AMY (scientific instrument)
The AMY detector was used by particle physicists at the TRISTAN electron-positron collider at KEK in Japan between 1984 and 1995 to search for new particles and perform precision studies of the strong and electroweak forces.
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It was built and operated by physicists from many countries, including: the USA, Japan, South Korea, China, and the Philippines. For tracking charged particles, the detector contained an Inner Tracking Chamber[1] and a Central Drift Chamber. A novel X-ray detector,[2] sensitive to x-rays produced by electrons via synchrotron radiation in AMY's 3Tesla solenoidal magnet, was used for electron identification. The Barrel electromagnetic calorimeter[3] was a sampling calorimeter using lead as its passive material and gas for sampling. AMY also had a muon detection system outside of the magnet return yoke.
Its most highly cited paper is "Multi - hadron event properties in e+e− annihilation at s√=52 GeV to 57-GeV"[4]
While the names of most particle physics experiments are acronyms, AMY is just AMY.
References
- "The AMY inner tracking chamber". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 307: 52. 1991. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(91)90130-I.
- "Electron identification using synchrotron radiation". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 265: 141. 1988. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(88)91065-0.
- "The AMY barrel electromagnetic shower counter at TRISTAN". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A. 317: 75. 1992. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(92)90594-T.
- "Multi - hadron event properties in e+e− annihilation at s√=52 – 57 GeV". Phys. Rev. D. 41: 2675. 1990. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.41.2675.