A preshower detector for the CDF Plug Upgrade:: test beam results

被引:7
作者
Albrow, M
Aota, S
Apollinari, G
Asakawa, T
Bailey, M
de Barbaro, P
Barnes, V
Benjamin, D
Biery, K
Blusk, S
Bodek, A
Bolla, G
Breccia, L
Brunetti, R
Budd, H
Cauz, D
Demortier, L
Fiori, I
Frautschi, M
Fukui, Y
Ganel, O
Gotra, Y
Hahn, S
Handa, T
Hatakeyama, K
Ikeda, H
Introzzi, G
Iwai, J
Kikuchi, T
Kim, SH
Köngeter, A
Kowald, W
Laasanen, A
Lamoureux, J
Lindgren, M
Liu, J
Melese, P
Minato, H
Murgia, S
Nakada, H
Patrick, J
Pauletta, G
Sakumoto, W
Santi, L
Seiya, Y
Solodsky, A
Spiegel, L
Thomas, T
Vilar, R
Walsh, AM
机构
[1] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[2] Univ Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[3] Rockefeller Univ, New York, NY 10021 USA
[4] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[5] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[6] Purdue Univ, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[7] Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[8] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[9] Univ Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[11] Natl Lab High Energy Phys, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[12] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[13] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739, Japan
[14] Waseda Univ, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo 169, Japan
[15] Univ Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[17] Univ Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[18] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[19] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[20] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[21] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[22] Univ Cantabria, Santander 39009, Spain
[23] Rutgers State Univ, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00250-8
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
A preshower detector consisting of plastic scintillating plates with optical-fiber readout was tested at the Fermilab meson beamline. The detector was placed at a depth of about 1.5X(0), followed by an electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter, and exposed to positron, positively charged pion and positive muon beams with energies in the range of 5-227 GeV. Multianode phototubes, HAMAMATSU R5900-M16, were used for the photon readout. The efficiency for detecting two minimum ionizing particles with noise occupancy of < 1% was 90-100% for gains of (1-4)x 10(5). It was also found that by requiring an appropriately large signal in the preshower detector, the rate of charged pions depositing a large fraction of energy in the electromagnetic calorimeter could be reduced by a factor of 1.4-2.0 (1.4-2.8) while keeping 95% (90%) efficiency for positrons. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:104 / 111
页数:8
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