracking
  • heavy-ion collisions
  • freeze-out temperature
  • delta resonance
  • SPS
  • WA98
  • PHENIX
  • Fysik
  • coherent peripheral
  • multiplicity
  • Physics
  • Fysicumarkivet A:2001:Silvermyr

Status

Published

Supervisor

  • [unknown] [unknown]

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1101-4202
  • ISBN: 91-7874-142-4
  • ISRN: LUNFD6/NFFK-1020-SE-148P

Defence date

16 November 2001

Defence time

10:15

Defence place

Lecture Hall B, Dept. of Physics

Opponent

  • Hans Georg Ritter (Prof)