Performance of the SLD Warm Iron Calorimeter prototype

Conference · Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5969625

Callegari, G; Piemontese, L; De Sangro, R; Busza, W; Friedman, J; Johnson, A; Kendall, H; Kistiakowsky, V

A prototype hadron calorimeter, of similar design to the Warm Iron Calorimeter (WIC) planned for the SLD experiment, has been built and its performance has been studied in a test beam. The WIC is an iron sampling calorimeter whose active elements are plastic streamer tubes similar to those used for the Mont-Blanc proton decay experiment. The construction and operation of the tubes will be briefly described together with their use in an iron calorimeter - muon tracker. Efficiency, resolution and linearity have been measured in a hadron/muon beam up to 11 GeV. The measured values correspond to the SLD design goals.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (USA); Ferrara Univ. (Italy). Dipt. di Fisica; Comitato Nazionale per l'Energia Nucleare, Frascati (Italy). Lab. Nazionali di Frascati; Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA). Lab. for Nuclear Science; Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (USA); Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA). Dept. of Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 5969625
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-3899; CONF-851009-68; ON: DE86008584
• Conference Information: IEEE nuclear science symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 23 Oct 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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440104* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- High Energy Physics Instrumentation
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CONSTRUCTION
EFFICIENCY
ELEMENTS
IRON
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
METALS
OPERATION
PERFORMANCE TESTING
RADIATION DETECTORS
RESOLUTION
SHOWER COUNTERS
SLC DETECTORS
TESTING
TRANSITION ELEMENTS