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Performance of the combined zero degree calorimeter for CMS

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-13 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The combined zero degree calorimeter (ZDC) is a combination of sampling quartz/tungsten electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. Two identical combined calorimeters are located in the LHC tunnel at CERN at the straight section ~140 m on each side of the CMS interaction vertex and between the two beam pipes. They will detect very forward photons and neutrons. ZDC information can be used for a variety of physics measurements as well as improving the collision centrality determination in heavy-ion collisions. Results are presented for ZDC performance studies with the CERN SPS H2 test beam.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0785,
  title  = {Performance of the combined zero degree calorimeter for CMS},
  author = {O A Grachov and M Murray and J Snyder and J Wood and V Zhukova and A S Ayan and P Debbins and D F Ingram and E Norbeck and Y Onel and E Garcia and G Stephans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0785},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 14 figures, Presented at XIII International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, May 26-30, 2008, Pavia, Italy

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