Muon identification with Muon Telescope Detector at the STAR experiment

T. C. Huang; R. Ma; B. Huang; X. Huang; L. Ruan; T. Todoroki; Z. Xu; C. Yang; S. Yang; Q. Yang; Y. Yang; W. Zha

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.024

Muon identification with Muon Telescope Detector at the STAR experiment

T. C. Huang
, R. Ma
, B. Huang
, X. Huang
, L. Ruan
, T. Todoroki
, Z. Xu
, C. Yang
, S. Yang
, Q. Yang
, Y. Yang
, W. Zha

Department of Physics

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Abstract

The Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) is a newly installed detector in the STAR experiment. It provides an excellent opportunity to study heavy quarkonium physics using the dimuon channel in heavy ion collisions. In this paper, we report the muon identification performance for the MTD using proton-proton collisions at s=500 GeV with various methods. The result using the Likelihood Ratio method shows that the muon identification efficiency can reach up to ∼90% for muons with transverse momenta greater than 3 GeV/c and the significance of the J/ψ signal is improved by a factor of 2 compared to using the basic selection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-93
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	833
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.024
Publication status	Published - 2016 Oct 11

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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Huang, T. C., Ma, R., Huang, B., Huang, X., Ruan, L., Todoroki, T., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Yang, S., Yang, Q., Yang, Y., & Zha, W. (2016). Muon identification with Muon Telescope Detector at the STAR experiment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 833, 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.024

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