Open AccessCalorimetry at 0{degree} in RHIC: Some issues in the choice of detector technology
Author(s) -
Bill Christie,
S. White,
P. Gorodetzky,
D. Lazic
Publication year - 1994
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/219388
Subject(s) - calorimeter (particle physics) , scintillator , physics , nuclear physics , detector , degree (music) , hadron , calorimetry , space (punctuation) , particle physics , optics , thermodynamics , computer science , acoustics , operating system
The authors discuss briefly the case for a zero degree calorimeter at RHIC and space constraints on such a device. Two GEANT simulations of quartz fiber calorimeters are then studied and compared to the corresponding case of scintillator sampling. The authors find that the Q-cal calorimeter does provide some improvement in response uniformity near the calorimeter edge to hadronic showers (due to the filtering out of wide angle shower products). This may be an advantage when space is limited and the calorimeter transverse dimensions are small