The HERMES Recoil Detector

Airapetian, A.; Statera, M.; De Leo, R.; Lu, S.; Bryzgalov, V.; Lu, X.-G.; Lehmann, I.; Vikhrov, V.; Osborne, A.; Stinzing, F.; Vogel, C.; Hoek, M.; Jo, H. S.; Mahon, D.; Lagamba, L.; Brodski, I.; Petrov, A.; Schnell, Gunar; Düren, M.; Stenzel, H.; Protopopescu, D.; Tytgat, M.; Pappalardo, L. L.; Aschenauer, E. C.; Ryckbosch, D.; Reinecke, M.; Krause, B.; Rith, K.; Zeiler, D.; Di Nezza, P.; De Sanctis, E.; Diefenthaler, M.; Perez-Benito, R.; Murray, M.; Seitz, B.; Lenisa, P.; Van Haarlem, Y.; Van Hulse, C.; Borisenko, A.; Ehrenfried, M.; Hartig, M.; Mussgiller, A.; Kaiser, R.; Yu, W.; Martinez de la Ossa, Alberto; Hristova, I.; Capitani, G. P.; Carassiti, V.; Kisselev, A.; Veretennikov, D.; Zihlmann, B.; Stewart, J.; Varanda, M.; Krauss, B.; Naryshkin, Y.; Trzcinski, A.; Belostotski, S.; Guler, H.; Vilardi, I.; Ye, Zhenyu; Contalbrigo, M.; Shearer, C.; Burns, J.; Clarkson, A.; Pickert, N.; Rosner, G.; Rubacek, L.; Gregor, I. M.; Salomatin, Y.; Keri, T.; Riedl, Caroline; Nowak, W. -D.; Lumsden, S.; Vandenbroucke, A.; Steijger, J. J. M.; Ciullo, G.; Hill, G.; Yaschenko, S.; Shutov, Vitaly; Bowles, J.; Holler, Y.; Prahl, V.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05012

Report/Journal Article

DESY-2013-00184

The HERMES Recoil Detector

Airapetian, A.Extern* ; Aschenauer, E. C. ; Belostotski, S.Extern* ; Borisenko, A. ; Bowles, J.Extern* ; Brodski, I.Extern* ; Bryzgalov, V. ; Burns, J. ; Capitani, G. P. ; Carassiti, V. ; Ciullo, G. ; Clarkson, A. ; Contalbrigo, M.Extern* ; De Leo, R. ; De Sanctis, E. ; Diefenthaler, M.Extern* ; Di Nezza, P. ; Düren, M.Extern* ; Ehrenfried, M. ; Guler, H.DESY* ; Gregor, I. M.DESY* ; Hartig, M.DESY* ; Hill, G. ; Hoek, M. ; Holler, Y.DESY* ; Hristova, I.DESY* ; Jo, H. S. ; Kaiser, R.Extern* ; Keri, T. ; Kisselev, A. ; Krause, B.DESY* ; Krauss, B. ; Lagamba, L. ; Lehmann, I.Extern* ; Lenisa, P.Extern* ; Lu, S.DESY* ; Lu, X.-G. ; Lumsden, S. ; Mahon, D. ; Martinez de la Ossa, A.Extern*DESY* ; Murray, M.Extern* ; Mussgiller, A. (Corresponding author)DESY* ; Nowak, W. -.DESY* ; Naryshkin, Y.DESY* ; Osborne, A. ; Pappalardo, L. L. ; Perez-Benito, R. ; Petrov, A.DESY* ; Pickert, N. ; Prahl, V.DESY* ; Protopopescu, D. ; Reinecke, M.DESY* ; Riedl, C.Extern*DESY* ; Rith, K.Extern* ; Rosner, G. ; Rubacek, L. ; Ryckbosch, D. ; Salomatin, Y. ; Schnell, G.Extern*DESY* ; Seitz, B. ; Shearer, C. ; Shutov, V.Extern*DESY* ; Statera, M. ; Steijger, J. J. M. ; Stenzel, H. ; Stewart, J. ; Stinzing, F.Extern* ; Trzcinski, A. ; Tytgat, M. ; Vandenbroucke, A. ; Van Haarlem, Y. ; Van Hulse, C. ; Varanda, M.DESY* ; Veretennikov, D.Extern* ; Vilardi, I. ; Vikhrov, V. ; Vogel, C. ; Yaschenko, S.DESY* ; Ye, Z.DESY* ; Yu, W. ; Zeiler, D. ; Zihlmann, B.

2013
Inst. of Physics London

Journal of Instrumentation 8(05), 49 (2013) [10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05012]

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05012 doi:10.3204/DESY-2013-00184

Report No.: DESY 13-034; arXiv:1302.6092

Abstract: For the final running period of HERA, a recoil detector was installed at the HERMES experiment to improve measurements of hard exclusive processes in charged-lepton nucleon scattering. Here, deeply virtual Compton scattering is of particular interest as this process provides constraints on generalised parton distributions that give access to the total angular momenta of quarks within the nucleon. The HERMES recoil detector was designed to improve the selection of exclusive events by a direct measurement of the four-momentum of the recoiling particle. It consisted of three components: two layers of double-sided silicon strip sensors inside the HERA beam vacuum, a two-barrel scintillating fibre tracker, and a photon detector. All sub-detectors were located inside a solenoidal magnetic field with an integrated field strength of 1 T. The recoil detector was installed in late 2005. After the commissioning of all components was finished in September 2006, it operated stably until the end of data taking at HERA end of June 2007. The present paper gives a brief overview of the physics processes of interest and the general detector design. The recoil detector components, their calibration, the momentum reconstruction of charged particles, and the event selection are described in detail. The paper closes with a summary of the performance of the detection system.

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