June, 2002

Interest in Scintillation Muon Detector R&D

Paul E. Karchin, Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wayne State University

Fast, efficient and robust muon detection is a challenging problem for
the large area systems needed at high energy. The particle flux
through the muon detector has a direct component from the interaction
point as well as a potentially significant indirect component from
background fluxes produced inside the detector hall and from
far field muon sources due to the accelerator.

Scintillation detectors with fiber-optic coupling to multi-anode
photo-multiplier tubes have proven to be robust and efficient
detectors as recently demonstrated by the performance of the CDF-II
end-plug calorimeters used at the Fermilab Tevatron.  A large system
of multi-anode photo-tubes is operating with high efficiency and
reliability in the Ring Imaging Cerenkov detector of the HERA-B
experiment at DESY.

PMT electronics development and testing could take advantage of the
people and facilities at WSU.  Our electronics engineer and mechanical
engineer have extensive experience with
   * PCB design using Mentor Graphics
   * surface mount tooling
   * fabrication using local vendors of complex multi-layer, 
     surface mount technology boards with front-end analog electronics. 

Graduate students could contribute to the assembly and operation of
prototype modules and to simulation studies.  The graduate students
could be resident at Fermilab for a substantial part (or all) of their
work on this project.

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Paul E. Karchin                                 313-577-5424
Professor, Wayne State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy             313-577-1056 (fax)
666 West Hancock St.
Detroit, Michigan  48201