The STAR Photon Multiplicity Detector
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/ Authors
M. M. Aggarwal, S. K. Badyal, P. Bhaskar, V. S. Bhatia, S. Chattopadhyay, S. Das, R. Datta, A. K. Dubey, M. R. DuttaMajumdar, M. S. Ganti
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P. Ghosh, A. Gupta, M. Gupta, R. Gupta, I. Kaur, A. Kumar, S. Mahajan, D. P. Mahapatra, L. K. Mangotra, D. Mishra, B. Mohanty, S. K. Nayak, T. K. Nayak, S. K. Pal, S. C . Phatak, B. V. K. S. Potukuchi, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. Sahoo, A. Sharma, R. N. Singaraju, G. Sood, M. D. Trivedi, R. Varma
/ Abstract
Details concerning the design, fabrication and performance of STAR Photon Multiplicity Detector (PMD) are presented. The PMD will cover the forward region, within the pseudorapidity range 2.3--3.5, behind the forward time projection chamber. It will measure the spatial distribution of photons in order to study collective flow, fluctuation and chiral symmetry restoration.