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Title: Ultra-fast hadronic calorimetry

Abstract

Calorimeters for particle physics experiments with integration time of a few ns will substantially improve the capability of the experiment to resolve event pileup and to reject backgrounds. In this paper the time development of hadronic showers induced by 30 and 60 GeV positive pions and 120 GeV protons is studied using Monte Carlo simulation and beam tests with a prototype of a sampling steel-scintillator hadronic calorimeter. In the beam tests, scintillator signals induced by hadronic showers in steel are sampled with a period of 0.2 ns and precisely time-aligned in order to study the average signal waveform at various locations with respect to the beam particle impact. Simulations of the same setup are performed using the MARS15 code. Both simulation and test beam results suggest that energy deposition in steel calorimeters develop over a time shorter than 2 ns providing opportunity for ultra-fast calorimetry. As a result, simulation results for an “ideal” calorimeter consisting exclusively of bulk tungsten or copper are presented to establish the lower limit of the signal integration window.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2]
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  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia)
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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1431577
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-17-606-APC-PPD; arXiv:1712.06375
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002; 1643836; TRN: US1802325
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 898; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Hadronic calorimetry; Shower time structure; Pulse shape analysis; Pileup rejection; Background rejection; MARS15

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Denisov, Dmitri, Lukic, Strahinja, Mokhov, Nikolai, Striganov, Sergei, and Ujic, Predrag. Ultra-fast hadronic calorimetry. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.05.003.
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Denisov, Dmitri, Lukic, Strahinja, Mokhov, Nikolai, Striganov, Sergei, & Ujic, Predrag. Ultra-fast hadronic calorimetry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.05.003
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Denisov, Dmitri, Lukic, Strahinja, Mokhov, Nikolai, Striganov, Sergei, and Ujic, Predrag. Tue . "Ultra-fast hadronic calorimetry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.05.003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1431577.
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@article{osti_1431577,
title = {Ultra-fast hadronic calorimetry},
author = {Denisov, Dmitri and Lukic, Strahinja and Mokhov, Nikolai and Striganov, Sergei and Ujic, Predrag},
abstractNote = {Calorimeters for particle physics experiments with integration time of a few ns will substantially improve the capability of the experiment to resolve event pileup and to reject backgrounds. In this paper the time development of hadronic showers induced by 30 and 60 GeV positive pions and 120 GeV protons is studied using Monte Carlo simulation and beam tests with a prototype of a sampling steel-scintillator hadronic calorimeter. In the beam tests, scintillator signals induced by hadronic showers in steel are sampled with a period of 0.2 ns and precisely time-aligned in order to study the average signal waveform at various locations with respect to the beam particle impact. Simulations of the same setup are performed using the MARS15 code. Both simulation and test beam results suggest that energy deposition in steel calorimeters develop over a time shorter than 2 ns providing opportunity for ultra-fast calorimetry. As a result, simulation results for an “ideal” calorimeter consisting exclusively of bulk tungsten or copper are presented to establish the lower limit of the signal integration window.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2018.05.003},
journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
number = C,
volume = 898,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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