Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9845689 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This paper describes the use of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique as a particle identification method for the HERMES experiment. The TOF is measured by two 1Ã4m2 scintillation hodoscopes that initially were designed only for the first-level trigger. However, the suitable time structure of the HERA electron beam allows an extension of their functions to also measure the TOF for low momentum hadron identification. Using only these conventional hodoscopes, good particle identification was achieved for protons and pions in the momentum range up to 2.9GeV/c and for kaons up to 1.5GeV/c.
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Authors
A. Airapetian, N. Akopov, M. Amarian, H. Avakian, A. Avetissian, E. Avetisyan, B.W. Filippone, R. Kaiser, H. Zohrabian,