Qweak Qsqrd Tracking
Tracking system Description
The Qweak tracking system is composed of three tracking regions. Region 1 is a GEM based ionization chamber which measures the radial distance of a hit from the beam pipe center and is located 50 cm away from a 20 cm long target. Region 2 is a drift chamber with 6 layers located 1.5 m from target center. A Torous magnet is place centered 2 meters from the target which selects elasticly scattered electrons that pass through a primary collimator just before the magnet. Region 2 is another drift chamber located just in front of the quartz cherenkov detectors. A scintillator appears after the quartz cherenkov detector which is used to trigger the tracking system.
for Elastic Scattering
General Expression for Elastic scattering error
- =
Error using only R1
This simple calculation assumes that only the electron distance from the beamline measured 0.5 m from the target center by the GEM detector will be used to calculate
.assuming the error is
and = length of the targetIf Z = 0.5 m and d = 15 cm
then
Using only R1 and R2
R1 and R2 together may be used to reconstruct straight tracks and determine the
of elasticly scattered electrons. The for elastically scattered electrons can be determine if the incident electron energy (E) and the scattered electron zenith angle are known where the "z-axis" of a spherical coordinate system is directed down the beam pipe in the direction of the incident electron. The Region 1 tracking system measures the distance of the scattered electron from the center of the beam pipe . For a point target one would be able to determine the scattering angle \theta using the distance of the Region 1 detector from the target. The Qweak target, however is extended in the "z" direction and prevents an accurate calculation of with just one tracking element. A second tracking element, Region 2, along with knowledge of the "X" and "Y" location of the incident beam will enable a determination of a plane intersecting the z-axis at the interaction point. The scattering angle can be determined usingor