Design, Construction, Operation and Performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2015-05-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) has been developed, constructed and successfully operated within the PHENIX detector at RHIC. The HBD is a Cherenkov detector operated with pure CF4. It has a 50 cm long radiator directly coupled in a window- less configuration to a readout element consisting of a triple GEM stack, with a CsI photocathode evaporated on the top surface of the top GEM and pad readout at the bottom of the stack. This paper gives a comprehensive account of the construction, operation and in-beam performance of the detector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.4277,
title = {Design, Construction, Operation and Performance of a Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX Experiment},
author = {W. Anderson and B. Azmoun and A. Cherlin and C. Y. Chi and Z. Citron and M. Connors and A. Dubey and J. M. Durham and Z. Fraenkel and T. Hemmick and J. Kamin and A. Kozlov and B. Lewis and M. Makek and A. Milov and M. Naglis and V. Pantuev and R. Pisani and M. Proissl and I. Ravinovich and S. Rolnick and T. Sakaguchi and D. Sharma and S. Stoll and J. Sun and I. Tserruya and C. Woody},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4277},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
51 pages, 39 Figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods