A uranium scintillator calorimeter with plastic-fibre readout
Abstract
We have developed a method for reading out scintillator plates in a compact calorimeter using embedded wavelength-shifting fibres coupled to photomultipliers. A test calorimeter using this technique, with uranium plates as the passive medium, was placed in test beams of 1 to 80 GeV. Results on resolution, uniformity, and electron-pion discrimination are presented, as well as a discussion of compensation (the near-equality of electron and hadron responses).
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- April 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0168-9002(87)91035-7
- Bibcode:
- 1987NIMPA.256...23A