T. Joyce

The SOUDAN 2 detector: The design and construction of the tracking calorimeter modules

SOUDAN 2 is a 960-ton tracking calorimeter which has been constructed to search for nucleon decay and other phenomena. The full detector consists of 224 calorimeter modules each weighing 4.3 tons. The design and construction of the modules are described. The modules consist of finely segmented iron instrumented with 1 m long drift tubes of 15 mm internal diameter. The tubes enable three spatial coordinates and dE/dx to be recorded for charged particles traversing the tubes.

Evidence for the noneikonal effects in the tensor and vector analyzing powers in p-d elastic scattering at 800 MeV☆

Abstract Deuteron tensor and vector analyzing powers have been measured for the first time in p- d elastic scattering at 800 MeV proton laboratory energy for a - t range between 0.032 and 1.038 (GeV/ c ) 2 . The data provide a very sensitive test of the multiple scattering theory at intermediate energies. The inclusion of the noneikonal correction in the Glauber diffraction theory is essential in the description of the data, especially for -t ⪆0.2 (GeV/ c 2 ), where discrepancies of up to 150% are observed with the theory based on the eikonal approximation.

Elastic scattering of 2 GeV polarized deuterons from hydrogen

Abstract Large deuteron vector and tensor asymmetries have been measured for the first time at imtermediate energies. We have used a 2 GeV polarized deuteron beam whose tensor and vector components were 0.75 and 0.25, respectively. The tensor and vector quantities P yy and P yy were extracted from data obtained with the beam polarization normal to the scattering plane, and P xx was obtained when the polarization was precessed into the scattering plane. Analysis of the data using multiple scattering theory demonstrates the considerable sensitivity of the data to the quadrupole form factor of the deuteron and to the double spin flip components of the NN amplitudes.

A large liquid argon photon/hadron calorimeter for FNAL

Abstract This paper describes a new liguid argon photon/hadron detector currently under construction for Experiment E706 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

RADIATIVE WIDTH OF THE A2 (1310)

Abstract Using the Primakoff formalism, we have extracted the radiative decay width of the A + 2 (1310) produced in coherent interactions of 200 GeV/ c π + mesons in nuclear targets. The width obtained is 295 ± 60 keV, a value consistent with quark-model predictions.

The observation of underground muons from the direction of Cygnus X-3 during the January 1991 radio flare

Abstract Muons recorded in the Soudan 2 underground nucleon decay detector from January 1989 to February 1991 have been examined for any correlation with the radio flares of Cygnus X-3 observed during this period. On two nearby days during the radio flare of January 1991 a total of 32 muons within 2.0° of the Cygnus X-3 direction were observed when 11.4 were expected.

Radiative decay of the K∗−(890)

Abstract We report a measurement of the radiative decay of the K∗− (890). The width for the transition K∗− → K− γ is 62 ± 14 keV. The resulting ratio of decay probabilities (K∗0 → K0γ)/(K∗− → K−γ), while consistent with predictions of certain quark models, does not agree with expectations from unbroken SU(3) symmetry.

Radiative width of the K∗+ (1430)

Abstract Using the Primakoff formalism, we have extracted the radiative decay width of the K ∗+ (1430) produced in coherent interactions of 200 GeV/ c K + mesons in nuclear targets. The width obtained is 240 ± 45 keV, a value reasonably consistent with quark-model predictions.

Measuring the attenuation length of water in the CHIPS-M water Cherenkov detector

The water at the proposed site of the CHIPS water Cherenkov detector has been studied to measure its attenuation length for Cherenkov light as a function of filtering time. A scaled model of the CHIPS detector filled with water from the Wentworth 2W pit, proposed site of the CHIPS deployment, in conjunction with a 3.2 m vertical column filled with this water, was used to study the transmission of 405 nm laser light. Results consistent with attenuation lengths of up to 100 m were observed for this wavelength with filtration and UV sterilization alone.

Polarization in p‐4He elastic scattering at intermediate energies

The symmetry in the elastic scattering of polarized protons from helium has been measured at beam momenta of 1.2, 1.5 and 2.0 GeV/c and in the interval of three‐momentum transfer, q, region between 0.3 and 5.5 fm−1 (step size ∠0.1 fm−1). The beam polarization was approximately 70% and the beam intensity varied between 0.4–1.5 ×109 particles/burst. The polarization is found to depend sensitively on the beam momentum near q=2.2 fm−1, which is the region where single and double scattering display interference effects in elastic scattering. In the q region where triple scattering begins to be predominant, the polarization displays a change in slope.