Design and construction of a beam calorimeter for E683 at FNAL

dc.contributor.advisorCorcoran, Marjorie D.
dc.creatorLincoln, Don
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:18:58Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:18:58Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractA steel-scintillator calorimeter has been designed to be used in a 250 GeV photon beam, and consists of approximately 10 nuclear absorption lengths of steel. Its sampling frequency is 1.5" and the sampling medium is 1/4" Kyowa SCSN-61T polystyrene based scintillator. Y7 Kyowa WLS was used to collect light into 8 Hamamatsu R2154 photomultipliers. A monitoring system has been built for the calorimeter. A LSI UV laser pumps a sample of SCSN-61T, which emits light that is subsequently shifted by Y7 and transported to the PM's via jacketted 1 mm acrylic fibers. It simulates the passage of a charged particle. A PIN photodiode also monitors the light output, for cross reference with the PM's. Interspersed among the steel and scintillator, there are 6 PWC's whose purpose is to discriminate between electromagnetic and hadronic showers. Some position information can be gathered. The PWC inter-wire spacing is approximately 1 cm. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Phys. 1990 Lincoln
dc.identifier.citationLincoln, Don. "Design and construction of a beam calorimeter for E683 at FNAL." (1990) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13449">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13449</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13449
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectParticle physics
dc.subjectElementary particles
dc.subjectHigh energy physics
dc.titleDesign and construction of a beam calorimeter for E683 at FNAL
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentPhysics
thesis.degree.disciplineNatural Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science
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