A heavy ion spectrometer system for the measurement of projectile fragmentation of relativistic heavy ions

S. Albergo, Università degli Studi di Catania
Z. Caccia, Università degli Studi di Catania
C. X. Chen, Louisiana State University
S. Costa, Università degli Studi di Catania
H. J. Crawford, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
M. Cronqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
J. Engelage, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
I. Flores, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
R. Fonte, Università degli Studi di Catania
L. Greiner, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
T. G. Guzik, Louisiana State University
A. Insolia, Università degli Studi di Catania
C. N. Knott, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
S. Ko, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
C. Kuo, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
P. J. Lindstrom, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
J. Mazotta, Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
M. McMahon, Louisiana State University
J. W. Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
R. Potenza, Università degli Studi di Catania
J. Romanski, Università degli Studi di Catania
G. V. Russo, Università degli Studi di Catania
A. Soutoul, Département d‘Astrophysique
O. Testard, Département d‘Astrophysique
C. E. Tull, Louisiana State University
C. Tuvé, Università degli Studi di Catania
C. J. Waddington, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
W. R. Webber, The University of New Mexico
J. P. Wefel, Louisiana State University

Abstract

The Heavy Ion Spectrometer System (HISS) at the LBL Bevalac provided a unique facility for measuring projectile fragmentation cross-sections important in deconvolving the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) source composition. The general characteristics of the apparatus specific to this application are described and the main features of the event reconstruction and analysis used in the TRANSPORT experiment are discussed. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.