From the Preshower to the New Technologies for Supercolliders: In Honour of Antonino Zichichi (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, V. 31)

In 2000, the city of Bologna was the European Capital for Culture. For this reason, the University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences, following the Gugliemo Marconi Centenary and the Luigi Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations, decided to call attention to the major achievements of their most distinguished members, in science and technology. This volume presents a series of inventions and technological developments, some thought of and directly implemented by Professor Antonino Zichichi, others suggested and developed under his leadership, all of them having contributed to the discovery of new particles and new phenomena in the field of subnuclear physics. The book was conceived by an eminent scientist, Professor Dr Bjorn H Wiik, Director of Germany's most prestigious physics laboratory, DESY (Hamburg). It would not be published were it not for Professor Dr Albrecht Wagner, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, and Dr Horst Wenninger from CERN (Geneva), an eminent European physics laboratory. CONTENTS......Page 8 FOREWORD......Page 12 INTRODUCTION......Page 14 FROM THE PRESHOWER TO THE ROOTS OF THE LAA PROJECT......Page 16 SECTION 1 THE PRESHOWER METHOD THE MUON PUNCH-THROUGH THE LEAD-SCINTILLATOR TELESCOPE TECHNOLOGY (NOW CALLED CALORIMETRY)......Page 34 A TELESCOPE TO IDENTIFY ELECTRONS IN THE PRESENCE OF PION BACKGROUND......Page 36 RANGE MEASUREMENTS FOR MUONS IN THE GEV REGION......Page 50 RANGE MEASUREMENTS FOR MUONS IN THE GEV REGION......Page 72 A NEW ELECTRON DETECTOR WITH HIGH REJECTION POWER AGAINST PIONS......Page 84 UN GRAND DETECTEUR E.M. A HAUTE REJECTION DES PIONS......Page 96 A LARGE ELECTROMAGNETIC SHOWER DETECTOR WITH HIGH REJECTION POWER AGAINST PIONS......Page 102 SECTION 2 THE TOF DEVICE WITH +- 70 PSEC RESOLUTION AND THE NBC TECHNOLOGY......Page 126 SECTION 2 (I) THE SEPARATION OF ANTIDEUTERONS FROM OTHER LIGHTER NEGATIVE PARTICLES......Page 128 A HIGH-INTENSITY PARTIALLY SEPARATED BEAM OF ANTIPROTONS AND K-MESONS......Page 130 EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF ANTIDEUTERON PRODUCTION......Page 131 SECTION 2 (II) THE POSITION RESOLUTION IN PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR COUNTERS FOR FAST KINEMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF CHARGED PARTICLES......Page 132 ACCURATE POSITION DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES USING PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR COUNTERS......Page 134 THE HIGH PRECISION TOF TECHNOLOGY IN SPACE......Page 142 ANTIMATTER IN SPACE - THE AMS APPARATUS......Page 144 SECTION 2 (III) THE POSITION RESOLUTION FOR NEUTRONS IN THICK SCINTILLATING COUNTERS ALLOWING NEUTRON-MISSING-MASS SPECTROSCOPY......Page 154 A NEW LARGE-ACCEPTANCE AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY NEUTRON DETECTOR FOR MISSING- MASS STUDIES......Page 156 UN DETECTEUR DE NEUTRONS POUR LA SPECTROMETRIE DE MASSES MANQUANTES......Page 206 AN APPARATUS OF THE NBC TYPE AND THE PHYSICS RESULTS OBTAINED......Page 210 SECTION 3 THE LAA PROJECT AND ITS ACHIEVEMENTS......Page 226 THE LAA PROJECT: A BRIEF SUMMARY......Page 228 THE MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE LAA PROJECT......Page 232 ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH-ENERGY SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS. CONTRIBUTION OF THE LAA PROJECT......Page 310 LIST OF REFERENCES OF ALL LAA WORKS......Page 316 1 - GENERAL REPORTS (12)......Page 318 2 - HIGH PRECISION TRACKING AND PARTICLE DETECTION (60)......Page 319 3 - CALORIMETRY (79)......Page 322 4 - LARGE AREA DEVICES (38)......Page 328 5 - LEADING PARTICLE DETECTION (21)......Page 330 6 - DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS (17)......Page 331 7 - MONTECARLO SIMULATIONS AND PHENOMENOLOGY FOR PHYSICS AT EXTREME ENERGIES (65)......Page 333 8 - APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RADIATION HARDNESS AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES ON PARTICLE DETECTORS (46)......Page 337 SECTION 4 NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHYSICS AT LHC AND BEYOND......Page 342 THE IMPACT OF LAA ON THE LHC DETECTORS......Page 344 THE ROLE PLAYED BY ITALY IN THE ELN PROJECT WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MULTI-TEV COLLIDERS IN EUROPE......Page 358 OUTLOOK......Page 364 In the year 2000, the city of Bologna was the European Capital for Culture. For this reason, the University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences, following the Gugliemo Marconi Centenary and the Luigi Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations, decided to call attention to the major achievements of their most distinguished members, in science and technology. This invaluable volume presents a series of inventions and technological developments, some thought of and directly implemented by Professor Antonino Zichichi, others suggested and developed under his leadership, all of them having contributed to the discovery of new particles and new phenomena in the field of subnuclear physics. The book was conceived by an eminent scientist, Professor Dr Björn H. Wiik, Director of Germany's most prestigious physics laboratory, DESY (Hamburg). It would not be published were it not for Professor Dr Albrecht Wagner, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, and Dr Horst Wenninger from CERN (Geneva), the greatest European physics laboratory Annotation In the year 2000, the city of Bologna was the European Capital for Culture. For this reason, the University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences, following the Gugliemo Marconi Centenary and the Luigi Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations, decided to call attention to the major achievements of their most distinguished members, in science and technology. This invaluable volume presents a series of inventions and technological developments, some thought of and directly implemented by Professor Antonino Zichichi, others suggested and developed under his leadership, all of them having contributed to the discovery of new particles and new phenomena in the field of subnuclear physics During many years, the dominant detector technology used in experimental subnuclear physics has been the bubble-chamber, which contributed to the discovery of many dozens of mesons and baryons in strong interaction physics and in later years to the first evidence of neutral currents in neutrino experiment with the heavy liquid bubble chamber GARGAMELLE.