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36 experimental setup and data acquisition<br />

(a) (b)<br />

Figure 17: Measured efficiency for a set of different gas mixtures and pregap<br />

voltages as a function of the anode voltage. A saturation region<br />

or plateau is observed in all cases and a clear dependency of the<br />

plateau starting point on the other operating parameters can be<br />

seen. The effect of the pregap is shown in subfigure (b) where the<br />

pregap voltage is set to zero. Larger anode voltages are needed to<br />

achieve the same detection efficiency.<br />

and isobutan (C4H10): 7% at an anode voltage of 4.8 kV, and a pre-gap<br />

voltage of 7.5 kV. For their final installation in Kaos platform, the<br />

gas tubing system was renewed, optimizing gas flow and ensuring<br />

mixture uniformity within the chamber volume.<br />

2.4.5 Scintillator walls<br />

Two scintillator walls, labeled F and G, are used as timing and trigger<br />

detectors in the positive arm Kaos detector package. The F detector,<br />

located approximately in the focal plane of the spectrometer, consists<br />

of 30 plastic scintillators paddles (38 cm x 3.7 cm x 2 cm) of type Pilot<br />

F (modern equivalent: BC408) and 8 cm long lucite light guides. The<br />

paddles are tilted by 37 ◦ around the longitudinal axis in order to<br />

achieve an almost perpendicular flight path of the incoming particles<br />

into the 3.7 cm face. The total length covered by the wall is 1.89 m.<br />

The scintillators are read out in both ends by 2 in. Hamamatsu R1828<br />

phototubes to allow for light propagation compensation.A momentum<br />

resolution of about 4% is obtained with these 3.7 cm wide paddles.<br />

The G detector was added to the system permitting the implementation<br />

a rough angular selection trigger. It also consists of 30 scintillator<br />

paddles (47 cm x 7.5 cm x 2 cm), with a purely flat geometry spanning<br />

a length of 2.2 m and read out by the same type of phototubes. Plastic<br />

scintillator material is BC408. This fast scintillators (2.1 ns decay<br />

constant) are very suitable for time of flight measurements and still<br />

feature a large absorption length of 380 cm.

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