Measurement of positron showers with a digital hadron calorimeter

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作者
Bilki, B. [4 ]
Butler, J. [2 ]
May, E. [1 ]
Mavromanolakis, G. [3 ,5 ]
Norbeck, E. [4 ]
Repond, J. [1 ]
Underwood, D. [1 ]
Xia, L. [1 ]
Zhang, Q. [1 ,6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[2] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[3] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[4] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[5] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[6] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[7] Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
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Gaseous detectors; Resistive-plate chambers; Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields; charge transport; multiplication and induction; pulse formation; electron emission; etc); Calorimeters;
D O I
10.1088/1748-0221/4/04/P04006
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
A small prototype of a finely granulated digital hadron calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers as active elements was exposed to positrons of 1-16 GeV energy from the Fermilab test beam. The response function, energy resolution, as well as measurements of the shape of electromagnetic showers are presented. The data are compared to a Monte Carlo simulation of the set-up.
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