Minutes of the bi-weekly Hall A GnE meeting

July 30, 2003

Present: Brandon Craver, Nadia Fomin, Tim Holmstrom, Aiden Kelleher, Di k Madey, Kathy M Cormi k,
Igor Ra hek, Andrei Semenov, Alexandre Shabetai, Albert Shahinyan, Jaideep Singh, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski
The main topi s of dis ussion were:
 Drift hamber proje t at UVA
 Target ell rupture test at William and Mary
 Proposal of new onguration of the N-arm
 Results on the wire hamber rate behind BigBite
 MC simulation of N-arm eÆ ien y
 3 He(e,e0 n) ounting rate vs position of N-arm
 MC simulation of the time resolution
 Requirement for TOF resolution for quasi-elasti events
 Proposal of onguration of the veto plane
1. Drift Chambers at UVA (Brandon)
 Preliminary test results for produ tion of athode planes are promising. Variations of the planarity
of the planes are expe ted to be less than 100 m, mostly due to imperfe tions in the printed
ir uit board (PCB).
 The height of the glue should be ontrolled to a level negligible in omparison with the imperfe -
tions in the PCB.
 Produ tion of the athode planes will begin when the 12 mil opper plated Mylar is re eived.
 Che k out
http://hallaweb.jlab.org/experiment/E02-013/expdo s.html
and follow the link for \Status of the UVA Drift Chamber Proje t" for a opy of Brandon's
presentation at the meeting.
2. Target Rupture Tests (Aiden)

The target rupture tests at W&M are progressing (the obje t is to minimize the amount of mate-
rial along the beam while still prote ting the beamline va uum windows):
(a) The rst try at separating an exploding target ell from the beamline windows just lled the spa e
with air. The prote tion window and the beamline window were both destroyed.
(b) The se ond iteration separated the target ell from the beamline window with a helium lled tube.
This didn't prote t the beamline window be ause of a shotgun like ee t.
( ) The latest iteration separates the the target ell from the beamline window with an \expansion
hamber", where the entran e diameter lose to the target is 21 in h in diameter, then the tube
expands to 4 in hes in diameter. This seems to work very well. This designed will be explored
further.

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3. New Conguration of the Neutron Arm (Igor and Bogdan)

A new onguration for the neutron dete tor was dis ussed, utilizing 7 layers instead of 5. This
onguration would have the 5  15  180 m bars forming the rst four layers, then the 10  10 
160 m bars forming the last three layers. An additional se tion on the bottom would form six layers
utilizing the 10  20  180 m bars. This would in rease the height of the neutron dete tor, allowing
us to move the dete tor to larger distan es, whi h de reases the rate and relaxes the requirements on
the time resolution.
Che k out

http://hallaweb.jlab.org/experiment/E02-013/expdo s.html

and follow the link for \Proposed Neutron Dete tor Re onguration" for a pi ture of the proposed
setup.
4. MC Simulation of N-ARM EÆ ien y (Andrei)

Irina made a simulation of the NDET time resolution using 5 ns de ay time for the PMT signals. The
mean time resolution obtained for neutrons (2.58 GeV/ of momentum) is about 0.45 ns (RMS). The
neutron dete tion eÆ ien y is about 35%; the ontamination from the protons is estimated on the level
of 7-8%.