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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 30: Instrumentation VIII

HK 30.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 17:15–17:30, S1/01 A3

Generation of narrow peaks in spectroscopy of charged-particles — •Dirk Dubbers¹ and Ulrich Schmidt² — ¹Physikalisches Institut der Universität, INF 226, 69120 Heidelberg — ²Physikalisches Institut der Universität, INF 226, 69120 Heidelberg

In spectroscopy of charged particles, narrow peaks may appear in initially smooth continuous spectra if magnetic transport of the particles is involved. Such anomalies can occur in all systems with less than 100% geometric detection efficiency. As unexpected peaks may be misinterpreted as new physics, their generation is investigated, both analytically and experimentally, for various detector configurations, including those used in searches for the spontaneous decay of the vacuum in heavy-ion collisions.