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    Detector Seminar

    Construction and Commissioning of the CLEO III Detector and its RICH

    by G. Viehhauser (Syracuse University)

    → Europe/Zurich
    CERN

    CERN
    Description
    The electron storage ring CESR at Cornell University has recently undergone a major upgrade together with its B-physics detector CLEO (phase III). To accommodate the necessary machine elements the tracking region of CLEO had to be rebuilt. The new tracking system consists of a four-layer Silicon detector and a large volume wire chamber. Another key component of the CLEO III upgrade is a new particle identification system, which allows to fully exploiting the possibilities provided by the upgraded accelerator. This PID system is a proximity focussing RICH with Lithium Fluoride radiators and wire chambers filled with a methane/TEA mixture to detect photons in the VUV region. The new detector elements were installed in the CLEO detector during summer '99 with the exception of the Silicon detector, which was added to the experiment in March '00. In this seminar I will report on the construction and commissioning of the different subdetectors with particular emphasis on the CLEO III RICH.

    Organiser(s): Rui Ribeiro /EP Division

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