Event reconstruction in the PHENIX central arm spectrometers

Summary, in English

The central arm spectrometers for the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have been designed for the optimization of particle identification in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The spectrometers present a challenging environment for event reconstruction due to a very high track multiplicity in a complicated, focusing, magnetic field. In order to meet this challenge, nine distinct detector types are integrated for charged particle tracking, momentum reconstruction. and particle identification. The techniques which have been developed for the task of event reconstruction are described.

• Author: JT Mitchell; Y Akiba; L Aphecetche; R Averbeck; TC Awes; V Baublis; A Bazilevsky; MJ Bennett; H Buesching; J Burward-Hoy; S Butsyk; M Chiu; T Christ; T Chujo; P Constantin; G David; A Denisov; A Drees; AG Hansen; TK Hemmick; J Jia; SC Johnson; E Kistenev; A Kiyomichi; T Kohama; JG Lajoie; J Lauret; A Lebedev; CF Maguire; F Messer; Pål Nilsson; H Ohnishi; J Park; M Rosati; AA Rose; SS Ryu; A Sakaguchi; S Sato; K Shigaki; David Silvermyr; T Sugitate; JP Sullivan; M Suzuki; Henrik Tydesjö; HW Van Hecke; J Velkovska; MA Volkov; S White; W Xie
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics
• Publishing year: 2002
• Language: English
• Pages: 491-512
• Publication/Series: Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
• Volume: 482
• Issue: 1-2
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(01)01512-1
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
• Keywords: pattern recognition; heavy ions; spectrometer
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0167-5087