Test and characterization of a prototype silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter
| Autor: | Sourav Mukhopadhyay, T. K. Nayak, Menka Sukhwani, Sanjib Muhuri, Satyajit Jena, Shuaib Ahmad Khan, V.B. Chandratre, Jogender Saini, Rama Narayana Singaraju |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors chemistry.chemical_element Proton Synchrotron FOS: Physical sciences Electron Tungsten Tracking (particle physics) Nuclear physics Optics Shower Development Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) Particle Physics Instrumentation Phenix Experiment Nuclear Experiment physics.ins-det Physics Calorimeter Large Hadron Collider Silicon Pad Detectors business.industry Electromagnetic Shower Detector Detectors Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) chemistry Direction Particle business Si/W Collider |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1407.5724 |
| Popis: | New generation high-energy physics experiments demand high precision tracking and accurate measurements of a large number of particles produced in the collisions of lementary particles and heavy-ions. Silicon-tungsten (Si-W) calorimeters provide the most viable technological option to meet the requirements of particle detection in high multiplicity environments. We report a novel Si-W calorimeter design, which is optimized for $\gamma/\pi^0$ discrimination up to high momenta. In order to test the feasibility of the calorimeter, a prototype mini-tower was constructed using silicon pad detector arrays and tungsten layers. The performance of the mini-tower was tested using pion and electron beams at the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS). The experimental results are compared with the results from a detailed GEANT-4 simulation. A linear relationship between the observed energy deposition and simulated response of the mini-tower has been obtained, in line with our expectations. Comment: 13 figures, represents test beam data with PS beam line at CERN |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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