The TRIUMF radiative muon capture facility

D. H. Wright; S. Ahmad; D. S. Armstrong; G. Azuelos; W. Bertl; M. Blecher; C. Q. Chen; T. P. Gorringe; M. D. Hasinoff; R. S. Henderson; J. A. Macdonald; J. M. Poutissou; R. Poutissou; B. C. Robertson; D. G. Sample; A. Serna-Angel; G. Taylor; N. S. Zhang

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The TRIUMF radiative muon capture facility

D. H. Wright, S. Ahmad, D. S. Armstrong, G. Azuelos, W. Bertl, M. Blecher, C. Q. Chen, T. P. Gorringe, M. D. Hasinoff, R. S. Henderson, J. A. Macdonald, J. M. Poutissou, R. Poutissou, B. C. Robertson, D. G. Sample, A. Serna-Angel, G. Taylor, N. S. Zhang

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Radiative muon capture (RMC) on hydrogen produces photons with a yield of ∼10^-8 per stopped muon. To measure RMC at TRIUMF we have constructed a large-solid-angle photon pair-spectrometer which surrounds the liquid hydrogen target. The spectrometer consists of a cylindrical photon converter and a large-volume cylindrical drift chamber to track the e⁺e^- pairs. It is enclosed in a spectrometer magnet which produces a highly uniform axial magnetic field. The detector subsystems, the hardware trigger and the data acquisition system are described, chamber calibration and tracking techniques are presented, and the spectrometer performance and its Monte Carlo simulation are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	249-262
Number of pages	14
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	320
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(92)90783-Z
State	Published - Aug 15 1992

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Council and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), the National Science Foundation (USA), the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) and the Australia Research Council .

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Wright, D. H., Ahmad, S., Armstrong, D. S., Azuelos, G., Bertl, W., Blecher, M., Chen, C. Q., Gorringe, T. P., Hasinoff, M. D., Henderson, R. S., Macdonald, J. A., Poutissou, J. M., Poutissou, R., Robertson, B. C., Sample, D. G., Serna-Angel, A., Taylor, G., & Zhang, N. S. (1992). The TRIUMF radiative muon capture facility. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 320(1-2), 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(92)90783-Z

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