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Stephen Brooks / RAL / April 2004
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