Abstract:

The installation of the NA48 detector has been completed in 1996 with the commissioning of the liquid krypton electromagnetic calorimeter. Preliminary results from a test run performed at nominal beam intensity indicate that the NA48 detector works according to expectations.

Status of the NA48 experiment at the CERN SPS

E. MazzucatoCE Saclay, DSM/DAPNIA,
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

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• INTRODUCTION
• EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP
• THE NA48 DETECTOR
  • The proton tagging counter
  • The magnetic spectrometer
  • The charged hodoscope
  • The electromagnetic calorimeter
  • The hadronic calorimeter
  • The muon veto system
• TRIGGER AND DAQ
• THE 1996 TEST RUN
• OUTLOOK AND CONCLUSIONS
• References
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