NA2
NA2 was an experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron of CERN which was approved in 1975 and took until 1985 data. It was completed in 1995. The aim of the experiment was to research the scattering of high-energy muons on different samples in order to improve the understanding of the electromagnetic interaction mediated by virtual photons . It was carried out by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC); The collaboration's spokesperson was Terence Sloan from Lancaster University . Among other things, structural functions F 2 of various samples were measured.
construction
As samples was hydrogen , deuterium and heavier items such. B. iron is used. A dipole magnet with 5 T m was used to deflect the particles . Before and after there were drift chambers and MWPCs for recording the tracks. To hadrons to distinguish muon, a magnetized filter made of iron was used.
Results
The EMC effect was discovered with the NA2 experiment .
Web links
- Some datasets of the NA2 experiment can be found in the Durham HepData Project : Datasets for NA2
Individual evidence
- ^ NA2 (EMC) - Electromagnetic Interactions of Muons. CERN, accessed November 19, 2012 .
- ↑ a b NA2 (EMC) - Electromagnetic Interactions of Muons. CERN, accessed November 19, 2012 .
- ^ The European Muon Collaboration ,: Measurements of the nucleon structure functions F2N in deep inelastic muon scattering from deuterium and comparison with those from hydrogen and iron . In: Nuclear Physics B . 293, 1987, pp. 740-786. doi : 10.1016 / 0550-3213 (87) 90090-3 .