TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhou, Yong
AU  - Xu, Huagen
AU  - Bechstedt, Ulf
AU  - Böker, Jürgen
AU  - Demary, Nils
AU  - Goldenbaum, Frank
AU  - Grzonka, Dieter
AU  - Hetzel, Jan
AU  - Khoukaz, Alfons
AU  - Klehr, Franz
AU  - Krings, Thomas
AU  - Lessmann, Lukas
AU  - Mannweiler, Christian
AU  - Prasuhn, Dieter
AU  - Quilitzsch, Steffen
AU  - Ritman, James
AU  - Schadmand, Susan
AU  - Sefzick, Thomas
AU  - Stassen, Rolf
AU  - Wüstner, Peter
TI  - The KOALA experiment for (anti)proton–proton elastic scattering
JO  - Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A
VL  - 1019
SN  - 0168-9002
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - North-Holland Publ. Co.
M1  - FZJ-2021-04459
SP  - 165849 -
PY  - 2021
AB  - The KOALA experiment measures the differential cross section of (anti)proton–proton elastic scattering over a wide range of four-momentum transfer squared from 0.0008 to 0.1 (GeV/c)2. These data are essential input for the PANDA experiment to reach the desired absolute precision for the integrated luminosity determination. The KOALA experiment is based on fixed target kinematics and uses an internal hydrogen cluster jet target. The wide range of is achieved by measuring the total kinetic energy of the recoil protons near 90. The recoil detector consists of silicon and germanium single-sided strip sensors with an energy resolution of approximately 20 keV and 30 keV (FWHM), respectively. A forward detector consisting of two layers of plastic scintillators measures the elastically scattered beam particles in the forward direction close to the beam axis. By requiring a coincidence of the forward detector with the recoil detector, the large background at small recoil angles is suppressed, thereby improving the identification of elastic scattering events in the low range. The KOALA setup has been installed and commissioned with proton beam at COSY in order to validate the detector by measuring the proton–proton elastic scattering. The results from this commissioning are presented here.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000706968400001
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2021.165849
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/902672
ER  -