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Count Rates and Beam Time Request

On the basis of the estimated numbers of counts presented in the previous section, we have computed the required counting times, displayed in the table below. We have used a Monte Carlo code [20] to calculate the rates, averaging over the experimental acceptances such that the rate can be given by the following expression,

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The additional factors in R are:

Table 13 gives the number of counts, rates and times for each Q tex2html_wrap_inline1304 ; the rates have been calculated after averaging over the detector acceptances.

 

 
tex2html_wrap_inline1290
tex2html_wrap_inline2148
N

tex2html_wrap_inline2312
R

Hz
t

hours
0.5 39.6 11.9 92.5
1.0 12.2 3.43 99.0
1.5 5.7 0.67 235.2
2.0 2.0 0.142 400.0
Table 7:   Rates and Running Times

In Figure 13 we show the resulting error bars we expect. They have been calculated for two assumptions on the behaviour of G, the Galster and Gari-Krumpelman parametrizations.

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Figure 12: Expected data for G as a function of Q tex2html_wrap_inline1304 , calculated for two parametrizations.

In addition, we plan to take measurements on NH tex2html_wrap_inline1300 targets, to measure the dilution factor and to correct for backgrounds and systematic effects. The measurements on a nitrogen target will be used to extract the backgrounds from the total quasielastic peaks, determining in this way the ratio tex2html_wrap_inline2330 discussed earlier, in a model independent way.

Considerable time will be spent in beam polarization studies. The disruptive Möller scattering technique does not allow data taking during polarization monitoring. To determine the beam polarization to 3% over long periods will require many short measurements.

An additional entry details the contingency we add to allow for unforeseen difficulties, additional calibrations, etc.

 

Data taking 825 hours
NH tex2html_wrap_inline1300 runs 60 hours
tex2html_wrap_inline2334 Polarimetry 115 hours
Material Annealing 120 hours
Angle Changes 120 hours
Contingency 200 hours
Total1530 hours
Table 8:   Summary of request


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Donal Day, University of Virginia