• DocumentCode
    852280
  • Title

    A Study of Some Properties Which Determine the Resolution of a Lead-Scintillator Sandwich Electromagnetic Shower Detector

  • Author

    Hanson, J. ; Brown, B.C. ; Finley, D. ; Hemmi, Y. ; Ito, A. ; Jostlein, H. ; Maki, A. ; Sakai, Y. ; Sugano, K.

  • Author_Institution
    University of Washington, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Kyoto University, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics KEK, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1981
  • Firstpage
    514
  • Lastpage
    516
  • Abstract
    Using the 10-50 GeV test beam at Fermilab we have studied the resolution of a lead-scintillator sampling shower counter system as a function of energy, sampling thickness, and photostatistics to confirm a design formula (¿/E)2 = at/E + 1/N + other contributions, where t is the thickness of a sample measured in radiation lengths, N is the number of photoelectrons, ¿ is the rms energy resolution, and E is the incident energy.
  • Keywords
    Electromagnetic radiation; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Filters; Laboratories; Length measurement; Photoelectricity; Radiation detectors; Sampling methods; System testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1981.4331230
  • Filename
    4331230