The straw tube tracker of the ANDA experiment

✍ Scribed by S. Costanza; L. Benussi; A. Braghieri; G. Boca; P. Genova; P. Gianotti; L. Lavezzi; V. Lucherini; P. Montagna; D. Orecchini; D. Pierluigi; J. Ritman; M. Roeder; A. Rotondi; A. Russo; P. Wintz

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 553 KB
• Volume: 617
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.105

✦ Synopsis

PANDA is a new experiment that will be installed at HESR, the new antiproton storage ring under construction as a part of the FAIR facility at Darmstadt, Germany. This experiment, that will investigate QCD in the charmonium mass regime and other aspects of particle and nuclear physics, will be a fixed target detector with a central spectrometer and a forward one. The central tracker will provide information about decay vertices, momenta and types of charged particles emitted after pp annihilations. The design of the Straw Tube Tracker (STT) together with experimental results of the R&D phase are presented here.