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First tests of high resolution silicon pad detectors for the ALICE forward calorimeter

  • 1. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata (India)
  • 2. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
  • 3. Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore (IN)

Description

To enrich the physics program of the ALICE experiment at CERN, a newly designed Electromagnetic Calorimeter is being proposed as a possible upgrade in the Forward pseudo rapidity region. The calorimeter will be installed at a distance of about 3.5 meters from the vertex and cover a region of 2.5 to 4.8 in pseudo rapidity. The detector will be a novel silicon-tungsten design, which will be used for the first time in any high-energy physics experiment. For full containment of photon energy up to 200 GeV it has been found that 24 radiation lengths (layers) of material is sufficient. For this purpose a sampling type calorimeter with tungsten (absorber) and silicon (active material) has been considered

Part of:
Proceedings of the DAE-BRNS symposium on nuclear physics. V. 56

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the DAE-BRNS symposium on nuclear physics. V. 56
Imprint Pagination
1183 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1042-1043

Conference

Title
56. DAE-BRNS symposium on nuclear physics
Dates
26-30 Dec 2011
Place
Visakhapatnam (India)

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Notes
3 refs., 4 figs.