NA44 (~1989-1996)
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| NA44 (homepage here)
was a second-generation HI experiment. This was a
small-acceptance spectrometer optimized for identified single-particle and
two-particle (Bose-Einstein) distributions.
We built gas cherenkov threshold counters, an aerogel cherenkov counter
and a scintillating fiber T0 counter.
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| For NA44 (The Focusing Spectrometer), we built 2 pressurized gas threshold cherenkov counters.
They are kept warm and are wrapped in a blanket.
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| We also built a (plastic) fiber trigger counter
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| We used the NA44 experiment to parasitically do R&D on the use of aerogel for
imaging cherenkov application.
This is the test unit, which allowed us to make ring images on photographic film, as well
as do photon counting with a single PMT.
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| In the NA44 control room:
Ian Bearden, Toru Sugutate, Nu Xu, Achim Franz, Jehanne Simon-Gillo, Masashi Kaneta, Hubert van Hecke,
Dan Zachary, Hans Boggild, Dave Hardtke, Michael Murray.
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| Down in the experimental area. I see Guy Paic, Hubert, Achim.
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| (for Cesar: our aerogel work was picked up by Tom Ypsilantis,
who then used it in LHCb)
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