Published September 21, 2009
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Journal article
Response of the CALICE Si-W electromagnetic calorimeter physics prototype to electrons
Creators
- 1. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-vieux de Physique des Particules, Chemin du Bellevue BP 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex (France)
- 2. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4815 (United States)
- 3. University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 (United States)
- 4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, Allegaten 55, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
- 5. University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
- 6. University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE (United Kingdom)
- 7. Universite Hassan II Ain Chock, Faculte des sciences. B.P. 5366 Maarif, Casablanca (Morocco)
- 8. Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubiere Cedex (France)
Description
A prototype silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) for an international linear collider (ILC) detector was installed and tested during summer and autumn 2006 at CERN. The detector had 6480 silicon pads of dimension 1x1cm2. Data were collected with electron beams in the energy range 6-45 GeV. The analysis described in this paper focuses on electromagnetic shower reconstruction and characterises the ECAL response to electrons in terms of energy resolution and linearity. The detector is linear to within approximately the 1% level and has a relative energy resolution of (16.53±0.14(stat)±0.4(syst))/√(E(GeV))+(1.07±0.07(stat)±0.1(syst))(%). The spatial uniformity and the time stability of the ECAL are also addressed.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.026Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.026;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0811.2354v1;
- PII
- S0168-9002(09)01467-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 608
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 372-383
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41045128
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALORIMETERS; CERN; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; GEV RANGE; LINEAR COLLIDERS; SHOWERS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SILICON; STABILITY; TUNGSTEN
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION DETECTORS; REFRACTORY METALS; RESOLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMIMETALS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.