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We propose to build the Electromagnetic calorimeter for the HADES di-lepton spectrometer. It will enable to measure the data on neutral meson production from nucleus-nucleus collisions, which are essential for interpretation of dilepton…

Detailed measurements of the electron performance of the ATLAS detector at the LHC are reported, using decays of the Z, W and J/psi particles. Data collected in 2010 at sqrt(s)=7 TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ATLAS Collaboration

The angular coverage extension of the KLOE-2 electromagnetic calorimeter, from a polar angle of 20$^{\circ}$ down to $8^{\circ}$, will increase the multiphoton detection capability of the experiment enhancing the search reach for rare kaon,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Cordelli , F. Happacher , M. Martini , S. Miscetti , I. Sarra , M. Schioppa , S. Stucci , G. Xu

The detailed information about electron response, electron energy resolution and e/h ratio as a function of incident energy E, impact point Z and incidence angle $\Theta$ of iron-scintillator hadron prototype calorimeter with longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. A. Kulchitsky

The procedure for the energy calibration of the high granularity electromagnetic calorimeter PHOS of the ALICE experiment is presented. The methods used to perform the relative gain calibration, to evaluate the geometrical alignment and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-11 Alice Collaboration

Shashlyk electromagnetic calorimeter modules with an energy resolution of about 3%/sqrt{E (GeV)} for 50-1000 MeV photons has been developed, and a prototype tested. Details of these improved modules, including mechanical construction,…

The ALICE experiment is equipped with electromagnetic calorimeters of two different types: PHOS, the lead-tungstate photon spectrometer, and EMCAL, the sampling lead-scintillator calorimeter. These two detectors measure photon spectra in a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Yuri Kharlov

Energy resolution is an important figure of merit for TES microcalorimeter. We propose a laser system to measure the energy resolution of TES microcalorimeter with a 1550 nm laser source. Compared to method that characterizes the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuo Zhang , Qing-Ya Zhang , CongZhan Liu , Jianshe Liu , Wenhui Dong , Wei Chen

We study the electron/pion identification performance of the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) prototypes using a neural network (NN) algorithm. Measurements were carried out for particle momenta from 2 to 6 GeV/c. An improvement in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 ALICE TRD Collaboration

We design a GeV gamma ray detector based on an electron-positron pair measurement by using the BESS-polar magnet and study it with the GEANT4 simulation code. We consider an additional counter to select an electron-positron pair for which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-07 S. Osone

The first evaluation of an ultra-high granularity digital electromagnetic calorimeter prototype using 1.0-5.8 GeV/c electrons is presented. The $25\times10^6$ pixel detector consists of 24 layers of ALPIDE CMOS MAPS sensors, with a pitch of…

Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) are extremely sensitive microcalorimeters used as photon detectors with unparalleled energy resolution. They have found application from measuring astronomical spectra through to determining the…

This paper presents the electron and photon energy calibration obtained with the ATLAS detector using about 36 fb$^{-1}$ of LHC proton-proton collision data recorded at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV in 2015 and 2016. The different calibration steps…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-21 ATLAS Collaboration

We present a new approach to identification of boosted neutral particles using Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) of the LHCb detector. The identification of photons and neutral pions is currently based on the geometric parameters which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Alexey Boldyrev , Viktoria Chekalina , Fedor Ratnikov

In this paper, we investigate the effect on energy resolution from changing the angle and the position of incidence photon for a 5 $\times$ 5 crystal matrix built with (25 $\times$ 25 $\times$ 200) mm$^{3}$ LYSO scintillating crystals.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-11-23 A. M. E. Saad , F. Kocak

Measurement of the ultra-rare $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ decay at the NA62 experiment at CERN requires high-performance particle identification to distinguish muons from pions. Calorimetric identification currently in use, based on a boosted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-26 NA62 Collaboration

The construction of the ATLAS electromagnetic liquid argon calorimeter modules is completed and all the modules are assembled and inserted in the cryostats. During the production period four barrel and three endcap modules were exposed to…

The ALICE experiment at LHC studies the strong interaction sector of the Standard Model with pp, pA and AA collisions. Within the scope of the physics program, measurements of photons, neutral mesons and jets in ALICE are performed by two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-11 Yuri Kharlov