Dual-Readout Calorimetry for High-Quality Energy Measurements (Final Report)

Technical Report · Sun Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1096860· OSTI ID:1096860

Wigmans, Richard ^[1]; Akchurin, Nural ^[2]

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1. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States); Texas Tech University
2. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States)

This document constitutes the final report on the project Dual-Readout Calorimetry for High-Quality Energy Measurements. The project was carried out by a consortium of US and Italian physicists, led by Dr. Richard Wigmans (Texas tech University). This consortium built several particle detectors and tested these at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. The idea arose to use scintillating crystals as dual-readout calorimeters. Such crystals were of course already known to provide excellent energy resolution for the detection of particles developing electromagnetic (em) showers. The efforts to separate the signals from scintillating crystals into scintillation and Cerenkov components led to four different methods by which this could be accomplished. These methods are based on a) the directionality, b) spectral differences, c) the time structure, and d) the polarization of the signals.

• Research Organization: Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-07ER41495
• OSTI ID: 1096860
• Report Number(s): DOE-TTU--1495-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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