Development of a forward calorimeter system for the STAR experiment. Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2014 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. We present results of an R&D program to develop a forward calorimeter system (FCS) for the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL. The FCS is a very compact, compensated, finely granulated, high resolution calorimeter system being developed for p+p and p+A program at RHIC. The FCS prototype consists of both electromagnetic and hadron calorimeters. The electromagnetic portion of the detector is constructed with W powder and scintillation fibers. The hadronic calorimeter is a traditional Pb/Sc-plate sandwich design. Both calorimeters were readout with Hamamatsu MPPCs. A full- scale prototype of the FCS was tested with a beam at FNAL in March 2014. We present details of the design, construction technique and performance of the FCS prototype during the test run at FNAL.

published proceedings

  • 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CALORIMETRY IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (CALOR 2014)

author list (cited authors)

  • Tsai, O. D., Aschenauer, E., Christie, W., Dunkelberger, L. E., Fazio, S., Gagliardi, C. A., ... Wissink, S.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Tsai, OD||Aschenauer, E||Christie, W||Dunkelberger, LE||Fazio, S||Gagliardi, CA||Heppelmann, S||Huang, HZ||Jacobs, WW||Igo, G||Kisilev, A||Landry, K||Liu, X||Mondal, MM||Pan, YX||Sergeeva, M||Shah, N||Sichtermann, E||Trentalange, S||Visser, G||Wissink, S

publication date

  • February 2015