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The main injector particle production experiment at Fermilab

  • Proceedings Of The DAE-BRNS Ninth Workshop On High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-9)—Part-II
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We describe the physics capabilities and status of the MIPP experiment which concluded its physics data taking run in March 2006. We show some preliminary results from this run and describe plans to upgrade the spectrometer.

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  1. The main MIPP web page is at http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/. The MIPP collaboration list may be found using links here

  2. The MIPP proposal and Addendum to the proposal may be found at http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/Proposal/E907_Proposal.html

  3. The time-of-flight detector was fabricated by MIPP and consists of an array of 10 cm × 10 cm scintillators and 5 cm × 5 cm scintillators. See http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/TOF/TOF.html for a detailed description of the detector

  4. The multi-cell Čerenkov detector was initially built for Brookhaven Experiment E766 and later in Fermilab experiment E690 and then used in several other Brookhaven experiments. In MIPP, we fill the detector with the gas C4F10 which has the appropriate refractive index at atmospheric pressure

  5. The details of the SELEX RICH construction and performance may be found at J Engelfried et al, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A43, 53 (1999). We have replaced the front end electronics, and done extensive work on the safety systems. MIPP uses CO2 gas as the radiator for the RICH

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  13. For more details on the beam Čerenkov system, see http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/Beam/BeamCerenkov/BeamCerenkov.html

  14. During the engineering run in 2004, we lost 20% of the phototubes in the RICH due to a fire in one of the phototube bases. This does not impact adversely on our pattern recognition, since the Čerenkov angle is large and there is plenty of light over most of our momentum range

  15. The electromagnetic calorimeter was fabricated by MIPP and uses lead as the radiator and an array of proportional tubes with 2.54 cm wire spacing as the readout. It has 10 radiation lengths and has 10 longitudinal segments

  16. The hadron calorimeter is recycled from the HyperCP collaboration and uses scintillator fibers embedded in iron as readout. It has 9.7 interaction lengths and has four longitudinal segmentations each of which is segmented in two transversely

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  20. The TPC DAQ upgrade scheme may be found at http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/ notes/MIPPnotes/public/pdf/MIPP0068/MIPP0068.pdf

  21. The scheme to produced tagged neutron, anti-neutron and K 0 L beams is detailed in http://ppd.fnal.gov/experiments/e907/ notes/MIPPnotes/public/pdf/MIPP0130/MIPP0130.pdf

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Raja, R. The main injector particle production experiment at Fermilab. Pramana - J Phys 67, 951–960 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-006-0105-y

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