Prospects for and tests of hadron calorimetry with silicon

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6155978· OSTI ID:6155978

Brau, James E. ^[1]; Gabriel, Tony A. ^[2]; Rancoita, P. G. ^[3]

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1. Univ. of Oregon, OR (United States). Dept. of Physics
2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
3. INFN, Milan (Italy)

Hadron calorimetry with silicon may provide crucial capabilities in experiments at the high luminosity, high energy colliders of the future, particularly due to silicon's fast intrinsic speed and absolute calibration. The important underlying processes of our understanding of hadron calorimeters are reviewed to set the framework for the presentation of recent calculations of the expected performance of silicon detector based hadron calorimeters. Such devices employing uranium are expected to achieve the compensation condition (that is, the ratio of the most probable electron signal to hadron signal (e/h) is approx.1.0) based on the understanding that has been derived from the uranium-liquid argon and uranium-plastic scintillator systems. In fact, even lead-silicon calorimeters are found to achieve the attractive value for the e/h ratio of 1.16 at 10 GeV. An experimental test of these predictions is underway at CERN by the SICAPO Collaboration. 64 refs., 19 figs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6155978
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-10954; ON: DE89009684; TRN: 89-009897
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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