• DocumentCode
    3530434
  • Title

    Performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter in pp collisions

  • Author

    Argirò, Stefano

  • Author_Institution
    INFN, Univ. of Torino, Torino, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010
  • Firstpage
    1694
  • Lastpage
    1698
  • Abstract
    The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (ECAL) is a high resolution, finely grained instrument devised to measure photons and electrons at LHC. Built of lead tungstate crystals, it will play a crucial role in the search for new physics as well as in precision measurements in the standard model. Thanks to this detector, the CMS collaboration was able to reconstruct di-photon states within minutes from the first LHC collisions. We will report on the commissioning and performance of the detector with 2009 and 2010 collision data, providing details about its calibration and synchronization, showing how well the challenging design goals were met.
  • Keywords
    calibration; calorimeters; particle calorimetry; synchronisation; CMS collaboration; CMS electromagnetic calorimeter; LHC collisions; calibration; collision data; diphoton states; high resolution finely grained instrument; lead tungstate crystals; proton+proton collisions; standard model; synchronization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Knoxville, TN
  • ISSN
    1095-7863
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-9106-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874063
  • Filename
    5874063