HADRON IDENTIFICATION AT 200 GEV/C USING A RING IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR

As the energy of particle beams has continued to increase over the years, there has been a growing need to identify secondary particles with larger energies produced at the target from these beams. Over the last twenty years, much effort has gone into developing detectors which can identify these particles by the Cherenkov effect. We present, here, a new technique which uses the Cherenkov effect, but extends the energy range in which particles can be identified beyond currently existing detector systems. The technique involves the localization of ultraviolet photons to 0.5mm accuracy within large photon detection aperatures ((DBLTURN) 1 m('2)).