Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1088/1748-0221/17/10/P10019

Publication Title

Journal of Instrumentation

Volume

17

Issue

10

Pages

P10019 (1-81)

Abstract

ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine tracking and momentum resolution, high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, hadron identification over a wide kinematic range, and near-complete hermeticity. This article describes the detector design and its expected performance in the most relevant physics channels. It includes an evaluation of detector technology choices, the technical challenges to realizing the detector and the R&D required to meet those challenges.

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Original Publication Citation

Adam, J., Adamczyk, L., Agrawal, N., Aidala, C., Akers, W., Alekseev, M., Allen, M. M., Ameli, F., Angerami, A., Antonioli, P., Apadula, N. J., Aprahamian, A., Armstrong, W., Arratia, M., Arrington, J. R., Asaturyan, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Augsten, K., Aune, S., ... Żurek, M. (2022). ATHENA detector proposal — a totally hermetic electron nucleus apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(10), 81 pp., Article P10019.

ORCID

0000-0001-7282-8120 (Hyde)

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