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E835 ScifiTracker

Publications

  • 1) "Construction and Performance of a Cylidrical Scintillating Fiber Detector for Experiment 835 at FNAL" ,

    • IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.44(1997),460
    (presented at IEEE 1996, Nov.1996, Anaheim CA): Paper (Postscript)

    Contributions to Conferences

  • 1) "The E835 scintillating fiber tracking detector",

    • presented by E. Luppi at the 5th International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Particle Physics, Villa Olmo, Como (Italy), Oct.1996 - Paper (Postscript)
  • 2) "Results from the E835 Cylindrical Scintillating-Fiber Tracker",

    • presented by G.Stancari at SCIFI 97, Notre Dame Univ., Nov.4,1997 :
    Talk (postscript), Paper (PostScript)
  • 3) "Performance Measuremements of Histe-V VLPC Photon Detectors for E835 at FNAL",

    • presented by R.Mussa at SCIFI 97, Notre Dame Univ., Nov.4,1997 :
    Talk (postscript), Paper(PostScript)

    Detector Layout

  • Fiber layout : photons' path.
  • Signal Readout : electrons' path.
  • The unwound cylinders : PHI(0) of each fiber.
  • Drawing: grooves on the cylinders
  • Drawing: cross section of one cylinder
  • Synoptic table: all the numbers of the detector
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    VLPC cassettes

  • Histe-V characterization: setup and results
  • Typical spectra from LED
  • Drawing: cassette top connector
  • Drawing: QPA02 interface board
  • Drawing: Flex circuit
  • Cassette ID cards:
  • C8P1: at run start , after Easter 97 ;
  • C5P2: at run start ;
  • C7P3: at run start , after Easter 97 ;
  • C4P4: at run start ;
  • C9P5: at run start , after Easter 97 ;
  • C6P6: at run start , after Easter 97 ;
  • C2P7: at run start ;
  • C3P8: at run start ;
  • C10P9: at run start , after Easter 97 ;
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    Cryogenic system

  • Cryostat
  • Liquid helium system
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    Bias Voltage supply

  • Manual of the Vbias CAMAC module (in italiano)
  • Standard procedure for operating the Vbias card.
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    Signal Processing

  • QPA02 schematics
  • QPA02 specs
  • power supply of QPA02 cards
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    Readout Electronics

  • Discri-OR card: schematics
  • FERA: data structure, dead channels, hit maps
  • PCOS: data structure, dead channels, hit maps
  • Synoptic table (Postscript): mapping of all the R/O system
  • Before May 6th, 1997 (runs 1 to 2177)
  • After May 6th, 1997 (runs after 2178)
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  • Mapping schemes (Postscript): cassettes 1 to 4 and 5 to 9 .
  • Changes made in XXXXmapfin.XXX.txt after May 6th,1997:
  • Inner FERA
  • Outer FERA
  • Inner PCOS
  • Outer PCOS
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  • Trigger logic
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    Procedures

    Signals

    System Performance throughout the run

    The SFT upgrade: 240x2 more fibers at r=8 cm

    Re mapping of fibers on the VLPC channels: