A first study of a scintillating fibre detector for a muon ionisation cooling experiment
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For the cooling experiment currently under investigation, it is necessary to track muons in a magnetic field with a precision of at least 0.2mm. A minimum of multiple scattering should be introduced by the measurement process. We investigate a detector made of three layers of 0.5mm square cross section scintillating fibres, which contributes only 0.4% of a radiation length to multiple scattering. To match the required instantaneous particle rate, a fast read-out system based LHC class components is presented. With this system, it would be possible to record 960 events per burst with bursts every few ms.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001