We describe the instrumentation for an experiment to measure the cross sections of antiprotons with kinetic energies of 130±10 keV annihilating on carbon, palladium, and platinum target foils of sub-100 nm thicknesses. A 120 ns long pulsed beam containing 105–106 antiprotons was allowed to traverse the foils, and the signal annihilations that resulted from this were isolated using a time-of-flight method. Backgrounds arose from Rutherford scattering of the antiprotons off the target foils, their annihilations in the target chamber walls, and π→μ→e decay of the charged pions that emerged from the annihilations. Some antiprotons slowed down and annihilated in the contamination on the target surfaces. This reduced the signal-to-background ratio of the measurement.

Instrumentation for measurement of in-flight annihilations of 130 keV antiprotons on thin target foils

MASCAGNA, VALERIO;PREST, MICHELA;
2016-01-01

Abstract

We describe the instrumentation for an experiment to measure the cross sections of antiprotons with kinetic energies of 130±10 keV annihilating on carbon, palladium, and platinum target foils of sub-100 nm thicknesses. A 120 ns long pulsed beam containing 105–106 antiprotons was allowed to traverse the foils, and the signal annihilations that resulted from this were isolated using a time-of-flight method. Backgrounds arose from Rutherford scattering of the antiprotons off the target foils, their annihilations in the target chamber walls, and π→μ→e decay of the charged pions that emerged from the annihilations. Some antiprotons slowed down and annihilated in the contamination on the target surfaces. This reduced the signal-to-background ratio of the measurement.
2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01689002
Annihilation; Antiproton; Nuclear cross section; Nuclear and High Energy Physics; Instrumentation
Todoroki, K.; Barna, D.; Hayano, R. S.; Aghai Khozani, H.; Sótér, A.; Corradini, M.; Leali, M.; Lodi Rizzini, E.; Mascagna, Valerio; Venturelli, L.; P...espandi
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