Published May 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

TEXAS: a calorimeter-based high-rate detector for the SSC

  • 1. Northeastern Univ. (USA)
  • 2. Charles Stark Draper Lab. (USA)
  • 3. Thinking Machines Corp. (USA)
  • 4. RCA/General Electric (USA)
  • 5. Quantum Research (USA)
  • 6. Boston Univ. (USA)
  • 7. SSC Lab. (USA)
  • 8. LeCory Research Corp. (USA)
  • 9. Bicron (USA)
  • 10. Optectron (USA)
  • 11. Texas A and M Univ. (USA)
  • 12. Drexel Univ. (USA)
  • 13. Hamamatsu Corp. (Japan)
  • 14. Union Carbide Industrial Gases Inc. (USA)
  • 15. Oak Ridge National Lab., Detector Center (USA)
  • 16. Fairfield Univ. (USA)
  • 17. Teledyne Brown Engineering (USA)

Description

The conceptual design for a novel SSC detector that focuses on calorimetry is presented. The physics goals include searches for elementary scalars of low mass (MH<2Mw) and high mass (MH>600 GeV), for heavy supersymmetric matter, for compositeness and for strong vector-boson interactions. Examples of the relevant signatures are H→γγ; H→ZZ*; H→lνqanti q, llνν, llqanti q; g tilde g tilde→ETmiss+>2 jets; and a jet excess at high pT. These goals may be achieved with high precision, fast compensated and truly hermetic calorimetry, optimized for electrons, photons, and jets. The design allows for total hermeticity to η=5.5 missing energy. All the goals require operation at high luminosity and the additional concerns of γ-γ and jet-jet separation, as well as survival in a high radiation environment, are addressed by an unusually large inner radius of the detector. The detector concept consists of the following few and well defined components: a scintillating fiber tracking system incorporating an imaging preradiator, a projective, finely segmented, thick scintillator calorimeter; and a muon TRD trigger and spectrometer. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B
Journal Volume
56/57
Journal Issue
pt.2
Series
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B.
Journal Page Range
948-951
ISSN
0168-583X
CODEN
NIMBE

Conference

Title
11. international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry.
Dates
5-8 Nov 1990.
Place
Denton, TX (United States).