STAR detector overview

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Abstract

The features of the STAR detector and a brief overview of the physics goals of the experiment are presented. The charged particle momentum analysis is provided by a room temperature solenoidal magnet with a uniform magnetic field of maximum value 0.5T. The Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) is used to find the charged particle tracking close to the interaction region. The STAR is expected to utilize polarized proton-proton collisions to accumulate detailed information on the contribution of gluons to the spin of the proton.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)624-632
Number of pages9
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume499
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2003
Externally publishedYes

Funding

We wish to thank the RHIC Operations Group and the RHIC Computing Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their support. This work was supported by the Division of Nuclear Physics and the Division of High Energy Physics of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy, the United States National Science Foundation, the Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung of Germany, the Institut National de la Physique Nucleaire et de la Physique des Particules of France, the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Russian Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of China and the National Science Foundation of China.

FundersFunder number
Division of Nuclear Physics
Russian Ministry of Science and Technology
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules

    Keywords

    • Electromagnetic calorimeters
    • Gas detectors
    • Relativistic heavy ions
    • Silicon detectors
    • Tracking detectors

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