A lead/liquid scintillator calorimeter for low energy particle detection

Author

Cova, J. Dela ; Nelson, J.K. ; Rusack, R.W. ; Singh, V.M. ; Thakur, Q.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

21-28 Oct 1995

Firstpage

710

Abstract

A lead/liquid scintillator “shashlik” electro-magnetic calorimeter prototype was built and tested. The calorimeter was read out by wave-length shifting optical fibers, running from front to back of the calorimeter, coupled to photomultiplier tubes. The calorimeter was tested at Brookhaven National Laboratory with negative pion and electron beams of momenta between 0.3 and 7.0 GeV/c. The light yield of the calorimeter was measured to be greater than 500 photoelectrons per GeV of incident electromagnetic energy. Analysis shows excellent linearity (better than 2%), an energy resolution of 9%/√E, and a position resolution of 6 mm/√E. This technique can be used to produce large low-cost electromagnetic calorimeters with very fine depth segmentation

Keywords

calorimeters; electron detection; energy loss of particles; lead; liquid scintillation detectors; meson detection; photomultipliers; position sensitive particle detectors; solid scintillation detectors; Pb; Pb/liquid scintillator calorimeter; electron beams; energy resolution; light yield; linearity; low energy particle detection; negative pion beams; photomultiplier tubes; position resolution; shashlik electromagnetic calorimeter prototype; very fine depth segmentation; wavelength shifting optical fibers; Electron beams; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Laboratories; Mesons; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Photomultipliers; Prototypes; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, 1995., 1995 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3180-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1995.510368

Filename

510368