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This project is only a small portion of the larger RICH
detection system. Which is itself only a small part of the CLEO III system, though it is
the main reason for the new project. It is in this project that the people at Syracuse
hunger to differentiate between the K-meson and the p-meson, something that until now has
been somewhat of an elusive determination.
The Ring Imaging CHerenkov Detector (RICH) was developed from the properties observed and explained by Pavel Cherenkov and Frank Tamm. Its basic components are a lithium Floride radiator, a gas chamber and a multiwire proportional chamber (photon detector). The radiator provides photons from incident hadrons. The gas chamber is used to filter some of the background noises and reduce the number of unknown variables. The multi-wire proportional chamber is used to convert the photons into measurable electronic pulses.
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