RICH Subgroup Documents

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Information sources

news
ftp-directory at DESY
notes
HERA-B home page

HERA-B RICH Institutions - information servers

• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Barcelona, Dept. E.C.M., Facultat de Fisica
• LIP, Coimbra, Portugal
• DESY, Hamburg
• Northwestern University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Evanston
• HEP Group, Physics Dept., University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Rd., Houston, TX 77204-5506, USA
• J. Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana

list of people
e-mail addresses

RICH photographs

• Poster
• Supermodule
• Supermodule, boards, read-out electronics, cabling

RICH components reference documents:

(note that only a subset of papers is shown, for a full list, consult the list of notes and the relevant subdirectory on the ftp server)

Vessel

Gas system

• System description

Mirrors

• Spherical mirror quality assessment summary
• Spherical mirror tiling scheme

Lens system

• Specifications
• Measurements of transmission of the lens system
• Simulation of the lens system response

PMTs

• Beam and bench test results (1996), NIM paper
• Memorandum on TMAE/PMT decision
• Quality assessment results

High voltage system

• System description

Base boards

• Base board parameters
• Voltage divider optimisation

Front end electronics: ASD8 boards

• ASD8 initial test
• Quality assessment results

Front end driver

• FED documentation

Supermodule, interfaces

• Interfaces, mechanics
• Supermodule schematics
• Drawings

Slow control

• Front end electronics threshold, low voltage monitoring
• High voltage monitoring
• Mirror alignment with data
• Photon detector monitoring with LEDs

Data bases

• Data bases directory

Software

• Software directory

Identification algorithms

• Likelihood functions for the HERA-B RICH, by G. Mocnik
• Comment on likelihood functions, by R. Schwitters
• Iterative ring search

Physics, MC results

• T. Oest's RICH simulation study
• Spherical aberration, detector form, NIM paper
• Efficiencies of the Proposed Light Collecting System of Lenses in the HERAB RICH, by Ll. Garrido and I. Arinyo
• Quality of Focus and Depth of Field in the HERA-B Rich Optical System
  (PS-File) or (PDF-File) by R.F. Schwitters, May 1997
• RICH in 1998 muon momentum measurement

Timetables

• Timetables directory

Beam tests

• Spring 97 tests with bare PMTs
• Summer 97 tests in the test beam and in the HERA-B area: analyses by J. Pyrlik, and by A. Garcia and Ll. Garrido
• November 97 tests with the light collection system

Data: test runs

• November 1997 beam test data, formats, sample programs

Minutes of meetings

• Oct. 1997
• Weekly phone conferences: minutes in newsgroups
  

Notes

List of notes released as HERA-B RICH notes

Notes - recent

• Status report Sept. 97
• RICH plenary talk, Coll. meeting, Oct. 1997, by R. Eckmann
• RICH plenary talk, Coll. meeting, Feb. 1998, by P. Krizan

Notes - old (some of them might not exist anymore - under investigation)

• Mirror Segmentation
• Requirements for RICH Single Mirror Quality by Michael Ispirian (PS-File)

Theses

• PhD-Thesis of Peter J. Weyers (in German)
  377 kB gzip'ed or 1.6 MB uncompressed PS-File
• Diploma of Christian Oehser (in German) Jan.97
  gzip'ed or uncompressed PS-File

Publications, talks

• IEEE97 NSS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 1997. (ps.gz-File)
• MA-PMT beam and bench test results, NIM A394
• Spherical aberration, detector form, NIM A379
• Transparancies of the DPG-Vortrag Hamburg '96 by P. J. Weyers in German (PS-File)
• Transparancies of the DPG-Vortrag Karlsruhe '95 by P. J. Weyers in German (PS-File)
• Wire Chamber Conference, Vienna, Feb. 1995 (PS-File)
• Como 1994 Advaced technologies in particle physics, Sept. 1994 (PS-File)
• NSS, Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 1994. (PS-File)

Peter Krizan