STAR-Detector

The STAR-detector was built as one component of a 4p-detector setup for the test of the Gerasimov--Drell--Hearn sum rule. The STAR-detector will be employed to determine charged hadronic particle rates at small forward angles and to suppress atomic events. It consists of a scintillator plate and nine concentric scintillator rings with decreasing diameters. The optimized shape of the rings and the lightguides was found through simulations with the Monte Carlo program SIMLIGHT.

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	Total size of the detector: 2000mm x 1700mm x 170 mm nine segmented rings of plastic scintillators each segment is read out by one photomultiplier one rectangular plastic scintillator trigger plate read out by four photomultipliers

More information about the STAR detector and the GDH experiment:

• André Fuchs:
  Entwicklung des STAR Detektors für die experimentelle Überprüfung der Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn-Summenregel
  (Diploma theses; November 1994)
  • abstract (48 kByte)
  • full text (379 kByte)
• André Fuchs; Markus Sauer :
  Manual und Montageanleitung für den STAR Detektor
  (Juni 1995)
  • full text (1.01 MByte)
• Markus Sauer :
  The STAR Detektor; Nuclear Instruments and Methods A378 (1996) 143
  
  • full text (35 kByte)
  • Figure 1 (2 kByte) ,Figure 2 (3 kByte), Figure 3 (2 kByte) ,Figure 4 (3 kByte)), Figure 5 (58 kByte) ,Figure 6 (39 kByte), Figure 7 (25 kByte)
  • Table 1 (2 kByte) ,Table 2 (2 kByte)