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Time-Of-Flight Barrel (TB)

TB is situated at a radius of 2.36 m, surrounding the solenoid. It is made up of 160 scintillation counters, which are trapezoidal in shape. Each one is 6.84 m in length, 45 mm in depth and ranges between 89 mm and 91 mm in width. The tiles form a layer that covers a solid angle range of $ \vert\cos\theta\vert < 0.82$. The time resolution of TB is approximately 300 ps and the difference in time between the signal arriving at each end of the counter is used to make a $ z$-position measurement.



Jonathan Couchman 2002-11-04