Lead/scintillating fibre (“Spaghetti”) calorimetry

DeSalvo, R.

doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(95)80018-2

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“…Lead and scintillating fibres (or strips) have been used in calorimetry, for instance by the SPACAL ( [236,254] and references therein) and the CHORUS ( [255] and references therein) Collaborations. They have achieved an e/π ratio ≈1.1 (or larger) at 10 GeV.…”

Section: Compensation Condition By Detecting Neutron Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Physics of cascading shower generation and propagation in matter: principles of high-energy, ultrahigh-energy and compensating calorimetry

Leroy

Rancoita

2000

Rep. Prog. Phys.

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Calorimetry plays a crucial role in modern experimental physics. Calorimeters are essential tools to extract physics in accelerator and non-accelerator experiments. The physics phenomena at the base of cascading processes in matter and the basic principles of calorimeters operation are reviewed at the light of data obtained from running experiments or from sets of dedicated measurements and the constraints from physics requirements. From this understanding comes the possibility of building powerful calorimetric systems with the optimal performances required by future experiments at high-energy and ultrahigh-energy regimes.

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Section: Compensation Condition By Detecting Neutron Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Physics of cascading shower generation and propagation in matter: principles of high-energy, ultrahigh-energy and compensating calorimetry

Leroy

Rancoita

2000

Rep. Prog. Phys.

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A Moon-borne electromagnetic calorimeter

Battiston

Brunetti

Cervelli

et al. 2009

Astrophys Space Sci

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We discuss an electromagnetic sampling calorimeter for the detection of very high energy gamma-rays on the Moon, which is based on the use of scintillating cylinders and plates imbedded in the lunar soil. The use of lunar soil as a calorimeter radiator reduces the weight of the material to be transported to the Moon and minimises environmental impact. Plastic scintillator bars inserted into the regolith about 1.5 m are the active elements of this instrument: at the surface, each bar is terminated by a plastic scintillator plate to veto high energy charge particles. The readout system for the scintillator bars and plates are based on recently developed single photon solid state detectors (Silicon Photomultiplier, SiPM), extremely compact, sturdy and sensitive devices suited for detecting small light pulses in a space experiment. The performance of a regolith-scintillator calorimeter is evaluated and the relevant parameters are optimised using a GEANT4 simulation.

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