Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume 310, Issues 1-2
,
1 December 1991,
Pages 518-522
doi:10.1016/0168-9002(91)91092-A 
Copyright © 1991 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
LADS — large acceptance detector system for pion-nucleus reactions
G. Backenstossa, H. Breuere, H. Döbbelingj, M. Furi
k, P. A. Gramd, A. Hoffartc, C. H. Q. Ingramj, A. Kleinh, B. Kotli
skij, G. S. Kyleh, K. Michaelianj, S. Mukhopadyayh, T. Petkovik, R. P. Redwinef, D. Rowntreef, R. A. Schumacherb, U. Sennhauserj, N. 
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evik, F. S. Smitg, G. van der Steenhoveni, D. R. Tiegerf, H. Ullrichc, M. H. Wangh, H. J. Weyera, M. Wildia and K. E. Wilsonf
a Institute for Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
b Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
c Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, University of Karlsruhe, D-7500, Karlsruhe, Germany
d Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
e University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
f Department of Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Bates Linear Accelerator Center, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
g National Accelerator Centre, Faure, 7131, South Africa
h Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 8803, USA
i National Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica (NIKHEF-K), P.O. Box 41882, NL-1009 DB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
j Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
k Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb YU-41001, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Available online 28 October 2002.
Abstract
A large acceptance detector system (LADS) has been designed and built at the Paul Scherrer Institute to study multi-particle final states after pion-nucleus absorption. It consists of a 28-sector cylinder of plastic scintillator of 1.6 m active length and 1.5 m diameter, and two cylindrical wire chambers; two 14-sector endcaps of plastic scintillator close each end.
