MiniMax: A Forward Charged-Particle and Photon Detector at the Tevatron
Abstract
The MiniMax detector at the C0 collision area of the Tevatron is detailed. Briefly, it consists of a 24 plane MWPC telescope, with a movable lead converter plane after the eighth plane, followed by sixteen additional planes and a lead-scintillator electromagnetic calorimeter. MiniMax is designed to study events at forward pseudorapidities under different trigger conditions. The acceptance is centered on pseudorapidity η=4.1 with a radius of approximately 0.65 in η-φ space, where φ is the azimuthal angle. Scintillation counters were used for triggering. Two different aluminium beam pipes covering the collision region and area adjacent to the MWPCs have been used, along with various MWPC configurations, during beam-gas and collider runs from 1993-1996. Downstream hadron calorimeter modules and scintillation counters were installed for the 1995-1996 collider runs. The physics, background, and tracking considerations that motivated these designs will be discussed.
- Publication:
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APS Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- May 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996APS..MAY..G707D