2018/03/05 by J. Schwiening, A. Ali, A. Belias +34 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Antiproton #Barrel (horology) #Charged particle #Cherenkov radiation #Large Hadron Collider #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle identification #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Photon #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #Range (aeronautics) #Spectrometer #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/03/c03004
published as JINST 13 (2018) no.03, C03004 · arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1710.00684, arXiv:1707.09269
openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2018/03/05 · arxiv created 2018/03/28 · arxiv updated 2018/03/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) near GSI, Darmstadt, Germany will address fundamental questions of hadron physics. Excellent Particle Identification (PID) over a large range of solid angles and particle momenta will be essential to meet the objectives of the rich physics program. Charged PID for the barrel region of the PANDA target spectrometer will be provided by a DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) detector. The Barrel DIRC will cover the polar angle range of 22 o –140 o and cleanly separate charged pions from kaons for momenta between 0.5 GeV/ c and 3.5 GeV/ c with a separation power of at least 3 standard deviations. The design is based on the successful BABAR DIRC and the SuperB FDIRC R&D with several important improvements to optimize the performance for PANDA, such as a focusing lens system, fast timing, a compact fused silica prism as expansion region, and lifetime-enhanced Microchannel-Plate PMTs for photon detection. This article describes the technical design of the PANDA Barrel DIRC and the result of the design validation using a "vertical slice" prototype in hadronic particle beams at the CERN PS.