Development of a Momentum Determined Electron Beam in the 1 -45 GeV Range
hep-ex
/ Authors
V. A. Batarin, J. Butler, A. A. Derevschikov, Yu. V. Formin, V. Frolov, V. N. Grishin, V. A. Kachanov, V. Y. Khodyrev, A. S. Konstantinov, V. I. Krasvtsov
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Y. Kubota, V. M. Leontiev, V. A. Maisheev, Ya. A. Matulenko, A. P. Meschanin, Y. M. Melnick, N. G. Minaev, V. V. Mochalov, D. A. Morozov, L. V. Nogach, P. A. Semenov, K. E. Shestermanov, L. F. Soloviev, V. L. Solovianov, S. Stone, M. N. Ukhanov, A. V. Uzunian, A. N. Vasiliev, A. E. Yakutin, J. Yarba
/ Abstract
A beam line for electrons with energies in the range of 1 to 45 GeV, low contamination of hadrons and muons and high intensity up to 10^6 per accelerator spill at 27 GeV was setup at U70 accelerator in Protvino, Russia. A beam tagging system based on drift chambers with 160 micron resolution was able to measure relative electron beam momentum precisely. The resolution sigma_p p was 0.13% at 45 GeV where multiple scattering is negligible. This test beam setup provided the possibility to study properties of lead tungstate crystals (PbWO_4) for the BTeV experiment at Fermilab.