The Decay Channel
• Has to deal with the “beam” coming from
the pion source
• Pion half-life is 18ns or 12m at 200MeV
– So make the decay channel about 30m long
• Grahame designed an initial version
– Used S/C solenoids to get a large aperture
and high field (3T mostly, 20T around target)
• Needed a better tracking code