학술논문
The compensation condition in hadron calorimeters by the filtering effect
Document Type
Periodical
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Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 37(3):1186-1190 Jun, 1990
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ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
1558-1578
Abstract
Experimental evidence has been found for a filtering effect on the soft electron component in electromagnetic showers when combinations of low-Z and high-Z materials are used as absorbers. The filtering effect can be fully exploited to reduce the electromagnetic calorimeter response, making it possible to achieve the compensation condition in a Si/Fe+Pb calorimeter with an effective interaction length almost equal to that of Fe. The action of Fe on Pb, by modifying the critical energy during the electromagnetic shower development, leads to a yield of soft electrons (and very few photons) that are stopped in subsequent absorber layers and/or absorbed by the G10 plates. Recent measurements performed with an enlarged Si/Fe+Pb calorimeter support the idea; the authors have shown that an electromagnetic energy smaller than the hadronic energy is possible once particular FePb configurations are used.ETX