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
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;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1981.4331230
