A BGO electromagnetic section for a dual readout calorimeter

Author

Pinci, Davide

Author_Institution

Sez. di Roma, Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucl., Rome, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1906

Lastpage

1910

Abstract

A calorimeter made by a homogeneous electromagnetic section consisting of 100 BGO crystals and by a sampling hadronic section made of copper and optical fibers was tested with pion and electron beams. The presence of UV filters and the waveform analysis in the crystal section and the use of scintillating and undoped fibers in the hadronic part make possible to apply the dual readout method to the whole detector. The estimation of the electromagnetic fraction of hadronic showers developing in the whole system allows to correct the energy measurements for its electromagnetic fraction fluctuations upgrading the energy resolution. The performance obtained by the BGO section are reported in this paper.

Keywords

nuclear electronics; optical fibres; particle calorimetry; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; solid scintillation detectors; BGO crystals; BGO electromagnetic section; UV filters; dual readout calorimeter; dual readout method; electromagnetic fraction estimation; electromagnetic fraction fluctuations; electron beam; energy measurement method; energy resolution; hadronic shower analysis; homogeneous electromagnetic section; optical fibers; pion beam; scintillating fibers; undoped fibers; waveform analysis; Detectors; Radiation detectors; Dual Readout Calorimetry; Scintillating Crystals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154383

Filename

6154383