• DocumentCode
    3641508
  • Title

    Photon detectors for the HERA-B RICH

  • Author

    P. Krizan;S. Korpar;M. Staric;A. Stanovnik;M. Cindro;R. Pestotnik;D. Skrk;A. Bulla;E. Michel;C. Oehser;W. Schmidt-Parzefall;J. McGill;T. Hamacher;R. Schwitters;D. Broemmelsiek;J. Rosen;K. Lau;J. Pyrlik;M. Atiya

  • Author_Institution
    Jozef Stefan Inst., Ljubljana Univ., Slovenia
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • Firstpage
    651
  • Abstract
    A summary of experimental studies of different photon detectors is presented. A CsI photocathode in a multiwire proportional chamber, a TMAE based gaseous photon detector and a new Hamamatsu multianode photomultiplier tube have been investigated in order to evaluate their suitability as photon detectors in the ring imaging Cherenkov counter of HERA-B. The results of the present work suggest that only the MA-PMT meets the demanding requirements of the HERA-B experimental environment. The CsI-MWPC cannot be routinely produced and maintained with sufficiently high quantum efficiency and the TMAE photon detectors lose gain as a result of relatively quick anode wire ageing.
  • Keywords
    "Detectors","Cathodes","Wire","Testing","Anodes","Copper","Photomultipliers","Tin","Printed circuits","Backplanes"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium, 1996. Conference Record., 1996 IEEE
  • ISSN
    1082-3654
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3534-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.1996.591083
  • Filename
    591083
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3641508