Performance of a compensating lead/plastic scintillator tile/fiber calorimeter

S. Uozumi, T. Asakawa, J. P. Done, Y. Fujii, K. Furukawa, K. Hara, T. Ishizaki, S. Kaga, F. Kajino, T. Kamon, N. Kanaya, J. Kanzaki, K. Kawagoe, S. Kim, A. Miyajima, A. Nakagawa, M. Nozaki, R. Oishi, T. Ota, K. SendaiY. Sugimoto, Y. Sugimoto, T. Suzuki, H. Takeda, T. Takeshita, A. Takeuchi, T. Toeda, Y. Yamada

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Abstract

We have measured performance of a lead/plastic scintillator sampling calorimeter in two separate beam tests at low (1-4 GeV) and high (10-200 GeV) energies. The calorimeter is composed of 8-mm-thick lead plates and 2-mm-thick plastic scintillator plates for hardware compensation, where responses to electromagnetic and hadronic showers of the same energy are identical. We find the linearity to be better than 1% in the energy range between 2 and 150 GeV for both pions and electrons. The energy resolutions are obtained to be (46.7 ± 0.6)%/√E ⊕ (0.9 ± 0.9)% for pions, where the energy E is given in GeV. The response ratio of electromagnetic showers to hadronic showers is measured to be 1.04 ± 0.01 at low energies, and 0.99 ± 0.01 at high energies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)291-307
Number of pages17
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume487
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 21 2002
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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