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This article reports on the installation and initial commissioning of a large-scale lead tungstate (PbWO4) scintillating crystal calorimeter developed for high-rate photon detection and precise energy measurement. The calorimeter comprises…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Somov , V. V. Berdnikov , L. Gan , P. V. Laveen , A. Smith , S. Taylor , H. Voskanyan

The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the AMS-02 experiment is a 3-dimensional sampling calorimeter, made of lead and scintillating fibers. The detector allows for a high granularity, with 18 samplings in the longitudinal direction, and…

The performance of the GlueX Forward Calorimeter was studied using a small version of the detector and a variable energy electron beam derived from the Hall B tagger at Jefferson Lab. For electron energies from 110 MeV to 260 MeV, which are…

The highly granular silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter (SiW ECAL) is the reference design of the ECAL for the International Large Detector (ILD) concept, one of the two detector concepts proposed for the future International…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 Adrian Irles

In experimental nuclear physics (NP), high-precision electromagnetic calorimetry typically requires a good energy resolution and linear photosensor response on the level of (1-2)% over a full dynamic range of the detector. The beam of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-22 Vladimir V. Berdnikov , Alexander Somov

The electromagnetic barrel calorimeter is one of the main components of the planned GlueX experiment. It will consist of 48 modules made of consecutive layers of 4 m long lead sheet and fast green scintillator fibers for an overall number…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Barbi

The techniques for optical calibration of Jefferson Lab's large-acceptance magnetic hadron spectrometer, BigBite, have been examined. The most consistent and stable results were obtained by using a method based on singular value…

Chromatic calorimetry (CCAL) analyses particle detection by utilizing scintillators with distinct emission wavelengths to measure the longitudinal energy deposition of particle showers in high-energy physics, improving particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-12 Devanshi Arora

A proposed set of instrumentation, collectively referred to as the Super Bigbite project, is presented. Used in three different configurations it will allow measurements of three nucleon electromagnetic form factors GEn, GEp, and GMn with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Kees de Jager

A prototype of a Si-W EM calorimeter was built with Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors as the active elements. With a pixelsize of 30 $\mu$m it allows digital calorimetry, i.e. the particles' energy is determined by counting pixels, not by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 A. P. de Haas , G. Nooren , T. Peitzmann , M. Reicher , E. Rocco , D. Roehrich , K. Ullaland , A. van den Brink , M. van Leeuwen , H. Wang , S. Yang , C. Zhang

The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) is a key detector component for precise electron and photon measurements in electron-ion collision experiments. At the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), high-performance calorimetry is essential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-23 Ye Tian , Souvik Maity , Jingyu Li , Yuancai Wu , Shan Sha , Yutie Liang , Aiqiang Guo , Yuxiang Zhao , Dexu Lin

We constructed a large-scale electromagnetic calorimeter prototype as a part of the Forward Calorimeter upgrade project (FoCal) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prototype, also known as ``Mini FoCal'',…

The MAPS prototype of the proposed ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) is the highest granularity electromagnetic calorimeter, with 39 million pixels of $30 \times 30 \mu$m$^{2}$. Particle showers can be studied with unprecedented detail with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-01 Naomi van der Kolk

Atoms and simple molecules are excellent candidates for new standards and sensors because they are both all identical and their properties are determined by the immutable laws of quantum physics. Here, we introduce the concept of building a…

A Lead-Scintillating Fiber (Pb/SciFi) prototype for the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) at the Electron--Ion Collider (EIC) was tested with electron beams at the CERN PS T10 beam line in August 2024. The prototype consisted of unit modules…

The photon arm of the Compton polarimeter in Hall A of Jefferson Lab has been upgraded to allow for electron beam polarization measurements with better than 1% accuracy. The data acquisition system (DAQ) now includes an integrating mode,…

The Belle II experiment is presently in phase-2 operation at the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider in KEK (Tsukuba, Japan). The detector is an upgrade of the Belle experiment at the KEKB collider and it is optimized for the study of rare…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-04 V. Izzo , A. Aloisio , F. Ameli , A. Anastasio , P. Branchini , F. Di Capua , R. Giordano , A. Kuzmin , K. Miyabayashi , I. Nakamura , M. Nakao , G. Tortone , S. Uehara

The electro-magnetic calorimeter at the BaBar detector, part of the asymmetric B Factory at SLAC, measures photons in the energy range from 20 MeV to 8 GeV with good resolution. The calorimeter is calibrated at the low energy end with 6.13…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Johannes M. Bauer

We report the design and performance of the hybrid electromagnetic calorimeter consisting of 1152 $PbWO_4$ crystals and 576 lead glass blocks for the PrimEx experiment at the Jefferson Laboratory. The detector was built for high precision…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Kubantsev , I. Larin , A. Gasparyan