The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter

Balossino, I.; Baltzell, N.; Battaglieri, M.; Bondi, M.; Buchanan, E.; Calvo, D.; Celentano, A.; Charles, G.; Colaneri, L.; D'Angelo, A.; Napoli, M. De; Vita, R. De; Dupre, R.; Egiyan, H.; Ehrhart, M.; Filippi, A.; Garcon, Michel; Gevorgyan, N.; Girod, F. -X.; Guidal, M.; Holtrop, M.; Iurasov, V.; Kubarovsky, V.; Livingston, K.; McCarty, K.; McCormick, J.; McKinnon, B.; Osipenko, M.; Paremuzyan, R.; Randazzo, N.; Rauly, E.; Raydo, B.; Rindel, E.; Rizzo, A.; Rosier, P.; Sipala, V.; Stepanyan, S.; Szumila-Vance, H.; Weinstein, L. B.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.065

Title: The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter

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The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is searching for a new gauge boson, the so-called “heavy photon.” Through its kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon, this particle could decay into an electron-positron pair. It would then be detectable as a narrow peak in the invariant mass spectrum of such pairs, or, depending on its lifetime, by a decay downstream of the production target. The HPS experiment is installed in Hall-B of Jefferson Lab. This article presents the design and performance of one of the two detectors of the experiment, the electromagnetic calorimeter, during the runs performed in 2015–2016. The calorimeter's main purpose is to provide a fast trigger and reduce the copious background from electromagnetic processes through matching with a tracking detector. The detector is a homogeneous calorimeter, made of 442 lead-tungstate (PbWO₄) scintillating crystals, each read out by an avalanche photodiode coupled to a custom trans-impedance amplifier.

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Balossino, I. ^[1]; Baltzell, N. ^[2]; Battaglieri, M. ^[3]; Bondi, M. ^[4]; Buchanan, E. ^[5]; Calvo, D. ^[1]; Celentano, A. ^[3]; Charles, G. ^[6]; Colaneri, L. ^[7]; D'Angelo, A. ^[8]; Napoli, M. De ^[4]; Vita, R. De ^[3]; Dupre, R. ^[6]; Egiyan, H. ^[2]; Ehrhart, M. ^[9]; Filippi, A. ^[1]; Garcon, Michel ^[10]; Gevorgyan, N. ^[11]; Girod, F. -X. ^[2]; Guidal, M. ^[6] more »

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Torino, Torino (Italy)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sezione di Genova e Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Univ., Genova (Italy)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania (Italy)
Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France)
Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France); Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Univ. di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma (Italy)
Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Univ. di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma (Italy)
Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI), Yerevan (Armenia)
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Lab. Nazionali del Sud and Univ. of Sassari, Catania (Italy)

Publication Date:: Wed Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1345592

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1361152; OSTI ID: 1550572

Report Number(s):: JLAB-PHY-16-2374; DOE/OR/23177-3978; arXiv:1610.04319
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002; PII: S0168900217302620; TRN: US1700694

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-06OR23177; AC02-76SF00515; FG02-96ER40960

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: 854; 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; heavy photon; dark photon; electromagnetic calorimeter; lead-tungstate crystals; avalanche photodiodes; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

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                    Balossino, I., Baltzell, N., Battaglieri, M., Bondi, M., Buchanan, E., Calvo, D., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., D'Angelo, A., Napoli, M. De, Vita, R. De, Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Ehrhart, M., Filippi, A., Garcon, Michel, Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F. -X., Guidal, M., Holtrop, M., Iurasov, V., Kubarovsky, V., Livingston, K., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Randazzo, N., Rauly, E., Raydo, B., Rindel, E., Rizzo, A., Rosier, P., Sipala, V., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., and Weinstein, L. B. The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
Web.  doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.065.

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                    Balossino, I., Baltzell, N., Battaglieri, M., Bondi, M., Buchanan, E., Calvo, D., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., D'Angelo, A., Napoli, M. De, Vita, R. De, Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Ehrhart, M., Filippi, A., Garcon, Michel, Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F. -X., Guidal, M., Holtrop, M., Iurasov, V., Kubarovsky, V., Livingston, K., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Randazzo, N., Rauly, E., Raydo, B., Rindel, E., Rizzo, A., Rosier, P., Sipala, V., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., & Weinstein, L. B. The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.065

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                    Balossino, I., Baltzell, N., Battaglieri, M., Bondi, M., Buchanan, E., Calvo, D., Celentano, A., Charles, G., Colaneri, L., D'Angelo, A., Napoli, M. De, Vita, R. De, Dupre, R., Egiyan, H., Ehrhart, M., Filippi, A., Garcon, Michel, Gevorgyan, N., Girod, F. -X., Guidal, M., Holtrop, M., Iurasov, V., Kubarovsky, V., Livingston, K., McCarty, K., McCormick, J., McKinnon, B., Osipenko, M., Paremuzyan, R., Randazzo, N., Rauly, E., Raydo, B., Rindel, E., Rizzo, A., Rosier, P., Sipala, V., Stepanyan, S., Szumila-Vance, H., and Weinstein, L. B. Wed .  
"The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.065.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1345592.

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@article{osti_1345592,

  title        = {The HPS electromagnetic calorimeter},

  author       = {Balossino, I. and Baltzell, N. and Battaglieri, M. and Bondi, M. and Buchanan, E. and Calvo, D. and Celentano, A. and Charles, G. and Colaneri, L. and D'Angelo, A. and Napoli, M. De and Vita, R. De and Dupre, R. and Egiyan, H. and Ehrhart, M. and Filippi, A. and Garcon, Michel and Gevorgyan, N. and Girod, F. -X. and Guidal, M. and Holtrop, M. and Iurasov, V. and Kubarovsky, V. and Livingston, K. and McCarty, K. and McCormick, J. and McKinnon, B. and Osipenko, M. and Paremuzyan, R. and Randazzo, N. and Rauly, E. and Raydo, B. and Rindel, E. and Rizzo, A. and Rosier, P. and Sipala, V. and Stepanyan, S. and Szumila-Vance, H. and Weinstein, L. B.},

  abstractNote = {The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is searching for a new gauge boson, the so-called “heavy photon.” Through its kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon, this particle could decay into an electron-positron pair. It would then be detectable as a narrow peak in the invariant mass spectrum of such pairs, or, depending on its lifetime, by a decay downstream of the production target. The HPS experiment is installed in Hall-B of Jefferson Lab. This article presents the design and performance of one of the two detectors of the experiment, the electromagnetic calorimeter, during the runs performed in 2015–2016. The calorimeter's main purpose is to provide a fast trigger and reduce the copious background from electromagnetic processes through matching with a tracking detector. The detector is a homogeneous calorimeter, made of 442 lead-tungstate (PbWO4) scintillating crystals, each read out by an avalanche photodiode coupled to a custom trans-impedance amplifier.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.065},

  journal      = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 854,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Wed Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2017}

}

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