Detectors Overview

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Overview

For detector-specific information please see the following pages (also available as items in the “Detectors” dropdown menu):

• Central Arm
• Muon Arm
• Event Characterization

General Overviews of the PHENIX Detector Subsystems

•    The PHENIX detector (Klaus Dehmelt)

Virtual Tours (CGI)

•    A Virtual tour of PHENIX (Run 2 confuguration) (PHENIX Collaboration)
•    A Virtual tour of the RHIC Spin Program (PHENIX Collaboration)
•    A Virtual tour of RHIC (PHENIX Collaboration)

Write-ups

•    Status of the South Magnet Mapping Analysis (Christos Velissaris)
•    Introduction to PHENIX RICH detector (Takao Sakaguchi)
•    PHENIX Time-of-flight detector West (TOFW) – Detector Basics (G.David)
•    PHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) – Detector Basics (G.David)
•    The MONDO Chip - A CMOS Integrated Circuit for the PHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter (G.David)
•    PHENIX ZDC/SMD - detector basics (G.David)
•    Explanation of PHENIX triggers (A.Bazilevsky)

Select Theses

•    Identified particle production in p+p and d+Au collisions at RHIC energies (Felix Matathias)
•    Charged particle multiplicity measurement in Au-Au collisions using the Pad Chambers of the PHENIX detector at RHIC (Alexander Milov)
•    Measurements of di-electron production in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN=200GeV (Yosuke Watanabe)
•    ω- and φ-meson production in p+p and d+Au collisions at RHIC energies, using the PHENIX Detector (Deepali Sharma)
•    Low Momentum Direct Photons as a Probe of Heavy Ion Collisions (Richard Petti)
•    Φ meson production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at RHIC using the PHENIX detector (Maxim Naglis)
•    Measurements of identified hadrons in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at 200 GeV (Ron Belmont)
•    Source dynamics from deuterons and anti-deuterons in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions (Hugo Valle)
•    The Design, Implementation, and Performance of the PHENIX Time-of-Flight West Detector (Brian Love)
•    The Quark Gluon Plasma probed by Low Momentum Direct Photons in Au+Au Collisions at √s_NN=62.4GeV and √s_NN=39 GeV beam energies (Vladimir Khachatryan)
•    Inclusive jet production in proton-proton and copper-gold collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV (Arbin Timilsina)
•    Jet longitudinal double spin asymmetry in PHENIX p + p √s = 510GeV (Milap Patel)

Detector-Related Publications

• PHENIX Detector Overview    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01950-2)
• Ring imaging Cherenkov detector of PHENIX experiment at RHIC    (NIM A 433, 1999, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00319-8)
• GEM: A new concept for electron amplification in gas detectors    (NIM A 386, 1997, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(96)01172-2)
• Optical alignment system for the PHENIX muon tracking chambers    (NIM A 500, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00318-8) arXiv:nucl-ex/0212027
• Vertex detector upgrade plans for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC    (NIM A 511, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01795-9)
• The pixel readout system for the PHENIX pad chambers    (NIM A 661, 1999, doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9474(99)85113-6)
• Construction and performance of the PHENIX pad chambers    (NIM A 497, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01791-6)
• PHENIX Calorimeter    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01954-X)
• PHENIX Inner Detectors    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01956-3)
• PHENIX Magnet System    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01951-4)
• PHENIX Muon Arms    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01955-1)
• Front-end electronics for PHENIX time expansion chamber    (2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (Cat. No.01CH37310), doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1008528)
• Low-mass Drift Chambers of the PHENIX central spectrometers at RHIC    (NIM A 494, 2002, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01464-X)
• PHENIX Central Arm Tracking Detectors    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01952-6)
• PHENIX Central Arm Particle ID Detectors    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01953-8)
• A large-acceptance spectrometer for tracking in a high-multiplicity environment, based on space point measurements and high-resolution time-of-flight    (NIM A 431, 1999, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00261-2)
• A reaction plane detector for PHENIX at RHIC    (NIM A 636, 2011, doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.01.034) arXiv:1012.0873
• Design, construction, operation and performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment    (NIM A 646, 2011, doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.04.015) arXiv:1103.4277
• The PHENIX Forward Silicon Vertex Detector    (NIM A 755, 2014, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.04.017)
• The RHIC zero degree calorimeters    (NIM A 470, 2001, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00627-1)

Systems

• PHENIX Online Systems    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01957-5)
• PHENIX on-line and off-line computing    (NIM A 499, 2003, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)01958-7)

Data Reconstruction and Analysis

• Event Reconstruction in the PHENIX Central Arm Spectrometers    (NIM A 482, 2002, doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(01)01512-1)

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