STAR Forward Pion Detector Fabrication

Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park PA

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Abstract

This Exploratory Grant for Exploratory Research will provide support for the fabrication of components of a forward pion detector (FPD) to be installed in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in anticipation of the 2003 experimental run. Measurement of neutral pion production by transversely polarized proton beams can provide to our knowledge of the gluon distribution in the proton. Preliminary runs with simple detectors have produced results which motivate the present design, and narrow equipment installation windows at RHIC have contributed a time urgency to this project.