Measurement of electromagnetic shower position and size with a saturated avalanche tube hodoscope and a fine grained scintillation hodoscope

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5304186

Rameika, R; Cox, B; Jenkins, C M; Judd, D J; Hale, G; Mazur, P O; Murphy, C T; Turkot, F; Wagoner, D E; Conetti, S

A hodoscope has been constructed from 100 ..mu.. m diameter wires and brass tubes (1.2 x 0.7 cm/sup 2/ cross section) filled with a mixture of argon, ethane and ethyl alcohol. It has been tested in the saturated avalanche mode in an SCG1-C electromagnetic shower detector to determine its properties for the measurement of the position and size of electromagnetic showers. Two of these tube hodoscopes were positioned 3.5 radiation lengths deep in the detector and the profiles of 1 to 25 GeV electromagnetic showers were measured. Simultaneous measurements were performed using a plane of twenty, 0.5 cm wide scintillation counters positioned immediately behind the gas tube hodoscope. In addition the transition between saturated avalanche and limited streamer modes has been measured for the tube hodoscopes.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Batavia, IL (USA); McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec (Canada); Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA); Shandong Univ., Jinan (China)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• OSTI ID: 5304186
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-Conf-84/22-E; CONF-831015-39; ON: DE84007247
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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440101* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CONSTRUCTION
HODOSCOPES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
RADIATION DETECTORS
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
TESTING
WIRES