A TIME-OF-FLIGHT DETECTOR FOR CDF

• DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x01009077
• Publication Date: 2002-07-27T06:58:59Z
• Authors: C. GROZIS; R. KEPHART; R. STANEK; B. KIM; D. H. KIM; S. B. KIM; Y. Oh; I. YU; Y. K. KIM; W. CARITHERS; K. ANIKEEV; G. BAUER; I. K. FURIĆ; I. KRAVCHENKO; M. MULHEARN; CH. PAUS; K. SUMOROK; S. CABRERA; J. FERNANDEZ; J. PIEDRA; T. RODRIGO; A. RUIZ; I. VILA; C. CHEN; M. JONES; W. KONONENKO; J. KROLL; G. M. MAYERS; F. M. NEWCOMER; D. USYNIN; R. VANBERG; G. BELLETTINI; C. CERRI; A. MENZIONE; D. DEPEDIS; C. DIONISI; S. GIAGU; M. RESCIGNO; L. ZANELLO; A. KAZAMA; S. H. KIM; H. MATSUNAGA; S. MOTOHASHI; K. SATO; K. TAKIKAWA; F. UKEGAWA
• Keywords: Particle identification; Time-of-Flight; Identification

A Time-of-Flight detector (TOF), with a technique based on plastic scintillators and finemesh photomultipliers, has been added to the CDF-II experiment. The main physics motivation is improve neutral B meson flavor determination by K ± identification. expected time resolution 100 ps, which provides at least two standard deviations separation between π for momenta p < 1.6 Gev/cand better than 1.2 over all when combining TOF identification dE/dx using new drift chamber.