The UA5 experiment was the first experiment conducted at the
Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS), a collider using the infrastructure of the
Super Proton Synchrotron
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History
The SPS was d ...
(SPS). The experiment was approved in February 1979, as a collaboration between
CERN
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and the universities of
Bonn
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,
Brussels
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,
Cambridge
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and
Stockholm
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.
The spokesperson of the UA5 collaboration was
John Rushbrooke.
The object of the experiment was to investigate
Centauro events
[ and more generally to perform a first rapid visual survey of the energy region afforded by the then new SPS collider.][
The experimental setup consisted of two large streamer chambers which were placed above and below the SpS beam pipe. The chambers were triggered by requiring hits in scintillation counters at each end. This trigger rejected essentially all elastic and diffractive elements.][ The streamer chamber tracks were photographed by six cameras, and the tracks were measured, reconstructed and analyzed.
]
See also
*List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments
This is a list of past and current experiments at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) facility since its commissioning in 1976. The SPS was used as the main particle collider for many experiments, and has been adapted to various purpose ever ...
*UA1 experiment
The UA1 experiment (an abbreviation of Underground Area 1) was a high-energy physics experiment that ran at CERN's Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS), a modification of the one-beam Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The data was recorded between 1 ...
*UA2 experiment
The Underground Area 2 (UA2) experiment was a high-energy physics experiment at the Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS) — a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) — at CERN. The experiment ran from 1981 until 1990, and its main objec ...
References
External links
List of publications from the UA5 CollaborationCERN-UA-05 experiment record
on INSPIRE-HEP
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