Memorandum of Understanding for the 2010 Meson Test Beam Program T-995: Muon Detector / Tail Catcher R&amp;D

2010

USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP), G. Fisk, Adam Para, E. Ramberg, P. Rubinov, Mitchell Wayne, Paul Edmund Karchin, Alfredo Gutiérrez, D. Hedin, A. Dychkant, V. Zutshi, R. Van Kooten, W. Bonvicini, D. Cauz, A. Driutti, G. Pauletta, Aldo Penzo, M. Iori, M. Posocco

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This is a memorandum of understanding between the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and experimenters from Fermilab, Indiana University, Northern Illinois University, University of Notre Dame, Wayne State University, INFN (Trieste / Udine, Roma I, Padova, Ferrara) who have committed to participate in beam tests to be carried out during the 2010 MTBF pro gram. The memorandum is intended solely for the purpose of providing a budget estimate and a work allocation for Fermilab, the funding agencies and the participating institutions. It reflects an arrangement that currently is satisfactory to the parties. However, it is recognized and anticipated that changing circumstances of the evolving research program will necessitate revisions. The parties agree to negotiate amendments to this memorandum which will reflect such required adjustments. The test objectives are to continue the development of extruded scintillator-based muon counters begun in T-956 with emphasis on the use of Si Pixelated Photon Detectors (PPDs). The R&D program outlined here continues the T-956 studies using particle beams to test long strip counters, up to 6m, and new prototype TB4 electronics developed at Fermilab which the experimenters expect will lead to the assembly of future large-scale integrated systems that may be the subject for a future proposal. For the purpose of this work, T-995 will require limited space and resources which may be compatible with other users' equipment in the testing area. The T-995 experimenters may not always require control of the beam. The T-995 experimenters will use some of the same apparatus that is to be used by the experimenters who will study total absorption dual readout calorimetry at MTest (experiment T-1004). The T-995 and T-I004 experimenters both use newly designed Fermilab electronics to digitize the shape of the PPD pulse corresponding to the scintillator output. Both projects will share most of the data acquisition software and typically they will share the same beam instrumentation (beam defining counters and coincidence circuits). Both sets of experimenters will share some of the same counting house logic and analysis software for on-line data analysis. Some of the T-995 and T-I004 manpower available to the two projects will work on both projects although many of the studies will not run concurrently.

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